Culture is an excellent dawah tool. In many ways, this is probably one of the key ways in which we need to present Islam in this day and age. Having said that, the danger is that you then reduce Islam – a religion of codified law, tenets, values and rituals – to nothing more than an aesthetic expression devoid of a soul. When Islam is reduced to a cultural express, divested of all these things, it is not Islam anymore….
It is true, and an undeniable fact, that men of a Pakistani background are disproportionately (as a percentage of their demographic) involved in grooming cases, even though the vast majority of sexual abuse, predation, sexual exploitation, paedophillia, rape and sexual crimes are committed and perpetrated mainly by a white male population. The question then turns to why this is the case? The lazy assumption is that there must be something in their culture or religion that makes them behave this…
People often get berated for being bad parents because their children are wayward. In a lot of cases it can be down to parenting and the parents spoiling their children, for sure, however, I know of many pious parents, who have raised their children well and have not spoiled them in the slightest, but for one reason or another a child of theirs has strayed. It matters not how good a parent you may be, sometimes your child’s circumstances and…