The battle has been lost. It began whilst the embers of the last Khilafah State were still burning, soon to be extinguished. Whilst the poet’s ink was fresh on the page, when he cried, The wedding songs turned into echoes of mourning, And your death was announced within the signs of joy, You were shrouded […]
Muslims in the West face a number of challenges. Some of these are real, others are perceived to be real. Bringing up children and maintaining our identities is a real challenge. Holding onto Islamic values in an ideological society that works to undermine these values is another. Recently, Muslim communities have faced an onslaught, undermining Islamic […]
After Paris, the West ask, ‘why do they hate us?’ and ‘what is wrong with their religion’? They are asking the wrong questions. The question after Paris should be, ‘How has the Muslim Ummah displayed such remarkable restraint at the hands of brutal western colonialism?’
A recent BBC Newsnight broadcast (below) illustrates how, despite the faux-sentiment displayed in Western capitals this past week, the West were well aware of the Srebrenica genocide. At least two security council members knew about the the impending massacre before it happened and US intelligence reports charted the daily killings, yet no intervention came. In all 7000 […]
On 23 April, Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister and butcher of Iraq gave what his supporters a defining speech on the threat posed by political Islam. Some went as far as to compare it to Churchill’s Iron curtain speech in 1946, where the former British Prime Minister urged the west to formulate a coherent policy against an existential ideological threat. In his widely reported speech Blair spoke of ‘a titanic struggle’ against the forces of political Islam. Drawing a picture of the entire Middle East region, Blair despaired against the ‘reluctance’ in the West to face up to what the problem is, ‘the issue of the rightful place of religion, and in particular Islam, in politics’. Calling for an overarching narrative, he implored the west to observe the common thread underlying all crises in the region, that of a ‘radicalised and politicised view of Islam, an ideology that distorts and warps Islam’s true message’. Drawing upon earlier attempts, namely by right-wing US think tanks and European policy makers, he posits the majority of Muslims maintain a separation between religious observance and politics. For Blair the epicenter of politicized Islam remains the Middle East, and more has to be done to counter this distorted narrative, controversially recent political spats with Russia shouldn’t sidetrack the west from build common cause with Putin and China.
