How The Texas Governor and Attorney General Trumped up Fraud Charges Against EPIC

Yasir QadhiOctober 26, 202634 min0 comments

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In this urgent community address, Sheikh Yasir Qadhi details the findings of a bombshell *Texas Monthly* investigative report exposing how Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton orchestrated a politically motivated campaign of trumped-up fraud charges against EPIC and its community development project. Drawing on thousands of pages of government documents, the exposé reveals a secret 9-page memorandum directing state agencies to find charges against the mosque, the forced resignation of a principled state commissioner who refused to comply, and a federal court ruling of unconstitutional discriminatory behavior. The lecture closes with a passionate call to action urging the Muslim community to vote, mobilize, and stand firm with confidence and dignity.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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