(RAIR Foundation)—In a tax-exempt sermon dripping with anti-Semitic defamation, Yasir Qadhi accused Israel of crimes worse than the Nazis, excused Hamas’s October 7 massacre, and declared that ‘Zionism’—his coded slur for Judaism—is the true enemy to be condemned.
Plano, Texas – In a sweeping and incendiary sermon, militant American imam Yasir Qadhi addressed worshippers at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), a mosque with a history of controversy. From the tax-exempt pulpit, Qadhi compared Israel to Nazi Germany, accused the Jewish state of genocide, and declared it “more evil than the Nazis.” He also refused to condemn the October 7 Hamas massacre that left over 1,200 civilians dead.
The sermon, which spanned more than an hour, was framed as a spiritual reflection on Gaza. But in reality, it was a political broadside laced with conspiracy theories, blood libels, and repeated invocations of Islamic history to shame the Muslim world into action. Qadhi’s oration deliberately blurred the line between religious exhortation and political agitation.
In his opening remarks, Qadhi declared that “655 days have passed” since the so-called siege of Gaza, characterizing Israel as an “apartheid regime” and the “last remaining settler-colonialist state.” He claimed Israel has imposed “a total embargo on food,” and is “literally starving to death” two million Palestinians in front of the eyes of the world. He falsely claimed that Israel is blocking baby formula and compared images from Gaza to “emaciated skeletons” from Nazi death camps.
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