Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis

[ramana]

Pre-Islamic Arabia in the Jahilya era:

http://www.aryaninvader.com/2012/02/pre ... l?spref=tw

[Agnimitra]

More on the Anglosphere's symbiosis with Islamism:
Islamist Lobbies' Washington War on Arab and Muslim Liberals

Please take the time to read this very important story written by a courageous Egyptian liberal intellectual about the Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood lobbies in Washington and the Obama Administration's secret collaboration with these pro-terrorist, anti-Western, anti-women, anti-American and anti-Semitic organizations. This is one of the most important articles I have read in years.

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It was just revealed two days ago that FBI Director Mueller secretly met on February 8 at FBI headquarters with a coalition of groups including various Islamist and militant Arabic groups who in the past have defended Hamas and Hizballah and have also issued blatantly anti-Semitic statements. At this meeting, the FBI revealed that it had removed more than 1000 presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices around the country that was deemed "offensive." The FBI did not reveal what criteria was used to determine why material was considered "offensive" but knowledgeable law enforcement sources have told the IPT that it was these radical groups who made that determination. Moreover, numerous FBI agents have confirmed that from now on, FBI headquarters has banned all FBI offices from inviting any counter-terrorist specialists who are considered "anti-Islam" by Muslim Brotherhood front groups.

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During the next several months, the IPT will be releasing a series of major investigative reports revealing the secret infiltration by and collaboration with radical Islamic organizations by the Obama administration that has spread to the National Security Council, the Dept of Justice, the FBI, the Dept of Homeland Security, the CIA and the State Department as well as local law enforcement.

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The most dramatic oppression of the region's civil societies and the Arab Spring is not by means of weapons, or in the Middle East. It is not led by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Bin Ali, Saleh, or Assad. It is led by the powerful Islamist lobbies in Washington DC. People may find my words curious if not provocative. But my arguments are sharp and well understood by many Arab and middle eastern liberals and freedom fighters. Indeed, we in the region, who are struggling for real democracy, not for the one time election type of democracy have been asking ourselves since January 2011 as the winds of Arab spring started blowing, why isn't the West in general and the United States Administration in particular clearly and forcefully supporting our civil societies and particularly the secular democrats of the region? Why were the bureaucracies in Washington and in Brussels partnering with Islamists in the region and not with their natural allies the democracy promoting political forces?

Months into the Arab Spring, we realized that the Western powers, and the Obama Administration have put their support behind the new authoritarians, those who are claiming they will be brought to power via the votes of the people. Well, it is not quite so.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Nahda of Tunisia, the Justice Party of Morocco and the Islamist militias in Libya's Transitional National Council have been systematically supported by Washington at the expense of real liberal and secular forces. We saw day by day how the White House guided carefully the statements and the actions of the US and the State Department followed through to give all the chances to the Islamists and almost no chances to the secular and revolutionary youth.

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Full article in link above. Need to watch that space for the article series.

[Anindya]

Bulletin of the Islamic Oppression of Women - January 19, 2012 - February 20, 2012

[Agnimitra]

UP elections being followed on some foreign Islamist newsfeeds. Found this on one:
Akhilesh Yadav emerges as challenger in Uttar Pradesh

[Agnimitra]

Where did my post about Tahirul Qadri's India visit disappear? Posting again:

Tahirul Qadri is a Paki scholar of some repute. His fatwas are widely respected. In recent years he seems to be assuming the role of broker of the Anglo-Islamist alliance. He belongs to the Naqshbandi Sufi order, which is known to make a fine art of Islamist diplomacy. Qadri's latest arrow has been a voluminous scholarly fatwa explaining why terrorist tactics are un-Islamic, even those used by the Taliban. It took him and his team years to put this case together, and now the fatwa is out. It has some militant circles in TSP crying bull cattle. While other prominent Islamist institutions are welcoming it, as are prominent forces in the US and UK. Quite evidently this fatwa is very influential and highly appreciated as it has been fully endorsed by the grand Shaykh of Al Azhar University (Egypt) and it has also received certification and has been formerly recognised by the University as an official document.

Now Qadri has invited himself (literally) on a tour of India, visiting sensitive places and consolidating a lobby. Please see articles below.

Indian Express:
Coming: Pak Islamic scholar who pulls no punches against terror

Coming to India on an invitation by Karjan-based Minhajul Quran International (India), a branch of the UK-based MQI headed by Qadri himself, the Pakistani academician, who subscribes to Sufi school of Islamic thought, will be specially focussing on anti-terrorism in his lectures.

After launching his programme on February 25 from Karjan, a small town 40 km from Vadodara that has a population of less than one lakh, he will attend functions in Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Bhuj. He will also deliver lectures in Hyderabad, Ajmer, Mumbai, Raipur, and Bengaluru.

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Asked about the Qadri’s visit coinciding with February 27, the day Sabarmati Express in Godhra was torched in 2002 triggering riots, MQI (India) president Nad-e-Ali Saiyed said the programme was decided six months ago as these dates were convenient for Qadri.

Saiyed said Qadri had been invited to deliver anti-terror lectures because India was also facing terrorism. “Islam is all for peace. There is no place for terrorism in Islam,” said 50-year-old Saiyed, who has donated 4.5 bighas of his land in Karjan for MQI (India) headquarters.

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Saiyed said Qadri’s visit was backed by Muslim Ittehadul Muslimin (MIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Chhattisgarh Congress leader Dr Shivnarayan Dwivedi, Gujarat BJP minority cell president Mehboob Bawa, human rights activist Yusuf Sheikh and former Vadodara deputy mayor Chirag Sheikh.

Tahirul Qadri's India tour schedule

[brihaspati]

Where did my post about Tahirul Qadri's India visit disappear? Posting again:

Tahirul Qadri is a Paki scholar of some repute. His fatwas are widely respected. In recent years he seems to be assuming the role of broker of the Anglo-Islamist alliance. He belongs to the Naqshbandi Sufi order, which is known to make a fine art of Islamist diplomacy. Qadri's latest arrow has been a voluminous scholarly fatwa explaining why terrorist tactics are un-Islamic, even those used by the Taliban. It took him and his team years to put this case together, and now the fatwa is out. It has some militant circles in TSP crying bull cattle. While other prominent Islamist institutions are welcoming it, as are prominent forces in the US and UK. Quite evidently this fatwa is very influential and highly appreciated as it has been fully endorsed by the grand Shaykh of Al Azhar University (Egypt) and it has also received certification and has been formerly recognised by the University as an official document.

Now Qadri has invited himself (literally) on a tour of India, visiting sensitive places and consolidating a lobby. Please see articles below.

Indian Express:
Coming: Pak Islamic scholar who pulls no punches against terror

Coming to India on an invitation by Karjan-based Minhajul Quran International (India), a branch of the UK-based MQI headed by Qadri himself, the Pakistani academician, who subscribes to Sufi school of Islamic thought, will be specially focussing on anti-terrorism in his lectures.

After launching his programme on February 25 from Karjan, a small town 40 km from Vadodara that has a population of less than one lakh, he will attend functions in Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Bhuj. He will also deliver lectures in Hyderabad, Ajmer, Mumbai, Raipur, and Bengaluru.

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Asked about the Qadri’s visit coinciding with February 27, the day Sabarmati Express in Godhra was torched in 2002 triggering riots, MQI (India) president Nad-e-Ali Saiyed said the programme was decided six months ago as these dates were convenient for Qadri.

Saiyed said Qadri had been invited to deliver anti-terror lectures because India was also facing terrorism. “Islam is all for peace. There is no place for terrorism in Islam,” said 50-year-old Saiyed, who has donated 4.5 bighas of his land in Karjan for MQI (India) headquarters.

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Saiyed said Qadri’s visit was backed by Muslim Ittehadul Muslimin (MIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Chhattisgarh Congress leader Dr Shivnarayan Dwivedi, Gujarat BJP minority cell president Mehboob Bawa, human rights activist Yusuf Sheikh and former Vadodara deputy mayor Chirag Sheikh.

Tahirul Qadri's India tour schedule

The fatwa itself is a work of art. It leaves the space for everything that can be used for violent jihad in the future - by using a very careful selection of source material, while not denouncing equally legitimate source material.

One of the problems that non-Muslims face is that they do not usually have the depth of understanding about how the source material has always been used. Highlight those aspects that creates the impression of peaceful intent as the outward face, but at the same time do not condemn those aspects that are used for violence.

Both categories are maintained - so that at opportune times the violent memes can still be brought out. In that fatwa I have not seen any discussion of the material is still taught as part of compulsory source texts - which clearly provide the excuses. He and his team cannot simply do it - it will go against parts of the same texts that are source of all their legitimacy.

[Agnimitra]

^^ Moreover, those circles that do sanction attacks on civilians and/or other light-green Moslems are not likely to respond to judicial advice from the likes of Dr. Qadri. Abdul-Malik ar-Ramadani's refutation of Abu Qatada and other documents like it are cases in point. Those militant networks are not going to turn their AK's into ploughshares, they will remain active.

However, Qadri's posturing will help to sway general public opinion - for the fence-sitting majority in Moslem societies, and that is what the US/UK will be happy about. This whole affair is a PR exercise for the most part.

[Agnimitra]

CAIR speaks out against ‘foreign law’ bill up in House committee tomorrow

The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is denouncing a bill that would regulate the “application of foreign law in certain cases,” set to be heard in a House committee meeting tomorrow. The group says the bill is anti-religion, and specifically anti-Islam.

The measure, which was touted by right-wing activists as an attempt to “stop the spread of Sharia in Florida,” is a piece of model legislation written by anti-Islam extremist David Yerushalmi.

The bill is ultimately aimed at making sure Sharia or other foreign laws are not applied to family law cases in Florida. The bill follows a court case in Hillsborough County in which Sharia was considered. The case spurred quite a bit of right-wing activism, but was eventually dismissed last December.

[Agnimitra]

FBI removes hundreds of training documents after probe on treatment of Islam

[Prem]

India: Female undergraduate students denied access to library at Aligarh Muslim Universityhttp://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/india ... rsity.html
The excuse given here is "overcrowding," but likely has more to do with the strict separation of men and women.

NEW DELHI: Students of the Women's College in Aligarh Muslim University are waging a bitter struggle for a facility their counterparts in other institutions would take for granted-access to the university's central library.
Now, in a concession to these undergraduate women students, AMU has decided provided them online access to the catalogue of books. The varsity says the girls can choose the books which would then be issued and delivered to them.The 100-year-old Women's College, a constituent of AMU-a central university which had built a reputation for an enlightened social outlook-is housed in the fortress-like enclosure of Abdullah Hall. Except for professional courses, this is the only college providing undergraduate education to women in the university.The women boarders of the hall are not allowed out of the college campus except on Sundays, so membership of the university library is ruled out for them. Even day scholars of the college are not allowed into the library, considered one of the best in Asia.

A delegation of students recently made a representation to HRD minister Kapil Sibal alleging gender discrimination and demanded they be allowed to use the Maulana Azad Library, considered one of the best in Asia. Although the college has its own library, the central library is far better stocked.Politicians such as Brinda Karat have also taken up the issue with the ministry. Following letters sent by the central ministry, AMU decided to allow online access of the library's catalogue of books. It refuted charges of gender discrimination, saying postgraduate women students had access to the library.

[Agnimitra]

Paki PR groups in Londonistan become active on the Abu Qatada case. But the fact is that Abu Qatada is simply an eccentric dude who shouted out on the streets what is standard fare behind closed doors in most Islamic study circles. It also looks like, from the way the Brit authorities have dragged the case on and on, that they wanted to spread awareness of this phenomenon. To add to the drama, they have created the absurd spectacle of deputing 60 policemen to watch Abu Qatada 24 hours a day, under house arrest. LOL.

Abu Qatada row could make him 'a cause celebre for extremists'

A community group has warned the controversy over Islamic preacher Abu Qatada's release could make him a "cause celebre" among extremist groups.

Muslim Safety Forum's Azad Ali has also warned against portraying activities of some fringe groups "as a phenomena".

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Mr Ali, the chair of the Muslim Safety Forum, who knew the preacher personally, said: "When Abu Qatada came into this country I used to go to many of the talks he used to do.

"If he has committed a crime he should be charged, if he hasn't then he should be released, that's the bottom line.

"At the moment the way he has been treated, six-and-a-half-years without charge, has made him a cause celebre and it allows extremists to use this case for their perceived injustices.

"Of course there are fringe groups that are extreme and that have looked at extremism as an escape mechanism... but to say that it has become a phenomena or something so serious... is counter-productive."

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"From the point of view of most Londoners, they would think it's a bit odd that 60 officers should be dedicated to round the clock surveillance of Mr Qatada," he said.

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The release of the cleric, who has been described as Al-Qaeda's spiritual leader in Europe, comes months after a report from Waltham Forest Council highlighted that the borough was vulnerable to extremism.

The September 2011 report said there could be a "high number of Al-Qaeda inspired extremists and radicalisers" in the area.

It also raised fears the area was vulnerable due to "perceptions of inequality driven by relatively high deprivation levels, particularly within Pakistani communities" and "'Jihadi cool' possibly linked to macho gang culture".

[abhishek_sharma]

Mosquebusters: When there's something Muslim in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Meet the British lawyer fighting Islam, one parking ticket at a time.

[Aditya_V]

I mught be raising a controversial topic by raising cruel practice done by Hindus, but it seems the more areas were under Muslim rule/ invasions and there was fight between Hindus and muslims in the 15th to 18th century. The more popular was Sati in these areas.

[Haresh]

Islamic Grooming Documentary

http://manvirsingh.blogspot.in/2012/02/ ... ntary.html

[Agnimitra]

The History of Islam in Japan

Another "Islamic Boom" was set in motion this time in the shade of "Arab Boom" after the "oil shock" in 1973. The Japanese mass media have given big publicity to the Muslim World in general and the Arab World in particular after realizing the importance of these countries for the Japanese economy. With this publicity many Japanese who had no idea about Islam got the chance to see the scene of Hajj in Makkah and hear the call of Adhan and Quranic recitations. Beside many sincere conversions to Islam there were also mass conversions which are said to have amounted to several tens of thousands of conversions which took place during those days. However, with the end of the effect of oil shock, most of those who converted to Islam disappeared from the scene.

[akashganga]

Where did my post about Tahirul Qadri's India visit disappear? Posting again:


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Saiyed said Qadri’s visit was backed by Muslim Ittehadul Muslimin (MIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Chhattisgarh Congress leader Dr Shivnarayan Dwivedi, Gujarat BJP minority cell president Mehboob Bawa, human rights activist Yusuf Sheikh and former Vadodara deputy mayor Chirag Sheikh.

Tahirul Qadri's India tour schedule[/quote]

Tragedy that islamic nuts like these are allowed into Kaffir nations like India, UK, etc. They already have 50 plus islamic countries where they can show of their talent.

[devesh]

http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx? ... 465&SKIN=C

Marxists-Sunnis spat: Can fire destroy (Prophet’s) hair?

Can fire destroy hair? This seems to be the question Kerala’s CPIM) and Sunni Muslims are most concerned with presently. The Sunnis say fire can’t destroy hair if it belonged to Prophet Muhammad. A particular Sunni faction says the Prophet’s hair won’t burn but it should not be put to such tests. But Marxists say fire would destroy hair, irrespective of to whom it belongs.

The issue concerns a strand of hair kept at the headquarters of the Sunni sect (AP Sunnis) led by Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliar which he says is a genuine part of the Prophet’s body. The AP Sunnis on January 30 started the construction of India’s biggest mosque in Kozhikode which would have a museum for keeping this hair.

The other faction of the Sunnis (EK Sunnis), following the teachings of EK Aboobacker Musliar, disputes this claim. According to them, the hair in Kanthapuram’s custody is a fake and he is on a bid to make money in the name of the mosque, expected to cost Rs 40 crore, by cashing in on the ignorance of the believers.

The EK Sunnis have challenged Kanthapuram and his sect to put the hair into fire so that its genuineness could be proved. If the hair truly belonged to the Prophet, fire would not destroy it, they say. But Kanthapuram was wise enough not to take the chance and retorted that the EK Sunnis were being anti-Muslim by proposing burning of the Prophet’s body part.

The Kerala CPI(M) jumped into this battle between Sunni sects the other day with its secretary Pinarayi Vijayan stating that fire would destroy hair irrespective of to whom it belonged despite the fact that the Marxists had been enjoying the support of the AP Sunnis for the past several elections and that the hair had been with Kanthapuram for the past six years.

Enraged by the communist leader’s statement that could hit his attempts to build a mosque to house the hair, Kanthapuram retorted saying atheistic politicians had no right to speak about the Prophet’s hair and matters of religious faith. “Politician’s interference in religious matters could cause communalism,” he said with a tinge of threat in the tone.

Pinarayi on Tuesday proved his determination to attack his old ally by indirectly accusing Kanthapuram of glorifying “body waste”. “Once separated from the body, hair and nail are wastes, even if they belonged to the Prophet. In matters relating to the Prophet, what is important is not these body wastes but his words,” he said in Kochi.

Pinarayi also warned Kanthapuram not to try to scare the communists with threats of communalism. Opposition leader and CPI(M)’s octogenarian central committee member VS Achuthanandan, who normally finds fault in anything his enemy-in-the-party Pinarayi says, supported the secretary.

“Though we are not against any religion or faith, public servants have the right to speak on issues of social significance,” Achuthanandan said. Kanthapuram, pushed to a tight spot by now, reacted strongly saying that anti-religious statements would not be tolerated even if they came from persons like the Opposition leader.

State BJP president V Muraleedharan said that the CPI(M)’s objections towards Kanthapuram over the “holy hair” issue was part of that party’s political opportunism. The Marxists were criticizing the AP Sunnis on a bid to attract Christian voters, Muraleedharan said in Kozhikode on Tuesday.

[brihaspati]

The Kerala communists are alarmed at a disturbing trend of losing their "Hindu" origin youth - in addition to the Muslim youth who were leaving anyway. The red leadership reads the book on ground very clearly and is strying to salvage at least part of its rapidly thinning Muslim base. They will behave strangely over the next few years.

[Prem]

Sunnis believe that Prophet Mohammad's body is same a it was when he was alive.

[A_Gupta]

http://www.muslimsdebate.com/n.php?nid=6191
USA: Muslim Admits to Attacking Atheist; Muslim Judge Dismisses Case

[RajeshA]

http://www.muslimsdebate.com/n.php?nid=6191
USA: Muslim Admits to Attacking Atheist; Muslim Judge Dismisses Case

The judge talking: “Having had the benefit of having spent over 2 and a half years in predominantly Muslim countries I think I know a little bit about the faith of Islam. In fact I have a copy of the Koran here and I challenge you sir to show me where it says in the Koran that Mohammad arose and walked among the dead. I think you misinterpreted things. Before you start mocking someone else’s religion you may want to find out a little bit more about it it makes you look like a dufus and Mr. (Defendant) is correct. In many Arabic speaking countries something like this is definitely against the law there. In their society in fact it can be punishable by death and it frequently is in their society.

Well actually Islamic eschatology mentions the life in the grave: al-Barzakh, where Muslims stay for a long long time before the Day of Judgment!

Some Hadiths also mention, that Muhammad said that if somebody should speak to him at his grave, Muhammad will hear him, implying he is very much aware, perhaps active in his life in the grave!

So why should the attacker or the judge feel bad, when Muhammad is shown as taking part in a Halloween Parade in USA?

[ramana]

So they want to build another Hazrat Bal Mosque in Kerala. How can there be two hairs of Muhammad in India? Doesnt that mean India is really his favorite place and all the jihad over the centuries is wajib-ul- cutlet?

[KLNMurthy]

[url=http://bharatkalyan97.%20blogspot.in/2012/02/british-%20islamist-anjem-choudary.html]British Muslim campaigning for Sharia for India[/url]

[KLNMurthy]

So they want to build another Hazrat Bal Mosque in Kerala. How can there be two hairs of Muhammad in India? Doesnt that mean India is really his favorite place and all the jihad over the centuries is wajib-ul- cutlet?

So it is idolatry to draw a picture of M but it is fine to worship his Bal?

[ramana]

Depends where its from.

[darshhan]

By the way can some one tell me from which body part this strand of hair belongs?Head or some place else.

[Agnimitra]

Christian's killing in Nigeria inflames tensions

Maiduguri - Police discovered the body of a 79-year-old Christian woman killed in northeast Nigeria, with a note in Arabic left on her chest reading: “We will get you soon,” a witness said.

The slaying raises religious tensions in Nigeria as a radical Islamist sect increasingly targets Christians in its bloody attacks.

[Agnimitra]

Chicago Group to Counter Anti-Islam Sentiment

...a group of Chicago-area Muslims is battling back, using tactics including a television ad campaign and public forums against bigotry.

Gain Peace, an Islamic outreach organization based in Chicago, spent $40,000 in December to counter negative portrayals and produce two television ads intended to promote Islam as a just faith. The spots, which will run through March in the Chicago area on Fox, CNN and TNT, depict friendly Muslim students and professionals and display a phone number and a Web site for more information.

“This is an election year and in the Republican primaries and elsewhere, generally we have seen more discrimination, hate and misunderstanding about Muslims,” said Sabeel Ahmed, director of Gain Peace. “We wanted to take it up a notch.”

Romney's advisor of Moslem descent himself issues "anti-Islam" warnings:

One of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisers, Walid Phares, regularly warns that Muslims aim to take over American institutions and impose Shariah, a legal code based mainly on the Koran that can involve punishments like cutting off the hands of a thief.

[Agnimitra]

A Paki journo pumps out the typical spiel one hears at suburban, bourgeois Islamist revival movements in the West and in Islamic countries. The fact is that the critique of Islam and its history from within the ummah is itself so shallow (as demonstrated by the Iranian professor in the article below), that it only takes an equally shallow lie to reinstate the delusion.

Disenchantment with Islam

A very large number of Muslims now openly express disenchantment with Islam. This is a global phenomenon: one can witness it in the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as its name-sake republic called Pakistan, just as easily as it is apparent in the geographical region where Islam first appeared to the shocking bewilderment of the custodians of the two sanctified houses.

These men and women are not a group of angry young people of a bygone era; they are mature, responsible adults in their middle ages and beyond. Most of them are educated professionals, although a small minority comes from working classes.

This disenchantment with Islam is expressed in many ways but it mostly takes the form of expressing a strong disillusionment with “political Islam”. It targets the character of men and women who do politics in the name of Islam: the so-called Islamists of Turkey; bearded men of the Pakistani politics, the “ruhanis” of Iran – as the Islamists are called in Iran – and gilded, often fat, and always self-proclaimed kings, emirs, princes and princes of the Arab lands.

During a recent visit to Iran, I asked a professor of a famous university: “Would you despise and disown wealth because most rich people are corrupt?” He looked at me in astonishment and when he grasped the meaning of my question, he explained that while it is true that he cannot equate Islam with the character of the mullahs, yet, he cannot ignore the fact that he is being watched for his religious obligations.

“If I do not go to the mosque for my noon prayers, because I am busy in the lab, it does not mean that I do not pray; I take time to pray in my office. But the point is: why are they watching me? Why do I not have the free choice to practice or not to practice?

“You do have the choice,” I said, “as far as religion is concerned; there is no obligation on anyone, because Islam is a matter of choice, there is no compulsion in religion,” I quoted verse 256 of Surat al-Baqra, but explained that it means that no one is forced to take Islam as religion, but anyone who proclaims the two testimonies of faith, comes under obligation of fulfilling the rights of religion, otherwise, he or she is either a hypocrite who has pronounced the two shahadas or is simply a sinning believer. This much he granted. Honesty demands that one fulfils the rights of one’s beliefs.

But those who call themselves Muslims while simultaneously disowning the political aspects of Islam are in a strange dilemma. They do not want to leave the fold of Islam and they do not want to fulfil its rights. Instead, they choose to talk around the matter and find a way out of their collective obligations as Muslims by finding scapegoats.

While it is true that many mullahs of Iran have become corrupt and most Pakistani politicians who have been using the name of religion to do politics are inefficient corrupt and have often served as stooges of dictators, how does using religion absolve the self-proclaimed liberals of their duties? Or do they not consider themselves part of the collective ummah, or do they not believe at all in the Quranic concept of ummah of the believers?

Where do they stand in terms of their political beliefs and practices as Muslims? Why do they not show their commitment to a worldview based on political thought that stems from the Quran? Why do they, instead, seek refuge in some imaginary “liberalism” or “humanism” which does not exist anywhere?

The worst case is that of the intellectuals who are Muslim by faith, but utterly lost in the wilderness when it comes to the foundation of their “liberal” beliefs.
[...]

[Agnimitra]

Youcef Nadarkhani, Iranian Pastor, May Face Execution For 'Apostasy From Islam'

Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor who in 2010 was found guilty of apostasy and sentenced to death for refusing to recant Christianity, may have received a final execution order, according to the American Center for Law and Justice and Fox News.

[akashganga]

Chicago Group to Counter Anti-Islam Sentiment

...a group of Chicago-area Muslims is battling back, using tactics including a television ad campaign and public forums against bigotry.

Gain Peace, an Islamic outreach organization based in Chicago, spent $40,000 in December to counter negative portrayals and produce two television ads intended to promote Islam as a just faith. The spots, which will run through March in the Chicago area on Fox, CNN and TNT, depict friendly Muslim students and professionals and display a phone number and a Web site for more information.

“This is an election year and in the Republican primaries and elsewhere, generally we have seen more discrimination, hate and misunderstanding about Muslims,” said Sabeel Ahmed, director of Gain Peace. “We wanted to take it up a notch.”

Romney's advisor of Moslem descent himself issues "anti-Islam" warnings:

One of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisers, Walid Phares, regularly warns that Muslims aim to take over American institutions and impose Shariah, a legal code based mainly on the Koran that can involve punishments like cutting off the hands of a thief.

The best part of USA is freedom of speach. The islamists in the US use free speech to spread their garbage and go after kaffirs who use free speech to expose this dangerous cult. These islamists have succeeded at least partially in this tactic in europe.

[JwalaMukhi]

Romney's advisor of Moslem descent himself issues "anti-Islam" warnings:

One of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisers, Walid Phares, regularly warns that Muslims aim to take over American institutions and impose Shariah, a legal code based mainly on the Koran that can involve punishments like cutting off the hands of a thief.

That's false flag operation. Islamists have perfected the skill, apart from others who like to spread their ideologies. Basically, throw a ridiculous position onto the extremity, with the hope that the moderate position gets gently nudged towards extremisim than what would be acceptable. Basically, show up the bad cop to be not just a cop but a devil, then people would shift the focus on the devilish aspect and a mere bad cop will start looking acceptable. It is standard anchoring technique which is perfected by many people who want to slip in things that normally would not.

[AKalam]

Walid Phares is a Lebanese Maronite Christian:
http://www.aramaic-dem.org/Walid_Phares/E/16.htm

[Agnimitra]

AKalam ji, thanks for the correction.

[Prem]

Pro-Freedom Anti-Sharia Billboards and Radio in Kansas City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbVqPWVV7f4

[shiv]

Pentagon Official Apologizes For Quran Burning At U.S. Military Base In Afghanistan

The US has handled this badly and I would be grateful if I am not lectured on how the US is fundamentally honest and straightforward country. Only US mango Apduls are. If you are American and low enough in the pecking order of Yamrika to read BRF you are probably honest. And dharmic to boot.

In India the reaction would have been "Some mischievous elements who are keen on breaking social harmony have done this dastardly deed. The culprits will be brought to book"

In Pakistan the reaction would have been "Hindus have done it"

Apologizing is admitting. Admitting means being answerable to Sharia. Lying is good. Taqiyya. Fully wokay sharia-waria wise.

But I get some more pisko doubts. A book. A physical object that is revered is an idol. If Quran ==God, what about Kaaba? Is that also == God? TV and images are hated because they can divert attention away from God. But if book==God and Allah=God and Kaaba==God then they can also divert attention no? We are looking at polytheism and idol worship no? The world is full of fakes and pretenders and Islam is tight up here with the rest of us.

Just timepass only. Pass the popcorn. Sorry to digress.

[akashganga]

Pentagon Official Apologizes For Quran Burning At U.S. Military Base In Afghanistan

The US has handled this badly and I would be grateful if I am not lectured on how the US is fundamentally honest and straightforward country. Only US mango Apduls are. If you are American and low enough in the pecking order of Yamrika to read BRF you are probably honest. And dharmic to boot.

In India the reaction would have been "Some mischievous elements who are keen on breaking social harmony have done this dastardly deed. The culprits will be brought to book"

In Pakistan the reaction would have been "Hindus have done it"

Apologizing is admitting. Admitting means being answerable to Sharia. Lying is good. Taqiyya. Fully wokay sharia-waria wise.

But I get some more pisko doubts. A book. A physical object that is revered is an idol. If Quran ==God, what about Kaaba? Is that also == God? TV and images are hated because they can divert attention away from God. But if book==God and Allah=God and Kaaba==God then they can also divert attention no? We are looking at polytheism and idol worship no? The world is full of fakes and pretenders and Islam is tight up here with the rest of us.

Just timepass only. Pass the popcorn. Sorry to digress.

I pity what islam has done afghans. Before pashtus adopted islam they were hindus. Remember khandahar is Gandarv of mahabharata. See what islam has done to them - poverty, intolerance, suicide bombing,...

[KJo]

By the way can some one tell me from which body part this strand of hair belongs?Head or some place else.

Is it short and curly?

[A_Gupta]

Muslims plan parallel parliament in Switzerland.
http://www.rightsidenews.info/201202241 ... rland.html

[tejas]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... urity.html

Dhimmification of the UQ.