UK Muslims Join Backlash Against Extremism

The unsuccessful panic onslaughts in the United Kingdom this calendar month have got prompted a figure of welcome responses from voices in the British Moslem community. Increasingly moderate Moslem voices in the United Kingdom are speaking out against Islamist inspired violence. In earlier articles I discussed the positions of Erectile Dysfunction Hussein and Maryam Namazie, who have got openly challenged the positions of extremist Muslims in the UK. There are other observers also worthy of mention.

Safraz Manzoor is a writer, broadcaster and docudrama maker. He reasons that it is no longer acceptable for the Moslem community to seek and make-believe that jihadists somehow be in limboland - at one take from the faith and the greater Moslem community. In his position denial is no longer an option and he disputes British Muslims to "accept that the malignant neoplastic disease of extremism impacts their full community".

In the past leadership of the British Moslem community have got tended to fault the mass media for spreading misinformation and stereotypes, but it looks this is changing. Remarkably, following the Greater London and Glasgow attacks, the Moslem Council of Great Britain, that have tended to take defensive places in the past, condemned the bombers in unambiguous linguistic communication ... "These people make not care who they kill, their purpose is to sabotage British society and to sough hate, choler and suspicion. We cannot let them to win."

Another brave British Moslem who is speaking out is one Hassan Butt, a former member of what he footing the 'British Jihadi Network'. This is a adult male who acknowledges to cheering the July 7th onslaughts on the United Kingdom two old age ago.

In a recent article in the Observer, Butt projects derision on the popular position that the motivating military unit behind United Kingdom Moslem radicalism is Republic Of Iraq and 'Blair's bombs'. He claims that it suited the ends of his grouping to have got the public believe that this was the head motivating factor, when in fact the motion was driven by Islamic theology.

After the recent United Kingdom attacks, the city manager of Greater London 'Red Ken' Livingstone, got up on his soapbox and engaged in his usual line of commentary - blaming Republic Of Iraq and British foreign policy for the mentality that Pbs to terrorism. Butt's reaction was to state that if he had still been in the British Jihadi Network, he and his associates would have got been laughing at Livingstone's thesis. Of course of study he admits that Moslem deceases as a consequence of the Republic Of Iraq warfare convey forth anger, but what primarily inspired the BJN was the battle to bring about a radical Muslim state based upon Islamic codifications of justice, not the activities of Tony Blair.

Islamic philosophy lies at the root of the division between moderate Muslims and Islamists. Butt emphasizes that formal Muslim divinity makes not let for separation between the state and religion. This is why groups when confronting other members of the Moslem community will often inquire "are you Moslem or British?" ... "are you Moslem or American/Canadian?". The deduction being that if you claim to be 'Canadian' for example, then you can't be fully Muslim.

There is a deeper theological beginning for this refusal to encompass the modern state. Islamic legal experts in earlier time periods developed 'rules of interaction' between Dar ul-Islam (the Land of Islam) and Dar ul-Kufr (the Land of Unbelief). Modern jihadis ground that since no pure Muslim state is in existence, the full human race is portion of Dar ul-Kufr. It follows in the heads of some, that jihadis are therefore free to destruct who and what they will - including bomb onslaughts upon unarmed civilians.

In quitting BJN, Hassan Butt came to accept that he was no longer a pilgrim in a 'land of disbelief', but that he was a British citizen. This is a triumph of realism over Islamist thought that have go deluded, no substance how seemingly justified it may be when viewed in the visible light of the Muslim canon. Fact is, the Muslim legal experts of former dynasties birthed a vision of their human race that may have got been a possibility during the time period of the Abbasids, but that have no hope of realisation in the human race of the modern state state with its 'armor' of technology. The jihadi vision is quixotic and in the concluding analysis, futile. This is why it is imperative that Islamic theologists in the Occident happen a manner to travel beyond the old duality that divided Dar ul-Islam from the lands of the infidel. There is a center manner and Muslims of good will are in the Occident are in the procedure of discovering it.

Hassan Butt offerings an reply to this age-old split between the Muslim lands and the lands of the infidel. He mentions instead to the "Land of Co-existence". Furthermore he believes that as this conception come ups to be accepted more than fully, a divinity volition germinate that will enable Western Muslims to "liberate themselves from dead theoretical accounts of the world".

Like Erectile Dysfunction Hussein who divide from Hizb ut-Tahrir, Hassan Butt have been subjected to negative attending from former associates. Both of these work force are inspirational, and it is their type of progressive thought coupled with brave action that volition aid to open up the way to the 'Land of Co-existence'.