Educational Resources

A conversation with scholars about the possibilities of Zakat towards Abolition. Featuring: Dr. Kecia Ali, Shaykh Rami Nsour, Dr. Abdoulaye Ndiaye.

A conversation with organizers against Chicago police torture with Candido “Naji” Ublies from Chicago Torture Justice Center and Clayborn “Khadzi” Smith, Jr. and Dallas Wright of Believers Bail Out.

Fahd Ahmed, Executive Director of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), speaks on the social crises that are highlighted in this pandemic and rooted in the failure of government to provide people with the basic necessities needed to live a dignified life.

Iesa Lewis interviews Dr. Marc Lamont Hill on abolition, anti-Blackness, anti-Muslim racism, and the carceral state.

A discussion with scholar Rasul Miller, educator and former prison chaplain Abdur Raoof Nasir, and Garrett Felber, author of Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State. Moderated by Dr. Maryam Kashani.

The closing session of our National Day of Action. A day-long digital event featuring Muslim scholars, activists, community organizers, and performers from around the country discussing how their faith informs their work to reimagine community and build a world that is healthy, safe, and just for all.

The evening session of our National Day of Action. A day-long digital event featuring Muslim scholars, activists, community organizers, and performers from around the country discussing how their faith informs their work to reimagine community and build a world that is healthy, safe, and just for all.

The afternoon session of ourNational Day of Action. A day-long digital event featuring Muslim scholars, activists, community organizers, and performers from around the country discussing how their faith informs their work to reimagine community and build a world that is healthy, safe, and just for all.

The opening for our National Day of Action. A day-long digital event featuring Muslim scholars, activists, community organizers, and performers from around the country discussing how their faith informs their work to reimagine community and build a world that is healthy, safe, and just for all.

A conversation with Shaykh Azhar Nasser & Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans discussing Islamic perspectives on mass incarceration, justice, and prison abolition. Moderated by Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

Yesterday over a billion Muslims around the world celebrated the end of the sacred month of Ramadan. We also shared the dissonance of distress, rage, sadness, hope, grief, guilt, and faith because our Muslim and non-Muslim kin in Palestine face violence, displacement, and death. In Jerusalem, residents of the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah have […]

We write this statement as community and advocacy organizations focused on social justice, civil liberties, and the fight against structural Islamophobia, anti-Muslim and anti-Black racism to express our concerns over the prosecution and pre-trial incarceration of Urooj Rahman and Colinford (“Colin”) Mattis. Urooj and Colin joined demonstrations in New York against the murder of George […]

Believers Bail Out is committed to building communities that are healthy, safe and allow everyone the opportunity to flourish. We are proud to march along the path of those who have called us to reimagine a world far different from our current carceral system; we believe our Islamic tradition compels us to do so. There […]

As a Muslim collective of abolitionists, Believers Bail Out echoes the righteous anger being expressed across this country, and across the world, opposing the ongoing state-sanctioned violence perpetrated against Black communities. Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Yassin Mohamed are among the dozens of Black people murdered by the police this month. They should be with […]