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Yasir Qadhi

CNN Tonight with ISIS Has Called for Professor's Death

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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All the ISIS around the world now increase fears of terror attacks here at home.

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My next guest was targeted by ISIS after he condemned the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.

0:23.4

But he says another group scares him more than ISIS.

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I mean now it's Professor Yasakwati of Rhodes College in Memphis.

0:32.0

Why are you more afraid of one group than the other in which group is that?

0:38.1

Well done first thanks for having me on the show.

0:40.0

The fact of the matter is I've been getting death threats from two camps for the last few years.

0:46.6

Around three and a half years ago, certain segments of our own American public

0:51.4

who were misinformed about the Islamic faith and who assumed that every Muslim is somehow a

0:56.8

potential terrorist, they developed certain ideas about me based on a doctorate audio clip

1:02.3

and there is this there are a number of far right radical websites that are claiming that I'm

1:07.4

some type of stealth jihadist preacher and based on that they launched a campaign against my

1:12.4

employer to fire me. They inundated me with hate mail and yes some threats as well.

1:18.0

The FBI got involved and you know had to deal with that type of rhetoric.

1:22.4

And then a few days ago, 10 days ago, ISIS also threatened me because I was criticizing them.

1:27.6

So I'm kind of getting threats from both sides of the spectrum. We have certain misinformed

1:32.4

Americans and we also have certain radical Muslims and the both of them are projecting their fears

1:37.7

of the other. But you said you're more afraid of the right wing radicals in UR of ISIS, correct?

1:44.4

Yes I am. How did you find out that you were obviously you

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