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The Blind leading the Blind
Written by Ahdaf Yusuf   
Monday, 24 December 2007
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ImageI'm a Muslim. I happen to be a woman. I'm a British Sufi - from the publicly-under-represented Sufi brand of Islam which outnumbers Wahhabis, Deobandis and other Muslim sects in Britain by five to one. I see these other sects as hegemonistic and blinkered - misled Muslims who have lost their way and are letting the side down in a shockingly bad way. Sufis are taught to be altruistic, focus on spirituality and work hard - we, above all Muslims, contribute a great deal to British society and the British economy, and we're proud of it. In no way are we represented by Islamist groups like the Muslim Council of Britain, who look down on Sufis and work slyly to fulfil the goals not of the British Muslim majority but hegemonistic Islamists (in the MCB's case, Jamaat e Islaami).

For some time I've wanted to ram the words of so-called Muslim extremists back down their throats - men and women included. Their blinkered approach beggars belief. How can they accuse the West - while living off state benefits and the fat of the land - of being morally bankrupt?
The recent case of the 19 year old girl in Saudi Arabia who was gang raped fourteen times then sentenced to 90 lashes (only freed after Western pressure on the House of Saud after her sentence was increased to 200 lashes and six months in jail) is symptomatic of the moral bankruptcy of so-called Muslim lands.

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Bangladeshi Terror Training Camps in relation to the UK
Written by Piers Malcolmson   
Monday, 24 December 2007
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ImageHizb ut Tahrir are focusing on a coup in Bangladesh. They are paying out large sums of cash to recruit British-based Bangladeshis - located in the Tower Hamlets area of East London. On the doorstep of Canary Wharf. This is a new strategy for HT in the UK, as previously they regarded Bangladeshi Muslims as inferior to their - mostly Urdu-speaking Pakistani - UK membership. These are troubling times in Bangladesh, which faced a state of emergency in January 2007. 

Independent of Hizb ut Tahrir's activities, it is becoming clear that East London-based Bangladeshis - with extremist Islamist tendencies -  are traveling to various terror training camps established in Bangladesh. The fact is that Bangladesh relies to a great extent on funds from its Diaspora abroad and this includes Britain. Young British Bangladeshis tend to be far more religious and radical than Bangladeshis in Bangladesh - there are real Islamist terrorist problems in Bangladesh and it seems highly likely that Bangladeshis based in Britain are playing some part in funding these groups, especially now the situation in Bangladesh is so dire.

1: Who are these Islamist terror groups based/operating in Bangladesh?

Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI) was established in 1992, reportedly with assistance from Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front. On April 30, 1992, several of the HuJI leaders addressed a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka and demanded that Bangladesh be converted into an Islamic State. The outfit's activities, however, were noticed in June 1996 after the Awami League came to power. The HuJI was proscribed by the Government on October 17, 2005. The HuJI is led by Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid. Imtiaz Quddus is the general secretary of the outfit. HuJI aims to establish Islamic Hukumat (rule) in Bangladesh by waging war and killing progressive intellectuals. It draws inspiration from bin Laden and the erstwhile Taliban regime of Afghanistan. At one point in time, the groups issued a slogan, Amra Sobai Hobo Taliban, Bangla Hobe Afghanistan (We will all become Taliban and we will turn Bangladesh into Afghanistan). HuJI recruits are indoctrinated in the mould of radical Islam.

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Islamist 'Democratic' Parties
Written by Dominic Whiteman   
Monday, 24 December 2007
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Although talk of an Islamicisation of Europe is both exaggerated and unhelpful, and no other great threat to democracy exists (while China and Russia behave themselves), it is time now - in the early days of the twenty first century - to ask the nations of the West and the democratic world, in a series of referenda, whether they wish to carry on with their democratic systems of government. Furthermore, it would be helpful, through probing surveys, to ask the undemocratized world if they are keen to remain undemocratized or whether they too would prefer to become democratic states.

Why now?

To kill off the mendacious Islamist "democratic" parties at birth, which have sprung up around the world in recent years, which would all abolish democracy, should they become electorally victorious in the states in which they stand to be elected - though none of them would ever admit to this.

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