| | *In September 2021, he spoke of his hatred for those who are not Muslim, specifically Christians. He stated, “[T]he people are [from] two groups, kuffar or Muslims, believers or disbelievers… I decided to love the believers and hate the non-believers, very simple… If I love Allah more than anything, then… what that love necessitates [is] that I will love what Allah loves, and I will hate what Allah hates… When I go outside to make dawah (outreach), I’m not going [up] to a Christian to tell him ‘I hate you’… but that does not deny the fact I do… I don’t hate him because his head is big or he’s skinny or fat or his skin color, but I still hate him as a being.”<ref name=fpm-14mar2022/> | | *In September 2021, he spoke of his hatred for those who are not Muslim, specifically Christians. He stated, “[T]he people are [from] two groups, kuffar or Muslims, believers or disbelievers… I decided to love the believers and hate the non-believers, very simple… If I love Allah more than anything, then… what that love necessitates [is] that I will love what Allah loves, and I will hate what Allah hates… When I go outside to make dawah (outreach), I’m not going [up] to a Christian to tell him ‘I hate you’… but that does not deny the fact I do… I don’t hate him because his head is big or he’s skinny or fat or his skin color, but I still hate him as a being.”<ref name=fpm-14mar2022/> |
| | + | *In November 4, 2022 sermon at the Islamic Center of South Florida, he expressed criticism of the backlash that NBA player Kyrie Irving has been facing after tweeting a link to a book containing Holocaust denial and antisemitic conspiracy theories. He preached: "Why [has Allah] humiliated us by the most humiliated people ever to live?"<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/miami-imam-kablawi-kyrie-irving-antisemitism-jewish-kids-feminism-islam-andrew-tate Miami Imam Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi On Kyrie Irving Antisemitism Scandal...], Nov 4, 2022.</ref> |
| | Kablawi’s congregation includes children. On the same video of him talking about Allah potentially destroying America and destroying gays and how women should be blamed for rapes committed against them, one sees a number of young kids praying with the adults and running around the floor.<ref name=fpm-14mar2022/> | | Kablawi’s congregation includes children. On the same video of him talking about Allah potentially destroying America and destroying gays and how women should be blamed for rapes committed against them, one sees a number of young kids praying with the adults and running around the floor.<ref name=fpm-14mar2022/> |
| − | *In November 4, 2022 sermon at the Islamic Center of South Florida, he expressed criticism of the backlash that NBA player Kyrie Irving has been facing after tweeting a link to a book containing Holocaust denial and antisemitic conspiracy theories. He preached: "Why [has Allah] humiliated us by the most humiliated people ever to live?"<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/miami-imam-kablawi-kyrie-irving-antisemitism-jewish-kids-feminism-islam-andrew-tate Miami Imam Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi On Kyrie Irving Antisemitism Scandal...], Nov 4, 2022</ref>
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