We started the main day arising out of bed wide awake at Fajr time after only 4 hours sleep; jet lag has its advantages! Whilst getting up we watched the news and reviewed any information that we received during the previous day at the conference. I decided to start the day in the best of ways: going for a jog in the Gym, I asked Mas’ud and Aftab but they just passed on the offer [Mas’ud: I find gym work…
“The mother of a girl allegedly raped when she was 13 by an imam at a mosque today said she thought a change in her daughter’s behaviour was “just a mood swing”. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had not known of the allegations against Manzoor Hussain and put her teenage daughter’s mood change down to her age. Hussain, 42, of Ashley Street, St Paul’s, Bristol, denies 11 counts of indecent assault and one charge of rape…
as-salamu ‘alaykum, After the furor over my mosque posts things have settled down. I got a phone call the other day from someone who is an acquaintance and someone prominent in the community telling me that he was surprised at the stuff that I had written. Upon asking him what he found incorrect and wrong and had he read it, he said yes and then after a short pause said “you used the word ‘gunday’” I then asked him to…