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The Islamo-Stalinist

By Guest | Published: May 27, 2009

Raziq, one of our commenter-friends, posted this informative analysis of the geo-political and religious dynamics that influenced the ideology of Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, the founder of the Hizb ut-Tahrir.

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Islamo-Communist

The Islamist

Taqiuddin al-Nabhani was an independent thinker and a revivalist. Formerly a Ba’athist (a nationalist Arab Socialist Party), he maintained his Arab centric socialist agenda but presented it in Islamic language by enveloping his Arab super-nation state concept for a super “Islamic” State which must concentrate on the Arab speaking Muslims. He challenged the status quo. He attacked mainstream Islamic beliefs, such as the spiritual dimension of life, as being nothing but a mystic concept influenced by Byzantine beliefs and nothing to do with authentic Islamic teaching, which maintained the that man was purely material in his view.

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Towards a Reasonable Discussion on Immigration

By Guest | Published: May 25, 2009

This article by Edmund Standing is cross-posted from Harry’s Place.

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This post follows on from a previous post of mine entitled Taking the BNP seriously: Simplistic condemnation is not enough and is cross-posted from Pro-British, Anti-Extremist.

An excellent dialogue on immigration between David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University, and the novelist Lionel Shriver can be read at Standpoint Online. Entitled ‘We Need to Talk about Immigration’, the piece offers a rational discussion which challenges some central taboos surrounding this emotive issue.

Shriver makes the following important point:

I would like us to deal with the feelings that native-born people have of having their generosity strained in a way that isn’t totally judgemental. We have to take the condemnation out of the argument, if we’re going to have the argument at all. We can’t immediately knee-jerk and say: “OK, you don’t want a lot of Muslims in your country, so you’re just a xenophobe and a racist, and you’re a bad person, and you probably belong to the BNP.” If you keep telling people they don’t have a right to feel the way they feel, they will end up in the BNP.

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Posted in Anti Fascism, Islamism, UK Politics, Your View | 2 Comments

Fun with Maps

By Guest | Published: May 23, 2009

This article is cross-posted from Harry’s Place as a guest-post by habibi.

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The self-styled Muslim Association of Britain and Palestinian Solidarity Campaign have found a new cause: campaigning against ads for Israeli tourism in London.

Posters have recently appeared in London Underground tube stations advertising Israel as a tourist destination. The map on the advert depicts Israel as incorporating the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.

Please write to London Underground, the Advertising Standards Agency and CBS Outdoors – the company which manages the poster sites – asking for the removal of these posters, which deliberately deny the existence of Palestine.

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I’m sure the MAB’s and PSC’s next righteous struggle for cartographic accuracy will target groups using logos like these:

Interpal, a British charity linked to Hamas:

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The Palestinian Return Centre, a pro-Hamas political group based in London:

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Posted in Islamism, Israel/Palestine | 2 Comments

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