Our community is under attack. We are being targeted by an enemy that is so powerful it sways both media and governments. While this attack against us is planned in the corridors of power around the world our own leaders sadly fail to plan any form of defence. They do not mobilise themselves nor mobilise the community.

It seems our leadership not only does not understand how to protect us and our rights both here in the UK but worse all too often actively stops Muslim institutions from becoming the hub of our community’s reform, revival and survival.

There is not a day when we are not attacked by the media. The more the media demonise us, the more the masses grow to fear us, the more they fear us; the more hatred against us spreads through them. It is a time bomb of race hate that we sit upon. And yet the hub of our defence remains silent. Allah’s house no longer defending the Ummah but forced to be just an empty prayer hall for old men and power politics.

Not along ago the Prophet PBUH was called a paedophile, MPACUK alone took the fight on against the Daily Telegraph, while 2000 mosques remained silent against the evil. They didn’t even know about it. Negligence is the norm not the exception.

In Parliament too, wars are planned, by men who are taught to join political parties so they can sway Britain against us (the Iraq war was planned by Zionist Neo Cons in America, just see BBC reports). Yet even while these men plot, our Muslim leaders refused to teach even the basics of political involvement to the younger generation. So as the enemy grow in strength, we grow weaker, our young do not join the democratic process, we do not make decisions, we are uneducated and un-politicised become marginalised in our own country. Leading us to become pacified in the face of injustice or extreme in our reaction to it.

The famous case where a Muslim sister ‘Salma Yaqoob’ was not allowed in the mosque in Birmingham to organise the anti war campaign (the committee felt it would cause trouble with the Government) is not uncommon. She then asked the local church who agreed to help her (this was documented in a BBC documentary).

It seems the Muslim leaders from student Islamic Societies to mosque committees are not just passive spectators to attacks against us, but active members of the opposition actively stopping any form of help.

Our children are un-educated; one in two has no qualification at all according to latest government stats. They go on to say we are the least educated minority in Britain. Do the mosque Leaders set up homework clubs? Supplementary schools for our children within the mosques? The answer of course is no. It seems a cultural resistance to change that even the Prophet PBUH would not accept is holding our mosques back.

As the young leave the path of Islam, with no prospects of a job and without guidance they are being sucked into a world of drugs and vice. Do you we have career advice from the mosque that would help young Muslims plan a destiny? It seems even these logical steps that would aid our community are too bold an initiative for the old guard.

The mass of Muslims with little leadership are watching their own community become third class citizens. Our daughters are not taught or catered for at all. Unable to take any meaningful part in the mosque they are taught at home by Bollywood. These will then become the next mothers of the Ummah. Unable to teach their sons anything more than romantic ideals embodied in the Bollywood culture. Islam will get no help from these mothers, the blame lies not with them but us.

For we allowed these men to run the mosque into decay, we never demanded more nor got involved by joining the mosque decision making committee.

Ask the mosque Leaders for women to even be allowed to sit on the committee so the mosque can cater for the needs of our mothers, sisters and daughters, and they will attack you as if you were a thief or enemy. Nothing is open; everything is run behind closed doors, too often by men who do not want to be accountable to the very public that funds them.

Around the world we watch helpless as our people are slaughtered by UK and American troops, again we sit watching, pacified, unable and without any leadership lost as to how or what we can do to help. And there is so much we can do.

We are dying, and we are in decay, it must be time that a few of us have the courage to stand up and demand those who lead us no longer hold us back. Accountability must be the jihad of the day, we must all hold our Leaders to account, demand they reform the mosques, and only then will we have the leaders and mosques that will protect, teach and lead our children to a greater destiny.

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