1. Suhaib Webb is an American Muslim imam who converted from Christianity to Islam in 1992.
18 Facts About Suhaib Webb
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Suhaib Webb has previously been the imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.
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Suhaib Webb was born William Webb in 1972 in Oklahoma to a Christian family, including a grandfather who served as a preacher.
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Suhaib Webb began engaging in delinquency by joining a local gang and became a local hip hop DJ and producer, making records with various artists.
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Suhaib Webb studied privately under a Senegalese sheikh, learning enough Islam and Arabic to become a community leader in Oklahoma City, where he was hired as imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City.
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Suhaib Webb obtained a degree in Islamic Law from Al Azhar University.
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Suhaib Webb is an active member of the Muslim American Society and its youth department and has been so for the last ten years.
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On December 1,2011, Suhaib Webb was inaugurated as the imam of the Islamic Society of Boston's Cultural Center, the largest Islamic center in New England.
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Suhaib Webb has spoken out against radical clerics that seek to prey on insecure youth and their American identities.
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Suhaib Webb has been hailed as one of the World's 500 Most Influential Muslims.
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Suhaib Webb founded the Suhaib Webb Institute for Sacred Studies dedicated to teaching the Islamic sciences online.
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Suhaib Webb was named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in 2010.
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Suhaib Webb had gone on a trip with a group of imams to Auschwitz in 2010, and then following the trip, publicly condemned Holocaust-denial and anti-Semitism.
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Suhaib Webb is a part of efforts to more effectively rebut militants and religious extremists and is an advocate for grassroots Muslim activism to promote social change.
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Suhaib Webb says he has since re-thought the issue and says that though homosexuality is sinful, the constitution guarantees everyone the right to be married.
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Suhaib Webb has had LGBT people contribute to his website, noting that a time has come for a change how the community addresses this issue.
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Suhaib Webb still attended in the pews along with several other prominent imams.
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Suhaib Webb was replaced by Nasser Wedaddy, director of civil rights outreach for the American Islamic Congress and chair of the New England Interfaith Council.