About 25% of those who died in the UK from Coronavirus are Muslims. At this moment, the UK parliament is considering a law which will cremate all dead bodies.
As we Americans wash our hands, sanitize our surroundings, and quarantine ourselves, we remain without enough testing kits for COVID-19. The World Health Organization offered them to the United States. Our government refused to take them. This is a matter of life and death.
As our Masjids and Islamic centres become deserted over the next few days due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it’s a golden opportunity for community organization and Masjid boards, managements, Imams, and volunteers to think out of the box.
I teared up last Friday when a friend texted me “Juma Mubarak.” Juma, the Friday Prayer, is such a beautiful tradition--one that we grew up with--that missing it intentionally was incredibly painful.