Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) — Attraction in Woodlawn

There’s too much ego in the management. May Allah protect us all. Community pays money for iftaar and management acts like if they are doing any ihsaan by giving food out to people.

I am a neighbor to masjid. I live the second house from masjid. Usually in ramadan, we make iftaar home and do iftaar home. Today my mom asked me to go to masjid and bring iftaar for three of us (myself, my mom and my brother)

Upon arrival, I requested brother to give me iftaar for three people, Please. He said I can’t give you iftaar for three people. we can only give you for two. I again insisted brother please give me iftaar for three people as we are three people fasting. He again said no he is not going to give food for three people and it is our policy. Upon showing a rude behavior, I said to the brother, I don’t even need it for two people and left the line came home without taking any food.

I just don’t even have words. It is unjust and unfair. Allah is the provider and he provides the best. That is what we have faith in.

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This is the biggest masjid I have ever seen and simultaneously the worst i have ever been in. There is no signage showing directions to prayer areas. There is nothing showing what is located where. Bathrooms are challenging to find. I'm a woman, I'm a sister, so I went upstairs to find the sisters' area full of men because of after-school Qur'an lessons. I got scared, I don't like being in spaces with this many men. Nobody gave me any guidance as to where to go and what to do. The bathrooms I managed to find were for students only. I couldn't find anywhere to pray. Turns out, if you go past the door with a huge "do not enter" symbol on it, you enter the actual sisters' side, which is highly counterintuitive. I wish to have known that before i was told to pray in a stuffy hifz school area. Environments like this, where the men are prioritised over women, prevent women from wanting to go to the masjid and engage with the Deen. While we are not obligated to come, we mustn't be stopped from it, as per the hadith of our Prophet, peace and blessings...

It’s the way that the only people rating it well are men. Women are treated like second class citizens. The musallah is changed to fit more men, and women have a cramped confined space.

Men don’t bother to greet women even kindly and women also don’t bother to greet one another kindly. They give you stares.

Don’t get me started on the school. The system is horrible. They don’t have a proper nurse, they promote radical and extreme ideologies teaching them to children and basing Islamic education off of fear mongering rather than God’s love.

Walk into a Catholic Church and compare that with this. It’s a 100 x...