Category Archives: Islamism

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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Why are most of the victims of terrorists Pakistani?

By Faisal | Published: August 27, 2010
This is an excerpt from an article by Amir Mir, from OutlookIndia, which asks the question: ‘Just who is not a kaafir’? The broad Sunni-Shia division does not explain all of it Most Sunnis adhere to the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. Only 5 per cent of the country’s population belongs to the Ahle Hadith sect or Wahabis. The [...]
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Islamist Idol

By Faisal | Published: August 27, 2010
Khurram Sher, 28, has an interesting CV. He graduated from McGill University medical school in 2005. Practised at the Thomas Elgin General Hospital in the Department of Anatomical Pathology in Ontario, Canada. In 2006, he was involved in the relief efforts after an earthquake in Kashmir. Earlier this month he was one of three men arrested [...]
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“New Caliphate” Nonsense

By Ziryab | Published: August 26, 2010
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 [...]
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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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religious people need to recommit to and engage with critical thinking

By bananabrain | Published: August 23, 2010
following an unusually thoughtful broadcast last week by richard dawkins (he’s obviously trying to take on board how much his militancy turns people off by some of the pleas he made on behalf of sacred texts as fine language, cultural literacy and so on) i am grappling again with some of the issues raised by [...]
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Andy Hull Writes to the Papers

By Guest | Published: August 19, 2010
This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips from Harry’s Place Jews and Muslims are familiar with it. The pig’s head desecrating the place of worship. That’s what happened at the Finsbury Park Mosque, last month. The perpetrators of this criminal and disgusting act have yet to be caught. However, the mosque has a very good idea of [...]
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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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One Caliph to rule them all

By Ziryab | Published: August 18, 2010
This is a re-post of an article by Rashad Ali first posted on 18/07/09 **** 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 [...]
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Goodbye Pakistan?

By Guest | Published: August 17, 2010
This is a cross-post by Terry Glavin The Sound of Pennies Dropping: 1. Pakistan’s main spy agency says homegrown Islamist militants have overtaken the Indian army as the greatest threat to national security, a finding with potential ramifications for relations between the two rival South Asian nations and for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. A recent internal [...]
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