The New Muslim in Our Mosque is the Canary in the Coal Mine | Ustadh Usama Canon
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2019-03-11

Ustadh Usama Canon speaks about serving, educating, and supporting new Muslims and the special place this cohort has in the American-Muslim community to identify issues and strengthen the community. 

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Ustadh Osama urges us to listen to our brothers and sisters newer to the faith because the concerns they raise now will be the issues our youth might stop attending the mosque later in life. 

He delivered this talk at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on August 3, 2013.

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Born and raised in California, Usama Canon embraced Islam in 1996. He had the honor of studying with various Islamic Sciences both at home and abroad under some of today’s foremost scholars. Usama Canon was as an Instructor at Zaytuna Institute and as a Muslim Chaplain for the State of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Usama Canon was the Founding Director of Ta’leef Collective and had maintained active roles in various facets of outreach and education, concentrating on issues facing Muslim youth, assisting converts, and developing support systems for Muslim ex-offenders.

Sidi Usama passed away on September 7, 2021: https://mailchi.mp/mcceastbay/mcc-532172?mc_cid=30e0427baa&mc_eid=87dc03b073

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