By Eli Garcia-Mendez –
When people complained that moderate Muslims don’t condemn terror attacks, Lubna Farhan decided they were right and she would be the “spark” to her community on her YouTube channel, Candid with Lubna.
In response, extremist Muslims threatened her (her children also?). The single mother shut down her channel June/July 2025. Then she had to altogether flee Luton Town, where she was born to Pakistani immigrant parents.
“My situation is very dire,” she says. “I’ve had to flee Luton very recently because of death threats coming from people from my own race and faith.”
Oh, that’s why “moderate” Muslims don’t speak out.
Lubna Farhan was born in the United Kingdom and adopted its values and cultural heritage. She earned a degree in accounting from the University of Hertfordshire and then worked 12 years in the finance industry working for big-named brands such as Costa.
She erupted into fame in 2019 on the BBC’s The Apprentice show. She started her channel to “build bridges” between her community and the traditional English men and women.
She thought she would be the voice of reason, moderation and appreciation of her birth country. “Pakistanis, where is your shame?” she titled one video.
She never anticipated the backlash. People (men?) showed up at her home. If you criticize the so-called bad apples, you bring shame down on the entire community, she was told.
The threats didn’t stop and eventually she decided to pull the plug on her channel. On her last episode, she cried bitterly, sarcastically congratulating the thugs who threatened her. She had to prioritize her children’s safety.
To her shock, “moderate” Muslims were happy that she shut down. “Thank God she’s not going to be doing YouTube anymore,” some said (according to Lubna).
She responded in her thoughts: “Wow, you don’t sound very peaceful and very moderate. Where are the moderate Muslims gone?”
Her channel didn’t stay shut down for long — not because things were better. They were worse.
They were so bad she had to flee Luton Town altogether. She keeps her new residence a strictly guarded secret. She hides her identity when she goes out.
“I’m not going out publicly because I literally trust nobody,” she told TalkTV. “I feel that people from my faith can do way more. They’re sitting on their butts.”
She began speaking again when Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur (Oct. 2) that killed two and seriously injured three others.
“I’m absolutely shocked and almost speechless,” Lubna said.
Again “moderates” excused, contextualized or even justified terror attacks.
“If that’s their attitude, they don’t belong in this country,” Lubna says. “I am very disappointed in the the people living in this country who were born here but they haven’t integrated and assimilated the the way that they should have.”
Luton Town, just north of London, is the home of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson. Its Muslim population stands at 33% and there are as many as 45 mosques, some of which have taken over churches (due to sale from declining attendance).
By leaving Luton, Lubna is out of the eye of the storm.
