Why was Westminster Journal founded?

There are plenty of American publications commentating on the struggle against militant Islam. There are plenty of Europe-based commentators writing for these American publications. But there are only a few Europe-based publications, apart from the Westminster Journal, which seek to highlight the crucial issues of the struggle or the wider picture - dismantling the facades, advising on solutions and exposing the facts.

Read some American publications and you'd be led to believe that Europe is experiencing its last days of freedom before the fall of that dark curtain of totalitarian, theocratic Islamism. This is way off the mark and it's about time us Europeans said so. It's time to expel some of the hysteria and look to greater social cohesion amongst European nation states.

Militant Islam has many faces. While there are political Muslims, who might even refer to themselves as"Islamists", who do a lot of good for their fellow Muslims and the rest of the planet, by "Islamists" here I am referring to other individuals with sinister aims, such as those set out in the Muslim Brotherhood's Project. These other Islamist individuals are either proscribed terrorists like Al Qaeda, JI & Hezbollah or the so-called "cultural" Islamists like the Jamaat-e-Islami MCB leadership, Hizb ut Tahrir, and others - the enemy of true Muslims and the true enemy of freedom.

If you stand up against the violent or cultural Islamists in Britain today, they classify you as a Neocon, however mainstream your political views or however distant from Neocons your previous stances. Fortunately no-one pays their views much attention, but nonetheless their wretched tactic must be uncovered.

Westminster Journal seeks to expose these Islamists who lie and oil their way through to mainstream politics, particularly in Britain and Sweden. To brush aside the liars, so that Western Governments can deal face to face with those who represent mainstream, peaceable Muslims and do not stand for hegemonistic Islamist goals.

Westminster Journal has amassed a group of modern Muslim thinkers and activists, who are daily more fed up with what they are seeing happen to Muslim communities across Europe. Their thoughts and comments will be published in articles and interviews over coming weeks and months.

Westminster Journal also seeks to prove those actual Neocons - who get in the way of solutions to the struggle - wrong. Westminster Journal believes that extremists are as bad as extremists. The Islamist Right will not be faced down by the Free World's Political Right but by the mainstream; liberal, democratic, freedom-loving people who have shown throughout history they know when to show successful resolve and who are waking up, little by little, to the enemy in our midst.

That is why I - as a mainstream, liberal, political individual - am proud to accept the honour of being the Editor of Westminster Journal for 2008.

On behalf of this publication's colleagues, backers and contributors from across the globe, Welcome!

Dominic Whiteman

Editor

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