By Abul Kalam, on July 15th, 2008%
OK – I’ll admit it! I DID go to the nasheed concert at the Islam Expo, and all in all I quite enjoyed myself.
I only went for the Sunday evening performances and thought the Qur’an recitation by Shaykh Jibril and the young winner of the National Qirat Competition (Islam Channel) were particularly amazing. The host, a comedian and Palestinian refugee living in America, was funny and engaging. The music and singing… well it wasn’t all that to be honest! I’m more a fan of Zain and Dawud – old school!
I am of the opinion – as espoused by Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi and others – that nasheeds accompanied with music, in and of themselves are permitted. That the original rule of permission only changes if conditions such as the subject matter, manner of singing, excessiveness (etc) are broken.
But I don’t want to blog about that. I want to blog about the silly screaming, hand waving, dimwits – aka fans (overwhelmingly sisters)! Continue reading Muslim Concert Goers
By Hussain, on July 14th, 2008%
Three years after the 7/7 bombings in London, we are yet again trying to make sense of the threat from terrorism (or extremism). And those anxieties have opened up a Pandora’s box of questions.
The inevitable questions are: Whether the Islamic faith is an inherent threat to British society; is this another McCarthyite witch-hunt; was multiculturalism a good working formula for coexistence; should the immigration laws be restricted further to limit Muslim migration; are Muslim youth much more exposed to extremism; or even whether we should take the 42 day detention without charge to 90 days.
We are led to believe that disenfranchised, and disillusioned by the failure of integration, some British Muslims have taken up the militant Islamic ideology against Britain. Continue reading The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
By Amin, on July 13th, 2008%
Hurrah, justice has prevailed! Tony Blair hasn’t yet been convicted of war crimes, but we have the next best thing.
We live at a time when expressing sympathy for oppressed Palestinians can be construed as glorifying terrorism. Stating that homosexuality is a sin can warrant a police investigation. Hence, an employment tribunal finding Lillian Ladele’s right to her christian faith was discriminated against, is a true breath of fresh air.
At first the Registrar swapped shifts with colleagues to avoid officiating at gay civil partnerships, a sensible compromise to any person with even two brain cells. However, Islington council decided to taunt her (who is black) – comparing this to refusing to marry black people. The professional homosexuals at Stonewall compared this to a doctor refusing to treat black people. To even argue against this point, is to give credence to nonsensical rubbish.
The tribunal rightly found the council should not have given more importance to the rights of one group (gays) over another (christians). Rod Liddle, adulterer, aged 48, Continue reading Homosexuals and Rod the ‘Liddle’ adulterer
By Azad Ali, on July 11th, 2008%
According to a ‘survey’ by the hitherto unknown Centre for Islamic Pluralism (CIP), two-thirds of Muslims do not want Shari’ah laws introduced in the UK on civil matters such as marriage. Well at least that’s the ‘estimate’!
This report has been picked up by the usual suspects in the media, Daily Express and the Spectator. Continue reading ‘Muslims don’t want Shari’ah’!
By Tohel, on July 8th, 2008%
I always knew negative images of Muslims were quite prevalent around the country, but the extent to which the general British public has begun to have a disdain for Islam and Muslims was shocking.
And this is not just among the intellectual Islamophobes whose corrupt internal nature predisposes a dislike of the truth, or others whose ignorance and lack of intelligence draws them into the gutter of racial hatred. It is Jo Public, who previously (never consciously) had ill feelings towards Islam and Muslims. Continue reading No it shouldn’t happen to us
By Amin, on July 7th, 2008%
My fellow blogger Azad Ali is normally quick to read ‘between the lines’. So I was a little puzzled as to why he decided to applaud a speech by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, supporting the use of Sharia in civil cases.
In this speech at the London Muslim Centre, the President-Designate of the new UK Supreme Court decided to add his words of support to this cause. How noble. Yet, in the words of The Sunday Times columnist Minette Marrin, the noble lord ‘appeared to be saying nothing new at all’.
He just restated the [now well-known] right in English law to use any other laws or religious codes in civil disputes. The only consequence of this and the earlier intervention by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was the resulting Islamophobic rants in the media. Continue reading Knickers in a twist – consequence of the narrow picture
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