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    Yasir Qadhi is an American Islamic scholar born in Houston, Texas to Pakistani parents. He completed his early education in Saudi Arabia and earned degrees in chemical engineering and Islamic studies. After working briefly for Dow Chemical, he pursued further Islamic education in Saudi Arabia. He now teaches at Yale University and runs an Islamic seminary called AlMaghrib Institute in the U.S. and Canada. Although he had previously made controversial statements about the Holocaust, he has since retracted them and now condemns Holocaust denial.

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    Yasir Qadhi is an American Islamic scholar born in Houston, Texas to Pakistani parents. He completed his early education in Saudi Arabia and earned degrees in chemical engineering and Islamic studies. After working briefly for Dow Chemical, he pursued further Islamic education in Saudi Arabia. He now teaches at Yale University and runs an Islamic seminary called AlMaghrib Institute in the U.S. and Canada. Although he had previously made controversial statements about the Holocaust, he has since retracted them and now condemns Holocaust denial.

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    Biography

    Qadhi was born in Houston, TX, to Pakistani parents, who came to the United Stat
    es in the 1960s.[1][2] He completed his primary education and high school in Jed
    dah, Saudi Arabia, graduating valedictorian of his class and completed a Bachelo
    r of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston.[1]
    "As a Muslim child growing up in America, you have to become an engineer or a do
    ctor. It is just understood," said Qadhi.[2]
    After working for Dow Chemical for a short stint, he pursued an education for 10
    years in Islamic studies at the prestigious and rather conservative Islamic Uni
    versity of Madinah in Saudi Arabia.[2] There, he completed a second bachelor's d
    egree in Arabic from the College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences, specializing in
    hadith studies, and then went on to complete an M.A. in Islamic Theology from t
    he College of Dawah.[3][1]
    He returned to the United States in 2005.[2] Presently, he is enrolled in a doct
    oral program in Islamic studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.[1]
    [3]
    For professional reasons, he changed his last name from "Kazi".[1] Qadhi describ
    es his views as very traditional, and compares some of the practices and social
    mores he endorses as close to those of conservative Christian groups and Orthodo
    x Jews, particularly with regard to modest dress for women.[2]
    [edit] Activities
    He is the Dean of Academic Affairs and a lecturer of the AlMaghrib Institute.[3]
    It is a weekend seminary that he and four other American Muslims run, in which
    the teachers fly to different locations in the U.S. and Canada to teach locals a
    dvanced Islamic studies in English.[2] He gives regular sermons and lectures, an
    d also appears on a number of Islamic satellite channels: (Islam Channel in Engl
    and; Huda TV in Egypt; Al-Fajr Channel in Egypt; and Peace TV in India, the U.K.
    , and the U.S), where he teaches theology, Seerah, Tajweed, and other topics. He
    is also one of the founding members and Islamic specialists at MuslimMatters.or
    g, a blogzine for Western Muslims.
    The Daily Telegraph reported that, in 2001, Qadhi (whom the newspaper characteri
    zed as a "hard-line conservative preacher") described the Holocaust as a hoax, a
    nd claimed that "Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews", and "All this
    [the Holocaust] is false propaganda".[4] He later retracted his statements, stat
    ing that he had been misled.[4] He said that even in the 2001 lecture, he never
    denied "the actual occurrence of the Holocaust, or express any support or admira
    tion for Hitler, or claim that all Jews were worthy of being despised or hated",
    directly disputing the Telegraph's assertion of Qadhi believing the holocaust t
    o be a hoax. He called it a "one-time mistake", stating that "I firmly believe t
    hat the Holocaust was one of the worst crimes against humanity that the 20th cen
    tury has witnessed."[5]
    In July 2010, he was selected to participate in an official delegation of US Ima
    ms and religious leaders to visit the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Dacha
    u. The Imams subsequently released a joint statement condemning anti-Semitism an
    d labelling Holocaust denial as against the ethics of Islam.[6]
    He has also presented papers on jihadist movements. In 2006, at a conference at
    Harvard Law School, Qadhi presented a 15-minute analysis of the theological unde
    rpinnings of one of the first militant movements of modern Saudi Arabia, headed
    by Juhayman al-Otaibi, which gained international attention when it held the Gra
    nd Mosque of Mecca hostage in 1979.[7] In another paper, presented in September
    2009 at an international conference at University of Edinburgh on understanding
    jihad in the modern world, he discussed how a specific legal ruling (fatwā) of the
    medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyya was used both by jihadist and pacifist groups
    to justify their positions.[8] Qadhi has been involved in de-radicalization effo
    rts in the U.S., and was a participant in the U.S. Counter-Radicalization Strate
    gy conference organized by the National Counterterrorism Center in the summer of
    2008.[9]
    Umar Abdulmutallab, the al-Qaeda member who attempted to bomb Northwest Airlines
    Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009, was a student at "Ilm Summit", a 16-day AlMag
    hrib Institute Islamic education conference in August 2008 at which Qadhi was an
    instructor.[10] Qadhi said of Abdulmutallab, who attended some of the classes t
    hat he taught, "He was a very quiet individual, tight-lipped and shy, and he did
    not ask a single question during the discussions. He barely interacted with the
    other students at the conference." Qadhi recalled speaking to Abdulmutallab, an
    d remembered that he was "very reserved in his responses." Abdulmutallab also at
    tended two seminars organized by the AlMaghrib Institute in London in the months
    before the event in Houston, Qadhi said.
    In 2006 Qadhi, noting that Muslims are routinely detained and questioned at airp
    orts and other ports of entry, said that the main problem the Muslim community h
    as "is the presumption of guilt. It is the singling out of people just because o
    f their looks or their identity." Qadhi said he himself was on a secret watch li
    st, but had no idea how he got on the list.[11] His name has since been cleared
    from that list.
    [edit] Works
    [edit] Books authored or co-authored
    * Riyaa: Hidden Shirk, 103 pages, Abu Ammaar Yasir Al-Qathi, Dar-al-Fatah, 1
    996, ISBN 8172317530
    * An introduction to the sciences of the Quraan, Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Al-H
    idaayah Pub., 1999, ISBN 1898649324
    * An Explanation of the Four Principles of Shirk, 60 pages, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al
    -Wahhāb, Yasir Qadhi, Al-Hidaayah, 2000, ISBN 1898649529
    * Du’a : The Weapon of the Believer, Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Al Hidaayah Publi
    shing & Distribution, 2001, ISBN 1898649510
    * 15 Ways to Increase Your Earnings from the Quran and Sunnah, Abu Ammaar Ya
    sir Qadhi, Al Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution, 2002, ISBN 1898649561
    * An explanation of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab s Kashf al-Shubuhat: a critic
    al analysis of shirk, Abū Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, Al-Hidaayah,
    2003, ISBN 1898649626
    [edit] See also
    * Islam in the United States
    * List of Da'ees
    * Dawah

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