Usuli Khutbah: "How Are These Things Connected? Mecca and The Plight of the Uyghurs," 24 July 2020

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl delivers the Friday #VirtualKhutbah and Jumu'a prayers at The Usuli Institute. In the first khutbah, discusses two seeming unrelated circumstances, which are in fact related. First, with regard to the state of the affairs in the Muslim world in these first ten days of the month of Dhu'l Hijjah, and the condition of Mecca now versus in the past decades; also the prospects of Hajj in the age of the pandemic. Second, Dr. Abou El Fadl reads from a harrowing report about the brutality that Chinese Uyghur Muslims face both inside and outside of concentration camps that exist TODAY: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8542485/EDWARD-LUCAS-harrowing-evidence-Beijings-concentration-camps-aimed-educating-Muslims.html He powerfully implicates Islamophobes and the Islamophobic industry, and the complicity of Muslim countries in painting all Muslims as a dangerous threat with one brush stroke, and draws the connection between the two seemingly unrelated events and their connection with the pandemic. In the second khutbah, Dr. Abou El Fadl relates a story of a famous Quran copyist and the lessons to be learned about hope and redemption. For more, visit: www.usuli.org. More resources on Global Brands that take advantage of forced Muslim labor in China: https://enduyghurforcedlabour.org/news/402-2/?fbclid=IwAR0BB1FpCHlwATjg2SgehR7DTrqSnX2fp3vjh6oB7kJyxcYrssInmq8egAU