The Blind Ignorance of the West

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Sat, 2007-09-08 18:22

A quote from Andrew Norfolk in The [London] Times, 7 September 2007

Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.

Riyadh ul Haq [...] is in line to become the spiritual leader of the Deobandi sect in Britain. The ultra-conservative movement, which gave birth to the Taleban in Afghanistan, now runs more than 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques, according to a police report seen by The Times.

The Times investigation casts serious doubts on government statements that foreign preachers are to blame for spreading the creed of radical Islam in Britain’s mosques and its policy of enouraging the recruitment of more “home-grown” preachers. [...]

Seventeen of Britain’s 26 Islamic seminaries are run by Deobandis and they produce 80 per cent of home-trained Muslim clerics. Many had their studies funded by local education authority grants. The sect, which has significant representation on the Muslim Council of Britain, is at its strongest in the towns and cities of the Midlands and northern England. [...]

A commentator on religious radicalism in Pakistan, where Deobandis wield significant political influence, told The Times that “blind ignorance” on the part of the Government in Britain had allowed the Deobandis to become the dominant voice of Islam in Britain’s mosques.

It is all now a question of

Submitted by PartisanoOccidental on Tue, 2007-09-11 12:07.

It is all now a question of which country in Europe will be attacked first?

Probably Spain is a good candidate...for the significacne of Al-Andalus and a lot of intranational segregationist movements who would cherish a chance like that.

Them jihadi cunts know they can't invade shit, but there are other means...Irani nukes anyone?

 

NOT ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL.

Blind Ignorance

Submitted by panamboy on Tue, 2007-09-11 04:09.

Why are we so Primate Like?
Hear no Evil - See no Evil - Speak no Evil
Why must we all have one or more of these maladies?
...Stupid Is What Stupid Does...
Does not Hear - Does not See - Does not Speak
- a prerequisite for a political career is "First and Primary - Stupidity"

"Surely, Greed, Power and Self Gratification are second "Only To "Stupidity"
Just wondering why the world is lead by so many myopic visions.

Hmmmm

Submitted by atheling on Tue, 2007-09-11 05:36.

I don't quite follow the "primate-like"... Surely primates don't pretend to not see a problem. Surely primates immediately and aggressively address whatever threatens them.

I think it's a spiritual malady.

@sprx

Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Mon, 2007-09-10 15:39.

Taqi by name and tacky by nature...

 

Excellent post sprx.Now wait for some numb-nuts to post the  "Ah,but what about the Crusades,the proto Zionist genocide against the indigenous peoples of Canaan,the Christian Inquisition,etc., " counter argument, in a "serious effort" to make the debate more 'balanced' and less 'hateful'. Well,as the good doctor Frasier Crane would say,"Im listening!". 

jihad, not yet........the Times

Submitted by sprx on Mon, 2007-09-10 14:49.

Our followers ‘must live in peace until strong
enough to wage jihad’
Andrew Norfolk
One of the world’s most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by
Muslims “to establish the supremacy of Islam” worldwide.
Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where
they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.
His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional
Islamic thinking.
Mr Usmani, 64, sat for 20 years as a Sharia judge in Pakistan’s Supreme Court. He is an adviser to several
global financial institutions and a regular visitor to Britain. Polite and softly spoken, he revealed to The Times a
detailed knowledge of world events and his words, for the most part, were balanced and considered.
He agreed that it was wrong to suggest that the entire nonMuslim world was intent on destroying Islam. Yet this
is a man who, in his published work, argues the case for Muslims to wage an expansionist war against
nonMuslim lands.
Mr Usmani’s justification for aggressive military jihad as a means of establishing global Islamic supremacy is
revealed at the climax of his book, Islam and Modernism. The work is a polemic against Islamic modernists who
seek to convert the entire Koran into “a poetic and metaphorical book” because, he says, they have been
bewitched by Western culture and ideology.
The final chapter delivers a rebuke to those who believe that only defensive jihad (fighting to defend a Muslim
land that is under attack or occupation) is permissible in Islam. He refutes the suggestion that jihad is unlawful
against a nonMuslim state that freely permits the preaching of Islam.
For Mr Usmani, “the question is whether aggressive battle is by itself commendable or not”. “If it is, why should
the Muslims stop simply because territorial expansion in these days is regarded as bad? And if it is not
commendable, but deplorable, why did Islam not stop it in the past?”
He answers his own question thus: “Even in those days . . . aggressive jihads were waged . . . because it was
truly commendable for establishing the grandeur of the religion of Allah.”
These words are not the product of a radical extremist. They come from the pen of one of the most acclaimed
scholars in the Deobandi tradition.
Mr Usmani told The Times that Islam and Modernism was an English translation of his original Urdu book, “which
at times gives a connotation different from the original”.