Clearly there are many groups that are seeking to establish some kind of Islamic policy, which then can become an instrument for global Islamic resurgence and even political unification. Islamic polities, states or caliphates are not the endgame. They are to become means and instruments of global Islamic resurgence. Political Islamic movements can also be… Continue reading Political Islam Part 36
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Political Islam Part 35
A movement to be considered one as Political Islam can be global and seeking to establish a global Islamic Caliphate, such as the Hizbut Tahreer, or they can be country-specific seeking to establish an Islamic state such as Hamas in Palestine or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Pakistan. There are also regional movements; the most prominent… Continue reading Political Islam Part 35
Political Islam Part 34
There are many revivalist movements in the Muslim world and Muslim communities in the West, such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), but they do not qualify as political Islamic movements. Only those groups who believe that not only does Islam have a built-in political system but also that all Muslims are required… Continue reading Political Islam Part 34
Campaign Against Halal Part 6
Already there are monetary links from here in Australia to terrorist organisations. In 2012 the AUSTRALIAN Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohamed met with Hamas officials in Gaza, including Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. He told media there that, We will make the stones, trees and people of Gaza talk in order to learn steadfastness, sacrifice, and… Continue reading Campaign Against Halal Part 6
Political Islam Part 33
There is no consensus about what was the primary reason for the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, but remarkably there is a near global consensus that the Islamic World has been in decline for centuries. Some intellectuals have argued that the reason why Muslims have lost their mojo is because they have abandoned… Continue reading Political Islam Part 33
Campaign Against Halal Part 5
In 2010 and 2011, the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) declared that their income from halal certification was “around” $700,000 a year. AFIC is just one of at least 21 agencies that can halal certify meat in Australia. Interestingly the 2012 and 2013 reports are not easily found and even the Vice President had… Continue reading Campaign Against Halal Part 5
Political Islam Part 32
Many Muslim intellectuals and scholars, since the beginning of the colonial era and the beginning of the enduring domination of the West over Muslim countries, have been lamenting the loss of Muslim Empire, Muslim power and Muslim glory. The key moment when the decline of Muslim power was crystallized in the Muslim psyche was when… Continue reading Political Islam Part 32
Sharia Court in Dewsbury
Sharia councils in Britain are putting Muslim women “at risk” by pressuring them to stay in abusive marriages. In a small terraced house in east London, a woman and her husband argue before an Islamic scholar who sits on a dais above them in a room that looks and feels like a court. This is… Continue reading Sharia Court in Dewsbury
Campaign Against Halal Part 4
The majority of halal certification agencies in Australia are owned and operated by mosques. Mosques practice and preach segregation (between men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims), inequality of women (a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s) even lesser status is afforded non-Muslims, how to use democracy to advance Islam – to name… Continue reading Campaign Against Halal Part 4
Political Islam Part 31
Since 2018, the Macron administration has designated French 47 districts — including Bourtzwiller and its 15,000 people — as quartiers de reconquête républicaine (areas of republican reconquest) in a drive to retake control of previously lawless zones by sending in extra police and improving schools. Moderate Muslims have backed Mr Macron’s approach. “There really is… Continue reading Political Islam Part 31