Bringing ‘faith’ by the pound…. Muslims

Saudi Gazette:

Awards were given to people in recognition of their outstanding contribution to society. Madeleine Bunting, a Guardian columnist and Associate Editor, was awarded the ‘Friends of Islam Media Award’ this year.

And that’s not all:

Britain’s Labor MP Stephen Timms Thanks Muslims for Bringing Islam Into UK, “We Need Decent Values Which the Muslim Community Shows in Abundance”…..

Hat tip ZIP

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Top Muslim doctor faces sack for saying ‘transsexuals are twisted and society needs protection from gays’

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“Yes to jihad, just not now.”

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen close shop and line up in rows to pray.

Business grinding to a halt for daily prayers is not unusual in conservative Saudi Arabia, but until recently it was rare in the Egyptian capital, especially in affluent commercial districts like Mohandiseen, where the mall is located.

But nearly the entire three-story mall is made up of computer stores run by Salafis, an ultraconservative Islamic movement that has grown dramatically across the Middle East in recent years.

“We all pray together,” said Yasser Mandi, a salesman at the Nour el-Hoda computer store. “When we know someone who is good and prays, we invite them to open a shop here in this mall.” Even the name of Mandi’s store is religious, meaning “Light of Guidance.”

Critics worry that the rise of Salafists in Egypt, as well as in other Arab countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, will crowd out the more liberal and tolerant version of Islam long practiced there. They also warn that the doctrine is only a few shades away from that of violent groups like al-Qaida—that it effectively preaches “Yes to jihad, just not now.”

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On a website devoted to Ramadhan, the Muslim Brotherhood posted a series of articles by Dr. Ahmad ‘Abd Al-Khaleq about Al-Walaa Wa’l-Baraa, an Islamic doctrine which, in its fundamentalist interpretation, stipulates absolute allegiance to the community of Muslims and total rejection of non-Muslims and of Muslims who have strayed from the path of Islam.

In his articles, the writer argues that according to this principle, a Muslim can come closer to Allah by hating all non-Muslims - Christians, Jews, atheists, or polytheists - and by waging jihad against them in every possible manner.

For full report, visit http://www.memriiwmp.org/content/en/report.htm?report=2877.

Headbanger Logic: “Equating Islam with Terrorism Will Lead to Terrorism”

The Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan addressed yet another “inter-faith” conference today, and announced that “equating Islam with terrorism is dangerous.”

Because it will lead to … you guessed it: … terrorism.

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A good reminder that, with Jesus’ “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, unto God what is God’s,” Christianity can survive, thrive even, in a secular society; whereas in the Islamic world, where there is absolutely no separation between mosque and state, modernity and globalization, both practically synonymous with secularism, are always going to be on hostile territory.

“Secularlism foreign to Islam,” by Peter Johnston for Yale Daily News, from JW:

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* A better question for these muslim apologists is “What can you use in the koran to stop honor killings?” if in fact, islam doesn’t condone honor killings. So why has islam not been able to stop honor killings? Ask your honor killing neighbors and watch them squirm!

Supna Zaidi, the assistant director of Islamist Watch and daughter of my dear and much-missed friend the late Tashbih Sayyed, considers this question in an article of the same name atPajamas Media (from DW)

* Jailed Jordanian women escape ‘honour killings’ by being jailed, some for 15 years and more…

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Richard Kerbaj/Times Online

Update 

UK: Are women submitting to sharia courts voluntarily?

Muslim spiritual leaders could be denounced publicly by their own community as part of a campaign to expose imams whose silence on domestic abuse is leading to women being burnt, lashed and raped in the name of Islam.

Muslim scholars are to present the Government with the names of imams who are alleged by members of their own communities to have refused to help abused women. Imams are also accused of refusing to speak out against domestic abuse in their sermons because they fear losing their clerical salaries and being sacked for broaching a “taboo” subject.

Some of Britain’s most prominent moderate imams and female Muslim leaders have backed the campaign, urging the Home Office to vet more carefully Islamic spiritual leaders coming to Britain to weed out hardliners. A four-month inquiry by the Centre for Islamic Pluralism into domestic abuse has uncovered harrowing tales of women being raped, burnt by cigarettes and lashed with belts by their husbands, who believe it is their religious right to mistreat them.

At least 40 female Muslim victims and many social workers from northern England - including Bradford, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham - were interviewed as part of the inquiry, which is expected to be published next month.

All we ask is that you treat your wives equally:

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Islamic Slavery in the 21st Century

by Baron Bodissey

Islamic antiblack racism is as old as Islam. Ibn Khaldoun (in the 14th century) explained why the Arab Muslims concluced that “Negro Nations are submissive to slavery” and black slaves where different from white slaves (though mistreated the same). Its indeed stunning to see how easily Africans and African Americans admire their racist oppressors’, butchers’ and traders’ ideology (whose core never changes) so easily.