I’d like to take this occasion to wish the merriest of Christmases to Dr. Kathrada and his followers.
Original video:
MEMRI excerpt:
“Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada: Congratulating People on Christmas Is Like Congratulating Murderers and Pedophiles; It Is a Major Sin,” MEMRI, December 17, 2021:
In a Friday, December 17, 2021 sermon at Muslim Youth Victoria, Canadian Sheikh Younus Kathrada discussed congratulating non-Muslims on their festivals during the Christmas season. Sheikh Kathrada said to his audience that since they would not congratulate fornicators, murderers, or pedophiles, they must also not congratulate people who are insulting Allah by celebrating Christmas. Sheikh Kathrada then prayed for Allah to humiliate the infidels, to annihilate the atheists, to destroy the enemies of Islam, and to support those who wage Jihad. Sheikh Kathrada’s sermon was uploaded to Muslim Youth Victoria’s YouTube channel on December 19, 2021. For more about Sheikh Younus Kathrada, including similar remarks about Christmas, see MEMRI TV Clips Nos. 9050, 8878, 8409, 8289, 8003, 7896, 7534, 7098, 6950, and 6906.
spiro says
He should know all
About perverts since he preaches perversion
mortimer says
It isn’t pedophilia or cross-dressing or necrophilia when MOHAMMED does it.
If that’s what the founder of Islam is like, why would the followers of Islam not want to follow his example?
gravenimage says
+1
eduardo odraude says
Many who call themselves Muslims don’t know very much about Islam, according to David Wood, who has a lot of direct experience of Muslims. When Wood quotes to them from the most trusted Islamic sources (Qur’an, sahih Hadith, and the most widely respected tafsir or interpreters of the Qur’an), the Muslims David talks to often don’t believe he is quoting accurately. Then they go and look up the quotes and discover he was not making stuff up. Many of them, when they discover what is in the core texts, and run out of ways to be in denial about that, abandon Islam.
gravenimage says
Probably true, Eduardo. But sadly many Muslims when faced with this conflict do not abandon Islam, but instead embrace Jihad.
eduardo odraude says
I’d say there are many more apostates than jihadists… but that might be my optimism talking
mortimer says
eduardo odraude is correct that there are more apostates than jihadists and the polls and surveys bear that out scientifically. There is a tsunami of apostasy from Islam and now many of the Islamic youth, even though educated in Islam, do NOT BELIEVE anymore. They have no conviction that Islam is true. The Internet, as predicted, is killing Islam by revealing the FACTUAL REALITY of the horrible doctrines taught by this DEATH CULT.
Young Muslims are unable to defend belief in Islam, since there is no historical basis for Mohammed, no early copy of the Koran and no historical basis for Mecca, the holy city of Mohammed. Islam is being exposed as a fraud invented by the caliphs for their own emolument.
abu taleb says
+2
Del says
This pig’s ass said the same thing for the last few Christmases. If it wasn’t for Trudeau, he would have been charged with inciting violence and terrorism and thrown the hell out of Canada. I am not aware of any criticism of this animal from any Muslim nor from the BC Government. Muslims in Canada are either scared of criticizing him or they are scared of violence from other Muslims.
Istvan Vogel says
Isn’t this preaching religious hatred? If this were France, the mosque would be closed for 6 months.
mortimer says
‘Hatred’, you say? It is normative, canonical Islam.
QUOTES FROM LEADING ISLAMIC CLERICAL AUTHORITIES ON ISLAMIC HATE
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
– “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (wrong belief) itself.” – from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca. – https://islamfuture.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/al-wala-wal-bara-according-to-the-aqeedah-of-the-salaf-parts-123/
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said: “There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite (kufr=wrong belief)- any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.” (W-B is ‘Islamic apartheid’)
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and HATE the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– K. 28:86 says: “Lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.”
Note: Muslims are canonically required to hate KAFIRS ‘for the sake of Allah’.
eduardo odraude says
Helpful quotes, especially interested in the Sufi quote. Is there some way to prove that that Sufi quote is representative of mainstream Sufism? I mean, besides just adducing more quotes? How can one show that the quotes one adduces represent the majority view among imams, say?
Actually, looking at your non-Sufi quotes, too, one cannot judge if they represent normative Islam or merely a certain selective culling. My sense is that, at least for the devout Muslims sufficiently knowledgeable about the Qur’an, Hadith, Sunna, etc., hate or concealed hate of non-Muslims is at least quasi-normative.
mortimer says
to eduardo odraude : You ask how Islam adduces the truth of its own teachings. It is by a complicated scholarly ‘CONSENSUS’ of authoritative scholars, since there is exact equivalent to the Vatican which you no doubt understand as the final authority of the RCC.
Alazhar University’s ‘DAR AL IFTA’ (domain of fatwas = fatwa department) is the repository of all fatwas written over the years. The consensus of all those hundreds of thousands of fatwas is ‘Islamic Truth’.
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The following quotes show that HATRED DIRECTED BY MUSLIMS TOWARDS THE KUFAAR IS NORMATIVE ISLAM:
“Dar al-Ifta al Misriyyah is considered among the pioneering foundations for fatwa in the Islamic world.”
dar-alifta.org/Foreign/default.aspx ________________________________________
Cairo – Darrasat – Hadiqat al-Azhar – P.O. Box 11675 — Web Presence http://www.dar-alifta.org — Web Master — webmaster@dar-alifta.org — International: +20 2 25970400
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[1] The ‘Committee’ is known by other English names including The Standing Committee for Scholarly Research and Fatwa, or The Committee for Research and Religious Edicts, or The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research & Verdicts, or The General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Iftaa,’ or in Arabic, al-Lajnah ad-Daa’imah lil-Buhooth al-‘Ilmiyyah wal-Iftaa.
If it comes from Saudi Arabia, it must be ISLAMIC:
Saudi Arabia’s Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas
[1]—which issues religious decrees that become law—issued a fatwa, or decree, titled, “Duty to Hate Jews, Polytheists, and Other Infidels.” Written by Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz (d. 1999), former grand mufti and highest religious authority in the government, it still appears on the website.
According to this governmentally-supported fatwa, Muslims—that is, the entire Saudi citizenry—must “oppose and hate whomever Allah commands us to oppose and hate, including the Jews, the Christians, and other mushrikin [non-Muslims], until they believe in Allah alone and abide by his laws, which he sent down to his Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him.”
To prove this, Baz quotes a number of Koran verses that form the doctrine of Loyalty and Enmity—the same doctrine every Sunni jihadi organization evokes to the point of concluding that Muslim men must hate their Christian or Jewish wives (though they may enjoy them sexually).
These Koran verses include: “Do not take the Jews and the Christians for your friends and allies” (5:51) and “You shall find none who believe in Allah and the Last Day on friendly terms with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger [i.e., non-Muslims]—even if they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers, or their nearest kindred” (58:22; see also 3:28, 60:4, 2:120).
After quoting the verses, Baz reiterates: “Such verses are many and offer clear proofs concerning the obligation to despise infidels from the Jews, Christians, and all other non-Muslims, as well as the obligation to oppose them until they believe in Allah alone.”
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QATAR also recommends the HATRED BY MUSLIMS DIRECTED AGAINST THE DIRTY KUFAAR:
Qatar, also officially documents its hate for every non-Muslim—or practically 100% of America’s population. A website owned by the Qatari Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs published a fatwa titled “The Obligation of Hating Infidels, Being Clean of Them, and Not Befriending Them.”
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Yes, Eduardo, in Islam, KAFIROPHOBIA-HATRED IS OFFICIAL.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Just anything, anything, is an insult to Islam. KEN
mortimer says
Reply to KEN: the wording of Sharia law concerning what is blasphemous is not clear on purpose, because the ‘impression’ or ‘feeling’ that Muslims have about a description of Islam is the source of their anger … in other words, it is A MATTER OF HONOR.
If the prestige of Islam is questioned or doubted in public, it is a loss of HONOR that must be avenged by a death sentence. KAFIRS may not question Islam’s truth in public nor may they question the HONOR of Muslims … even when they are jihadic terrorists.
Del says
If they don’t find something, they invent it.
gregbeetham says
These pagan Satan worshippers have a nerve coming into a western Christian country and spruiking their demonic rubbish and who cares if their satanic god gets insulted? When one of these scruffy looking child molesters mouths off with insults against our religion we should organize a noisy lynch mob like they do in Pakistan and demand he be handed over so he can be strung up and anyone who gets in the way can join him, why should it always be in one direction?
How are these vermin ever going to learn their place if nobody teaches them?
mortimer says
to greg: the reason we are concerned what they think is because of the RED-GREEN AXIS of EVIL which was established to destroy Western values.
They use the most insinuating propaganda to calumniate all who protest jihadic terrorism.
gravenimage says
Greg, civilized Infidels don’t act like Jihadist tnhugs.
gregbeetham says
Yes I know GI but I’m thinking it is about time we started and put the shoe on the other foot. This rubbish has gone on for far too long and they never seem to suffer any repercussions for their actions, it is about time they did I think.
gravenimage says
Sorry, Greg–we did not defeat the Nazis by embracing the savagery of Fascism. Part of our strength if applied properly is our superior values.
gregbeetham says
Sure we had strength, luckily, but we also applied plenty of savagery of our own just the same, we didn’t beat the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS just by being good guys and setting a fine example.
GreekEmpress says
Projection much?
gravenimage says
Spot on, GreekEmpress.
mortimer says
Agree. The ‘Islamophobia’ smear-propaganda is projection and the MIRROR IMAGE of AL WALAA WAL BARAA (Islamic comradeship and apartheid).
mortimer says
Preachers like Younus Kathrada who hate the Christian FEAST OF THE INCARNATION (of God) are the cause of many attacks on Christians as they attend Christmas celebrations.
Younus Kathrada preaches pure Islam … 1) the doctrine of AL WALAA WAL BARAA (Islamic apartheid) and 2) the canonical, compulsory doctrine of jihad.
Younus Kathrada’s teachings are real Islam, rather than aberrations from it.
gravenimage says
Canada: Muslim cleric says congratulating people on Christmas is like congratulating murderers and pedophiles
I’d like to take this occasion to wish the merriest of Christmases to Dr. Kathrada and his followers.
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Hilarious from Robert Spencer.
And talk about projection! Neither Christianity in general nor Christmas in particular teach pedophilia and murder–just the opposite, in fact. What *does* teach pedophilia and murder, however, is *Islam*.
And this is not the first time Sheikh Younus Kathrada has done this kind of thing re Christmas. This, from 2018:
“Canadian imam: Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ is worse than murder”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/canadian-imam-wishing-merry-christmas-worse-than-murder/
Murder–*and* adultery:
He then claimed that “If a person were to commit every major sin — committing adultery, dealing with interest, lying, murder… If a person were to do all of those major sins, they are nothing compared to the sin of congratulating and greeting the non-Muslims on their false festivals.”
More from the article:
Younus Kathrada tells youths in British Columbia they should be offended by tenets of Christianity, with which there is ‘enmity,’ adds: ‘I’m not saying go out and just kill them’
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I guess he’s a “moderate”…sarc/off
mortimer says
No, GI, Younus Kathrada preaches OFFICIAL ISLAM:
OFFICIAL QATARI FATWA RE HATING JEWS AND CHRISTIANS:
“The reasons to hate Christians and Jews are many. As to Christians, you could say what you like about a community with the essence of its beliefs: that Allah is a third of three, that Mary is his girlfriend, and Jesus his son, and he descended from his majestic seat and got attached to the womb of his girlfriend, and happened what happened till he got killed, died and buried. Its (Christian) religion is the worship of crosses, and praying to pictures hanging on walls and painted in red and yellow, and they say in their prayers: you mother of God bestow upon us, forgive us, and give us your mercy! Their religion is drinking alcohol, eating pigs, leave circumcision, worship the mucky, and the violation of all malignant from elephant to mosquito. What’s sanctimonious and what’s unholy is what their priest decides and religion is what he legislate. He forgives their sins and delivers them from the tormenting blaze.
As for Jews, those are the nation of anger, the people of lies, treachery, deceit, and trickery. The killers of prophets and the eaters of unclean wealth –which is the usury and bribes- the most insidious of all nations, and lowest of temper, and farthest from mercy, and closest to resentment. Their custom is loathing, and habit enmity and abhorring: the house of black magic, lies, and trickery. They don’t see in those who disagree with their disbelief and lies a sanctity, and when facing a believer they tend to insult, and even those who agree with them have no rights nor mercy among them, and so are those who join them are given neither justice nor remedy, nor have those who mix with them given any tranquility nor peace, and those who employed them are given no advise. For their most wicked is their wisest, their smartest is their biggest cheater, and their good intending –God forbids one exist among them- would not be a Jew in reality. The most intolerant of nations, their most oppressive of houses, their most rotten yards, and their most barren of tempers. Greeting them… a profanity, meeting them… a sacrilege. Their motto …anger, and their precept… disgust.”
gravenimage says
No, GI, Younus Kathrada preaches OFFICIAL ISLAM
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Of course I know this, Mortimer. Whatever has led you to believe that I know nothing about Islam?
Regardless, I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas, and Happy New Year to you!
CogitoErgoSum says
Who is congratulating anyone? How is one person wishing joy and happiness upon another person the same as congratulating them? I think not only does this cleric not understand Christianity or the meaning of Christmas – he does not understand the meaning of certain simple words.
eduardo odraude says
Yes, if he indeed used that word, congratulations. I guess MEMRI translated his talk.
Congratulations are usually given when someone accomplishes something or wins something. You don’t these days congratulate someone on Christmas. But I just went to Merriam Webster — and an obsolete meaning of congratulate is “to greet” — so the imam was perhaps using that obsolete meaning…
CogitoErgoSum says
And he does appear to be obsolete himself. Probably instead of anyone offering him congratulations, condolences would be more in order.
raja says
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Alfredo says
There is hardly any mention in the comments over the open contempt expressed by this jamar with table cloth on his hateful head for all Kafirs.
This is the result of the years of brainwashing Westerners have been subjected to by treacherous
politicians who have been ramming down people’s throats the monstrous lie of “diversity, inclusiveness and equity.”
Why would any one want to include people spewing such hate filled rubbish, and then for locals to even discuss wether congratulating kafirs over their holidays is “authentic” doctrine or not?
The more logical question is why are these hate mongers allowed to come and preach their hateful garbage in Canada?
Do you think for a moment what the reaction would be in countries such as Pakistan or Iran or Saudi Arabia if Canadians started saying the same rubbish regarding Ramadan?
I can picture the enraged mob looking for someone to make them pay for insulting their so-called “religion of peace.”
And by the way, who is the one who claimed that it is “lawful” to rape those regarded as war booty even if they’re married?
The hypocrisy of this jamar with table cloth on his head is more evidence of the self-destructive policies forced of Canadians by allowing despicable hate filled interlopers to come and live in one of the most tolerant nations in the world.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Alfredo.
Eleanor says
Exactly, no one ‘congratulates’ any one ‘on’ Christmas — the stupid old goat. So he’s wrong before he even gets going.
mortimer says
Explanation to Eduardo: the term ‘congratulate’ is used in SHARIA LAW to describe Muslims who say, ‘Merry Christmas’.
The term ‘congratulate’ relates to the notion of ‘HONOR’. Muslims shouldn’t HONOR Christians or their kufr-ridden festivals … to do so is a sin of disbelieving in Islamic truth.
somehistory says
Memo to this ugly fool: I don’t want your congratulations because I don’t want **anything** from a murderous raper of children, which muzlum males have *learned* to be from their fake prophet and their false ‘god.’ and if they haven’t learned these things, they are not really mozlums and should get out, het out fast, as fast as they can.
Just so you know hideous creep….keep your fake congratulations cause your evil master and father demanded that you be a murderous raper of children, unlike what Jesus Christ taught His “children.”
tim gallagher says
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Does this Muslim maggot seriously think that Muslims are virtuous people. Yeah, they don’t go in for murdering people (the endless Muslim terrorist attacks say otherwise). No, Muslims aren’t pedophiles (their ideal man Muhammad was a pedophile and all those Muslim child brides say otherwise), and Muslims aren’t fornicators (all those Muslim rape gangs say otherwise). The thing is that Muslims do accept the behaviour of, and do praise and congratulate murderers, pedophiles and fornicators all the time among their fellow Muslims. It is normal Muslim behaviour, an example being all those Muslim men married to young Muslim girls.. This maggot has shit for brains. Anyone who says that saying Merry Christmas is worse than murder has to have shit for brains and the IQ of a potato. I mean, what a twisted moral sense this piece of crap obviously has. And this evil creature is what Muslims think their clergymen can be like. Where do they dredge these scum of the earth brain, dead knuckle draggers from? They are so dumb and evil that they barely qualify as human beings at all. To say nothing of the neanderthal appearance of the creature with that beard. People like this should not be polluting any western, civilised country by their presence..
raja says
tim gallagher,
Exactly my thoughts too. Murder, rape, thuggery by any name is better than “congratulating” a Christian on Christmas ! The idea seems to be out of the blues just like Leftists ideas. Sadly, they can’t find a single soul who is virtuous enough to lead the flock.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, raja. See my reply down at the bottom of the comments. Not sure what happened to make my comment turn up down there.
Spideyweb1 says
Awesome Tim… the evidence says
“OTHERWISE”
jewdog says
Since the scriptural version of Muhammed is a portrait of a pedophile and murderer, wishing Merry Christmas in this guy’s sense should be very desirable.
I’m spending Christmas going to Shul and then watching Christmas themed murder documentaries on ID Discovery.
Merry Christmas to all you infidels (and murderers and pedophiles)!
raja says
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Jesper says
Why all the fuss ?
Isn’t it the mainstream attitude among most leftist politicians in US, Canada, Sweden, Germany etc, that “Merry Christmas” is offensive to muslims ?
Therefore, to not offend::
May all readers of Jihad Watch have a merry “winter holiday ” …
OLD GUY says
One thing you can say about muslims they do know their Murder and Perversion. I guess we should look at “Ram a Dam” the same way, bunch of perverts. This Cleric is a Christianophobic. and should be sanctioned off the internet, we needs laws against this hate speech. Oh wait they want our freedom of speech when it benefits them, not us.
tim gallagher says
Yes, raja, what struck me was definitely the truly bizarre concept of morality this maggot displayed when he seems to think that congratulating a person for Christmas ranks with the most appalling crimes. These Muslim clergy often seem to be off the planet with the insane things they say. Their minds must be very strange places, that’s for sure. But that’s what islam does to a lot of people’s minds. It turns their minds into very sick and twisted things.