| The tag on the video is the East Plano Islamic Center, located in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. EPIC was established in 2003, according to Wikipedia, and is led by Imam Nadim Bashir, Ustadh Mohamad Baajour, Sheikh Dr. Yasir Qadhi, Sheikh Sajjad Gul, and Morad Awad. Pakistani-American theologian, Sheikh Qadhi is labelled a moderate Salafist, presumably because as of 2011 he was speaking in English much more moderately than he had done in the past. His most famous student is Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, known as the Pantibomber for his failed attempt on Christmas Day 2009 to blow up the plane he was on by igniting a TATP bomb sewn into his underpants, courtesy of the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula bomb maker, and his PhD is from Yale. He’s the one speaking so triumphantly in the video. |
