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Having Real Conversations about Spiritual Abuse in Muslim Communities

Posted by sobia on 16 Oct 2017 / 0 Comments

This post is related, but only slightly, to the Nouman Ali Khan (NAK) scandal (in which a religious leader used his power to harass and threaten women, as MMW explored in a recent roundtable). I don’t want to talk about NAK, but I do want to talk about the idea of spiritual abuse, a concern […]

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Roundtable on Spiritual Abuse and Gendered Violence: We Believe You

Posted by eren on 25 Sep 2017 / 0 Comments

Trigger warning: gender-based violence, spiritual abuse, victim-blaming, misogyny On September 23, 2017, Omer M. Mozaffar published a Facebook post in which he wrote about “predatory behavior” on the part of Nouman Ali Khan, a Texas-based Muslim scholar and founder of Bayyinah Institute with millions of online followers. Since then, much of the Muslim internet has […]