Tag Archives: Muslim Brotherhood

A setback for the Brotherhood in Britain

By Mutazil | Published: November 27, 2009
 The struggle against Islamism in this country is a long war, with all that entails. It unfolds in a world of skirmishes, false-starts and minutely shifting power balances. Every now and then, however, comes a set-piece moment: “The Trustees of Policy Exchange are delighted to report that Mr Justice Eady yesterday struck out the claim brought against [...]
Posted in Defamation, Islamism | Tagged | 11 Comments

Paying for Political Islam

By Guest | Published: September 30, 2009
This piece by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens is cross-posted from the Standpoint blog, Focus on Islamism **** This November, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) will be holding its course on political Islam and, like the last one, it is not without its controversial speakers. I don’t have many fans in the SOAS political Islam Course; this is [...]
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Hasan al-Banna: Brotherhood, Jihad and Nazism

By Guest | Published: September 1, 2009
This is a guest post by Raziq **** The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest Islamist party in the world today.  It also claims to be a democratic party.  In this article I will be looking at its founder Hasan al-Banna, the reasons why he established the Muslim Brotherhood and his Nazi sympathies. Hasan al-Banna was born in 1906 [...]
Posted in Antisemitism, History, Islamism, Your View | Also tagged , | 12 Comments

Picking on Moderates

By Yossarian | Published: July 19, 2009
Articles here at the Spittoon tend to be quite controversial. For this we make no apologies. Normally this provokes the ire of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Jamaat-e-Islami and other Islamist groups, but on one particular occasion I guest posted a piece written by ‘Al-Qanaas Al-Masri’. It investigated links between the City Circle and IIIT, a [...]
Posted in Antisemitism, Blogosphere, Islamism, Israel/Palestine, PVE | Also tagged , , , | 7 Comments

Mainstreaming Extremism

By Faisal | Published: July 3, 2009
Abdullah Hasan writes his views on how the government can tackle Islamic extremism on the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE) blog: The ways the government can eradicate extremism is by acknowledging that their foreign policy and their draconian laws against Muslims play an immense part in radicalising Muslims. They need to work with mainstream Muslim organisations such as [...]
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