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Jews, Muslims & Power

This is a cross-post by Dr Farrukh Salem

The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007, and an Islamabad-based freelance columnist.

There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in the Americas, five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims. Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together. Ever wondered why?

Jesus was Jewish. Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all time and TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Century’, was a Jew. Sigmund Freud – ego, superego – the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew. So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.

Posted in Education | 17 Comments

A Dummy’s Guide to Lambertism

This is a cross-post by Amjad Khan

Over the last few years, entry level Islamist organisations, certain sections of the far-left, and a handful of academics and policy wonks have been advocating a theory, now commonly referred to as ‘Lambertism’, named after it’s most vocal proponent, Robert Lambert. This theory essentially advocates governments building closer ties with non-violent Islamist groups and hard-core Wahabis in an effort to defeat violent Islamist extremists. In essence, let’s work with non-violent extremists to defeat violent extremists. Advocates of this approach would argue that non-violent extremists are best placed to deal with violent extremists. In this article I hope to explore some of the implications of this approach and the motivations behind some of those advocating it.

Posted in Islamism, The Far Left, UK Politics | 2 Comments

Why Lambert and Githens-Mazer are wrong on radicalisation

This is a cross-post by Robin Simcox

It seems increasingly trendy to believe that ‘non violent’ Islamists can be a bulwark against al-Qaeda in preventing terrorism in the west. Chief proponent of this thesis is Robert Lambert, director of the European Research Muslim Centre (ERMC). Along with Jonathan Githens-Mazer, his co-director at the EMRC, Lambert believes that Salafi and Ikhwani ‘street’ legitimacy and religious knowledge work as a safety valve in reducing the threat.

This is convenient, considering the ERMC receives all of its funding from Ikhwani-sympathetic organisations. The Cordoba Foundation, described by the Prime Minister in March 2008 as a ‘front for the Muslim Brotherhood’, donated £50,000 to the ERMC for the year 2009/10; and Islam Expo, whose registered directors and companies secretaries have a variety of links to the Brotherhood, another £50,000.

Posted in Activism, Entryism, UK Politics | 2 Comments

DCLG’s Senior Muslim Advisor Mohammad Abdul Aziz Rakes It In

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips of Harry’s Place

Earlier this year we ran a guest post on Aziz:

Mohammad Abdul Aziz is a Senior Muslim Advisor at DCLG. He is also a honary trustee of East London mosque (ELM) and the London Muslim Centre (LMC), as well as having been an advisor to the MCB. He was formerly an executive committee member of YMO, which is the youth wing of Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) – an Islamist entryist group. After spending years in YMO propagating the teachings of the Islamist ideologue Maulana Mawdudi, Mohammad Aziz resigned to follow a stricter and more conservative form of Islam known as ‘Salafism’. As a student he attended UCL to study Law, grew a lengthy beard and would roll his trousers up over his ankles to conform to his new stricter interpretation of Islam. During his time as a Salafi he influenced a whole generation of young Bangladeshis in East London. He later came under the influence of a senior Jamaati Islami member Khurram Murad who eventually convinced him to once again join entryist Islamism. Mohammad Aziz then went onto represent the MCB at a number of events.

Posted in Entryism, Islamism, UK Politics | 3 Comments

Zakzaky, the IHRC and Jeremy Corbyn

This is a cross-post by Habibi

Here is another look at the work of Ibrahim Zakzaky, the head of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and a guest next week of the self-styled Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). He is scheduled to speak at the Islamic Centre of England in Maida Vale, a propaganda centre of the Iranian regime.

This is “Islamic scholar” Yusuf Ali speaking at a meeting of the Islamic Movement, as reported on the Movement’s own website. Want to know about the Jews? Read the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, the notorious antisemtic hoax.

Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Ali. started his address with the most common trait of the Yahud (Jews) which is that everyone is goyim except them who are chosen ones of God. According to them, anything unlawful is only unlawful between Jews themselves but lawful for them on the other people. He pointed out that almost all conflicts going on in the world now are due to the instigation of the Jews to benefit in one way or the other.

Posted in Activism, Antisemitism, Events | 12 Comments

Lutfur Rahman Suspended From The Labour Party

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips

I have just been told that Labour’s NEC has suspended Lutfur Rahman, the IFE-supported candidate for Mayor.

Readers of this blog will be aware of the detailed and serious allegations of vote banking that have been made in relation to this candidate.

Suspension from the Labour Party will mean that Lutfur Rahman cannot run as the Labour candidate for Mayor. That will mean that the IFE/ELM clique will not get their hands on the £1 billion budget that Tower Hamlets will command. Perhaps RESPECT will take him on as their candidate.

Labour’s candidate is likely to be Helal Abbas.

Labour is to be praised for its timely actions. I expect that Labour will now face a law suit, brought against it by Lutfur Rahman’s solicitor, Makbool Javaid. Javaid is an extremist who opposes “man made law”, supported the creation of a Caliphate from an Al Muhajiroun platform, and signed a “declaration of war” on the United Kingdom.

Posted in Entryism, UK Politics | 6 Comments

Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi, the GPU and “Community Cohesion”

This is a cross-post by Habibi

Here is a message from the chairman of the “Global Peace and Unity” (GPU) conference, Mohamed Ali Harrath:

The GPU offers a crucial platform for interfaith dialogue and exchange of ideas towards fostering mutual understanding between people from every faith and background in a bid for greater community cohesion.

This is funny coming from a man who says that Jews control the media and America.

Not to mention the fact that GPU speakers include Shady Alsuleiman, a promoter of al Qaeda preacher and recruiter Anwar Al-Awlaki, and grotesque antisemite Zaghloul Al-Naggar.

Syrian preacher Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi is another scheduled speaker at the event. During the Mohammed cartoons controversy, he made his own views on “community cohesion” perfectly clear: freedom of expression must go.

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“New Caliphate” Nonsense

This is cross-post by M.J Akbar

New Delhi, India – “Muslims want to revive the Caliphate,” I hear pundits say. The idea is just preposterous. The Caliphate is a pre-nation state concept, relevant only to the Age of Empire. The Caliphate was defeated by the British in 1918. It was buried by the Turks in 1924.

Upon first glance, it seems the Caliphate had a fabulous run from 632 to 1918. However, look again: Only for a very short while during these 1300 years was there a single Caliph to which all Muslim political formations gave allegiance. Usually, there were multiple Muslim communities. The Ummayads in Spain never recognized the Abbasids in Baghdad; and the Mughals in India certainly did not pay obeisance to the Sublime Porte of their Turkish kinsmen in Istanbul. Then Mustafa Kemal Ghazi packed off the last Ottoman Caliph with 2000 pounds and a one-way ticket to Europe. He sealed the institution that had long outlived its utility.

Posted in International Affairs, Islamism | 2 Comments

The David Kelly conspiracy

This is a cross-post from Harry’s Place

According to the Daily Mail (ho, ho ho), only one in five of you believe David Kelly committed suicide.

According to an exclusive Mail opinion poll, only one in five people accepts the Hutton Inquiry’s finding that the government weapons inspector took his own life.

The survey also reveals that eight out of ten people want a full inquest. With senior MPs making the same demand, the Coalition is under strong pressure to act.

It comes as a medical report says it was ‘impossible’ that Dr Kelly bled to death in the way described by the inquiry.

The “impossible circumstances” of Kelly’s death are described by the pathologist who examined Kelly in today’s Sunday Times (paywall) as:

“an absolute classic case of self-inflicted injury. You could illustrate a textbook with it. If it were anyone else and you were to suggest there’s something foul about it, you would be referred for additional training.”

Posted in Media, Politics, UK Politics | 2 Comments

One Caliph to rule them all

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Hizb ut-Tahrir; Jamaat-e-Islami; Ikhwan al-Muslimeen and al-Qaeda all have, as a fundamental aim; the establishment of a global dictatorship under the rule of one Caliph, an autocrat, who will impose one interpretation of the Shar’iah over the entire globe. They intend to do this through unifying countries where there already exists Muslim majorities then launch a worldwide international effort at expanding this state through diplomatic and hostile means i.e. warfare.

For them, there is a religious duty (fard) in which there is no dispute, that there must be a single caliphate encompassing the whole globe. There is no room for different interpretations, and anyone differing with them – especially the likes of the Hizb, and al-Qaeda, are upon Kufr – unbelief and apostates from Islam. In fact they would argue that all the Muslim scholars who have abandoned engaging in political activity for the sake of establishing such a super-state are upon misguidance, and Kufr, even if on the whole the Muslim jurists take the position, that there are different opinions on this issue, which are legitimate opinions – Ijtihadaat – and therefore we cannot start accusing others of being on un-Islamic positions for holding different views.

Posted in Hermeneutics, History, Islamism, Sharia | 1 Comment
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