Category Archives: Islamism

Here is a piece of text uncovered (here and here) by Yassir Latif Hamdani which exposes the duality of Jamaat-e-Islam through the words of its founder, Abul Ala Maududi. After years of sabotaging the creation of Pakistan, denouncing Ali Jinnah as a religious lightweight and decrying democracy as satan’s handiwork, Maududi made an astonishing 180 degree flip and embraced Pakistan, Jinnah and democracy. The question is, did he actually do any of this in good faith or was it all a ploy to further the aims of Jamaat-e-Islam and turn Pakistan into an Islamic state?

Here is an English translation of the 10 Urdu quotations of Maulana Maududi, founder of the Jamaat Islami, quoted above:

THE WORDS OF MAULANA MAUDUDI:

1. “The establishment and birth of Pakistan is equivalent to the birth of a beast.”

2. “Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s place is not on the throne of leadership. He deserves to face trial as a traitor.”

This is a cross-post by Andy Lambert

In response, they have often gone to great lengths to clear their name, providing the media with entertaining and ambiguous sound bites in the process. However, a former senior member of the MCB has finally publicly admitted what we all knew all along.

The MCB held their annual elections last week and one Farooq Murad, former member of the Islamist-friendly Islamic Society of Britian, emerged as the new general secretary.

Coincidentally Farooq also happens to be the son of the Supreme leader of Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami.

According to the former MCB Spokesperson, Inayat Bunglawala:

This is a cross-post from the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

The major threats to Muslims around the world don’t stem from U.S. or Israeli military actions or civil- liberties violations by Western governments in countering the jihadist threat. Instead, Salim Mansur, a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, identifies Muslim-on-Muslim violence as the cause of more death and destruction than anything else.

In a recent interview with the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Mansur, a Muslim born in India, made a powerful case that the U.S. government and Western mainstream media ignore the real danger to Muslims around the world: terror, intimidation, repression and genocide committed by their fellow Muslims.

An example came last Wednesday, when 40 people died at their wedding party in Kandahar that was attacked by a suicide bomber.

This is a cross-post by Dave Rich of the CST blog

Two weeks ago, Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh issued a Press Release, available on their website in English and Bengali (both PDFs), to advertise a demonstration they held about the Gaza flotilla. This is what it says:

O Muslim Armies! Teach the Jews a lesson after which they will need no further lessons
March forth to fight them, eradicate their entity and purify the earth of their filth

This is a cross-post by Edmund Standing

‘I believe in women’s rights. So did Muhammad’. So says ‘Sultana Tafadar, Barrister’ at the ‘Inspired by Muhammad’ campaign website (see my previous article on the claims made by the campaign here).

Curious to find out more about Ms Tafadar, I did a bit of looking around the web. Tafadar, it turns out, wrote a report for the Islamic Human Rights Commission in 2002 entitled ‘The Hidden Victims of September 11: Prisoners of UK Law’ (PDF) and spoke at an IHRC seminar on ’9/11 – The Hidden Victims’. In 2003, Tafadar again appeared at an IHRC event, this time speaking on ‘The Legal Case against Ariel Sharon’.

Anyone who might be wondering how the IHRC defines ‘human rights’ would do well to consult this excellent post at Harry’s Place. A sample: