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Author Archives: Guest
David Miller only raises more questions
This is a guest post by Shiraz Maher
Professor David Miller, who operates the SpinWatch, SpinProfiles and Neocon Europe websites, has responded to a piece by my colleague Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens. At best, Miller’s answers are evasive and inadequate.
In the comments section of Alexander’s article, Miller writes:
Meleagrou-Hitchens argues that his profile should not appear on our website [...]
Posted in Your View 20 Comments
Questions David Miller must answer
This is a crosspost by Shiraz Maher
My colleague and comrade Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens has today explained why he wanted his profile removed from the SpinProfileswebsite operated by Professor David Miller of Strathclyde University.
Hitch the younger was characteristically generous in his response, omitting the wider questions relating to David Miller’s websites and views. I am honour-bound to [...]
Posted in Your View 6 Comments
The History of Alcohol in Islam
This is a cross-post by Lord Curzon from Coming Anarchy
Muslims are prohibited from drinking alcohol. But why? In objectively reviewing for the ban in the Koran, one can only leave bewildered. Occasional passages that do not refer to alcohol as it is known today is interpreted as being a complete prohibition on alcohol consumption, [...]
Posted in Esoterica 17 Comments
Islamism and the misunderstandings of the Left
This is a cross-post from Harry’s Place by Igor
An article on Comment Is Free lauding the recently deceased Lebanese Grand Ayatollah, Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah, provides a vignette of how leftists tend to interpret the statements and actions of Islamists according to their own frame of reference, and more often than not get it hopelessly wrong.
Ian [...]
Posted in Islamism, The Regressive Left 2 Comments
Hizb ut Tahrir – we hate it here but let us stay
This is a guest post by Abu Wannabe Arab
The global Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir recently held an annual conference in Sydney Australia. The speakers at the conference, many of whom were British, spouted all the usual nonsense about western conspiracies and an Islamic state taking over the world. However, in the run up to [...]
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Partisans of Allah
Philip Delves Broughton’s review of Partisans of Allah, a book by Ayesha Jalal
In 1953, a group of Muslim leaders in the Punjab agitated to have a rival group de- classified as Muslims by the still young state of Pakistan. The government’s response came in the Munir Report, an eloquent expression of the state’s position [...]
Fear and silence
This is a cross-post by Mohsin Hamid, author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
WHY are Ahmadis persecuted so ferociously in Pakistan?
The reason can’t be that their large numbers pose some sort of ‘threat from within’. After all, Ahmadis are a relatively small minority in Pakistan. They make up somewhere between 0.25 per [...]
Posted in Anti Muslim bigotry, Freedom of Religion 9 Comments
True Colours of the MCB
This is a cross-post by Andy Lambert
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which claims to be Britain’s ‘largest Muslim umbrella organisation’, has been attacked in the past for promoting extremist speakers and being controlled and run by Islamists.
In response, they have often gone to great lengths to clear their name, providing the media with entertaining [...]
Posted in Islamism 18 Comments
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