How Should Muslims Respond To Quran Desecration
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by Muslimcentral.com. |
| 0:04.5 | I think many of you are aware of a video that is gone viral by a particular Republican candidate |
| 0:13.2 | who's running for the Texas legislature, and she's pulled off a PR stunt, a social media stunt, |
| 0:20.8 | in which, Asthavala, she uses a torch gun or a social media stunt, in which, |
| 0:21.4 | Asthfra al-a-a-hra-a-hra-h-a-haw-hazir-a-hul-a-hah-hulah, |
| 0:23.1 | she uses a torch gun or a flamethrower |
| 0:25.6 | to set a copy of the Quran on fire and to incinerate it, |
| 0:30.0 | all the while hurling the most foul adjectives, |
| 0:33.9 | the most nasty language full of hatred, |
| 0:37.4 | raw hatred and vilification of Islam and the Muslims, |
| 0:41.3 | and asking people to vote for her based on that, and saying that if she were to be elected, |
| 0:47.3 | she would kick all Muslims out of the country, send them back where they came from. |
| 0:52.3 | And the same person is no stranger to us. |
| 0:56.0 | She came to our own community, |
| 0:58.0 | and she did a video right outside of our masjid in the background. |
| 1:03.0 | And she had similar, vulgar, vulgar, foul words |
| 1:08.0 | that are not even befitting of a dignified person to say. |
| 1:12.1 | And the same rhetoric that vote me in and I'm going to kick all those people out of the country. |
| 1:19.9 | And this video has gone viral. |
| 1:21.8 | It has been viewed by more than 20 million people last I checked in various tweets and retweets. |
| 1:27.4 | And she's running for literally |
| 1:31.3 | a Texas legislature in a particular district of Texas. So today I wanted to talk a little bit about |
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