Category Archives: Organisations & Leadership

Breaking stereotypes? How?

Muslim women: beyond the stereotype | Life and style | The Guardian G2 carried the above article, and it featured a number of Muslim women who claim they are challenging stereotypes and extremism; they include Tehmina Kazi (who has commented … Continue reading

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Further clarification: Usama Hasan

After I posted my article on Usama Hasan the other day, I found that my blog had been linked to by the secularist Spittoon blog, which had been copied by Harry’s Place. The author of the Spittoon article seemed to … Continue reading

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Posted in Organisations & Leadership | Tagged | 5 Comments

Usama Hasan: thanks for the apology, now clear off

Recently the east London imam, Usama Hasan, who has been involved with the Quilliam Foundation (a media-friendly group of purported former extremists) and promoting the idea of reconciling Islam with Darwinian theory, went beyond the pale in a public meeting … Continue reading

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What makes a cult?

Recently there has been some discussion on DeenPort on what constitutes a cult, and when a religion becomes a cult. Someone offered the definition that, among Muslims, when one is in a particular group it’s a tariqa, while when one … Continue reading

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Posted in Organisations & Leadership | 17 Comments

Park51 turning into Abbey Mills re-run

I haven’t commented on the Park51 affair yet — the 13-storey mosque and community centre that some group wants to put up in Lower Manhattan — mainly because other Muslims (and others) have said it much better than I can. … Continue reading

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Further thoughts on Qadri fatwa

A couple of weeks ago I posted an entry about Dr Tahir ul-Qadri’s fatwa condemning suicide bombings. It seems to have provoked the biggest debate of pretty much any recent post on here since I introduced moderation a number of … Continue reading

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Posted in Organisations & Leadership, Terrorism | 12 Comments

Qadri’s fatwa breaks no new ground

The London Evening Standard yesterday had a two-page feature on a forthcoming fatwa by the leader of the Minhaj-ul-Quran group, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, which unequivocally condemns suicide bombings. The feature is dominated by a picture of an al-Muhajiroun demonstration, but … Continue reading

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Posted in Organisations & Leadership, Terrorism | 225 Comments

Attempt to link Islamic societies to terrorism

Last Thursday BBC Radio 4 broadcast a Report programme in which they attempted to “investigate” the links between British university Islamic societies (or ISocs) with terrorism, on the basis that Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalib, who attempted to blow up a plane … Continue reading

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Posted in Ed Husain, Shiraz Maher, Education, Organisations & Leadership, Terrorism | 19 Comments

Tim Bowes on Maajid Nawaz

folio » Blog Archive » Chasing wild geese I wanted to fillet Johann Hari’s article in which he interviews three leading members of the Quilliam clique plus Anjem “Andy” Choudhary, but never having known them and always being far from … Continue reading

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Posted in Ed Husain, Shiraz Maher, Organisations & Leadership | 10 Comments

Splitters!

Recently some of us have been debating on Facebook whether to take part in a forthcoming coutner-demo to an al-Muhajiroun front group demo, which was to take place on the 31st. The event was titled “Say no to Andy’s fanatics!” … Continue reading

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Posted in Extremism, Organisations & Leadership | 15 Comments

The government’s preferred Muslim spokesmen

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Posted in Muslim world, Organisations & Leadership | 5 Comments

Muhajiroun versus Luton white trash

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Posted in Extremism, Organisations & Leadership, War in Iraq & Afghanistan | 23 Comments

Muhajiroun disrupt Luton army parade

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Posted in Extremism, Organisations & Leadership, War in Iraq & Afghanistan | 14 Comments

Response to Umar Lee on Shaikh Hamza Yusuf

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Posted in Community, Organisations & Leadership, Political correctness, USA | 36 Comments

Tablighis: engaging in Bradford, isolating in London – or is it just a misunderstanding?

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Posted in Media, Olympics 2012, Organisations & Leadership | 12 Comments

Zia: Let Muslims run their own committee

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Posted in Organisations & Leadership, ZiaWatch | 6 Comments

Muslim students: joint statement issued

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Posted in Islamophobia, Media, Organisations & Leadership | 1 Comment

Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion exposed

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Shaykh Pirzada condemns 42-day detention

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Posted in Civil liberties, Organisations & Leadership | 5 Comments

Britain’s top Muslim? Hardly

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