08 September 2007
"Our followers 'must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad'"
"His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking."
Let's hope. More on yesterday's story about Deobandi control of almost half of the mosques in the United Kingdom, by Andrew Norfolk for the Times Online:
One of the world’s most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims “to establish the supremacy of Islam” worldwide.
Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.
His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking.
Mr Usmani, 64, sat for 20 years as a Sharia judge in Pakistan’s Supreme Court. He is an adviser to several global financial institutions and a regular visitor to Britain. Polite and softly spoken, he revealed to The Times a detailed knowledge of world events and his words, for the most part, were balanced and considered.
He agreed that it was wrong to suggest that the entire nonMuslim world was intent on destroying Islam. Yet this is a man who, in his published work, argues the case for Muslims to wage an expansionist war against nonMuslim lands.
Mr Usmani’s justification for aggressive military jihad as a means of establishing global Islamic supremacy is revealed at the climax of his book, Islam and Modernism. The work is a polemic against Islamic modernists who seek to convert the entire Koran into “a poetic and metaphorical book” because, he says, they have been bewitched by Western culture and ideology.
Just one of many pro-jihad books one may find on the shelves of London bookstores.
The final chapter delivers a rebuke to those who believe that only defensive jihad (fighting to defend a Muslim land that is under attack or occupation) is permissible in Islam. He refutes the suggestion that jihad is unlawful against a nonMuslim state that freely permits the preaching of Islam.
For Mr Usmani, “the question is whether aggressive battle is by itself commendable or not”. “If it is, why should the Muslims stop simply because territorial expansion in these days is regarded as bad? And if it is not commendable, but deplorable, why did Islam not stop it in the past?”
He answers his own question thus: “Even in those days ... aggressive jihads were waged ... because it was truly commendable for establishing the grandeur of the religion of Allah.”
These words are not the product of a radical extremist. They come from the pen of one of the most acclaimed scholars in the Deobandi tradition.
A new twist on an old excuse:
Mr Usmani told The Times that Islam and Modernism was an English translation of his original Urdu book, “which at times gives a connotation different from the original”.
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nice religious reviews, keep it on!
Posted by: polics | 09 September 2007
"... Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.
His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking. ..."
why is this not clear evidence of sedition,
and grounds for expulsion,
and grounds for surveillance of mosques where such ideas are preached ?!?
eventually non-Muslims will get fed up,
especially as more brazen Muslim violence erupts
fortunately,
the Muslims are COWARDLY bullies,
with a travesty of a faith
that manipulates its followers into violent expansion of the faith,
with no constructive contributions to any current society
eventually they will all fall,
as in evidence of anytime _anyone_ has stood up to them in force
but why should anyone wait anymore for Muslims to brazenly disregard everyone else's rights?
start DEPORTATIONS now for any infringement of any non-Muslim's right
(including free speech against their false prophet and fabricated book)
or for any death threat against someone exercising a democratic right
at the very least,
require immigration forms to have Muslims attest to their support of everyone else's freedoms,
and agree to expulsion if they do not comply
WAKE UP *BEFORE* IT IS TOO LATE ...
Posted by: exdemexlib | 09 September 2007
cant agree with you more...ikeep up those free comment comin in.its all master plan devised by dark forces of longtime ago when good VS evil started, hence false prophet & what u see happening today..and all original christian countires lebanon,israel,palestine,syria, all middleast where most jews and christians lived have been anihalted..they all muslim now, see the non-muslims being butchered from their original homes and land..."and they cry abt palestine,dome of rock..give me break..look up history..all facts clear..well they muslims also convienently also erase all info to suit their needs ...
lebanon beautiful country its a mess now,because who iran,syria,terrorist groups or islamist groups and gulf oil money to fund same has ruiened the whole region.."LEBANON WAS CALLED GODS OWN GARDEN IN BIBLE IT STILL IS'....i admire all non-muslims living that country..what strenght inspite of all opposition form dark forces..GOD BLESS EM>
yes world wake before its too late..
hope the world is at peace all people and races..
Posted by: rohan john | 30 September 2007
No Western nation would have allowed any Muslims to live in their nations had they known, that Muslims hate us and only profess peace until they are the majority, then they use violence and oppression to force others to convert to Islam. Our nations are ignorant trusing Muslims would respect other people's and their faiths, but they do not. For it is their sole quest to conquer the world for Islam, and that would mean pure hell on earth, but God has other plans and Satan has already lost his battles but as he is going down, he is dragging millions of souls with him.
Posted by: Whispered-Softly | 06 October 2007
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