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Jihad in Islam

By Guest | Published: May 29, 2009

This is a guest post by Raziq
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Today the word ‘Jihad’ has become synonymous with terrorist and political violence.  This has come about due to the way Islamist/Jihadists have interpreted the word ‘Jihad’.  In this article I intend to look at the meaning of the word Jihad as understood by classical scholars in Islam.  
 
Ibn Rushd summarized a few of the various opinions of Muslim jurists on the issues of peace and war in Islam: Some of those who approved of peace whenever the imam finds it in the Muslims’ interest are Malik, al Shafi’i, and Abu Hanifah. Al Shafi’i only does not approve of a peace duration longer that the period which the Prophet, peace be upon him, made with the nonbelievers… the reason for their differences in approving of peace without necessity is the apparent contradiction between His (Allah’s) saying (in the Qur’an):

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Also posted in Hermeneutics, Islamism | 6 Comments

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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Also posted in Anti Fascism, Islamism, UK Politics | 2 Comments

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