
In a February 7, 2025 Friday sermon at the Moslem American Society in Dearborn, Ali said that the oldest definition of human rights comes from the Quran and the Hadith, and that the Geneva Convention was created by secular nations "to implement upon Muslims." "Even a resistance group – if they don't like it, they'll just say: 'Oh, it's a terrorist group,'" he said, even though "we are the teachers of human rights" and "the American dollar and capitalism has been the greatest terrorist in the modern age."
Hassan also criticized the LGBTQ+ community, calling them the "alphabet people" and saying: "These are not rights that are endowed upon you." He emphasized that it is Muslims who must teach what human rights are.
Ali Hassan: "Within these 30 articles of universal human rights that secular nations have created to implement upon Muslims and say that we don't have a grasp of human rights, when, in fact, we are the teachers of human rights.
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"The American dollar and capitalism has been the greatest terrorist in the modern age.
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"They claim that a certain group of individuals are a terrorist group. Even within the Geneva Accords, it talks about the right to resistance. It's quite interesting how they implement their law. Even a resistance force – if they don't like it, they'll just say: 'Oh, it's a terrorist group.' So they find loopholes.
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"The oldest definition – the oldest place – of what is human rights was found in the Hadith – not 75 years ago, not after World War II, but when the Prophet Muhammad came to us.
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"To say that we are the terrorists and that we are the ones who are doing this, even though we have developed the most... We have rules for warfare. If you look at the Geneva Convention... Those rulings are not just based on their own accord. They took rulings from the Quran and traditional Islamic studies, and they also took them from Biblical sources.
"They took it from both sources. And they implemented Islamic sources, Islamic law – shari'a – on the Geneva Accords.
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"This is not something that they developed. They took it from us.
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"We have to be the ones who say: No, this is not allowed. Even within our societies...Allowing for things like the 'alphabet people,' to implement their ideas of what it means to be moral...
"We have to be the ones to teach them: No, this is not a humanitarian issue. These are not rights that are endowed upon you. These might be civil rights, but they are not human rights. They are not humanitarian rights. And then they use it to weaponize against us. We have to be the ones that teach [this]."