Tareq Al Hawwas

Jul 14

**DOB:** N/A

**Nationality:** Saudi

**Location:** Saudi Arabia
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Salafism

**Type of Leader:** Preacher

Biography

Tareq Ibn Abdul Rahman Al Hawass is a prominent Saudi advocate and preacher. He graduated from the Islamic University of the Imam Muhammad bin Saud, with a specialization in “Osoul Eddine” or the fundamentals of religion, Al Aqida and the modern religion doctrines. Then he obtained a master’s degree in the issues of belief in Sunan Ibn Majah and the doctorates degree in the conversations and the implications related to the matters of faith and companions, in the work of Ibn Abi Shaybah

After that, Sheikh Tareq Ibn Abdul Rahman Al Hawass became a doctor in the Faculty of Shari’a and Islamic studies in the city of Al Ahsae, specializing in the Aqida and modern Islamic doctrines, and an Imam and a preacher in the mosque of Al Moualimin in the same city, as well as a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars.

Tareq believed that opening up the concepts of Islam to media to reach a large public is necessary. He worked on various programs on several satellite channels. He is renowned for his different Islamic programs such as the weekly program for Al Bidaya channel, entitled “The Fatwas of women”, also a program talking about “the stories of the prophets” with the title of “Awraq” on Hayatina channel as well as the program “Islamic advice” and the program “The story of Fatwa” with Sheikh Salman Al Aouda on Al Dalil channel.

Al Hawwas has also done presentations on many radio and television programs such as Al Majd channel, Abu Dhabi channel and The Holy Quran channel as well as participating in the program “Hayat Al Qouloub” (“The life of hearts”) on the Qatar television. In addition, he presented a series of Islamic lessons and lectures including the lesson of explanation of “The Aqida Hadiths in Sahih Al Bukhari'', another lesson in the Fiqh field entitled “Explanation of Manhaj Al Salikin from Sheikh Al Saadi”. Those presentations, appearances and lectures made him earn the award of “The Distinguished preacher” in the Eastern Region.

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

October 2015: Al Hawwas said at the Education City Mosque, Qatar Foundation for Education and Science that the Western civilisation is a big “threat” for Muslims and that several programmes have been put in place by the “enemies” to “brainwash” Muslim’s brains. In the same sermon, he called upon Allah for “Zionist aggressors” to “count them in number and kill them completely, do not spare a single one of them.”

July 2014: Tareq al Hawwas said on a Friday sermon aired on Qatar TV: “...Oh, Allah increase the pressure You exert upon the plundering Jews. Demonstrate upon them the miracles of Your might, for they are no match to You. Count them one by one, and kill them to the very last one. Do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, disperse them. Oh Lord, freeze the blood in their veins. Oh Allah, tear them asunder. Oh Allah, sow discord in their hearts. Oh Allah, do not let them prevail…”

April 2013: Tareq al Hawwas stated on al-Quds TV during a religious program: “The Jews are the enemies of this nation, and they spare no effort in preventing this nation from gaining power. They have their ways. But before I go into that, anybody who knows what the Jews are like knows that this type of conduct is not out of character (...) They are the most miserly of all the peoples. Wickedness, trickery, and deception are engrained within them. The Jews – with only few exceptions – have a natural disposition toward treachery (...) If only Hitler had finished them off, thus relieving humanity of them. But Hitler was more merciful than they are themselves...”.