California Imam Says One Day, Muslims Will ‘Destroy the Entire Civilization’ of the ‘Disbelievers’
He could have added, “With a lot of disbelievers helping us do it.”
In a Friday sermon on November 6, 2026 at the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County (IECOC) in Costa Mesa, California, Dr. Sayed Moustafa Al-Qazwini said this:
…Of what the wrongdoers, the corrupts, are doing in the land. This authority and this power is not eternal, is not permanent. The disbelievers, the arrogant, should not ever think that when we give them time and a chance, and they are in office, they are in power, they are corrupting, and they are still safe, nothing happens to them, they should not misunderstand us. We want them to increase in their sins, in their violations. To increase.
Why? So when we take them, we take them with no mercy. With no mercy. We pour our wrath and anger on them without regret. There will be a humiliation punishment for them, not just any punishment. Sometimes it’s a punishment; sometimes it is a humiliating punishment. Destroy them completely, destroy the entire civilization, then no single survivor.
Is he talking about the United States? Surely not, right? After all, he must be grateful to us for all the freedom America offers to Muslim migrants, no? No. Of course he means the United States. He was speaking about “the disbelievers” and “the arrogant.” The United States is the chief power in the world today, and as a free republic (of sorts), it is the primary obstacle to jihadis’ dreams of imposing Sharia upon the entire world. Sharia and Western pluralism are the two principal visions of society around the world today, and so Western pluralism is the biggest enemy, as far as Sharia-adherent Muslims are concerned.
“The arrogant,” meanwhile, is also the United States. The Islamic regime in Iran routinely refers to the U.S. as “the global arrogance,” or some variation thereof. JNS reported Thursday that Iran’s putative Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei “warned that Tehran’s ‘jihad against arrogance’ would ‘take on far wider dimensions’ if the United States attacks again.”
Qazwini was by no means the first Muslim, much less the first Muslim cleric, to talk about conquering the United States. Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, preached on Feb. 2, 2024 that “America has grown old. It is old. It is on the verge of retirement. It is about to be admitted into a nursing home.” He predicted that “Islam will enter every home in every continent without exception, including every home in America.”
This is a more common view than most non-Muslims realize, as all too many non-Muslims still assume that the “moderate Muslims” will save the day. A Muslim speaker told a large crowd in New York City at a rally in February 2026: “Oh, don’t scare them, brothers! Relax! They’re over here on purpose to be like, ‘Oh my God!’ Who’s seen those videos where they’re like, ‘Oh my God, the Muslims are taking over New York City!’ Seen those? You seen those? Let them know that we are taking over New York City! Takbir!” The crowd responded with enthusiastic screams of “Allahu akbar.”
This also recalled a video that surfaced back in December 2025, in which a young Somali Muslim in the U.S. holds a large photo of President Donald Trump and says: “My biggest fear in life is that this man may never witness our full takeover. Yes, he may never wi— witness that. He already witnessed our partial takeover, our little success, in America…. So. He’s old and sick, I know, he may not witness our full takeover. But I promise you that his sons will witness.”
On May 27, 2026 at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, the imam Esam Omeish said: “The best thing we can do to America is help guide it with the guidance of Islam, and help guide it with the ability to rid itself of these illnesses that our Prophet Muhammad has described and has given us the prescription for.”
Despite all this and much more, the establishment media and all too many political leaders are still wringing their hands over a nonexistent “Islamophobia.” The humiliation that Qazwini predicts will come upon America will come doubly upon the American left, as it was leftists who enabled all this. Yet it will sweep over them as much as it will sweep over the rest of us, if we do not manage to find a way to stem the tide.
Article posted with permission from Robert Spencer
