{"id":38668,"date":"2019-02-09T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/?p=38668"},"modified":"2019-02-09T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T23:42:19","slug":"two-fundraisers-a-well-and-a-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2019\/02\/09\/two-fundraisers-a-well-and-a-mosque","title":{"rendered":"Two fundraisers: a well and a mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning a British rapper, Blaine &#8220;Cadet&#8221; Johnson, from south London was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-47183401\">killed in a car accident<\/a> on the way to a show at Keele university in Staffordshire. He was 28. Some people I know are raising money to sink a well in his name (the location has not been decided yet; currently it is a case of &#8220;wherever needed&#8221; unless his family say he would have liked it to be in a particular place). This is a Muslim tradition called <em>sadaqa jariya<\/em> or &#8220;continuing charity&#8221; which the deceased benefits for in the Hereafter (yes, he was Muslim). The fundraising page can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/a-well-for-blaine-039cadet039-johnson\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/old-kent-road-mosque.jpg\" alt=\"A mosque on a corner, painted in a cream colour with green borders around the windows. To the right is a red-brick, low-rise housing block and a block of flats, approximately 8 storeys, can be found behind the red-brick building.\" class=\"wp-image-38669\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/old-kent-road-mosque.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/old-kent-road-mosque-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/old-kent-road-mosque-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/old-kent-road-mosque-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/old-kent-road-mosque-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, one of my favourite London mosques is fundraising for a rebuild: the Old Kent Road mosque (run by the Nigerian Muslim community) has been running from a converted pub since the 1990s and has insufficient space for the people who attend, especially on Fridays, but now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london-se1.co.uk\/news\/view\/9757\">has planning permission<\/a> for a brand new building and needs to raise funds. You can find their address, bank details and charity number as well as a donation button <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuk.org\/manuk\/Home\/DonateOnline\">on their website<\/a> (bank transfers should be made with the reference &#8220;rebuild&#8221;). We were told that there is a deadline for funds to be raised (I will find out what that is tomorrow, <em>in sha Allah<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Image source: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/profile\/5089\"><em>Derek Harper<\/em><\/a><em>, via <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/photo\/2670112\"><em>Geograph<\/em><\/a><em>. Licensed under the Creative Commons <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\"><em>Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) licence<\/em><\/a><em>, version 2.0.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning a British rapper, Blaine &#8220;Cadet&#8221; Johnson, from south London was killed in a car accident on the way to a show at Keele university in Staffordshire. He was 28. Some people I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New post at Indigo Jo Blogs -- Two fundraisers: a well and a mosque:","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/old-kent-road-mosque.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-a3G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38670,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions\/38670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}