Desi Nationalism, Hanafi Purists and the Ouster of an American-Muslim Pioneer

I want to tell you about a man that I have known since I was a teenager. His name is Sheikh Muhammad Nur Abdullah, or just Sheikh Nur as most people call him, and he is the former Imam or the Islamic Center in St. Louis and later the imam of the Dar al Islam [...]

No problems here!

  Denial (dĭ-nī’əl) is a defense mechanism in which a person is faced with a fact that is too painful to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence Some brothers have disparaged my rise and fall series as “exaggeration”, that I am unqualified to speak [...]

Clarification and more thoughts

After completing the ten-part rise and fall of the Salafi Dawah in America series I wanted it to marinate for a while and for readers to be able to voice their opinions on what had been written and their own observations. Before giving further comments, I received numerous emails asking me to clarify the title [...]

The rise and fall of the ‘salafi dawah’ in the US (Final, Comments Open)

Previously: Part One: The Beginning Part Two: The Competition for Converts Part Three: The Brotherhood Part Four: E.O. and its satellites Part Five: Northern Virginia/DC area Part Six: The Decline Part Seven: Boycotting and Excommunication Part Eight: Social Breakdown Part Nine: Post 9/11 COMMENTS ARE NOW OPEN Final Thoughts… When IANA and other such organizations [...]