he Al Mahdi Islamic Seminary is a brand-new online Shiite school in the United States with ties to Islamic extremists. Launched in May of 2019, Al Mahdi’s target demographic is American Muslims, who it seeks to turn into “credible” and “pious” scholars.
Its mission isn’t the issue, though. Instead, it is who is helping to fulfill it, like Sheikh Hamza Sodagar, who has openly expressed his support for the Iranian regime and its proxy terror group in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
In Al Mahdi’s launch video posted May 3, 2019, Sodagar said:
“By the will of god and his Wali on earth, the Imam of our time, we will begin the Al Mahdi Islamic Seminary, knowing that we are simply means and we are not the ones who are doing this. It is all the blessings of Allah through the Imam of our time that we are able to put this together. We will start with the online courses, inshallah [Allah willing], which are designed for the serious and intelligent believer who is trying to learn more about their religion.”