Hussain Yee
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Hussain Yee | |
|---|---|
 Hussain Yee | |
| Title | Dato' Sheikh |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1950 Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanbali |
| Creed | Athari |
| Movement | Salafism |
| Education | Islamic University of Madinah |
| Occupation | Preacher |
YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2013 (Presently active on other channels) |
| Subscribers | 11.1 thousand[1] |
| Total views | 539,457 thousand[1] |
| Associated acts | Islam Net |
Last updated: 12 April 2024 | |
| Muslim leader | |
Influenced by | |
| Website | al-khaadem |
Dato' Sheikh Hussain Yee or Hussein Yee (born 1950), is a Malaysian Islamic preacher and an International Da'i of Islam as well as the President of Pertubuhan Al-Khaadem in Malaysia.[2][3]
Background
[edit]Early years
[edit]Born into a Buddhist Malaysian Chinese family, Hussain Yee converted to Islam at the age of 18. Yee studied under the scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani.[4]
Positions held
[edit]Hussain Yee is the Founder and President of Al-Khaadem.[5]
Among other positions, he spent a year in 1980 as an Advisor for the Cambodian Islamic Refugee Organisation in Paris, France. He has also served as a Counsellor at PERKIM Kuala Lumpur and as the Director of Da’wah for the Islamic Center in Hong Kong from 1984 to 1985.[6]
Controversy and response
[edit]In 2015, he gave a keynote address at the Australian Islamic Peace Conference (AIPC), which was attended by religious leaders from Jewish and Christian faiths.[7]
Yee has said that Muslims terrorists were not responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States, just based on "suspicion".[8][9]
Hussain Ye later responded to the accusations and denied ever saying that "Jews were behind 9/11 attack", and accused The Australian newspaper of "inept journalism".[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "About Hussain Yee". YouTube.
- ^ "Islam Events - Sheikh Hussain Yee Biography". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ^ "Hussain Yee • Lectures • Muslim Central". Muslim Central. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- ^ "King Faisal Prize | Sheikh Mohammad Nasir Ad-Din Al-Albani". Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
- ^ "About Al-Khaadem | Al-Khaadem | Serving Mankind". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
- ^ "Founder & President | Al-Khaadem | Serving Mankind". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ^ a b Yee, Hussain (4 April 2015). "Skewed reporting incites hatred of Islam: An Islamic scholar exercises his right of reply to an FMT article". Free Malaysia Today. Free Malaysia Today. Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ "Jews were behind 9/11 attack, implies Malaysian preacher". Free Malaysia Today. 30 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ Hussein Ye (13 December 2007). "Hussein Ye about 9/11". Memri TV. Archived from the original on 2016-01-23. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
Link
[edit]- Al-Khadeem Malaysia Archived 2017-03-03 at the Wayback Machine