Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi (born 4 March 1982) is a Chicago-based Muslim scholar, author, public speaker, and debator.
[9][10][11][12][13] In February 2017, Nadeem challenged the Pakistani-Canadian author Tarek Fateh, who hosts Fatah Ka Fatwa, that, "If Fateh really liked to debate Islam then he should debate with Yasir anywhere in the world, owing to conditions including the presence of independent judges and at a public place not in a TV studio.
[7] Following the inception of Fateh's Fatah Ka Fatwa, Yasir started Surgical Strike, a talk show to counter allegations made against Islam.
[14] The talk show released 72 episodes including the major ones with Arif Mohammad Khan, Mahmood Madani, Orya Maqbool Jan, Ram Puniyani and Ravi Shankar, and discontinued after two successful years.
"[15] In January 2019, Yasir hit a controversy saying that the Jana Gana Mana had no concepts of polytheism associated, as is generally believed by many Muslims.
[18] In February 2023, Yasir hit another controversy after he called the marriage of Swara Bhasker and Fahad Ahmad "legal but not accepted in Islam".
[21][22] In a discussion on casteism, Yasir clarified that caste-based discrimination has no basis in Islam and is purely a social issue.
[24] Yasir compiled Qāmus al-Asri, a trilingual dictionary which contains seventy-five thousand words of Arabic, English and Urdu language.