{"id":832,"date":"2006-10-31T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T11:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/10\/31\/aftab_malik_on_schwartzs_defamations"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:21:32","slug":"aftab_malik_on_schwartzs_defamations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/10\/31\/aftab_malik_on_schwartzs_defamations","title":{"rendered":"Aftab Malik on Schwartz&#8217;s defamations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masudblog.com\/\">www.Mas&#39;ud Khan&#39;s blog<\/a>, Aftab Ahmad Malik (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amalpress.com\/\">Amal Press<\/a> tears apart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familysecuritymatters.org\/challenges.php?id=361269\">a recent article<\/a> by the infamous Stephen Schwartz in which he once again airs his vendetta against Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, accusing him of falsely pretending to hold the non-existent position of &quot;Mufti of California&quot; in the Saudi newspaper <em>Okaz<\/em>, and of transforming himself from &quot;one of the loudest, most radical, vulgar, and provocative Islamist agitators in the West&quot; to a &quot;spiritual Sufi&quot; in the wake of 9\/11, when in fact Shaikh Hamza had always been favourable to Sufism and had taken knowledge from many of those of whom Schwartz personally approved, like Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki.  Long, comprehensive and well worth reading.  (More: <a href=\"lee.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/03\/on-sheikh-hamza-and-stephen-schwartz\/\">Umar Lee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/quickgm28.blogs.com\/ginnys_thoughts_and_thing\/2006\/11\/revisiting_step.html\">Ginny<\/a>, Yursil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yursil.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/stephen-suleyman-schwarz-and-battle-by-proxy\/\">[1]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yursil.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/suleyman-schwartz-seperated-from-shaykh-kabbani\/\">[2]<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masudblog.com\/2006\/10\/schwartzs-words-of-mass-distortion-by.html\">Schwartz&#39;s Words of Mass Distortion<\/a> by Aftab Malik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at www.Mas&#39;ud Khan&#39;s blog, Aftab Ahmad Malik (of Amal Press tears apart a recent article by the infamous Stephen Schwartz in which he once again airs his vendetta against Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, accusing&#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":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stephen_schwartz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42240,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/42240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}