With moderates like this, who needs radicals?
Paul Cooper
The Australian Channel Ten show ‘The Project’ certainly stayed true to their mantra of ‘It’s news delivered differently’, when they invited the so-called moderate and reformed Irfan Yusuf onto the show.
Irfan buys his jihad from Tariq Ramadan. There is nothing ‘moderate’ or the slightest whiff of reform in his teachings.
Irfan Yusuf was invited on the show as a moderate voice from the Australian Islamic community to give his opinion on the recent Hizb ut-Tahrir ‘Innocent Until Proven Muslim’ conference. It appears he accomplished this undertaking, however the results are not what they seem.
Irfan’s opinions are about as relevant as the opinion of a dog in Pakistan.
Irfan Yusuf made a meagre and dismal argument to suggest the 800 people attending the Hizb ut-Tahrir event in the southwest Sydney suburb of Bankstown is nothing much to be concerned about. Furthermore, he was quoted as stating, “there is nothing in their material to suggest they are in anyway violent” and “personally, I don’t think they’re a huge danger”. To complete this trifecta of ridiculousness he revealed he also believes, “Hizb ut-Tahrir are comparable to Andrew Bolt.” For our international readers, Andrew Bolt is a local conservative journalist and television host.
Lie about it, minimize the threat, deny everything and blame a kafir. How intelligent is that? Answer: enough to get you on Oz TV.
Since the show was unable to find someone capable of providing an objective and informed perspective on Hizb ut-Tahrir, it’s only practical we dig a little deeper ourselves. It pains me, I would have rather spent my evening polishing the silverware.
The show is not ‘unable’, they haven’t tried. At the Australian Liberty Alliance we have plenty of people who know what they’re all about.
Maajid Nawaz gave an interesting opinion on the matter. Maajid stated, “don’t get me wrong, I’m not a conservative, but to compare those who wish to stone adulteresses, kill gays and cut off hands for theft with conservativism is, morally bankrupt.”
Maajid Nawaz is irrelevant.
Hmm, the opinion of Maajid is quite a contrast to the “meh, they’re not that bad” opinion provided by our ‘moderate’ Irfan Yusuf, who consequently it seems is anything but a moderate.
Majids opinions make no difference to the doctrine of Islam and the shari’a. As a Muslim, he works towards implementation.
Continue reading We don’t (just) have a problem with Hizb ut-Tahrir, we have a problem with Islam