Muslims unite to condemn 'extreme depravity' of child grooming in first UK-wide single sermon

 Comment: I am really pleased about this. But we still need to address the patriarchal culture that has subverted Islam and allowed and excused the oppression of women within the Muslim community.

Imams across Britain will today deliver a sermon denouncing the practice of grooming following a series of sexual abuse cases involving Muslims.

The religious speech, which will be read out in 500 mosques, opens with a reading from the Koran that prohibits “sexual indecency, wickedness and oppression of others” and continues to urge congregations to report suspected cases of child abuse.

It is reportedly the first time a single sermon will be delivered in unison across the UK and is organised by campaign group Together Against Grooming with the support of the Muslim Council and Islamic Society of Britain.

The effort comes after the convictions of Muslim men in a string of cases including those in Rochdale, Derby and Oxford, where five men were yesterday sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in a sex abuse gang.

Speaking at their sentencing, Judge Peter Rook told them they committed “exceptionally grave crimes” against girls and that demonstrated “extreme depravity”.

“You targeted the young girls because they were vulnerable, under-age and out of control,” he said.

Ansar Ali, spokesperson for Together Against Grooming, said the group was horrified by recent court cases, adding: “As Muslims, we feel a natural responsibility to condemn and tackle this crime.

"This is the start of what will be a nationwide project in which we seek to work with others to eradicate this practice from all communities."

The sermon’s author, Alyas Karmani, an imam and youth worker in Keighley, West Yorkshire, told the BBC there was a "profound disrespect culture" in the treatment of women.

"Access to pornography, which also objectifies women, is creating a culture where men are now ambiguous when it comes to the issue of violence against women," he said.

Others involved in the sermon’s broadcast at midday prayers today have been keen to ensure sexual abuse is not disproportionately linked to Asian Muslim men.

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Friday Sermon: Start Practicing, or Stop Pretending by Hamza Yusuf

An experience of Eid Bayan...

Comment: I came across this on FB and wanted to share :) 

Dude what a crap sermon we had today before Eid Namaz ... Some 25 year old, who was banging on about how we are all Part time Mozzies and how you should all be having the beard as its supposedly not a choice and how all London are running around chasing money and doing 16 hour taxi cab shifts rather than doing Namaz etc etc the list goes on, and saying how successful the Muslim Empires are, and th

en finishing with how people should dress in 7th century garb etc not in suits and how Muslim men listen too much to their women and Muslim women need to serve their Husbands and not demand too much from them and they should be quite like a good obedient Pakistani wife, as Western Muslim women are too outspoken and liberal bad Muslims.
He then said, those people that did not fast, pray, pay zakat or go on Umra and Hajj are all Bad Muslims and today God does not need your Eid Namaz so you might as well leave the Mosque... LOL WTF Then he said Music singing and Dancing to Bollywood music is Haram ... OMG I was like calm down dude !

All I have to say is "Wo be unto the fault finder". So this jumped up twat is from Bradford, were ironically up north taxi drivers seem to give their white female passengers a bit too much of a personal service, and secondly how does he assume that we are all taxi drivers, thirdly when did the beard become compulsory, and when did wearing the fashion of the 7th century become compulsory? If Muslim Empires are so successful in his eyes, then why are the Moguls, Ottomans, Persians, Moors etc not around ? The bloke sitting next to me said, this crazy Bradford dude keeps telling me to come to do all Namaz's today as there is a Hadith that I will get so much reward, yet my wife is begging me to go out to meet family shopping and a nice meal, plus she has been sexually starved for a whole month, he said what ever happened to the Hadith that said, the best among you is those who is good to their wives and listens to women's needs? And moreover, what if I am in Safar (travel) could I not do Namaz later on? Someone else at the back of the Mosque shouted out at him, but what if you can't observe roza due to ill health and can not pray in Jammat in Mosque as your sick, or are too poor to pay zakat or can not afford to do Umra or Hajj as your families needs come first as charity begins at home... LOL and he was like DONT MAKE EXCUSES BROTHERS... LOL what an immature misogynistic brother ! What he failed to realise in regards music and dance is that, when a Byzantine Christian delegation from Abyssinia went to Medina to visit Mohammed (pbuh) did they not perform Music and dance in the courtyard of Median while Aisha watched on as well? Blessed be Ansari Women as modesty did not prevent them from seeking guidance in matters pertaining to faith. Lets just say Ansari women were Hot blooded feisty like Spanish women and Latino's, not afraid to ask direct questions of anyone.

Thank God this jumped up young zealatory Bradford guy, was not taking the Namaz!
On the way out of the Mosque, people figured out why he wants Muslim to wear 7th century clothes and study the Empires of past ... as he was handing out his business cards for his Islamic Emporium business LOL but not a lot people were shaking his hand or even greeting him... I think a lot of people not just me, were a bit pissed at this dude and thinking WTF and how did anyone on the Mosque Committee let him have the warm up act before the prayer? Shame on the Committee if this is the type of person they are trying to get to indoctrinate young boys and girls.

Khalid Latif -- Self-control and Forgiveness

Look Into The Distance - Khalid Latif