Michigan-Based Muslim Cleric Promises to Rebuild America
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And do it right this time.
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Muslims don’t really want to take over the United States and replace the Constitution with Sharia, right? Anyone who thinks such a thing is just a greasy Islamophobe. Leftist politicians keep insisting that when their Muslim allies talk about Sharia, they’re talking only about private religious law, not about a political system they’re working to impose on the United States. And then along comes someone such as Ibrahim Yassine to let the cat out of the bag.
The increasingly important Middle East Media Research Institute MEMRI recently reported that “in his August 14, 2026 Friday sermon at the Islamic Institute of America in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, resident scholar Ibrahim Yassine said that Islam is coming to America.” You might have thought it was already here, but Yassine doesn’t mean simply that Muslims will be practicing Islam inside the United States. He is referring to a much more pervasive and comprehensive presence.
Yassine said: “Islam is coming to America, and, inshallah [if Allah wills], Shi’ite faith is coming to America. We are not looking to sow discord or anything like that. We (will do it) with our reason, our logic, our religion, and our moral values.”
Oh, well, then, who could possibly object? Yassine continued: “We should be among the best citizens in America.” That sounds wonderful on its face, but Yassine is not talking about loyalty to America’s existing values and political order. Instead, he is referring to what Barack Obama might call a “fundamental transformation” of American society.
“We will build America,” said Yassine, in a statement that will come as something of a surprise to those who have been laboring under the illusion that much of it is already built, “on the basis of moral civilization and Islam.” The clear implication is that America as it exists today is not a moral civilization, and so it needs to be rebuilt according to Islamic principles. And Yassine then goes on to say this plainly.
“What they have is no civilization,” he continues. “It is nothing but worldly life, nothing but technology. For them, civilization means killing nations and plundering their resources, even if it means killing all the people, like Mr. Trump said, ‘Wiping out a civilization.’ He wants to kill you. This is a sick mentality.”