{"id":33888,"date":"2020-06-08T00:08:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T00:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/racism-in-america-and-in-muslim-communities\/"},"modified":"2020-06-08T00:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T00:08:36","slug":"racism-in-america-and-in-muslim-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/racism-in-america-and-in-muslim-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism in America and in Muslim Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">By Dr. Yasir Qadhi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/acts-of-worship\/prayer\/is-it-permissible-to-offer-e-jumuah-prayer-to-curb-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friday <\/a>Khutbah, delivered at the (EPIC) East Plano Islamic Center Masjid, by Dr. Yasir Qadhi, Resident Scholar of EPIC.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yasir Qadhi talks about the recent killing of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_George_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd<\/a>, \u00a0a 46-year-old black man, in Minneapolis,\u00a0Minnesota, by white\u00a0police officer Derek Chauvin who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yasir Qadhi talks also about the issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/muslim-lifestyle\/values-of-islam\/there-is-no-place-for-racism-in-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism<\/a> in America. He elaborates about how Islam fought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islam-in-the-world\/human-rights\/how-islam-views-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism<\/a> and put and end to it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Watch this video to know more about how Islam views racism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Racism in America and in Muslim Communities | Jumuah Khutbah | Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyECoCpPkw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yasir Qadhi talks also about the issue of racism in America. 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