Alyas karmani biography examples

Salman Rushdie was a hero for Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, then a journalist on the New Statesman - not only for his writing but also because he had spoken publicly about racism in Britain. So she read the book. I'm not that kind of Muslim but I did wonder, 'Why are you doing this? When Muslims started burning the book, many of Yasmin's white friends were disgusted.

At dinner parties, if I said anything about disagreeing with Rushdie, people would walk out!

Alyas karmani biography examples

That's how difficult it became. Yasmin describes what followed as "a moment of awakening". I said: 'I'm a Muslim. My mother's Muslim. My family's Muslim. The white liberals I worked with were shocked. They'd never seen me that way. It was inconvenient for them. They were the people who were protesting outside Downing Street. They had an ideology that made them relevant," he says.

This new zeal for political Islam culminated with Ed's father delivering an ultimatum - if Ed was going to live under his roof he had to give up Islamist politics. It was a stark choice between what Ed viewed as the mundane worldly comfort of his parent's home or the divine cause of serving the global Muslim community. Ed chose the latter. He ran away from home.

The adventure was short-lived as his father wanted him back under his roof, but in the following years Ed continued down the path of radicalisation. Ed's religious identity was shaped by notions of global injustice and suffering rather than spirituality. We'd gone from opposing an author to opposing the British government. Full Name. Alyas Karmani is a psychologist by background, with over 30 years of counselling and therapy work focussing on Muslim centred mental health and emotional well-being; as well as extensive experience of working with children who have experienced trauma, exploitation and abuse.

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