and all other trustees voluntarily stepped down from their positions as Trustees of the masjid. In June 2012, the new Trustees of the Trust changed the locks of the Mosque doors and employed security guards. According to the website of the Masjid al-Tawhid, the Hasan family "want to ... regain personal control of the mosque". Al-Shabaab video threat In October 2013 Hasan was alerted by anti-terrorist police that he and other Muslim figures in the UK who had spoken out against Islamist extremism had been targeted by a propaganda video created by Al-Shabaab, the terrorist group responsible for the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya. Views Fatwa against ISIS In 2014 he and others issued a fatwa condemning British Muslims fighting for the "oppressive and tyrannical" Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Their fatwa "religiously prohibites" would-be British jihadists from joining the Islamic State and orders all Muslims to oppose ISIL's "poisonous ideology". Summer fasting times Usama believes that Muslims in the UK should fast shorter hours – rather than the dawn-to-sunset hours that most Muslims do – as summer days at such latitudes can run for up to 19 hours. See also References External links Usama Hasan's articles at on the Guardian website Unity - Blog by Usama Hasan English Muslims English religious writers English people of Pakistani descent Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society Living people Academics of Middlesex University Theistic evolutionists Year of birth missing (living people)