as-salamu ‘alaykum dear friends, family and supporters, You may or may not be aware of the Cambridge Mosque is Moving project headed up by our dear Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad. They urgently require donations to help with the build cost of the mosque and have initiated a “Brick by Brick” appeal where you can donate the cost of the bricks. It is estimated that the mosque will require 350,000 bricks to build. Each brick costs only £1.40 making it easy…
I was informed that as-Sayyid Hajj Ayman Ahwal passed away on the 16th of Ramadan (16th August). May Allah grant him the highest maqam and proximity to those with whom Allah is utterly content with. Sayyidi Ayman was a sweet, kind, gentle, humble, generous, caring, loving and beautiful person. I was introduced to him through a mutual friend Sidi Dean Othman a number of years ago when Imam Zaid Shakir was visiting Birmingham. I was honoured to have hosted a…
If you have seen the film American History X, you’ll be struck at the similarities between white supremacist demagoguery and that of “Muslim” extremist demagoguery. The psychology of extremism transcends religion; fundamentally it is about hatred of the “other”. The ingredients to motivating youngsters to extremism are universal. Take some disenfranchised youth, give them an “enemy” to blame for their problems and predicament. Add to that some twisted logic, back it up by selective statistics, de-contextualused scripture or some myths…