Author Archives: Effendi

Hate Leaflets calling for the murder of Ahmadi Muslims

By Effendi | Published: August 31, 2010
Alarming news from Kingston, Surrey: A police investigation was launched last month, after police saw leaflets being handed out calling on Muslims to murder Qadiyanis, a derogatory term for Ahmadiyya Muslims, who are an evangelical sect of Islam. It is believed that the literature is linked to a terrorist attack in May, in which 92 worshippers were [...]
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Filling in the blanks in the IFE

By Effendi | Published: August 24, 2010
Last week Ted Jeory published a transcript of his interview from last year with Mohammed Habibur Rahman, when Rahman was then the president of the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE). Worth reading in full, if you get a chance. Here is an excerpt: Ted Jeory: Well, you’re president…who else is actually on the management structure? Habibur Rahman: Who [...]
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Activism killed the radio star

By Effendi | Published: August 19, 2010
Abjol Miah, a leading activist in the Respect Party and in the Jamaat-e-Islam front Islamic Forum Europe (IFE), has lost his appeal to the Press Complaints Commission after he complained about an article in the Telegraph, which identified him as…an activist in the IFE. Mr Miah, Respect’s leader on Tower Hamlets council, is no longer a [...]
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Pakistan leads the War on WikiLeaks

By Effendi | Published: July 27, 2010
The Pakistan government has gone into damage control mode after the evidence of the ISI’s involvement in Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan was exposed and confirmed on WikiLeaks. The Pakistan ambassador to USA, Husain Haqqani has penned an article in the WSJ, to undermine the veracity of the reports. The documents circulated by WikiLeaks do not even [...]
Posted in Afghan war, International Affairs | 15 Comments

When Jew hatred is dressed up as faith

By Effendi | Published: July 27, 2010
The video that follows are excerpts from a religious program hosted by Egyptian cleric Hussam Fawzi Jabar, which aired on Al-Nas TV on July 11, 2010. Here we see a cleric in traditional ‘mufti’ attire expounding on the “nature of Jews” in the most egregious terms possible. But his words and opinions are considered acceptable, even laudable, [...]
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Old Red Eyes is Back

By Effendi | Published: July 25, 2010
The IFE stalwart and major Anwar al-Awlaki fanboy, Azad Ali, has resurfaced as the newly elected president of the Muslim Safety Forum. Andrew Gilligan writes: Scotland Yard will now face pressure to renounce Azad Ali, the new chair of the Muslim Safety Forum, which is recognised by the Met under a formal written agreement as “the [...]
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Psycho Convert, Qu’est Que C’est?

By Effendi | Published: July 22, 2010
From Gawker: Zachary Chesser, a 20 year-old kid from the DC suburbs, was arrested yesterday while allegedly on his way to travel to join an Islamist insurgency in Somalia. No surprise. Zachary fit the classic terrorist profile: he hated South Park. Ever wonder who took seriously the periodic calls by radical Muslims to kill various cartoonists, like the lady who started [...]
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The Burkha Ban According to Saudiwoman

By Effendi | Published: July 22, 2010
There are plenty of muslim men who live in the west and oppose the European niqab ban. But when it comes to upholding the right of women to oppose the burqa, they tend to become uncharacteristically silent or they talk about their new-found appreciation of Damian Green and ‘Britishness’. Authentic voices of muslim women who [...]
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Saudi disillusionment with the Religious Establishment

By Effendi | Published: July 21, 2010
I love Saudiwoman. She runs a blog which works as a Heat Magazine alternative for Celebrity Saudi Imam watchers. She has recently been blogging on how Saudis are thoroughly  disillusioned with their religious establishment. Given the spate of public fatwas, counter-fatwas, showdowns and cockups, it is small wonder that Saudis are collectively experiencing acute imam fatigue. Here’s the rundown: Sheikh Al Ghamdi’s freemixing of [...]
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The Hijab Debate

By Effendi | Published: July 20, 2010
This is re-post by Yossarian This is a very interesting take on the hijab debate – a video about a British Muslim woman who decided to take off the hijab after realising she was wearing it not for personal pious reasons but political ones – contrary to what Islamists claim. She is of the opinion that [...]
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