Salaam brother, if you are in Acton there's an amazing community mosque called An Noor Cultural & Community Centre (ACCC Trust) they may be able to help out. Address is 58-70 Church Rd, London W3 8PP. May Allah aid you.
Westerners ending slavery for conscientious reasons sounds too rosy. Maybe something more like the industrial revolution made producing things cheaper than through slavery makes more sense.
Where is the controversy in wanting the collapse of US imperialism/hegemony?? Undermining that is not the same as undermining day-to-day society within American lands. Even non Muslims are anti US hegemony. It's a normal, instinctive sentiment.
Ngl from 1st principles I always thought that masajid should be open 24/7. The concept that the House of Allah be closed at any time never made sense to me.
When I would go to Serbia (Novi Sad) every summer before I was Muslim, there was this bridge in ruins that collapsed into the river Danube. My Serbian mum told me it was NATO and I was like wth. But then realising how much worse it was on the other side was eye-opening.
Bro, the West literally invaded Iraq based on a LIE (i.e. WMDs). They don't need reasons or evidence to hate Islam. Islam is a rival system and way of life at odds with them - that's where the hate stems from.
Indeed, a fitri sentiment. Muslims should "despise" the US in the same way capitalist America despised the communist Soviet Union. The hate is directed at the system not necessarily the people.