Abu Usamah at-Thahabi

Abu Usamah at-Thahabi is an American imam at Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, England. ¹ He was born in New Jersey in 1964, embraced Islam in 1986, and studied for eight years at the Islamic University of Madinah, graduating from its College of Da'wah and Usul al-Din. ² No trusted source publishes a civil name for him; he is documented throughout under this name. ¹

He held imam posts in the United States — in Orlando, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Peoria — before posts in Keighley and at Green Lane Masjid in the United Kingdom. ² In January 2007 he was among the preachers filmed at Green Lane for Channel 4's Dispatches programme Undercover Mosque; the programme drew 364 complaints to Ofcom, which ruled in Channel 4's favour, and the West Midlands Police later apologised for their initial complaint about the programme and paid £100,000 to Channel 4. ¹ University talks by him were cancelled in later years after protests. ¹

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The Wikipedia article describes the university he attended as Salafi-oriented, which describes the institution rather than naming a school for him; his own ecosystem's biography names no school, and Wikidata gives his religion only as Islam in general. No source names a legal school for him personally, so no faith value is recorded for him. ^{1 2 3}

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