Why do environmentalists have this puritanical hatred of aviation? Aviation is responsible for less than 1.5 % of global CO2 emissions, and it doesn’t matter if this percentage increases as long as it is primarily due to reductions in emissions from other sources. I think you’ve been reading too much Monbiot.

Why not go after the big CO2 sources by replacing fossil fuel power stations with nuclear ones, and encouraging the use of electric cars?

I must say that I find your defense of Shaikh Hamzah compelling and complete.

I do agreee with Umar Lee’s comments, but not their target.

They would have been better applied to Khalid Abu AL Fadl, Fatima Mernessi and other modernists, whose deviance from classical Islamic fiqh and aqeedah, is self proclaimed with pride.

I must also point out that Umar Lee crossed the line by referring to the Sahaba as killers,and thieves. This was apparently done in their defense and in defense of Umar’s view of Masculinity.

This is so repellent a comment that it places him beyond Alhus Sunnah, I advise him to fear Allah and repent.

I also want to say that no real scholar has to respond to this type of accusation, rather it is upto Umar Lee to present himself before Hamzah Yusuf and direct his tirade in person to his face. THAT is real masculinity.

So you’re saying that the majority of it is not?

“However, to keep it real, pedophilia is also rampant in many parts of the Muslim World. I know of people who were sodomized by male teachers at Islamic madrassas and others who had to pull their sons out. I, for one, would love to send my sons (if Allah blesses me to have boy) to a Muslim boarding school; but I fear this for them.”

May Allah send a few of his lions to off these homo-rapists. This a great example we should return to Allah’s law. These criminals would be killed immediately. Allahu Akbar. A muslim should not have to fear sending their muslim child to a muslim school. :(

As for Yusuf’s ridiculous views about Salafis and Ghettos then he is in close proximity to many in London yet never ever ventures to them to really find out just what is actually taking place! Therefore, there has been an “over-emphasis” (as Yusuf oddly describes it!) of da’wah in the ghettos as this is where Islam is being more rapidly accepted. This itself has been subject to much in the way of research and study. I also found Yusuf’s statements about “criminal backgrounds and chaotic family situations” which Yusuf equated with ghetto life to also be rather obtuse. Such a sanctimonious description of ghetto life is precisely the kind of ipse-dixit that Lee was emphasising in his initial article. For it is well known that those from middle-class backgrounds can also be subject to “chaotic family backgrounds” which in some instances can be just as detrimental to the persona as being raised in a single-parent home in the ghettos of the UK or the US

This has ranged from the shameless encouragement and support of very untraditional people like Ed Hussain to dodgy alliances with the Policy Exchange.