Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad - Contentions 11

Props to Brother Haseeb for posting this.

These are the latest Contentions by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad.

My favourite: Peace without justice is not peace at all

I think this is so true in the modern day. I mean there are so many Muslims who are happy with the lives they live, or are too busy 'perfecting' themselves to care about children in Darfur, Palestine and even in our own backyards.

The older generations of Muslims have failed us, not the great Muslims of the past, I mean Muslims in their 40s or above. They allowed the atrocities to continue while they concentrated on their own needs. We as human beings need to do something. There are so many good organisations (Muslim and non-Muslim) out there who are doing something like: MCB, MPACUK, ISB (although ISB really sucks :p) and Stop the War! . We, too, need to stand up

Say: My Lord has enjoined justice, and set upright your faces at every time of prayer and call on Him, being sincere to Him in obedience; as He brought you forth in the beginning, so shall you also return.
Surah Al-Araf, Verse 29

Mosques Get A Battering!

Good old Mosques seem to be receiving a battering lately. First signs of plans for a new Mosque in East London and an orchestrated email campaign is whipped up to spread false statements. Ken Livingstone, who I nickname as Champion Ken for his bravery and ruthlessness when it comes to defending Palestinians, revealed an organised email campaign around an online poll being conducted by the Evening Standard aimed at stirring up communal hatred by spreading entirely false statements about plans for a new mosque in East London. Then the controversial poll was removed after Champion Ken exposed its hidden agenda. You see it was no ordinary poll and thus the need to expose it's motives. The poll asked readers to vote whether or not they were in favour of the Mayor spending £100 million of public money on a new Mosque in East London however Mr Livingstone has repeatedly denied any public funds would be spent on the project. Mr Livingstone said his office has been alerted to a series of emails being sent which make what he calls "a series of false claims about the mosque proposals in such a way as to stir up communal hatred" leading him to write to Veronica Wadley, Editor of the Evening Standard. I mean come on, even the BNP were urging it's fans to vote in the poll! http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/

Then we have an alleged arson in a Mosque in Nottingham:

A Nottingham mosque has been severely damaged in a fire described by a leading imam as "an act of terrorism against Muslims". Police and fire investigators are trying to determine the exact cause of the blaze at the Madni Masjid Mosque on Alberta Terrace in Forest Fields. Imam Raza ul Haq said he believed paint was thrown around the inside of the mosque and then set alight.

Then the whole Ruth Kelly and the £600,000 she has floating around at her dispense:

The government is planning to intervene in some mosques to support Muslims who want to marginalise extremists. Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will announce a new role for the Charity Commission, strengthening its task of overseeing religious institutions. A £600,000 faith unit within the commission will help Muslims strengthen governance and leadership in mosques.

Ms Kelly's department has changed government strategy by launching talks with a broader range of Muslim groups. But at the same time, the largest body, the Muslim Council of Britain, has fallen out of favour, leading to claims that ministers are talking only to those prepared to agree with government. http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/

I'm not so sure about the MCB being involved with this. Although they supposedly represnt Britain's Muslims, I've still to be convinced they are the most effective organisation to represent us. They good - but not that good. I think they are not as in tune with the younger generation as they claim. The dosh Ruth Kelly has needs to be spent on improving the state of our Mosques - indeed. But with the current apathetic and backward Mosque leaders? Hell no!

If the Mosque elders finally realise that now comes the time for them to make way for the younger generation to get involved with the running of the Mosques - the pillars of our community - in order to reform, improve and defend our communities and liberties then by all means i'll give 'em money! But sadly, this doesn't seem like it's in the pipelines for a while and our Mosques will continue to be run by men who don't speak English, who cannot apprehend that they must teach Muslims (via program's/classes/syllabuses) to engage within the democratic systems in order to make an effective change for us here as well as for our brothers and sisters worldwide, who refuses to open its doors to the non-Muslim community and thus the development of respect and harmony between people of different faiths is non-existant, and who slams doors in the faces of its women, sisters, mothers as they beg old men to let them engage within the Mosques and be allowed prayer space in the House of Allah.

No, not until then...

Women in Mosques

I came across this interesting video on the MPACUK website. It's a segment done by Islam Channel about women trying to get their (rightful) places in the mosques.

Here's the video:



Lol I loved the interview where the committee member says he can't find any women who are interested in being on the committee but he won't advertise for the positions!

Sunny Hundal's Unhealthy Obsession

Should we be surprised at Patrick Mercer's (MP) racist comments? It hasn't been the first time he's said something so offensive and he is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel so what more can we expect!

And why oh why is Sunny Hundal so damn obsessed with Muslim organisations? I've come across his rants for some time and have noticed a slight pattern. If you are a Muslim who is vocal and active in defending the Palestinians against Israeli occupation - then you are either labelled anti-semitic or extremist - he has done this time and time again with the likes of MPACUK and the MCB - both credible pro-Palestinian Muslim organisations. If you object to Israel's crimes and occupation against the defenceless Palestinians - he will automatically have something to say about it.

There's something not quite right with him. He seems to use any excuse possible to attack and discredit Muslims. This one here as a prime example: http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1040

When it came to the Holocaust Memorial Day, he attacked Salma Yaqoob and Inayat Bunglawala (of the MCB) for not 'mentioning' the massacre and genocide of Bengalis in 1971 by Pakistani soldiers. Fair enough but I don't see Hundal himself holding to account other massacres- namely the current one ongoing in Palestine!

He is the editor of Asians in the media (an informative site when it wants to be) but here comes the dodgy part - he also runs Pickled Politics - which is very hospitable to Islamophobes and far right fascists. He seems very chummy with the racists at Harry's Place and apparently the BNP organised a march 'in honour' of Hundal...!

Anyway, the point of my rant here is who is Sunny Hundal to go round attacking and vilifying groups like these and what exactly is his agenda? I for one can see the benefits reeling from racists like Harry's Place, Islamophobes and pro-Israeli lobbies - he is doing their dirty work for them by smearing and discrediting influential Muslim groups... but what's in it for Hundal?