Ramadan is the most dangerous time of the year in Eurabia, Islam and the West, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and the West

Ramadan is the most dangerous time of the year in Eurabia

By Thomas Landen Journalist

August 27, 2009

It is hot in Brussels. Ramadan has begun. The faithful in the predominantly Muslim borough of Molenbeek are not allowed to eat or drink from sunrise until sunset. Non-Muslim policemen, patrolling the streets of Molenbeek in their sweltering cars, are not allowed to eat or drink either. As every year during Ramadan, that they have been told by their superior, Philippe Moureaux, the Socialist mayor of Molenbeek, they have to respect Muslim sensitivities and not to “provoke” Muslims by violating Islamic Ramadan restrictions in public. In effect, Islamic or Sharia law is already applied - for everyone - in the Muslim areas of Brussels.

Barely two miles from Molenbeek lies Brussels’ European district. One of its huge glass and concrete buildings is the European Parliament where the elected representatives from the 27 member’s states of the European Union (EU) convene. The 736 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) have just returned from their summer break. They are mostly unaware of life in Molenbeek. Most of them never go to that part of the city. It is probably a sensible decision, because Molenbeek is known to be unsafe for non-Muslims. Nevertheless, it is a shame that Europe’s politicians are unaware of day-to-day life just around the corner. It means that most of the 736 MEPs, who make up the second largest democratically elected assembly in the world (after India), do not know what life really is like in an ever growing section of Europe’s urban areas. A walking tour of Molenbeek should be compulsory for every MEP.

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The 'United Nationalism' of Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madni, The War within Islam, NewAgeIslam.com

The War within Islam

The 'United Nationalism' of Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madni

From Mansoor Hallaj, Date: 22 October 2008 05:15Subject Response to: Tablighi Jamaat in the light of Facts and Truth by Maulana Arshadul Qadri, http://NewAgeIslam.Com - 20 Oct, 2008Dear Sultan Sahab,I wonder if Maulana is even aware of Late Hussain Ahmad Madni's and Deobandi Contribution in India's Freedom Movement. Madni Sahab was very near to All India Congress and very allergic to Jinnah and Mawdudi [JI] as well!I will quote Respected and Learned Indian academic Mr Yoginder Sikand's article in two parts:PART 1: ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVESThe 'United Nationalism' of Maulana Madni - IBy Yoginder SikandWrongly reviled today as the ‘epicentre’ of ‘Islamic terrorism’, the Dar ul-‘Ulum in Deoband, one of the largest madrasas in the world, played a leading role in spearheading India’s freedom movement. The active involvement of many Deobandi ‘ulama in the struggle against the British is today a little-remembered story. Indian school textbooks refuse to mention it, probably deliberately in order to reinforce the stereotypical, yet misplaced, image of Muslims as congenitally ‘anti-national’. At the same time, however, they extol the alleged exploits of Hindutva activists in the fight against the British, while records have proven beyond doubt that leading Hindutva spokesmen, in the Congress, the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha, actually collaborated with the British and worked against the freedom movement. In this they played a similar role as that of the Muslim League.One of the leading figures of India’s freedom movement was Maulana Husain Ahmad Madni (1879-1957).

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Lecture 5: The Spirit of Muslim Culture, Books and Documents, NewAgeIslam.com

Books and Documents

Lecture 5: The Spirit of Muslim Culture

‘Muhammad of Arabia ascended the highest Heaven and returned. I swear by God that if I had reached that point, I should never have returned.’1 These are the words of a great Muslim saint, ‘AbdulQuddës of Gangoh. In the whole range of Sufi literature it will be probably difficult to find words which, in a single sentence, disclose such an acute perception of the psychological difference between the prophetic and the mystic types of consciousness. The mystic does not wish to return from the repose of ‘unitary experience’; and even when he does return, as he must, his return does not mean much for mankind at large. The prophet’s return is creative. He returns to insert himself into the sweep of time with a view to control the forces of history, and thereby to create a fresh world of ideals. For the mystic the repose of ‘unitary experience’ is something final; for the prophet it is the awakening, within him, of world-shaking psychological forces, calculated to completely transform the human world. The desire to see his religious experience transformed into a living world-force is supreme in the prophet. Thus his return amounts to a kind of pragmatic test of the value of his religious experience.

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Troubled Torpor, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

War on Terror

Troubled Torpor

By Ajai Sahni

Editor, SAIR; Executive Director, Institute for Conflict

Management

The ‘Indian Mujahiddeen’ – probably a front for a Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) combine – claimed responsibility for explosions in an email message sent out to media organisations minutes before the explosions. The email was traced back to an account held by an American corporate executive located in Mumbai, and initial reports suggest the account was probably hacked. The Indian Mujahiddeen has claimed responsibility for two earlier incidents – the serial blasts in court compounds in Faizabad, Lucknow and Varanasi on November 23, 2007; and the serial blasts in Jaipur on May 13, 2008. While investigations are far from conclusive in both these incidents, there is a wide range of corroborative evidence that suggests that both these incidents were orchestrated by cadres drawn from the HuJI and SIMI.

http://newageislam.com/troubled-torpor/war-on-terror/d/340

Let us Become - Proudly - Bayghairat,

Islam and Politics

Let us Become - Proudly - Bayghairat

by Pervez Hoodbhoy

The same question put to Indian military officers would probably elicit the same answer. Historically, honour has driven armies to fight battles. Even as the officer spoke, my thoughts wandered to The Charge of the Light Brigade. During the Crimean War of 1854, wave after wave of honour-charged British soldiers rode their horses into the mouths of Russian guns which, of course, promptly mowed them down. Tennyson later immortalized the slain men in his famous poem: "All the world wonder'd. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade."

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