Bharat Rakshak

MOSCOW — Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists and an Islamic fundamentalist video circulating on the Internet in the latest example of deteriorating women’s rights under Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the president of the restive southern Russian republic.

Activists in Chechnya, where Russia has waged two wars against separatists in the past 16 years, said intimidation reached a peak during the fasting month of Ramadan. There was also a crackdown on violations of Islamic law such as the sale of food before sundown and any sale of alcohol, they said.

Dipanker wrote:To me it seems in general that oppression of women is most essential component of "Islamism". Thus as and when women become more emancipated in Islamic societies "Islamism" will wane over a period of time.

Chechnya Coerces Women on Dress, Activists Say

MOSCOW — Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists and an Islamic fundamentalist video circulating on the Internet in the latest example of deteriorating women’s rights under Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the president of the restive southern Russian republic.

Activists in Chechnya, where Russia has waged two wars against separatists in the past 16 years, said intimidation reached a peak during the fasting month of Ramadan. There was also a crackdown on violations of Islamic law such as the sale of food before sundown and any sale of alcohol, they said.

Varoon Shekhar wrote:the article by Hall or Crosby or whomever, is fairly well written. However, it also shows a lack of maturity and honourablity. How could the writer have missed including Hindus(and Buddhists) among the victims of the murderous Islamists? Surely, by now, he would have heard of the multiple Mumbai attacks at least?

There is this major American mainstream mental block, when it comes to including Hindus and India as a reference point on the matter of terrorism. It's all "Christians and Jews". That old American parochialism and insularity doesn't go away.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".

But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways - it was also the basis of Egypt's largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.

Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi's era that he said was in conflict with Sharia - that banning polygamy.

In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya's economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. "Interest creates disease and hatred among people," he said.

Aditya_V wrote:
Then why India and west are Liberals and Feminists on the side of Islamism?

I relive Men everywhere love to have control over women. and when given unquestionable, unlimited power without a democratic set up such laws are bound to be in place.

wig wrote:meanwhile the arab spring become sharia compliant

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... c-law.html

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".

But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways - it was also the basis of Egypt's largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.

Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi's era that he said was in conflict with Sharia - that banning polygamy.

In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya's economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. "Interest creates disease and hatred among people," he said.

Libya's liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law = Libya's interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.

An Egyptian court sentenced a man to three years in jail with hard labour on Saturday for insulting Islam in postings on Facebook, the official MENA news agency reported.The Cairo court found that Ayman Yusef Mansur “intentionally insulted the dignity of the Islamic religion and attacked it with insults and ridicule on Facebook,” the agency reported.The court said his insults were “aimed at the Noble Koran, the true Islamic religion, the Prophet of Islam and his family and Muslims, in a scurrilous manner,” the agency reported.It did not provide details on what he had written that was deemed to be offensive....In 2007, a court sentenced blogger Kareem Amer to jail for insulting the Muslim prophet and then president Hosni Mubarak. He was released last year....

The National Library in Jerusalem is to begin displaying old Muslim religious texts from its collections, including some that are quite rare. Among the texts to be displayed as part of a special series on the history of Islam, are also two Korans from the ninth century, just 200 years or so after the writing of the first Koran.
In addition, the public will be able to view three Korans from the 11th and 12th centuries that come from Antalya, Andalusia and Persia. Most of the manuscripts are part of the collection of the Jewish scholar Abraham Shalom Yehuda. Upon his death, Shalom Yehuda, a prominent early 20th century Islamic studies researcher, donated his collection to the National Library. The collection includes 1,184 old manuscripts, of which around 100 are Korans, and is deemed one of the Western world's most important collections of ancient Muslim manuscripts.An important manuscript to be displayed during the series is an antique Koran which is apparently the first text featuring the Persian language in Arabic script, as it is written today. Another Koran, from the 15th century, written in Persia by a Shi'ite believer, made its way during one of the wars to the library of the Ottoman sultan, Salim I, whose seal appears on it. Ukeles explains that this Koran was "Sunni-ized" in the sultan's library and all the Shi'ite references in it were removed. So every time the name of the prophet Ali, the founder of Shi'ite Islam, appears, there is a gold smear across it.

As the events and aftermath of 9/11 have shown, the relationship between Islam and the West is deeply troubled. Here Mohammad Salama calls for a new understanding of Islam as a historical condition that has existed in relationship to the West since the seventh century. Salama compares the Arab-Islamic and European traditions of historical thought since the early modern period, focusing on the watershed moments that informed their ideas of intellectual history and perceptions of one another. Islam, Salama argues, has played a major role in enabling and positioning Western historiography at key points, leaving palpable imprints on Islamic historiography in the process. Focusing on Ibn Khaldun, the complexities of orientalism and modernity, and recent European as well as Arab writings on such themes, this book is essential for all those interested in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Western and Islamic philosophies of history, questions of modernity, colonial Egypt, as well as the postcolonial conditions of the Arab world.

'This is a fresh look at debates such as Ibn Khaldun's theory of history, Hegel's understanding of Islam and the Anglo-French occupation of Egypt. Tying them together is a powerful argument about Islam's relation to intellectual history. Here is a literary scholar of great erudition skillfully redeploying the postcolonial critique of Orientalism in the face of a renewed demonization of Islam.' - Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

'An artfully written, colloquially vibrant work of demystifying scholarship. Salama has written the best study I know on the nagging misrecognition of Arabs and Muslims in the West by brilliantly re-thinking the much-maligned concepts of historyA" and modernityA" across the East/West divide.' - Timothy Brennan, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota

'[A] groundbreaking work ... accessible to a broad audience despite its formidable ideas and its scope. Salama goes to great lengths to make it compelling for both specialists and students.' - Emily Gottreich, Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of History and International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley

'Well-written in an engaging style that expresses complex concepts in an eloquent yet accessible manner, this book examines key encountersA" between East and West in depth, with nuance, and using a wide range of sources from an abundance of disciplines, geographical locations and theoretical orientations. This book will be invaluable to scholars of Literature, History and Islamic Studies, to name just a few fields.' - Ghada Osman, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University

'This is a book of tremendous insight and erudition. Dr Salama's analysis is both provocative and expertly rendered, and he writes astutely about matters that have largely been ignored in both scholarly and popular discourses.' - Steven Salaita, Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

'Cleverly interrogating the many assumptions about Islam that pervade current discourse, this book will be indispensable for students and scholars interested in Islam, European colonialism, postcolonial studies and intellectual history.' - Dustin Cowell, Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

For Muslims in New York, that rite of assimilation is now seen by police as a possible red flag in the hunt for terrorists.The New York Police Department monitors everyone in the city who changes his or her name, according to interviews and internal police documents obtained by The Associated Press. For those whose names sound Arabic or might be from Muslim countries, police run comprehensive background checks that include reviewing travel records, criminal histories, business licenses and immigration documents.All this is recorded in police databases for supervisors, who review the names and select a handful of people for police to visit.The program was conceived as a tripwire for police in the difficult hunt for homegrown terrorists, where there are no widely agreed upon warning signs. Like other NYPD intelligence programs created in the past decade, this one involved monitoring behavior protected by the First Amendment.
(See "NYPD to Scour Facebook and Twitter for Evidence of Crimes.") Since August, an Associated Press investigation has revealed a vast NYPD intelligence-collecting effort targeting Muslims following the terror attacks of September 2001. Police have conducted surveillance of entire Muslim neighborhoods, chronicling daily life including where people eat, pray and get their hair cut. Police infiltrated dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated hundreds more.Monitoring name changes illustrates how the threat of terrorism now casts suspicion over what historically has been part of America's story. For centuries, foreigners have changed their names in New York, often to lose any stigma attached with their surname.
The Roosevelts were once the van Rosenvelts. Fashion designer Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz. Donald Trump's grandfather changed the family name from Drumpf.
David Cohen, the NYPD's intelligence chief, worried that would-be terrorists could use their new names to lie low in New York, current and former officials recalled. Reviewing name changes was intended to identify people who either Americanized their names or took Arabic names for the first time, said the officials, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the program.

At the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the galleries, Thomas P Campbell, the British-born director of the museum, was clear about the political urgency of the galleries. "We must recognise," he told the assembled great and good, politicians and donors who had gathered in the Met's central foyer, "that we live in a nation where a widespread consciousness about the Islamic world really did not exist until 10 years ago, and that awareness came at one of the darkest hours in American history." He added: "It is our job and the great achievement of these galleries to educate our audience about the depths and magnificence of the Islamic tradition."

Dipanker wrote:

Aditya_V wrote:
Then why India and west are Liberals and Feminists on the side of Islamism?

I relive Men everywhere love to have control over women. and when given unquestionable, unlimited power without a democratic set up such laws are bound to be in place.

I don't particularly believe that the liberals and feminists in India or West support Islamism. Talebans are Islamism personified yet you will not see the liberals or feminists anywhere supporting these neanderthals. You can't generalize on the basis of a few attention seekers and others who have agendas.

The point was that if the Islamic societies (places like Af-Pak) are transformed to adopt liberal values ( through long term social engineering ) then they will not pose a threat to the rest of the world.

Imagine an Islamic society ( Af-Pak likes ) where women have freedom to wear mini-skirts, such an Islamic nation can only be possible where the religious fundamentalists have been totally marginalized and have no sway over the mainstream.

American and Irish misunderstanders of Islam came together over Motoon rage, and plotted murder to defend their religion and prophet. Here again, it is odd how those who consider themselves to be most devout and active in the defense of Islam are those who tend to violence; this is never, ever explained by those who claim that they're misunderstanding the Religion of Peace. "Irish journalist reveals details of Jihad Jane plot: New details of Islamic terrorists in Ireland revealed," by Antoinette Kelly for Irish Central, October 31.according to the indictment, "Damache, Khalid and others 'devised and co-ordinated a violent jihad organisation consisting of men and women from Europe and the US divided into a planning team, a research team, an action team, a recruitment team and a finance team; some of whom would travel to south Asia for explosives training and return to Europe to wage violent jihad.'"The indictment alleges that Damache, Khalid, LaRose and others recruited men online to “wage violent jihad” in south Asia and Europe. In addition, Damache, Khalid, LaRose and others allegedly recruited women who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of such activity.The indictment further alleges that LaRose, Paulin-Ramirez and others travelled to and around Europe to “participate in and support violent jihad”, and that Khalid and LaRose and others solicited funds online for terrorists."...

SSridhar wrote:A threat to multilayered secular cultures - Madanjeet Singh

Please do read.

In one of my previous articles I invented the term “Muslim-meter” in reference to pious Muslims’ powerful belief that only “they” have the monopoly to judge if another Muslim is Muslim or Muslim enough

for instance Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his always pious comrades – are too pious for secular Turks and too secular for, say, Arab, Iranian, Pakistani or Afghan Muslims.

There won’t be peace in the Muslim world before an overwhelming majority of Muslims throw away their Muslim-meters

French satirical weekly whose office was fire bombed after it printed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has reproduced the image with other caricatures in a supplement with one of the country’s leading newspapers.

The weekly Charlie Hebdo defended the “freedom to poke fun” in the four-page supplement, wrapped around copies of the left-wing daily Liberation on Thursday, a day after an arson attack gutted the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo.

One headline in the supplement said: ‘After their office blaze, this team defends the freedom to poke fun’.

“We thought the lines had moved and that maybe there would be more respect for our satirical work, our right to mock. Freedom to have a good laugh is as important as freedom of speech,” Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier said in the supplement.

ranjbe wrote:Meanwhile, the jihadi group Boko Haram goes on an anti-Government rampage in Nigeria, killing 67 people, because Sharia law has not been implemented.

http://news.yahoo.com/officials-67-dead ... 51011.html

Prem wrote:In the Sharia compliant Land of Bad Teeth and Monthly Shower

Imam in the U.K. found guilty of abusing young girls

If the offending imam had committed his acts of pedophilia in a country with a high degree of sharia compliance, then of course the imam would not have been convicted at all, as the founder of Islam consummated his own marriage to his child bride Aisha when she was but nine (Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64). Not that the British government or its legal system is about to acknowledge this, of course. Note that the convictions are for crimes that occurred 25-30 years ago, and no one in the Muslim community stepped forward in all that time save one brave victim herself. At the lightning rate that sharia is advancing in Britain, however, what are the chances of another imam being similarly convicted in the U.K. in 25 to 30 years' time?A ‘DESPICABLE’ paedophile who abused three girls when he was an Imam at a town centre mosque has been convicted by a jury. Ebrahim Yusuf Kazi, 67, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault on three girls aged under the age of 13. The offences took place between 1979 and 1986 at Broad Street Mosque, where Kazi was an Imam before moving to Gloucester.

arun wrote: {quote="Prem"} In the Sharia compliant Land of Bad Teeth and Monthly Shower

Imam in the U.K. found guilty of abusing young girls

If the offending imam had committed his acts of pedophilia in a country with a high degree of sharia compliance, then of course the imam would not have been convicted at all, as the founder of Islam consummated his own marriage to his child bride Aisha when she was but nine (Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 64). Not that the British government or its legal system is about to acknowledge this, of course. Note that the convictions are for crimes that occurred 25-30 years ago, and no one in the Muslim community stepped forward in all that time save one brave victim herself. At the lightning rate that sharia is advancing in Britain, however, what are the chances of another imam being similarly convicted in the U.K. in 25 to 30 years' time?A ‘DESPICABLE’ paedophile who abused three girls when he was an Imam at a town centre mosque has been convicted by a jury. Ebrahim Yusuf Kazi, 67, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault on three girls aged under the age of 13. The offences took place between 1979 and 1986 at Broad Street Mosque, where Kazi was an Imam before moving to Gloucester.

The paedophile Mohammadden cleric in question has been sentenced to a two year jail term with the Judge saying that the Imam would would have been jailed for longer but law prevented it as offences took place so long ago:

Paedophile imam jailed after girls he abused 27 years ago come forward to nail him

chetak wrote:If only the islamic practice of "thighing" is investigated then it is highly likely that many many more convictions will take place.

Record numbers of young, white British women are converting to Islam, yet many are reporting a lack of help as they get used to their new religion, according to several surveys.

As Muslims celebrate the start of the religious holiday of Eid today and hundreds of thousands from around the world converge on Mecca for the haj, it emerged that of the 5,200 Britons who converted to Islam last year, more than half are white and 75 per cent of them women.

In the past 10 years some 100,000 British people have converted to Islam, of whom some three-quarters are women, according to the latest statistics. This is a significant increase on the 60,000 Britons in the previous decade, according to researchers based at Swansea University.

While the number of UK converts accelerates, many of the British women who adopt Islam say they have a daily struggle to assimilate their new beliefs within a wider culture that both implicitly and explicitly positions them as outsiders, regardless of their Western upbringing.

Many of the young women – the average age of conversion is 27 – are also coming to terms with experiences of discrimination for the first time, despite the only visible difference being a headscarf. Yet few find easy sanctuary within the established Muslim population, with the majority forming their closest bonds with fellow converts rather than born Muslims.

Kristiane Backer, 45

Television presenter and author, London

I converted to Islam in 1995 after Imran Khan introduced me to the faith. At the time I was a presenter for MTV. I used to have all the trappings of success, yet I felt an inner emptiness and somewhat dissatisfied in my life.

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