Report from the UK: Exposing the UK Salafi’s Part 1
What follows was originally published at Salafi Burnout’s blog, but was removed at the request of the anonymous author. Anything that is published on the Internet never really disappears, so I have republished the article here, taken from Salafi Burnout’s Google cache. If any individuals named in this article, or the people who make up Salafi Publications East London Wing want to answer the allegations, they can come here and do so.
If TI administration removes it here, I’ll post it at progressiveislam.info.
Inshallah, the author is still planning to write Part II. I’m especially interested in Salafi Publications, since it is one of the organizations cited in Umar Lee’s “Rise and Fall of the Salafi Dawah” that harmed a lot of people in the US.
Text of article:
AsalamuAlykum,
First of all I would like to thank you [Salafi Burnout] for exposing the criminals in our communities who take advantage of the people who are most loyal to them and are trying to follow the straight path laid down by the salaf. I’m young but have seen so much happen amongst the Salafi’s and it does make me sick, I still follow the Salafi understanding of Islam but I don’t wear the label and follow any of the Salafi cults.
I would like to finally expose the evil fake da’ee’s who go around flexing their fake anabolic scholastic muscles, they go by the name of: Hassan As Somali (Abu Abdullah) & Abu Hakim Bilal Davis. I would like to also expose a so called Salafi group who go by the name of Al-Athariyyah who are Salafi Publications London wing, these people have caused much havok in London which stretches over a decade.
Hassan as Somali:
Hassan as Somali is a brother whos parents were a mixture of Somali, White Welsh and Arab ethnic background. He was raised in Cardiff, he later went to travel to Dammaj Yemen, it is unknown how long exactly he studied there but most people report it to be less than 3/4 years. On his return he started giving classes and networking with other Salafi’s across the UK. Hassan is a very well spoken individuals who has a strong way with words, and it is this skill which enabled him to fool many of the Salafi’s in the UK and gain their support.
Hassan is well known to have a ruthless tongue, and has unmercilessly torn apart many real Da’ees and Scholars during Salafi Publication conferences, and other fake Salafi conferences across the UK & America (Philly, NJ etc etc). Hassan and his crew have a bad reputations amongst the Somali community in Cardiff, he made many Somali brothers drop out of University, because he wanted to protect them from the fitnah which led to a uproar in the Somali community, since then they have banned him from their local masjids. One thing alot of people do not know is his evil actions towards sisters who look to him for guidance, although not as worse as Daud Adib, Abu Hasan Malik or any other of his friends across the big water, but he is getting there. I will now expose some of the evil known to us, Allah knows best what other crimes he has committed.
Like other so called Da’ee’s Hasan has married multiply times and divorced many of them. He married a Somali sister, he then abandoned her with his Kafir family members and didn’t see her months and sometimes years on end. Hassan once proposed to a Somali sister (I won’t mention her name for obvious reasons) who was very knowledgable who led weekly classes for sister, may Allah bless this sister she had the knowledge and wizdom to see straight through Hassan Salafi Da’ee cloak and reject his proposal. Hassan then went on to refuting her in his next lesson and calling all Salafi sister to abandon her, because she has left the manhaj and has become a hizbee. Hassan preys on innocent ignorate sisters, once marrying them and fulfilling his evil desires dumps them like a peace of unwanted cloth. There are also reports of him marrying and divorcing sisters in America and Allah knows were else.
Hassan is one of those da’ees who doesn’t want a real job, he survives off his blind following salafi brothers and sisters, travelling the western world taken as much as he can and giving back as little as possible.
Abu Hakim Bilal Davis
Abu Hakim Bilal Davis is a Afro Carribbean Muslim convert, brought up in the rough streets of Birmingham. Bilal use to be a member of a Notorious Birmingham Street gang called inch-high, in the early 90’s he went to prison for 12 months for robbery. In prison Bilal became Muslim, after he left prison he applyed to study at the Islamic Univeristy of Madinah, with the help of Green Lane Masjid/ Ahlul Hadeeth (he later went to refute them because they were not salafi enough and harsh to deviated groups, he bit the hand that fed him). Bilal entered Madinah in the year 1994, he was a class mate of Sh.Yassir Qahdi (soon to be Dr Yassir inshallah), due to Yassir being a excellent student achieveing great things at Madinah Bilalgrew jealous and hateful towards Yassir and through the years together he did everything in his power to destroy Yassir. They both spent 10 years in Madinah the difference between them is in those 10 years Yassir Qadhi Graduated with a first class from the Faculty of Hadeeth and a Masters in Aqeeda, BUT the great salafi da’ee who studied with all the major scholars in Saudia spent 10 years in Madinah university and failed to pass his exams, he couldn’t even gratuate from the BA program that should take 6 years, he spent 10 years and failed, Bilal blamed the university and the hizbee forces in the university. Although being a huge failer in his studies Bilal was known as the most knowledge students from the west in Madinah at that time.
Apart from being a huge failer in his studies, he is also a sexual beast who can’t control what is between his legs, he has married and divorced countless times, and has even married a sister in the States and Allah knows best what happened to her. Here are some things about him taken from siratemustaqeem forum:
(Begin excerpt)
“What was bilal doing instead of studying? He was sitting up all night (regularly until fajr) with his muqallids from East London, Handsworth and Philadelphia, backbiting other students and their wives: “She needs a real MAN, She’s from MANchester.” Setting himself and his muqallids up to fail. They would sit up in the house of a Bengali muqallid from East London ordering him about, eating and drinking and humiliating him in his own home: “Bengali where’s da food?”, “Oi Bengali!” etc…”
In Madinah he rang up a telephone bill of over SR20’000 in someone else’s name. Then he went to Spubs asking for the people’s donated money to pay for it.
He was once entrusted with money by a student’s family, to give to their son when he went to Madinah. He instead spent all the money. Then had the cheek to ask the brother “can I keep it?”
He was at a bookshop in Makkah with his ‘crew’ and didn’t have enough money to buy a book. He nearly ‘mugged’ a muqallid who he used to use like a noble doormat telling him “give me the money” and when he was reluctant he shouted at him “I said GIVE ME THE MONEY”. The muqallid handed over the money with tears in his eyes, humiliated in front of everybody. After getting the money he put his arm round the muqallid and said “come on *** you know you’re my man.”
He got caught once going to Riyadh and taking money from a person who they regarded as being a “hizbee.” When one of the brothers found out, bilal approaches him and says: “don’t tell anyone… it won’t be good for the da’wah”.
“He also once said showing off to the brothers about his talks in the conferences, “Imagine it akhee, I’ve got my shades on and the hall is packed! I walk in and flick up my shades and say “Innal Hamda Lillah!”…!!!”.
In the late-night gatherings in Madinah he would spend his time talking about sex and sexual matters. On one occasion he told the brothers to “go home into your library… pretend to be studying and then call your wife in… when she comes in ask her to get a glass of water… while she’s gone strip naked and sit with a book (of hadeeth???)… then say to her ‘come and look at this interesting point maasah’allah’… then scream and chase her round the house…”
He also told the brothers “invite the brothers to the house with their families… when all the brothers are sitting in one room and all the sisters sitting in another room… call your wife to another room and have intimacy with her… believe me it’s a vibe!”
Another time he told a brother that he, bilal, had been watching two male cats having intercourse during the night outside his house?!
Yet another time he boasted to a brother that a Saudi woman had come up to him and ‘flashed’ him.
(End excerpt)
Bilal Davis is another Da’ee to look out for, he is still a criminal but his crimes have changed.
Al-Atharriyyah (Salafi Publications East London Wing)
Al-Athariyyah (Failed Salafi Wanabee Organisation) who have been trying to open a masjid for the last 10+ years (May Allah protect us from them and their evil), opened 3 book shops that have all closed down and hijacked a Muslim School run by a sister then run it to the ground until it closed (inner fighting amongst the salafi ranks), they have failed at all these projects because non of their followers finance any of their projects. But yet the can afford to pay for luxurious apartments for weeks on end when Hassan as Somali comes to visit. Their main teacher is a brother who goes by the name of Farooq who is of Afro Carribbean origin, this brother only studied at Madinah for 2 years only completing the arabic program.
End of part 1..more to some.

aziz 8:01 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink |
no worries, John – i think it’s great you’ve posted it here.
razib 8:38 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink |
i only thread this stuff on this weblog or links from this weblog. but the aspect of sexual exploitation seems a recurrent theme. interesting parallels to other cultic movements. does the movement attract perverts, or turn people into such?
Shams al-Nahar 9:06 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink |
It is always about sex or survival.
There are only two major thematics.
Consider the exploitation of women by western polygs, like Yearning For Zion.
aziz 9:43 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink |
I think it needs to be said however that this entire thing, coming from an anonymous author as it does, has very little credibility. The author complains of others backbiting but what would you call the piece itself? It accuses people by name but there’s no name signed to it.
I skimmed it but to be honest without any identity to it i’m inclined to essentially ignore it. I feel it important to register my skepticism in te thread here s anyone coming here and linking to it is aware of that.
pi.info 9:50 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink |
It’s also possible that anonymity is the only thing that allows this person to tell the truth. There is a long-established tradition in professional investigative journalism of using whistle-blowers and the promise of anonymity to allow vulnerable people to actually tell us what is going on.
pi.info 9:58 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink |
Actually, if we take Umar at his word when he describes the hair-trigger fitnah in this community of abandoning and boycotting people, I can see a very reasonable argument for the author to wish to remain anonymous.
It’s unreasonable to demand the writer walk through that to reassure you.
Rabiya 1:07 am on July 19, 2009 Permalink |
Seeing that “Salafi Burnout” has been threatened with death within his own community by his own community (the Muslims), I don’t blame him for remaining anonymous – nor do I blame the people who send him articles (that UK article was clearly not written by him) for remaining anonymous. And this also seems to be a necessary thing when one is writing about these cultic movements, especially when one has been the victim (SB attracted many people who were or said they were victims of these groups — can you blame people who were abused by Muslims in the name of Islam for remaining anonymous? Really?)
pi.info 5:39 am on July 19, 2009 Permalink |
I was unaware that anybody had threatened SB. Got a link?
thesuneclipsed 2:46 pm on August 8, 2009 Permalink |
I will verify the truth of the following incidences, having been privy to them – the school takeover in East London (alhamdulillah, I had foresight of the way this community operated, and had made a condition to the sister that the material I contributed to the school was personal to her, and to be removed from the school in the event that it was no longer under her management)
The knowledgeable sister whom Hassan proposed to … the story goes pretty much as described.
Gtown balla 12:03 pm on August 12, 2009 Permalink |
I know a few people who posted on that site , a few posters started naming names of common sisters and brothers and naming where they worked and lived , one posters wife was named , the husband is in IT received IP addresses and other info and went ballistic , can we blame him ? other minor threats have came about , its sad really…some particular brothers marriage info got blasted on their and alot of character assasinations happened on there, but I am talking of the da’ees , i am talking about common folks like us. No sister should be subjected to be called bi polar or a whore , how would u like it if one of ur wives was called a smut in black ? anyone of u from philly who is married has a 99% chance of having a wife who was a smut or worse stillis , sadly its more common than not. no wonder people hate the philly ummah.
pi.info 7:21 pm on August 12, 2009 Permalink |
a few posters started naming names of common sisters and brothers and naming where they worked and lived , one posters wife was named , the husband is in IT received IP addresses and other info and went ballistic , can we blame him
SB should have been moderating the site much more closely than that, if what you describe is true. When some disgruntled clowns were publishing the alleged home addresses of Talk Islam front-pagers in comments here on Ti, they were gone the same night.
Gtown balla 9:37 am on August 13, 2009 Permalink |
sadly I even emailed him directly a few times and no response ,I was intrigued by all the stories but the people arguing was boring , I am looking to move out of philly because of this crap , ” the deviants” must be having a good time laughing at sites like this.
PolygamyOne 12:42 pm on December 9, 2009 Permalink |
there was some info on the jersey imam aqeel ingram on the blog and his plots at the mosque in the washington district of columbia. did you get that info to?
johnpi 12:45 pm on December 9, 2009 Permalink |
Nope. SB sucessfully ‘disappeared’ the other reports on his blog, thereby refuting my premise that nothing that’s been published on the Internet ever really diappears.
So far as I know, what’s posted here is the only report from his blog that still remains. Kind of ironic, since it’s the only thing he ever pulled.
PolygamyOne 7:27 pm on December 9, 2009 Permalink |
i did a lookup myself. aparently SB got a violation of term agreement on the wordpress account. look like somebody was upset and sent some folks to bash the site enough for wordpress to dismantle it. sad we could definitly use some whistleblowers with the way that things are goign for american salafis. sisters need to know the truth and brothers need to fix the bad blood.
Abu Ubayd 7:21 pm on December 17, 2009 Permalink |
All you have done is expose some of the sins of these brothers (thats if its true), I dont see anything that refutes their salafiyah, Bottom line “Look at your own sins before you expose others” I was expecting pages of refutation (again if there is) but this just sucks and shows how small minded the author is. Wait until someone posts about your sins on the net. I wont be waiting for part 2!
BK 4:20 pm on January 22, 2010 Permalink |
Silence Libel
Shabaab'ul Muslimah 3:28 pm on January 22, 2010 Permalink |
Asalaamualeykum Warahmatullahi wabarakatu
May Allah Guide The Author, and may allah protect our salafi brothers around the world. If this matter is true about the brothers mentioned above ; Has THE AUTHOR not heard that “He who hides the affairs of their brothers allah will hide their affairs for them in the day of judgement”. And if this matter is a lie then has he not heard what Allah had said about liars in the quran. Wa’ya’aadubillah. Brothers Hassan As – somali and Abu Hakiim bilal davis are salafi brothers with knowlegde and are truthful with matters concerning the religion as i have never heard any refutation about their salafiyah; What they do or what they don’t do has nothing do with this author and also has nothing to do with whoever backbites about this matter. So shame on you and may allah guide those who have been lead astray after hearing this gossip
Asalaamualeykum warahmatullahi wabarakatu
BK 4:21 pm on January 22, 2010 Permalink |
And another silence libel