Thread by @ZareenaGrewal

I don’t make prescriptive religious arguments out of a respect for the expertise of ulama (which I wrote a book about!) but YQ et al have zero respect for political expertise To make this argument in a moment of global rising fascism/white supremacy/ecological disaster is STUPID

https://twitter.com/yasirqadhi/status/1668023872933732353

The fact that he can say the left has no unifying politics except hatred of the right shows a lack of even a high school level of understanding of American politics in the last 50 years. Even conservatives concede that it is THEIR side that lacks ideological coherence on exon/pol

If American Muslims want to learn about Seera or something from Qadhi that’s one thing (my own kids listened to his lectures this Ramadan) but to follow his advice on politics will truly be a disaster; I wish these scholars had the humility to say they are out of their depth

This is a moment when American Muslims are active in politics at every scale—local, state, national. Incredible talent and vision. Those people who have dedicated their lives to knowing political issues deserve our communities’ attention NOT politically illiterate imams

The fact that their entire political vision can be boiled down to one wedge issue shows the extremely irresponsible and disastrous road they are ready to take us down. The good news is all the sociological data shows most American Muslims are young/blue, not going to go rightward

People can change and Yasir Qadhi has regretted and apologized for his earlier career of denying the Holocaust but that should tell us something about his political acumen—he has very irresponsibly spread hateful disinformation in the past, he can do it again. He is doing it now.