Academic in Religious Studies and Contemporary Islam. Ysgrifennydd Cyffredinol @MuslimWales. Chief Enabler.
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A few years ago I published the text of a talk I gave on the idea "Anglophone Islam", which prompted some great discussions and debates.
I'm pleased to say it's now a peer-reviewed article in Contemporary Islam - open access and link here link.springer.com/article/10…
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In a coffee shop. Someone is trying to order an iced Turkish coffee and there are currently three members of staff trying to talk him out of it.
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Just had a call from a journo asking if I could go on live to debate whether the Taliban represent Islam. Hard no. 20 years and there are so few signs as a society we have moved on at all or learned anything.
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David Cameron is right about UK Muslims. Here is a picture of me 'quietly condoning' extremism.
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Halal alternatives are readily available in Britain in almost every sphere, except pies. Pies refuse to be Islamicised. If I want a chicken and mushroom pie, I have to cook it like I'm a Victorian.
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This is the problem with an RE curriculum that teaches imams are just Muslim priests, and mosques are just Muslim churches. Not to mention it presumes Zara's role is akin to the Archbishop. We shouldn't be afraid to ask for better religious literacy from our journalists.
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Reasons I used Twitter..
2010: Live tweeting shows
2013: Memes/humour
2015: Current affairs
2017: Watching the end of Western civilisation
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Sometimes I'll see a restaurant and there's lots of Muslims there and I get excited thinking it's halal but then it turns out they're just Arabs.
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If we all just decided it's socially acceptable to wear unironed clothes can you imagine how more much time we would have and how much happier we'd all be?
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Nice, France. Daily Mail article + photos doing the rounds. Didn't want to contribute to DM shares so here are the pics.
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Exclusive footage of me being ushered out of a mosque - @cathynewman
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Mustafa Cerić (former Mufti of Bosnia) rightly pointed out how Ibn Sina became Avicenna, Ibn Rushd became Avveroes, but Osama Bin Laden remained Osama Bin Laden. There's power in names.
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Often see duas asking for protection from jealousy, this is the first I've come across asking to remove jealousy from one's own heart.
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Muslims watching white liberals discover Maajid Nawaz isn't the balanced voice of reason but a chronically unhinged idealogue undergoing a several decade long identity crisis.
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Calling a remote Welsh mosque to confirm its closure, the chairman answers "to be honest with you bro, we only hav 5 people for jumma anyway, and the imams a pharmacist so hes been telling everyone what to do in the khutbah"
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I genuinely wonder, if Quilliam hadn't propped Tommy up and given him a new lease of life, would he have just sunk to obscurity with the rest of the EDL?
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On the left is an ackee (found in Jamaica), on the right is akhi (often found in East London). Know the difference.
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The 7th January is Orthodox Christmas.
As an orthodox Muslim, it is when I don't celebrate Christmas, rather than not celebrating it on 25th December like the rest of you heretics.
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My two euros on this. Islam underwent a crisis, exacerbated by colonialism. It's now experiencing a period of vitality in scholarship, creativity, & imagination.
What is experiencing a global crisis is the nation state, which is a religion and one I don't think it will survive.
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The thrust of the Trojan Horse podcast has always been that significant, illiberal and harmful state legislation has been built on an incredibly weak evidence base. No critique of the podcast has even approached this contention.
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My favourite narration of the Prophet. A life dedicated to achieving only these four things wouldn't be wasted.
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One guys joke is now being repeated across the web. This is why we need more journalists, less writers for hire.
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Sajid Javid is an example to ethnic minorities everywhere, proof that there really is no barrier to achievement here in Britain, and that with hard work, determination, and grit, even the son of a Pakistani bus driver can become a racist toff.
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The Daily Mail - only giving a damn about foreign workers when they can score some points against feminists.
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There is something waiting for you after much patience, to astonish you to the degree you forget the bitterness of pain - Ali ibn Talib (ra)
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A thousand congratulations from a stranger but who absolutely wishes you and family the best.
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8 rakah for tarawih. I don't even remember the last time I did the full 20 but being raised a God-fearing Hanafi I can't let this one go.
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Alhamdulillah. Been trying to digest this all day. Just alhamdulillah. nitter.app/IslamUKCentre/status/8…
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When you finish a meal and are onto dessert and a brothers like 'oh, that wasn't halal btw..' nitter.app/AbdulAzim/status/53036…
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I've known Faraz since 2005, and this is the first time I've seen his chin. Janaztul ghaib for our fallen lihya.
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Yeah, and I just had a decent meal, so global food poverty can't exist. nitter.app/adamdeen/status/717307…
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Just overheard a man in the mosque foyer phone his wife and ask 'I can't find my shoes, what brand are they?'
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That experiment where they put a tooth in Coca Cola overnight is proof you should drink Cola & not hold it in your mouth for several hours.
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The argument of feminism is that society is structured in such a way that men are able to participate fully but women are restricted to certain areas, usually reliant on a male-centred view of femininity.
If you want try to prove feminism wrong, this isn't helping your case.
World's highest Paid Models:
-Kendall Jenner: $22.5mil
-Karlie Kloss: $13mil
-Chrissy Teigen: $11.5mil
-Rosie Huntington-Whitely: $11.5mil
-Gisele Bundchen: $10mil
-Cara Delevigne: $10mil
-Gigi Hadid: $9.5mil.
I could go on, point being....
No Men.
Silly right?
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This is insane. When I was a teen working in a takeaway, a woman called to complain there was wood in her curry. It was a stick of cinnamon.
13 People Who Have No Idea What Seasoning Is buzzfeed.com/daves4/its-a-ba… via @davestopera
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Ironic that some are saying UK Isis recruits don't have #britishvalues, after all, they went to a foreign country and took control by force.
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Just a reminder that Muslims should empathise with the poor and unfortunate in Ramadan, such as the Brazilian football team.
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96% of the Quranic verses are tweetable with 280 character limit. via @reddit /r/dataisbeautiful
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Imam Tawhidi is a joke yes, but also genuinely dangerous for Muslims on twitter. He has a wide Islamophobe following and the veneer of respectability. Coupled with his tactics of personal attacks/accusations of extremism/contacting employers, he can do real harm.
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I don't know about you, but I'm glad this dangerous shrapnel-filled bomb was placed by a well-meaning kid and not a hate-filled jihadi.
"His lawyer told the trial he was no "hate-filled jihadi" and never meant to harm anyone." bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39…
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I met someone at BRAIS researching the adhan (call to prayer) in early Muslim history. I asked her to tell me something mind blowing, and she did. Here's the something - there is a hadith we've all heard and misunderstood in a really basic way.
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I'm looking for participants to be interviewed as part of a project on the history of Islam in Wales. Please do get in touch and share the word.
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That desi who studied Arabic and wants everyone to know it so he says 'ya3ni' every now and again.
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I think Cummings is right. It is Spidermans, not spidermen. Spiderman is a proper noun in this instance and should be treated as such. If we had multiple people with the surname Herdman, we wouldn't say Herdmen to refer to them but Herdmans.
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The more relevant debates in recent years have been women's access to mosques and women ulema. All of which @MuslimCouncil have a strong track record on. Asking Muslims about female imams is like asking a Christian how many priests follow a madhab.
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Being Muslim right now is to feel a mixture of horror and disgust at the shootings and frustration at the guilt-by-association.
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The surprising thing about these comments isn't just that the Dalai Lama is himself a refugee, but that it shows how deep the rot of nationalistic thinking goes. It is *the* paradigm of the modern era and a black hole almost impossible to escape.
The Dalai Lama says 'Europe belongs to Europeans' and refugees should return to their native countries to rebuild them dailym.ai/2Of17d2
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Quite pleased to hear this. Mainstream Muslims and Ahmadiyya groups have a lot to work out, but access to political participation and ceasing discrimination and abuse an integral first step.
Imran Khan appointed an Ahmadi (Pakistan's most severely oppressed minority) to his Economic Advisory Council & rightwing Pakistanis are going nuts. High-level members of his team have defended the appointment, arguing that personal faith does not affect one's merit. I am proud.
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Hrtbps taking down UK government would be a perfectly reasonable season finale for 2017. nitter.app/hrtbps/status/94124153…
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'The nation state is a new religion, and ethnic minorities are its heretics' - Karen Armstrong
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Favourite this tweet and I'll give my best shot at writing your name in Bengali alphabet. Accuracy of spelling not guaranteed.
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As part of the Islam in Wales history project I have spent a lot of that time going through archives.
This particular story, from @NLWales Welsh Newspaper Archive, caught my eye...
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I have been unable to unsee this through Umbrella Academy s2.
Sir Reginald Hargreeves left, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad right.
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I never thought I'd care enough to say this, but children's Islamic books are really really lacking. Often beautifully illustrated, but so poorly written. Any good recommendations please let me know.
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This is a great video to help young children understand the role of Priti Patel, Rishi Sunak, and Munira Mirza in the UK government.
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You know it's interesting that attacks against Muslims (acid, Finsbury Park, Paris most recently) are overtly being called 'revenge attacks'
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When you get run over but the driver of the car isn't a mehraam nitter.app/AbdulAzim/status/58082…
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Earlier today @SaharAlFaifi was suspended from Plaid Cymru membership due to allegations of anti-semitism, a few days after appearing in Plaid Cymru's election broadcast. I feel responsible for clarifying certain aspects of the story that haven't yet been mentioned.
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'It's only the extremists who insist on dividing into good Muslims and bad Muslims' - says Cameron as he divides Muslims into good and bad.
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