(Religion News) Weeks ago, Muslims papered social media with heartfelt tributes and prayers for Usama Canon, a pioneering California-born Islamic scholar, after his family posted a message that he was in “grave condition.”
Canon, the celebrated founding director of the Ta’leef Collective — a spiritual and social gathering space for young Muslims, with campuses in Chicago and Fremont, California — received a terminal diagnosis two years ago for the degenerative neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
This week, Ta’leef Collective dropped a bombshell: The organization had cut ties with Canon over multiple allegations of “professional misconduct,” according to a Nov. 6 email.
The organization’s board of directors said the allegations included verbal abuse and abuse of authority, as well as “allegations of a more serious nature.”
