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Muslim scholar in Chicago: ‘Islam did not come to coexist’

December 13, 2025 | | Print Article

A troubling sermon from Islamic scholar Mohammad Nusairat, recorded last month, has been making the rounds this week amid all the attention on immigration and assimilation brought on by the Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota.

Nusairat was clear in stating that Islam “did not come to coexist,” declaring that “nothing is raised above Islam,” and that their religion “is the only truth, and it is the only way to justice.”

“Unfortunately, these days we don’t repeat this enough, or we don’t have this doctrinal concept firm in our minds – that Islam did not come to coexist,” Nusairat said. “[The Prophet Muhammad said:] ‘Islam is always superior and should never be surpassed.’ Islam is raised high, and nothing is raised above Islam.”

“We can’t think of Islam that it came to live with these other religions in the sense that Islam is a religion amongst those religions, and they have a share with the truth, and they have a share of justice, and they have a share of the correct worship of Allah,” he continued. “Islam came to correct all of that. Islam came to remove the oppression of all those religions, and it is the only truth, and it is the only way to justice.”

The video was posted on the YouTube channels of Men of the Ummah, a Chicago-based organization “dedicated to cultivating Muslim men,” and the associated Noon Islamic Center, located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Nusairat, identified by MEMRI as a student at the University of Illinois Chicago, drew attention last year for saying America and secular democracy “are cancers.”

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“America is the cancer. America, the American government, secularism, democracy, capitalism, these are cancers that have spread their illness all over the world – in America and in the Middle East,” the Muslim scholar said at the university’s Muslim Students Association. “In America, over here, people have the freedom to – again, as I’ve said before – commit zina [fornication] but when you speak up, it’s a problem.”

“Now Muslims are tired of this cancer,” he added. “They’re tired of the American government. They’re tired of democracy. They want to see a new way of life. And as Muslims, we have to understand, that we have that new way of life.”

Americans should come to grips with the fact that the United States is not obligated to take in the entire world — certainly not those who hate America and its Western values — and that any legal immigration allowed should result in a net-positive for the country.

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