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BBC News – John Mohammed Butt: The hippy who became an imam

January 23, 2011 islamoyankee

BBC News – John Mohammed Butt: The hippy who became an imam.

But this promotion of peaceful Islam by the English former hippy has set him on a collision course with militants. His beloved Pakistan has now become too unsafe for him.

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