Islamism links
Tony Blair attacks Western Islamists “absurd sense of grievance”.
The classing of Islamist movements as fascist has a distinguished intellectual history. Experiencing the seething hatred within Saudi society.
About Islamism’s war against liberalism. A Muslim Zionist on the terror bastions in Europe.
On making important distinctions: But most British Muslims, in common with the rest of the country, fail to understand the difference between Islam the religion, and Islamism, a postcolonial political movement. On not appeasing them.
A former British jihadi states the bleeding obvious: that jihadi violence is rooted in a particular understanding of Islam: When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.
By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
… what drove me and many of my peers to plot acts of extreme terror within Britain, our own homeland and abroad, was a sense that we were fighting for the creation of a revolutionary state that would eventually bring Islamic justice to the world.
... Their first step has been to reason that since there is no Islamic state in existence, the whole world must be Dar ul-Kufr. Step two: since Islam must declare war on unbelief, they have declared war upon the whole world. Many of my former peers, myself included, were taught by Pakistani and British radical preachers that this reclassification of the globe as a Land of War (Dar ul-Harb) allows any Muslim to destroy the sanctity of the five rights that every human is granted under Islam: life, wealth, land, mind and belief. In Dar ul-Harb, anything goes, including the treachery and cowardice of attacking civilians. Via phanatic. Hitch takes aim that those who ignore the bleeding obvious. Such as, apparently, the new British PM. (Being cross about that.)
Hitch putting Muslim “outrage” against Sir Salman’s knighthood in context, noting that saying it is “an insult to Muslims” grants authority to the most brutal, narrow and homicidal elements within Islam-which is an insult to Islam.
The classing of Islamist movements as fascist has a distinguished intellectual history. Experiencing the seething hatred within Saudi society.
About Islamism’s war against liberalism. A Muslim Zionist on the terror bastions in Europe.
On making important distinctions: But most British Muslims, in common with the rest of the country, fail to understand the difference between Islam the religion, and Islamism, a postcolonial political movement. On not appeasing them.
A former British jihadi states the bleeding obvious: that jihadi violence is rooted in a particular understanding of Islam: When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.
By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
… what drove me and many of my peers to plot acts of extreme terror within Britain, our own homeland and abroad, was a sense that we were fighting for the creation of a revolutionary state that would eventually bring Islamic justice to the world.
... Their first step has been to reason that since there is no Islamic state in existence, the whole world must be Dar ul-Kufr. Step two: since Islam must declare war on unbelief, they have declared war upon the whole world. Many of my former peers, myself included, were taught by Pakistani and British radical preachers that this reclassification of the globe as a Land of War (Dar ul-Harb) allows any Muslim to destroy the sanctity of the five rights that every human is granted under Islam: life, wealth, land, mind and belief. In Dar ul-Harb, anything goes, including the treachery and cowardice of attacking civilians. Via phanatic. Hitch takes aim that those who ignore the bleeding obvious. Such as, apparently, the new British PM. (Being cross about that.)
Hitch putting Muslim “outrage” against Sir Salman’s knighthood in context, noting that saying it is “an insult to Muslims” grants authority to the most brutal, narrow and homicidal elements within Islam-which is an insult to Islam.