{"id":732,"date":"2006-07-09T18:12:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/07\/09\/upcoming_rmw_event_and_anti-rmw_programme"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:39:34","slug":"upcoming_rmw_event_and_anti-rmw_programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/07\/09\/upcoming_rmw_event_and_anti-rmw_programme","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming RMW event and anti-RMW programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Radical Middle Way Event:<\/strong> Shaikh Walead Mohammed, an American graduate of al-Azhar (who has also studied in Damascus) is to give a talk this Tuesday in London and next Sunday in Oxford on the topic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=97&#038;Itemid=\">&quot;What good is the Shariah in the West?&quot;<\/a>.  The talk is to focus on the <em>maqaasid<\/em> (goals and objectives) of the <em>Shari&#39;ah<\/em>, and how they can be applicable to us in the west; it is also, <em>insha Allah<\/em>, to discuss whether we need Shari&#39;ah courts and how the Shari&#39;ah will meet the challenges of the 21st century, such as climate change, minority issues, medical ethics and finance.<\/p>\n<p>The first talk is this Tuesday (11th July) at the Froud Centre (Romford Road, Manor Park, London E12 5JF) from 7pm to 9pm; the second is next Sunday (16th July) at Oxford Central Mosque (Manzil Way, Oxford OX4 1DJ) from 3pm to 5pm.  Contacts are 07092 032 136 or email info@islamiccircles.com for London and 07709 178117 for Oxford.  Admission to both is free and all are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Also, next Friday a documentary about the RMW and other aspects of the British reaction to the London bombings will air this coming Friday (14th July) at 7:30pm on Channel 4.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/life\/microsites\/S\/speaks_muslims\/\">Who Speaks for Muslims<\/a> is by Martin Bright, who has written a series of articles for the <em>New Statesman<\/em> on the subject, basically alleging (as you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/200607100016\">here<\/a> from the current edition) that the roadshow was planned in advance and did not come out of a post-bombing consultation which reported on 22nd September 2005, an accusation the Foreign Office denies.  Nick Cohen promotes the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,1816257,00.html\">in today&#39;s <em>Observer<\/em><\/a> and Bright has also produced a pamphlet for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policyexchange.org.uk\/\">Policy Exchange<\/a> on the same topic, which is to be published this Wednesday.  (More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osamasaeed.org\/osama\/2006\/07\/the_arabists_at.html\">Osama Saeed<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical Middle Way Event: Shaikh Walead Mohammed, an American graduate of al-Azhar (who has also studied in Damascus) is to give a talk this Tuesday in London and next Sunday in Oxford on the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3791,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-bO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42356,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/42356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}