Yakoub Islam
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Yunus Yakoub Islam is a UK-based Muslim, blogger, poet, and cyber-activist. Born Julian Hoare in 1963, he changed his name to Julian Anderson in 1982 prior to marrying his then girlfriend, Julie Harte. He discovered anarchism in the 1980s through the works of the punk band Crass, but later distanced himself from the "anti-religious", punk scene to explore academic learning, eventually converting to Islam in 1991. His son and youngest child was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder in 1995. He worked as a special needs teacher until 2002, when he resigned in order to become his son's primary care-giver.
Yakoub has written for the Muslim World Book Review, Q-News, Alt.Muslim and Muslim Wake Up. He is an erratic correspondent to national newspapers, and his letters have been published in The Times, Guardian and Sunday Telegraph.
Yakoub publishes a blog called The Cultural Anarchlyst. His website includes a media monitoring service, The Daily Terror, listing selected annotated links to the online UK national press which is updated daily. During 2007, Yakoub - using the online pseudonym Julaybib Ayoub - began developing a number of additional projects which "combine social and theological research within a post-structural framework, with the aim of developing considered, socially contextualised and coherent discourses of personal religious identity." The outcome was the Tasneem Project Global Institute for Autoethnographic Muslim Studies, founded on 29 February, 2008.
