tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048953.post8951269342161247594..comments2023-06-19T13:55:49.396+01:00Comments on Radio Shak: City Circle: In and Out of Islamism with Maajid NawazShakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657830810835591711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048953.post-38172537681639801242007-11-09T00:07:00.000+00:002007-11-09T00:07:00.000+00:00"An four year prison sentence in Egypt had changed..."An four year prison sentence in Egypt had changed Maajid. <BR/>He had the opportunity to contemplate and critically think about his beliefs, <BR/>and came to the conclusion that, no, what the HT were promoting was not what he <BR/>was into - what exactly caused this change of heart was not made clear <BR/>(as far as I could tell, prison just gave him some alone time)."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Maajid very cunningly skirted over this point which brings into question the sincerity of conviction <BR/>to his new found ideas. <BR/>He states that he had time to think about Islam in prison and thus came to different conclusions. <BR/>If Majid was indeed conviced of such ideas and was indeed sincere to those ideas as he makes <BR/>himself out to be, he would have renounced his association with the Hizb at that time, <BR/>as opposed to joining the National Executive and going on bbc hardtalk (both actions done on record after prison), <BR/>arguing the case for the Khilafah infront of millions - a notion that he now claims is not within Islam as "enlightened"<BR/>by "sheiu'kh" in prison. <BR/>One cannot be sincere to contradictory concepts. <BR/>So the question begs: What on earth is his real motive? <BR/>He waited to get into the National Executive of the Hizb and then in a blaze of glory <BR/>(not sure under whose orders) declared his new found ideas which had "obvious" <BR/>contradictions with those ideas he held for most of his life! <BR/>There is definitely something sinister at play here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8048953.post-81341874833096108492007-11-08T00:04:00.000+00:002007-11-08T00:04:00.000+00:00By the grace of Allah (SWT) Hizb ut Tahrir continu...By the grace of Allah (SWT) Hizb ut Tahrir continues its work for the re-establishment of the Islamic State, which will have one elected khaleef and a consultative assembley which will adopt laws based upon Islamic jurisprudence and interpretation. There is no doubt that there are other structures of governance with Islamic justifications, but just like a company adopts a policy to pursue and ensures all its staff adopt that policy to move forward, Hizb ut tahrir adopts on a structure of governance based upon an Islamic evidence and all its members execute this policy in the Muslim world - to move forward.<BR/><BR/>In this country, the hizb is involved in many community initiatives, from helping the youth leave drugs, providing for widows and divorced wives to campaigning against control orders and what most liberterians view as unjust terror laws, helping mosques tackle the pressure of media scrutiny and building Islamic schools... It does not have to propagate these points.. it never has, because people join it due to the actions it takes which benefit local communities.. Most of the time it does not even mention its name in case people become afraid due to the current campaing to discredit its name. <BR/>The hizb is a servant of the ummah, just like a mosque committe is a servant of a mosque... It believes with sincere imam the concept of brotherhood, so in or out of the hizb, British, Pakistani or whatever we are what Allah (SWT) described all people who say La illah ha illah - Muslim - For indeed we in our individual and societal lives have submitted to Allah (SWT), the lord of the all that exists, the only law maker, no doubt soveriegnty in all respects belongs to Allah (SWT). So when a new law is made, the sources of law must be "Islamically acceptable". 10 people voting for and against a law using principles of freedom and secularism as articulated by the renaisance philosophers are not in compliance with the Islamic view of "originating new law".<BR/><BR/>So put simply, due to the nature of the hizb's task, it is expected that people will work to subvert it's noble aim of attempting to bring political unity to Muslims by establishing a leader with concepts that reject nationalism and nation state theory, but calls for Islamic Political unity from the ground up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com