Al-Huda International
chain of Islamic religious schools
Al-Huda Institute is an Islamic institute that follows the teaching from what it considers to be the authentic sources of the Quran and the Sunnah. The organization runs chain of religious schools, with campuses in Islamabad and Karachi, Pakistan, as well as in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Ideology
Al-Huda Institute's founder, Farhat Hashimi, stated that it does not follow any particular sect of contemporary Islam and that it refers to itself simply as Muslims, as was done during the time of early Islam.
The institute is known for its extensive religious syllabus with a focus on scripture. According to Faiza Mushtaq, who did her PhD on the institute, its schools produce "activists and reformers," who believe that they are returning to "'real Islam, true and pure." According to Sadaf Ahmad of Lahore University, "Al Huda founder Farhat Hashmi's denunciation of various cultural practices and disapproval of Westerners and Indians gives women a new conception of their identity as Muslims."
Canadian branch
Al-Huda's Mississauga campus opened in 2004 and is a private school accredited by the Ontario Ministry of Education. As of 2015, it offered two main fields of study. About 160 female students in kindergarten to Grade 6 attended daily classes. On evenings and weekends, the school offers seminars for teenagers and adults.
Students linked to terror groups
Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani co-perpetrator of the December 2, 2015 shooting attack in San Bernardino, California, which killed 14 and seriously injured 22 people, had been a student of al-Huda before she married and moved to California. She and her husband executed the worst Islamic terror attack in the United States since the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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