John Mohammed Butt
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John Mohammed Butt | |
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| Born | 1950 Deobandi Sunni Islam |
Notable ideas | Co-creator of New Home, New Life |
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John Mohammed Butt is an
Early life
Born in Trinidad in 1950, Butt spent his early life in Walton-on-Thames, England, and attended boarding school at Stonyhurst College before becoming a hippie and traveling to Pakistan.[2]
Conversion to Islam and life in Pakistan
Arriving in
He
Broadcasting career
In 1993 he worked with the
When the Taliban began to gain influence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he saw their radical interpretation of Islam to be in conflict with the traditional Islamic tolerance of tribal culture. In response, he established the Pak/Afghan Cross-border Radio Training and Production (Pact) project in 2004, producing the Da Pulay Poray (Across the Border) programme to confront what he saw as Islamic extremism.[2]
He has continued to promote what he sees as 'mainstream' Islam, and has been among those pressing ahead with plans for a new Islamic university in Jalalabad, offering a moderate alternative to radical clerics:
It makes perfect sense. There is currently nowhere in Afghanistan where a young man can do higher Islamic studies. They go to Pakistan, where as we know some of them have become radicalised.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Ghouri, Nadine (22 January 2011). "John Mohammed Butt: The hippy who became an imam". From Our Own Correspondent. BBC Radio 4.
- ^ a b c d Albone, Tim (9 December 2007). "Cambridge mullah John Butt takes on radicals with radio". The Times. Retrieved 23 October 2001.
- ISBN 9789353058029.
- ^ Brockes, Emma (23 October 2001). "A long way from Ambridge". The Guardian.
External links
- John Butt at Penguin India