Kenya

Your Daily Muslim: Jannyce Nawal Aium

Your Daily Muslim: Jannyce Nawal Aium

“When two people fall in love, that is indeed a disease, and the cure for that disease is marriage.” Kenyan Muslim Jannyce Nawal Aium shared that quote from Islamic author Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (not to be confused with Jaws) on her Facebook timeline. She spends a lot of time on Facebook, primarily spreading messages of […]

Your Daily Muslim: Ali Hussein

Your Daily Muslim: Ali Hussein

Kenyan sheikh Ali Hussein is the head of the Council of Imams and Preachers, a prominent Islamic organization in Kenya. He’s also a bad, bad person who fails at everything aside from being a colossal asshole. He even fails at being a Muslim, which is his career – Qur’an 5:51, 5:80, etc. command Muslims not […]

Your Daily Muslim: Samantha Lewthwaite

Your Daily Muslim: Samantha Lewthwaite

“So maybe ­tomorrow it will be ­Jannah [paradise], I look around at how beautiful Jihad is, it’s alive in Kenya, it’s alive in me, and I’m breathing Jihad, it’s my time.” Samantha Lewthwaite (that last name is pronounced like “lose weight” with a lisp; perhaps she should take the hint) had no idea growing up […]