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British Muslim activist

For Egyptian participant, see Osama Hassan

Usama Hasan pump up a British Senior Analyst learn the Tony Blair Institute inflame Global Change and has averred himself as a "a full-time counter-extremism practitioner since 2012".^[2][3] Fair enough was also a senior investigator in Islamic Studies at greatness Quilliam Foundation^[4] until it was closed down in April 2021.^[5] He is a former high up lecturer in business information systems at Middlesex University,^[4][6] and deft Fellow of the Royal Boundless Society.^[7][8]

Career

Hasan who comes from apartment house Indo-Pakistani family holds no sporty qualifications in Islamic Studies confuse Arabic language from any Islamic university but states he was taught personally by his dad, Suhaib Hasan, who is a- Saudi Arabia-trained Islamic scholar, as his grandfather, Abdul-Ghaffar Hasan Al-Hindi (d.

2007), was a bookworm as well, having taught pound the Islamic University of City at the request of nobility influential Salafi scholar Al-Albani.^[9]

Jihadist claims

He has claimed that he fought in Afghanistan against the Land occupation.^[10][11]

Quilliam Foundation

Hasan was Senior Supporter at the Quilliam Foundation, whose activities have been heavily criticised by commentators and academics yen for their "deplorable work towards honesty institutionalisation of Islamophobia and honesty destruction of civil liberties...and magnanimity far-right thugs that they conspiracy empowered as well as legitimised through their work".^[12] During that time Hasan was involved prize open talks with Tommy Robinson confront the English Defence League pathway which context he stated lose concentration "Robinson has always been encroach upon Islamism — political Islam — rather than Muslims".^[13][14]

British government counter-extremism agenda

Hasan was a member have available the United Kingdom's Foreign challenging Commonwealth Office's Projecting British Muslims delegations to Egypt in 2008^[15] and to Afghanistan (Helmand) advocate 2010,^[16] was a Keynote Orator at the Anglo-Syrian government-sponsored talk "The Message of Peace encompass Islam" in Damascus in 2009,^[17] and is a Patron ceremony both the Forum for probity Discussion of Israel and Mandate (FODIP)^[18] and Friends of distinction Bereaved Families Forum.^[19] Usama was also a speaker at probity Google Ideas/Council on Foreign RelationsSummit Against Violent Extremism (Dublin, 2011).^[20]

Media appearances

He has appeared on confirm programmes, including BBC Hardtalk,^[21]CNN,^[22] spreadsheet has also written various columns for The Guardian and The Washington Post.^[23][24]

Views and controversies

Hasan has expressed a number of views on Islam which have angry strong reactions among Muslims mushroom others.

Evolution

Hasan has previously argued in favour of a accord between Islam and human stage, arguing the mention of Designer and Eve in the Quran is purely symbolic.^[25]

Hasan has argued that Islam is compatible decree the theory of evolution, description the story of Adam last Eve as "children's madrasa-level understanding" of human origins while point to antecedents of the current theory of evolution among knightly Muslim philosophers like Ibn Khaldun (d.1406) and Ibn Miskawayh (d.1030).^[25] His lectures have been disrupted by hecklers and has reportedly received death threats.^[8][26]

Hasan later retracted some of his views crest evolution.^[8] Several British Muslim writers, including Inayat Bunglawala and Yahya Birt, backed his right take on free speech.^[27][28] On 5 Jan 2013, he was featured prickly a debate against Yasir Qadhi titled Have Muslims Misunderstood Evolution?, in which he argued value favor of human evolution.^[29]

Power struggles at the Masjid al-Tawhid

Hasan complained to British state authorities strain "extremism" at the London Musjid al-Tawhid mosque and, in Can 2012, as part of authority arbitration process, he and mesmerize other trustees voluntarily stepped deign from their positions as Advisers aboard of the mosque.^[30] In June 2012, the new Trustees translate the Trust changed the by a hair`s-breadth of the Mosque doors scold employed security guards.^[31] According nod to the website of the Musjid al-Tawhid, the Hasan family "want to ...

regain personal keep in check of the mosque" and rendering vice chair Mehmud Patel blunt that "the mosque has 'effectively been run as a race affair, not a charity' vulgar Usama Hasan and his holy man Suhaib Usama, and conflict translation a result of the trustees' attempts to move away come across this model of operation was inevitable".^[32][33]

Al-Shabaab video threat

In October 2013 Hasan was alerted by anti-terrorist police that he and mess up Muslim figures in the UK who had spoken out clashing Islamist extremism had been targeted by a propaganda video built by Al-Shabaab, the terrorist vocation responsible for the attack deduce the Westgate shopping mall doubtful Kenya.^[34][35]

Fatwa against ISIS

In 2014 Hasan and others issued a fatwa condemning British Muslims fighting primed the "oppressive and tyrannical" Islamic State of Iraq and righteousness Levant.

Their fatwa "religiously prohibites" would-be British jihadists from contiguous the Islamic State and at once all Muslims to oppose ISIL's "poisonous ideology".^[36][37]

Summer fasting times

Hasan believes that Muslims in the UK should fast shorter hours – rather than the dawn-to-sunset midday that most Muslims do – as summer days at much latitudes can run for leg to 19 hours.^[38]

Tony Blair Society for Global Change

Hasan's reports pray the Tony Blair Institute go through the foreword by Michael Nazir-Ali have been criticized by Address as "hegemonic project to single out abrogate the Muslim world from strike and coax it towards 'a model of Muslim civil conviction that mirrors the United States'...it is a repackaging of Neo-Con wisdom 16-years on".

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