Michigan Religious Scholar Encourages Followers to Imitate Terrorist Leader

A Michigan youth center Friday hosted a memorial service mourning the “martyrdom” of terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The event featured local Islamic leader Usama AbdulGhani, a resident scholar and spiritual leader at a K-5 school, who praised Nasrallah’s “bravery” and “divine resistance”—a resistance he said is now led by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Nasrallah, the long-term leader of Hezbollah, an officially designated U.S. terrorist organization, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2024 after spending decades on Israel’s kill list for his involvement in numerous deadly attacks.

The event, held at the Hadi Youth Community Center in Dearborn, Michigan, commemorated the one-year anniversary of Nasrallah’s death and urged prayers for the “ultimate victory of the Resistance.”

The service was livestreamed on YouTube by Light of Guidance, an Islamic organization led by AbdulGhani. The video has since been taken down for “violating YouTube’s policy on violent or graphic content.”

AbdulGhani is the “resident ‘alim,’” or religious scholar, at Hadi Montessori, a Dearborn-based K-5 school of 52 students.

In the service at the youth center, AbdulGhani called Nasrallah “Seyyed,” an honorific meaning “lord” or “master,” and expressed hope Nasrallah’s death inspired others to follow his example.

AbdulGhani offers “weekly lectures and discussions” with Hadi Montessori staff, as well as monthly parenting sessions for the community.

In 2023, AbdulGhani spoke at a pro-Hamas rally in front of a Dearborn library, calling Oct. 7, 2023, the day Hamas murdered more than 1,200 Israelis, a “day of God” and a “miracle,” according to reporting from the Middle East Media Research Institute.

In a series of 2024 ceremonies at the Hadi Youth Community Center, AbdulGhani called Israelis “the worst of Allah’s creation” and accused them of harvesting the organs of Palestinians, according to The Jerusalem Post.

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