Adding this to the forum because items added here tend to stay up for years. Over the last 15 years, too much material written by survivors and observers of spiritual abuse of Muslims in sufi tariqahs has disappeared or gone unnoticed. The last two months have seen some allegations of cult behavior or secret behavior surrounding a man named Hamdi Ben Aissa in Ottowa, ON, although the allegati
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In Shaykh's Clothing is a resource, the only resource pretty much to date, for Muslims who have experienced spiritual abuse, especially at the hands of so-called Sufi shaykhs. FACE is geared more towards all kinds of abuse at the hands of religious/spiritual leaders and is focused on investigating reports of abuse and misconduct within the Muslim American community. They're not
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Quotehelpme2times Thank you for posting this. That's my story you linked to here in this forum. We need more stories from ex-members. Agreed and that's why some poeple are starting. You were the first person that I and other ex-followers know of who spoke out from a shariah following tariqa. I want you to know that your link was shared between other women who were abused in bad
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Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, Shadhili Jordan; Besa Krasniqi, Shadhili, Jordan; Hedaya Hartford, Shadhili, Jordan More people are leaving and speaking out about the Nuh Keller cult in Jordan. By far, this one is probably the most influential of the tariqat among the Muslims in Europe and the US. He has thousands of students spread out around the world. His dervishes run a popular online Islamic
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More on al-Yaqoubi:
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If you're a Muslim and you want to join a tariqah, well, godspeed. But you should know both sides of the story and know what you're getting into. We didn't have anyone to warn us. Make an informed decision. This is your mind, your body, your money and your spirituality and heart you are putting into these people's hands. I collected some links of people's stories so t
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Sufism is often described as the mystical branch of Islam. It is portrayed by some Muslims and the press as a peaceful, mystical alternative to extremism as well as traditionally conservative cultural interpretations of Islam. Perhaps this is true in some respect. But not in the West. Sufism has appealed to Western Muslims for a the better part of two decades. Many of them are the childr
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