RSS

Tag Archives: Dawah

The ‘Crime’ of Daw’ah

Harris Farooqi son of Da’ee Munir Farooqi, currently appealing his conviction, shows some of the videos, CDs, DVDs and books reported in the media as being terrorist materials, which are simply in fact Qur’ans and books about and used for the propagation of Islam widely available (often for free) all over the world and all over the internet.

 

 

Take an active role to Stop the Collective Punishment of the Farooqi Family by writing the British government and signing their Petition before the February deadline.

Keep informed regarding the status of the Campaign and the Farooqi family by frequenting their website: Save the Family Home & their facebook page SAVE THE FAMILY HOME.

You can also show your Solidarity with Your Brother & let him know he has your Support by writing him at:

Munir Farooqi A9693AQ
HMP Manchester
1 Southall Street
Strangeways
GREATER MANCHESTER
M60 9AH
UK

And do not forget him & his family in your du’a.

 
1 Comment

Posted by on January 4, 2012 in Campaigns, Videos

 

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Behind Bars: Islam Inside and Outside Prison

 

Many have written and talked about what it is like to live inside a prison.

Nonetheless, a great number of these authors have never lived in one of these institutions, or even seen the inside. While numerous letters have been written about prisons, and many theories abound on what the prison experience is like, very few of us know first hand what it is like to live inside a prison cell. Very few prisoners talk about the things they saw in that place. To understand what it means to be a Muslim while doing time, or what it means when a prisoner converts to Islam while behind bars, we must understand what happens inside so many of the prisons in the U.S.

A prison, for the most part, is a place where some of the worst people in society are allowed to victimize each other. Firstly, things that are frowned upon in the free world are common occurrences in this place of pure hatred and segregation. Drug use, homosexuality, gang violence and racism are no longer vices, but simply a way to survive. While a man locked up for rape is shunned by society, an inmate who rapes another is often looked up to or feared. Fights, stabbings and harassment from the correctional officers happen everyday in prisons across the nation.  Read the rest of this entry »

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on August 2, 2011 in Collateral Damage

 

Tags: , , , , ,

 
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 237 other followers