{"id":19340,"date":"2026-06-02T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=19340"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:37:47","slug":"racism-in-america-and-in-muslim-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=19340","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 title=\"Racism in America and in Muslim Communities | Jumuah Khutbah | Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyECoCpPkw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/racism-in-america-and-in-muslim-communities\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yasir Qadhi talks also about the issue of racism in America. He elaborates about how Islam fought racism and put and end to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404,7867],"tags":[11486,7684,11487,5507,5509,11488],"class_list":["post-19340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-faith","category-values-of-islam","tag-death-of-george-floyd","tag-how-islam-views-racism","tag-pandemic-of-racism","tag-racial-discrimination","tag-racism-in-america","tag-racism-in-the-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Racism-in-America-and-in-Muslim-Communities.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}