Pennsylvania Friday Sermon by Imam Humayun Baksh of Al-Furqaan Foundation: The Quran Is Our Weapon, Our Guidance – Our Goal Is to Place the Quran in Every Home in America
In his May 16, 2025 Friday sermon at the Muslim Association of Lehigh Valley, Imam Humayun Baksh of the Al-Furqaan Foundation described the Quran as both the 'beauty' and the 'weapon' of Muslims. He stated that the Foundation has been distributing English and Spanish translations of the Quran across the United States for the past 21 years, with the goal of placing a copy 'in every home in America,' and to 'spread the streets of America with this book.' Baksh said millions of Qurans have been distributed in prisons, hospitals, hotel rooms, libraries, and colleges.
According to a report from 2022, in 2016, the Foundation's Quran distribution arm, the Al-Furqaan Project, received a $1.6 million donation from the RAF Foundation, which is reportedly linked to Qatar's ruling family. Omar Baloch, a scholar in residence at the Al-Furqaan Foundation and instructor at its Furqaan Institute of Quranic Education (FIQE), delivered a Friday sermon at the Furqaan Masjid in February 2024. In previous statements, Baloch has accused Israel of creating global 'disorder' on behalf of 'the bankers' (January 2024). In 2020, he interviewed Omar Zaid, who claimed that Zionists and the British Empire are controlled by 'high-degree Satanic magi,' that former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a 'High Priest member' of the Jewish Sanhedrin, and that the Jewish intelligentsia serve the cause of evil.
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