Wave of Islamophobia Sweeping U.S. Is Repeat of Anti-Japanese Hysteria After Pearl Harbor

Wave of Islamophobia Sweeping U.S. Is Repeat of Anti-Japanese Hysteria After Pearl Harbor

9/11/01 Has Been Called 'The New Pearl Harbor' for Today's Generations of Americans, But Nearly Forgotten is the Wave of Anti-Japanese Bigotry That Swept the U.S. After 12/7/41, Leading to the Forced Removal and Internment of Upwards of 120,000 Japanese-Americans -- Will America's 1.3 Million Muslims Face the Same Fate?



Copies of a 1942 edition of the San Francisco Examiner announce with a screaming -- and highly derogatory -- banner headline the impending removal of thousands of Japanese-Americans from their homes and businesses in California and relocation to internment camps located in remote areas across the western U.S. As many as 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated amid a wave of anti-Japanese bigotry that swept the country following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 have often been called "The New Pearl Harbor" for today's generations of Americans. But a mounting controversy over plans to construct an Islamic center near Ground Zero has unleashed a wave of anti-Muslim passions across the country of a magnitude that, if it continues unchecked, could match the ill will toward Japanese-Americans during World War II. (Photo courtesy National Archives)


(Posted 5:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 31, 2010)

By SKEETER SANDERS

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-- George Santayana

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As controversy continues to build over the planned construction of an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks away from New York's Ground Zero, there has been a dramatic spike in incidents of anti-Muslim bigotry in recent weeks, indicative of a wave of Islamophobia that is sweeping across the United States.

Opposition to new mosques isn't limited to New York. There have been demonstrations and acts of violence against existing and proposed Muslim houses of worship from coast to coast -- including a suspected arson fire Friday night at the site of a new Islamic center in suburban Nashville.

A spokesman for the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department said that the blaze, which destroyed construction equipment at the future site of the Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has been ruled as arson. Gasoline was poured over the equipment and ignited.

The Sheriff's Department and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- as well as the FBI -- are jointly investigating the fire as a possible hate crime, according to Andy Anderson, special agent for the BATF.

MUSLIM TAXI DRIVER IN NEW YORK ATTACKED

Acts of violence against individual Muslims have also risen sharply -- the most notorious such incident so far being an attack on a Muslim taxi driver last Tuesday night in New York. The driver, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was slashed by his knife-wielding passenger after he acknowledged being a Muslim.

Police arrested Michael Enright, 21, who had just returned from filming U.S. Mariens serving in Afghanistan and charged him with felony attempted murder motivated by religious bias in the attack on 43-year-old taxi driver Ahmed Sharif. Police said Sharif was slashed across the face, arm and hand.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg condemned the attack, telling reporters at a hurriedly-called City Hall news conference that it was "clearly motivated by anti-Muslim bias. . .This attack runs counter to everything that New Yorkers believe, no matter what God we pray to."

ANTI-MUSLIM PASSIONS RAGING ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Much of the anti-Muslim passion is being fanned by conservative politicians and hard-line right-wing Christian evangelicals who consider Islam an "evil" religion and an "enemy of the Judeo-Christian way of life."

Long before the controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" escalated into a major headline-grabbing battle over the right of Muslims in America to freedom of worship under the First Amendment, there has been a steady uptick in anti-Muslim sentiment across the country:

# Several Christian ministers in Sheboygan, Wisconsin led a noisy protest in May against a proposal to build a local mosque in a former health food store purchased by a Muslim doctor.

# Members of the right-wing Tea Party movement in late July insultingly brought dogs -- much beloved by Westerners but considered unclean animals by Muslims -- to picket Friday prayers at a mosque in Temecula, California, whose leaders want to build a new house of worship on a vacant lot nearby.

# Also in late July, trustees of a Roman Catholic church in the New York City borough of Staten Island rejected a proposal to sell a former convent owned by the parish to a Muslim group that wanted to convert it into a mosque, after word of the proposed sale was made public, sparking loud anti-Muslim protests by local residents.

# Muslim leaders in Bridgeport, Connecticut asked for police protection on August 6 after members of a right-wing Christian-supremacist group staged an angry protest outside a local mosque during Friday prayers, shouting hateful anti-Muslim invectives at the worshippers, and accusing their children of being "murderers" as they left the mosque. The protesters were members of the Texas-based Operation Save America -- an offshoot of anti-abortion extremist Randall Terry's Operation Rescue.

# And just last Tuesday, a zoning board in Mayfield, Kentucky reversed its decision to allow a group of Muslim refugees to use a local building as a mosque. The owner of a flower shop located next door to the building, a self-described evangelical Christian, said it might have been different if the building was to be used as a Baptist church.

AT HEART OF ISLAMOPHOBIC WAVE: 9/11, THE 'NEW PEARL HARBOR'

By now, the source of the current wave of anti-Muslim bigotry sweeping the country should be obvious: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, damaged the Defense Department's headquarters at the Pentagon in Washington and killed more than 3,500 people.

The attacks, committed by 19 al-Qaida terrorists, was almost immediately considered an act of war against the United States by a foreign force on U.S. soil -- the first such act of war since the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which plunged this country into World War II.

Even this columnist, a New York City native whose stepfather was a member of the construction crews who built the twin towers when I was a kid, regarded the events of September 11, 2001 as a repeat of December 7, 1941 -- the new Pearl Harbor for the present generations of Americans alive today -- as I watched the full horror of the 9/11 attacks unfold on live television.

I even remember writing on a chalkboard in a now-defunct juice bar in my adopted hometown of Burlington, Vermont, the following message as I watched the destruction of the twin towers:

"Days of Infamy: December 7, 1941 -- September 11, 2001."

September 11, 2001 would, for my generation and for every generation of Americans alive today, forever live as a day of infamy, much as December 7, 1941 would live as a day of infamy for the World War II-era GI Generation -- whom retired NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw dubbed "The Greatest Generation" -- most of whom are no longer with us and the shrinking number of them who remain are now well into their 80s and 90s.

AN EERIE ECHO OF AN UGLY CHAPTER IN U.S. HISTORY RIGHT AFTER PEARL HARBOR

It truly is unfortunate that there are fewer and fewer Americans of the GI Generation still living, for lost with their passing is the collective memory of one of the ugliest chapters of American history -- one that the current wave of Islamophobia threatens to repeat.

That chapter is the even more virulent wave of bigotry against Japanese-Americans that swept the country in the months following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -- bigotry so intense and widespread that it ultimately resulted in tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans forcibly removed by the federal government from their homes and businesses and sent to internment camps located in remote area across the western U.S.

The discrimination and hostility that German-Americans experienced during World War I was nothing compared to what Japanese-Americans would endure after Pearl Harbor. The Germans were white and European; the Japanese were neither. What happened to Japanese-Americans during World War II was -- most historians today agree -- one of the most blatantly racist episodes in the nation's history.

And it was directed by none other than the man considered America's greatest president of the 20th Century -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

That the treatment of Japanese-Americans was motivated by anti-Asian racism was made clear by the uncovering of FBI documents from that era. From 1939 to 1941, the FBI compiled what the bureau called the Custodial Detention Index on U.S. citizens, "enemy" aliens and foreign nationals which might be dangerous. Interestingly, the so-called "enemy races" identified in the FBI's files specifically excluded those of German and Italian descent.

ANTI-JAPANESE SENTIMENT RAN HIGHEST IN CALIFORNIA, HAWAII

Nowhere did anti-Japanese bigotry run higher than in California and Hawaii, where Japanese-Americans were most heavily concentrated. Unlike German-Americans and Italian-Americans, who numbered in the millions and were spread across the country, there were fewer than a half-million Japanese-Americans. The attack on Pearl Harbor led to fears that Japan was preparing a full-scale attack on the U.S. west coast, making Japanese-Americans -- particularly the American-born, second-generation nisei -- a convenient target for discrimination.

Japan's rapid military conquest of much of Asia made their war machine appear to some Americans frighteningly unstoppable. Civilian and military officials had concerns about the loyalty of Japanese-Americans and considered them to be a security risk.

Upon examination of historical record, however, it became clear that these concerns often grew more out of anti-Asian racial hatred than any actual security risk, particularly since no such alarm was raised about German-Americans and Italian-Americans.

Nor was the racist sentiment one-sided. Japanese propaganda films captured after the war revealed an equally racist attitude by Japan against the mostly-white Americans -- making it clear that each side saw the other as less than human.

Nonetheless, American attitudes toward the Japanese and Japanese-Americans in World War II stood in stark contrast to their attitudes toward Americans of German and Italian ancestry -- even when compared to the prejudice toward German-Americans during World War I. Then-President Woodrow Wilson never issued an executive order for the detention of Americans of German or Austro-Hungarian ancestry during that war.

FDR ORDERS INTERNMENT OF UP TO 120,000 JAPANESE-AMERICANS

Thus, on February 20, 1942, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, ordering the forcible relocation of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 ethnic Japanese -- 62 percent of whom were U.S. citizens -- from their homes to hastily-constructed "war relocation camps" located primarily in remote regions, far from the country's major urban centers.

Roosevelt's order authorized U.S. military commanders to designate "military areas" at their discretion, "from which any or all persons may be excluded." These "exclusion zones," unlike the "alien enemy" roundups, were applicable to anyone that an authorized military commander might choose, whether citizen or non-citizen.

Eventually such areas would include both the east and west coasts, and about a third of the country's interior -- and were applied almost exclusively to all of those of Japanese ancestry, although there were many instances of Chinese-Americans also getting caught up in the internment. Indeed, the internments in California brought back memories of violent attacks on Chinese nationals and Chinese-Americans by white mobs in San Francisco in the late 1800s.

INTERNMENT PROVED IMPRACTICAL IN HAWAII

The internment order proved, however, to be impractical to enforce in Hawaii -- despite the fact that Japanese-Americans there were closer to essential military facilities than most of their compatriots on the U.S. mainland. This was because Japanese-Americans were over a third of Hawaii's population -- and were too vital to the islands' economy.

Instead, the whole of Hawaii -- which, although a U.S. territory, was not yet the nation's 50th state -- was placed under martial law. The Army imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the entire population of Hawaii except those on official business and compiled intelligence dossiers on nearly half a million Hawaiians.

Today, Hawaii is the only state in the U.S. that has a majority-Asian population. Slightly more than 50 percent of Hawaii's residents today are of Japanese ancestry -- including U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye -- a highly-decorated World War II veteran -- and U.S. Representative Mazie Hirono.

In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership." Over $1.6 billion in reparations were later disbursed by the U.S. government to Japanese-Americans who had either suffered internment or were heirs of those who had suffered internment.

WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF WITH AMERICA'S 1.3 MILLION MUSLIMS?

With the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II all but faded from the collective American memory, there is a real danger that this dark chapter of American history, as the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana warns in his famous aphorism quoted at the beginning of this column, could be repeated -- this time against America's estimated 1.3 million Muslims.

The open hatred that the 9/11 attacks have generated against Muslims ignores the fact that, of the more than 3,500 people who were slaughtered at the hands of the 19 al-Qaida terrorists, there were dozens of victims who were themselves Muslims -- including Salman Hamdani, a 23-year-old New York City police cadet who was also a part-time ambulance driver and a medical student; and Mohammed Jawarta, who worked for MAS, a private security firm.

Let's not forget that among the nation's 1.3 million Muslims include a significant number of celebrities, including three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali; basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; the reigning Miss USA, Rima Fakiah -- even though she has herself come out against the proposed Cordoba House Islamic Center; actor/comedian Dave Chappelle; Aasif Mandvi, of the faux-news comedy "Daily Show;" and composer A. R. Rahman, a frequent visitor to the U.S. from India who's best known for scoring the music of the Golden Globe and Oscar-winning film, "Slumdog Millionaire."

WAVE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA A DANGEROUS PRECURSOR TO OUTRIGHT FASCISM

The strong, passionate feelings expressed by the loved ones of the more than 3,500 people murdered by the 9/11 terrorists are something that has to be taken seriously. But the voices of the relatives of the 9/11 victims have, unfortunately, been joined by an ugly chorus of anti-Muslim bigots and extremely arrogant WASP evangelicals who believe that all non-Christian people of faith are condemned to go to hell for praying to a "false god."

That this chorus is disregarding the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of religion to ALL Americans -- including the nation's Muslims -- is an obscene affront to the very foundations upon which this country was built -- and to which I, as a member of a faith minority myself (I'm a Wiccan) -- must raise my voice in protest.

It is also a dangerous descent into an ideology that this country sent up to 12 million of its bravest to fight against in World War II.

That ideology is fascism -- the belief that one race or one religion or one ethnicity or one nationality is superior to all others and/or that all others are evil. What some Americans are saying about Muslims today is little different from what Hitler and his Nazis said about Jews in Germany more than 70 years ago.

Even Japanese-American survivors of the World War II-era internment see dangerous parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, with some survivors warning within days of the 9/11 attacks that what happened to them could happen to American Muslims.

Santayana is right. Those who cannot remember the past truly are condemned to repeat it.

URL: http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2010/08/wave-of-islamophobia-sweeping-us-is.html

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Asadullah Syed

An Interview with Umm Saalih:

A Grandmother Who Completed Memorizing the Qur'an at Eighty-Two Years Old

 

As Read by Dr. Saleh as Saleh

Al-Hamdulillaah (All-Praise is due to Allah), the One Who said (what means): "And in truth We have made the Qur'aan easy to remember; but is there any that remembers?" Surah 54: 32

Many all over the world memorize the Qur'aan, and it is not strange to see the youth memorizing the Noble Qur'aan and an early age. Al-Hamdulillaah, the One who made the Qur'aan easy for remembrance, had made it easy for Umm Saalih age 82. In an interview with Umm Saalih, she was asked the following questions:

Q1: "What was the reason that drove you to memorize the Qur'aan after so many years?"

She said, "I always hoped to memorize the Qur'aan from the time I was young. My father always used to invoke Allaah for me to become one of the memorizers of the Qur'aan, like himself and like the elder brothers of my family who memorized it. So I memorized in the beginning about three parts and then after I completed the age of thirteen, I got married and became busy with the household and the children. After I had seven children, my husband died. They (the children) were all young so I took the time to raise them and educate them, and then after they grew up and got married, I had more time for myself. Therefore, the first thing I directed myself to focus upon was the Qur'aan.

Q2: "Tell us about your journey with the Noble Qur'aan."

She said, "My younger daughter was going to high school and she was the closest of my children to me and the most beloved, because she stayed with me after her older sisters got married and got busy with their lives, and because she was a quiet girl, upright, loving, and good. In addition, she was interested in learning the Noble Qur'aan, and her teachers encouraged her.

Furthermore, she was very enthusiastic and always told me of many women who were driven by this great motivation to memorize the Qur'aan, and this is where I started."

Q3: "Tell me about your way of memorization."

She said, "We assigned ten verses (meaning her and her daughter who was going to high school). So each day after Asr, we used to sit together. She reads and I repeat after her three times. Then she explains the meaning to me, and after a while, she repeats that three times. On the next morning, she repeats them to me before she goes to school.

She recorded also the recitations of Ash Shaykh al Husary, Rahimuhullaah, repeating each verse three times and thus I continued to listen most of the time. Therefore, the next day we would go to the next ten verses if my memorization was good. Otherwise, we would postpone taking additional verses until the day after. Moreover, we assigned the day of Friday to review the memorizations of the entire week. And this was the journey from the beginning."

Then she said, "Over four years and a half, I memorized twelve juz" according to the way I described to you. Then this young daughter got married. When her husband knew of our task concerning the memorization, he rented a house close to me, close to my house, so that he could allow the continuation of the memorization. In addition, he, May Allah reward him used to encourage us and sometimes sit with us listening, explaining and teaching.

Then after three years of her marriage, my daughter got busy with the children and the household and our schedule was interrupted, but that did not make her give up. To the contrary, she sensed that my eagerness for the memorization was still established so she looked for a special good teacher to continue the journey under her supervision. So, I completed the memorization by the success of Allaah and my daughter is still working to finish the memorization of the Glorious Qur'aan. She has a little left, In Shaa Allaah Ta'aala.

Q4: "This motivation of yours, did it have an effect on other women around you?"

She said, "It really had a good strong effect. My daughters and stepdaughters were all encouraged and worked on learning and teaching the Qur'aan to their children and learning it themselves.

Q5: "After finishing the Noble Qur'aan, don't you think about working on memorizing hadith?"

She said, "Now I have memorized ninety hadith and In Shaa Allaah I will continue the journey. I depend, in my memorization, upon the tapes and upon the Qur'aan radio station. At the end of each week, my daughter comes and checks for me the memorization of three hadith, and I am trying now to memorize more.

Q6: "Over this period of memorization of the Qur'aan, did your life change? Was it affected in one way or another?"

She said, "Yes, I went through a major change and I tried always, all praise is due to Allaah, to obey Allaah before I started the memorization. However, after I started the task of memorization, I began to feel a self-comfort, a great self-comfort and all worries began to move away from me. I even reached the stage of freeing myself from all these excessive worries concerning fearing for the children and their affairs, and my morale was boosted.

I had a noble objective to work for and this is a great Ni'mah (Favor) from Allaah . upon me, since we know that some women, when they get old and they do not have a husband, and their children got married, may be destroyed by the empty time, thoughts, worries, and so forth. But, AlHamdulillaah, I didn't go through this and I made myself busy with a great task and a great objective.

Q7: "Didn't you think at one point, to join one of the circles focusing on teaching the Noble Qur'aan?"

The answer was, "Yes, some of the women suggested this to me, but I am a woman who got used to staying at home, and I don't like to go out everyday, and Al Hamdulillaah, my daughter sufficed me from all difficulty and I was so happy while I was learning from her. My daughter had set an example in goodness and righteousness which we rarely find in our days.

She started this task and journey with me while she was an adolescent and this is a critical age many people complain of. She used to pressure herself so that she could have spare time to teach me, and she used to teach me with kindness and wisdom. Her husband was a good help to her and he exerted a lot of effort. I ask Allaah . to give them success and to bring their children up on uprightness."

Q8: "What do you say to a woman of your age who wishes to learn and memorize the Qur'aan yet she is worried about it and feeling unable to?"

She said, "I say to her there their shall be no despair with the firm, sincere and truthful determination. Begin with sincerity, firm determination and dependence on Allaah at each time. And remember that at this age you should have the time for yourself. However, do not use your time to only go out or to sleep and so forth. Rather, busy yourself with righteous work.

Q9: "Now what would you say to a woman who is still young? What would you advise her?"

She, may Allaah preserve her, said: "Preserve Allaah and He will preserve you. Make use of the favor of Allaah bestowed upon you from health and ways and means of comfort. Use that to memorize the Book of Allaah. This is the light which enlivens your heart, your life and your grave after you die.

And if you have a mother then exert the effort to teach her, and there is no better favor upon a mother than one of her righteous children aiding her to be close to Allaah."

Presented on the 1st of Muharram 1426, Feb 10th 2005. Originally published in Ad-Da'wah Magazine, no.1552, 17th of Rabee' Al-Awwal 1417,corresponding to Aug 1, 1996.

http://blog.iloveallaah.com/2010/06/memorizing-the-quran-at-eighty-two-years-old/

--
Asadullah Syed

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Asadullah Syed

Bismillah alRehman alRaheem

Anti Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam
25th August 2000
 

1974 Declaration by World Muslim League

(Rabita al-Alam al-Islami)

by
Mohammad Bashir

World Muslim League held its annual conference at Makkah Al-Mukaramma Saudi Arabia from 14^th to 18th of Rabiul Awwal 1394 H (April 1974) in which 140 delegations of Muslim countries and organizations from all over the world participated. I (Mohammad Bashir) too was there in this Conference alongwith the other journalists from all over the world. The Conference unanimously adopted the following Resolution regarding Qadianism.

Qadianism or Ahmadiyyat: It is a subversive movement against Islam and the Muslim world, which falsely and decietfully claims to be an Islamic sect; who under the guise of Islam and for the sake of mundane interests contrives and plans to damage the very foundations of Islam. Its eminent deviations from the basic Islamic principles are as follows:

1. Its founder claimed that he was a Prophet.

2. They deliberately distort the meanings of the verses of the Holy Quran.

3. They decalred that Jehad has been obolished.

Qadianism was originally fostered by the British imperialism. Hence it has been flourishing under her flag. This movement has completely been disloyal to and dishonest in affairs of the Muslim Ummah. Rather, it has been loyal to Imperialism and Zionism. It has deep associations and cooperation with the anti Islamic forces and teachings especially through the following nefarious methods:

• Construction of mosques with the assistance of the anti Islamic forces wherin the misleading Qadiani thoughts are imparted to the people.

• Opening of schools institutions and orphanages wherein the people are taught and trained as to how they can be more anti Islamic in their activities. They also published the corrupted versions of the Holy Quran in different local and international languages.

In order to combat these dangers, the Conference recommends the following measures:

 

1. All the Muslim organization in the world must keep a vigilant eye on all the activities of Qadianisin their respective countries; to confine them all strictly to their schools, institutions and orphanages only. Moreover he Muslims of the world be shown the true picture of Qadianism and be briefed of their various tactics so that the Muslims of the world be saved from their designs .

2. They must be declared non Muslims and ousted form the fold of Islam. And be barred to enter the Holy lands.

3. There must be no dealings with the Qadianis. They must be coycotted socially , economically and culturally Nor they be married with or to Nor they be allowed to be buried in the Muslims graveyards. And they be treated like other non Muslims.

4. All the Muslim countries must impose restrictions on the activities of the claimant of Prophethood Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani's followers; must declare them a non Muslim minority must not etrust them them with any post of responsibility in any Muslim country.

5. The alterations effected by them in the Holy Quran must be made public and the people be briefed of them and all these be prohibited for further publication.

6. All such groups as are deviators from islam must be treated at par with the Qadianis.

--
Asadullah Syed

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Ultimate Answers to Ahmadiyya (Qadiani)

by Irshad Mahmood - PRESIDENT

Siraat-al-Mustaqeem Dawah Centre

Ummah has been facing challenges since the beginning, internally as well as externally. External Challenges are not so difficult BUT the Internal Challenges from the Munafiqoons (the Hypocrites) are killing this Ummah. So it is necessary as well as urgency to Educate Ummah (Men and Women all) to Answer back all internal and external challenges. Here I would like to put light on Ultimate Answers to Qadiani (Ahmadiyya). Now it is your duty to forward this to all those whom you can. Remember Time is Running out.
Before answering Qadiani's (Ahmadiyya's) concern, we need to analyze what could happen, and why Ummah is still facing challenges.
Let us not forget a case, during 1965 war between Pakistan and India, when one Shaikh (Imaam) of one of a Masjid in West Pakistan was spying to India and upon detail investigation by the Pakistan Army Intelligence, it was found that although he was leading prayers for over ten years in that Masjid BUT in reality he was Indian Agent not a Muslim, not at all. Remember as an estimate, still in the beginning of the 21st Century in Pakistan around 80 percent people don't know how to read and write their name, so what could you expect from them. Any one can come and fool them, which are in reality happening to the rest of the Ummah and Ummah need to be educated enough, so that no one can fool them.
Let us analyze from the beginning, what could happen to this Ummah. Even during the life of Rasool Allah (saw), Munafiqoon (the Hypocrites) were there. Allah has specially sent one Surah AL-MUNAFIQOON (THE HYPOCRITES) chapter-063, to understand them and be careful from their activities by keeping our eyes and ears open and very active on these issues.
Don't you remember that the Munafiqoons (the Hypocrites) had killed Umar Farooq (ra), Usman Ghani (ra), Ali (ra), Hasan (ra), Hussain (ra) and many more. Still you are acting as a blind, deaf and dumb, and not educating your self, then BIG shame on you. Allah already mentioned about those who have knowledge, they do research on the creation of the heavens and the earth, which is pointing towards that some of them could be Scientist Men and Women and they remember Allah standing, sitting and lying, which means all the time during awake.
Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day there are signs for men who understand. Those who remember Allah standing and sitting and lying on their sides and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: Our Lord! Thou hast not created this in vain! Glory be to Thee; save us then from the chastisement of the fire. (Al_Quraan_003.190-191).
Yes there could be few issues where Ummah may have been mislead due many obstacles created by the Munafiqoons (the Hypocrites) and also disbelievers were helping them, but it does not mean that Ahmadiyya's (Qadiani's) claim is right regarding the two-in-one person Mirza Ghulam Qadiani as Issaa (as) and Imaam Mahdi. Let me bring some of those issues over here, on which they point fingers on this Ummah.
Issue-01:
Qadiani (Ahmadiyya) usually point on the Ayaat below that Allah already told Isaa (pbuh) that He is going to take him away.
And when Allah said: O Isaa (pbuh), I am going to terminate the period of your stay (on earth) and cause you to ascend unto Me and purify you of those who disbelieve and make those who follow you above those who disbelieve to the day of resurrection; then to Me shall be your return, so l will decide between you concerning that in which you differed. (Al_Quraan_003.055)
Yes this could be Our mistake on understanding this Ayaat, and take away NEVER means that He will send back again.
Issue-02:
There are only two ways, Allah takes the soul. One is at the time of death and the other is temporary at the time of sleep.
Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that die not during their sleep; then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect. (Al_Quraan_039.042)
Yes, this is true and we all believe that.
Issue-03:
All the prophets/messengers need to eat and drink and they were not to abide forever.
And We did not make them (prophets/messenger) bodies not eating the food, and they were not to abide (forever). (Al_Quraan_021.008)
Yes, every soul has to taste death including prophets/messengers and they need food and drink to keep them alive during their period of stay in this world.
Issue-04:
Here it is about the prophets/messengers, once they gone from this world, never ever came back.
The Messiah (pbuh), son of Marium is but a messenger; messengers before him have indeed passed away; and his mother was a truthful woman; they both used to eat food. See how We make the communications clear to them, then behold, how they are turned away. (Al_Quraan_005.075)
Yes this could be Our Mistake on understanding this Ayaat, and before Isaa (pbuh) all were passed away.
Issue-05:
This is pointing towards people calling previous prophets/messengers and other Great people who passed away, which include Isas (pbuh).
And those whom they call on besides Allah have not created anything while they are themselves created; Dead (are they), not living, and they know not when they shall be raised. (Al_Quraan_016.020-021)
Although many Muslims don't believe that Isa (pbuh) has been passed away, BUT, this may be true.
Issue-06:
Here again, it is about the prophets/messengers, once they gone from this world, never ever came back.
And Muhammad is no more than a messenger; messengers before him have indeed passed away before him; if then he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? And whoever turns back upon his heels, he will by no means do harm to Allah in the least and Allah will reward the grateful. (Al_Quraan_003.144)
This is pointing towards all previous Prophets and Messengers had passed away including Isaa (pbuh) before Prophet Muhammad (saw) was born, BUT your Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani was born in 1835 and died in 1908, which is CLEAR contradiction to this ayaat.
Issue-07:
Quraan is free from any contradiction and error, so why not believing on Isaa (pbuh) had already been passed away.
Do they not then meditate on the Quran? And if it were from any other than Allah, they would have found in it many a discrepancy. (Al_Quraan_004.082)
Yes, on the issue of Second Coming of Isaa (pbuh), vast majority of Ummah could be misleading and still waiting for him to come like Jews waiting for Ilyaas (pbuh) to comeback again, BUT it does not mean that we have to leave the track by believing on your two-in-one person Mirza Ghulam Qadiani as Issaa (as) and Imaam Mahdi.
Let me bring some of the MAJOR issues regarding Mirza Ghulam Qadiani as Issaa (as) and Imaam Mahdi, which is totally against the Quraan and Authentic Sunnah and that is the main reason why our Great Scholars (Ulemaas) of this Ummah had declaird them as disbelievers.
Remember Isaa (pbuh) was born Miraculously from Virgin Mariam (pbuh), without any father and much before the birth of Rasool Allah (saw), BUT your two-in-one person Mirza Ghulam Qadiani had a father as well and he was born in 1835, which is clear contradiction from the Quraan and Authentic Hadeeth.
The Ahmadiyya Movement was established in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (1835 - 1908) in a small and remote village, Qadian, in the Punjab, India. Their targets are mostly of those who are uneducated, or who behave like deaf and dumb and don't have enough knowledge of the Quraan and Authentic Sunnah, or those who are for sale and any one can buy them for money.
Actually when British came to India as traders in 18th Century and gradually usurped the power from Muslims who had been ruling the Indian Subcontinent for 1000 years. They faced repeated uprisings especially from the Muslims. Finally they call an inquiry commission and who proposed the following:
"THE MENTALITY OF INDIAN MUSLIMS IS SUCH THAT IF THEY ACCEPT SOMEBODY AS THEIR RELIGIOUS LEADER, THEN THEY FOLLOW THEM BLINDLY. IF WE CAN FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN CLAIM TO BE AN APOSTOLIC PROPHET, OUR TARGET CAN BE ACHIEVED."
So they selected Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani to do this duty.
Now a days Qadiani (Ahmadiyya) are bombarding their faith on internet as well. It is time now to teach this Ummah about their FALSEHOOD. It is very necessary and urgency to teach our kids Arabic Language, so that they can understand the Quraan themselves and save them from all the FALSEHOODS. It is time to have a massive compaign to educate this Ummah and in every Masjid we need to start teaching FREE Arabic Language Classes, otherwise more and more challenges this Ummah may face. Our mission should be towards changing our mixed language towards one common and national language Arabic in just two generation.
We sent not a messenger except (to teach) in the language of his (own) people, in order to make (things) clear to them. Now Allah leaves straying those whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases: and He is Exalted in power, full of Wisdom. (Al_Quraan_014.004)

References:
AHMADIYYA MOVEMENT IN (AGAINST) ISLAM
http://alhafeez.org/rashid/overview.htm

50 lies of mirza ghulam ahmad qadiani Ahmadiyyat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV0E7mRhmnU&mode=related&search=

Mirza Ghulam Proven Fake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLsyUlzkpaA&mode=related&search=

Ahmadiyya Mirza Gulam Ahmad Qadiani says "I AM LIAR"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSBRLjh9-Jc&mode=related&search=

Jehad and Mirza Gulam Ahmad Qadiani Ahmadiyya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynk0u0a5nDM&mode=related&search=

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Asadullah Syed

Sultan Abdul Hamid II: Last Ottoman Sultan Gets A Modern Makeover

Islamic Personalities

04 Sep 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com

Sultan Abdul Hamid II: Last Ottoman Sultan Gets A Modern Makeover

By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS – For the past year, sporadic articles have appeared in the Arabic press debating the life and policies of Sultan Abdulhamid II, the last absolute monarch of the Ottoman Empire, who ruled from 1876 until forced to abdicate in 1909. For decades after the collapse of the empire, especially when Arab republics were in their infancy, Abdulhamid II was blamed for much of the difficulties that crippled Arab provinces of the empire, especially Ottoman Syria. In TV soap operas or novels he was always portrayed as an autocratic despot who managed a wide array of corrupt Arab officials and a massive network of spies who reported directly to him behind the high walls of his Yildiz Palace in Istanbul. But a more balanced appraisal of his actions and legacy is emerging as Arab scholars revisit that period of their modern history. In recent articles, plenty of light has been shed on the sultan's refusal to sell land in Palestine to Zionists, prior to World War II. After turning down the offer, Abdulhamid famously refused to meet Mizray Qrasow, the Jewish banker who had offered to pay off the Empire's debts and build a navy in exchange for the right to buy land in Palestine. Abdulhamid – according to the Arab and Turkish version of events – told one of his aides, "Tell those impolite Jews that I am not going to carry the historical shame of selling holy land to the Jews and betraying the responsibility and trust of my people!" Once seen as the source of all things evil, Abdulhamid is now revealed as a farsighted ruler who suffered his throne because of his defiance of Zionist ambitions in Palestine. The passing of time has enabled scholars to quietly take a long hard look at their history away from emotional bolts of Arab nationalism. The warming of Arab ties under Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a man who very clearly is proud of his Ottoman past, has also contributed to this revisionist history. On August 11, a mega-Arab TV drama depicting the life and career of Abdulhamid began airing on Arab satellite networks. Suqut al-Khilafa (Fall of the Caliphate) paints a rosy picture of the sultan and is a far cry from a 1994 epic, Ukhwat al-Turab (Brothers of Soil) which focused on the hardships, famine, torture, and arrests of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The handwriting for positive treatment has been on the wall for years. Two years ago, popular Turkish soap operas, with handsome men and attractive women, broke into Arabic TV, dubbed into Syrian dialect, bringing down decades of Arab stereotypes against Turks. Now comes Suqut al-Khilafa, an Egyptian work produced by Iraqis starring the popular Syrian actor Abbas al-Nouri as Abdulhamid. The Ottoman sultan is now portrayed as a warm, firm, charming and dedicated Muslim nationalist who had tremendous care for all his subjects, be they Ottoman Turks or Ottoman Arabs. Meanwhile, Arab and Turkish scholars are debating – at forums and in private discussions – the past 10 years of the Ottoman Empire, reasoning that neither the Ottomans were 100% correct in how they dealt with the Arabs during World War II, and nor were the Arabs. The warming of political ties between the Arab world and Turkey have indeed begun to reap serious cultural engagement. In addition to boosting trade with the Arab world and coordinating policies vis-a-vis Palestine, Turkey has lifted visa requirements with six Arab countries, being Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunis and Jordan. Erdogan best described it saying that a "regional Schengen" system, similar to the agreement signed between European countries in Luxembourg in 1985, was now in operation. Effectively, this makes Turkey and Arab countries closer to how they had been under the Ottoman Empire than ever before since its collapse in 1918. Over the past eight years, Erdogan has reminded Arabs that despite a very rough history – during the final decade of the Empire and ever since – Turkish influence, and the Ottoman legacy as a whole, is not as bad as Arab history has labeled it. Erdogan has said repeatedly that he feels defending Turkish national interests is no different from defending those of Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, given their common geography, history, social, religious and cultural proximity. Many of the finest buildings in Damascus and Beirut, after all, were constructed during the Ottoman era, and the Syrian capital's great bazaar, al-Hamidiya, is named after Sultan Abdulhamid's predecessor, Abdulhamid I. So were many of the codes, laws of commerce and aspects of civil administration, which lasted well into the 20th century. The Ottoman influence on Arab language, heritage, music, and cuisine, cannot be ignored – despite years of attempts to write off any Ottoman influence as destructive to Arab culture. With one or two exceptions, all those who lived the era of Abdulhamid II have passed on. But due to his commanding personality much is still known. The sultan's son-in-law briefly served as prime minister of Syria in the mid-1920s, while members of his immediate family continued to commute back and forth to Damascus well into the 1960s. Many family members of the sultan's entourage, the Abids, the Azms, the Yusefs, went on to dominate Syrian politics up to 1963. Seeing the sultan on screen has sparked off a healthy historical debate on where to place Abdulhamid II on the spectrum of Arab and Muslim history. His image reminds both his admirers and critics that, whether they like it or not, Arab countries and Turkey are inseparable. Sami Moubayed is editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine. (Copyright 2010 Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.) Last sultan gets a modern makeoverBy Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS – For the past year, sporadic articles have appeared in the Arabic press debating the life and policies of Sultan Abdulhamid II, the last absolute monarch of the Ottoman Empire, who ruled from 1876 until forced to abdicate in 1909. For decades after the collapse of the empire, especially when Arab republics were in their infancy, Abdulhamid II was blamed for much of the difficulties that crippled Arab provinces of the empire, especially Ottoman Syria. In TV soap operas or novels he was always portrayed as an autocratic despot who managed a wide array of corrupt Arab officials and a massive network of spies who reported directly to him behind the high walls of his Yildiz Palace in Istanbul. But a more balanced appraisal of his actions and legacy is emerging as Arab scholars revisit that period of their modern history. In recent articles, plenty of light has been shed on the sultan's refusal to sell land in Palestine to Zionists, prior to World War II. After turning down the offer, Abdulhamid famously refused to meet Mizray Qrasow, the Jewish banker who had offered to pay off the Empire's debts and build a navy in exchange for the right to buy land in Palestine. Abdulhamid – according to the Arab and Turkish version of events – told one of his aides, "Tell those impolite Jews that I am not going to carry the historical shame of selling holy land to the Jews and betraying the responsibility and trust of my people!" Once seen as the source of all things evil, Abdulhamid is now revealed as a farsighted ruler who suffered his throne because of his defiance of Zionist ambitions in Palestine. The passing of time has enabled scholars to quietly take a long hard look at their history away from emotional bolts of Arab nationalism. The warming of Arab ties under Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a man who very clearly is proud of his Ottoman past, has also contributed to this revisionist history. On August 11, a mega-Arab TV drama depicting the life and career of Abdulhamid began airing on Arab satellite networks. Suqut al-Khilafa (Fall of the Caliphate) paints a rosy picture of the sultan and is a far cry from a 1994 epic, Ukhwat al-Turab (Brothers of Soil) which focused on the hardships, famine, torture, and arrests of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The handwriting for positive treatment has been on the wall for years. Two years ago, popular Turkish soap operas, with handsome men and attractive women, broke into Arabic TV, dubbed into Syrian dialect, bringing down decades of Arab stereotypes against Turks. Now comes Suqut al-Khilafa, an Egyptian work produced by Iraqis starring the popular Syrian actor Abbas al-Nouri as Abdulhamid. The Ottoman sultan is now portrayed as a warm, firm, charming and dedicated Muslim nationalist who had tremendous care for all his subjects, be they Ottoman Turks or Ottoman Arabs. Meanwhile, Arab and Turkish scholars are debating – at forums and in private discussions – the past 10 years of the Ottoman Empire, reasoning that neither the Ottomans were 100% correct in how they dealt with the Arabs during World War II, and nor were the Arabs. The warming of political ties between the Arab world and Turkey have indeed begun to reap serious cultural engagement. In addition to boosting trade with the Arab world and coordinating policies vis-a-vis Palestine, Turkey has lifted visa requirements with six Arab countries, being Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunis and Jordan. Erdogan best described it saying that a "regional Schengen" system, similar to the agreement signed between European countries in Luxembourg in 1985, was now in operation. Effectively, this makes Turkey and Arab countries closer to how they had been under the Ottoman Empire than ever before since its collapse in 1918. Over the past eight years, Erdogan has reminded Arabs that despite a very rough history – during the final decade of the Empire and ever since – Turkish influence, and the Ottoman legacy as a whole, is not as bad as Arab history has labeled it. Erdogan has said repeatedly that he feels defending Turkish national interests is no different from defending those of Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, given their common geography, history, social, religious and cultural proximity. Many of the finest buildings in Damascus and Beirut, after all, were constructed during the Ottoman era, and the Syrian capital's great bazaar, al-Hamidiya, is named after Sultan Abdulhamid's predecessor, Abdulhamid I. So were many of the codes, laws of commerce and aspects of civil administration, which lasted well into the 20th century. The Ottoman influence on Arab language, heritage, music, and cuisine, cannot be ignored – despite years of attempts to write off any Ottoman influence as destructive to Arab culture. With one or two exceptions, all those who lived the era of Abdulhamid II have passed on. But due to his commanding personality much is still known. The sultan's son-in-law briefly served as prime minister of Syria in the mid-1920s, while members of his immediate family continued to commute back and forth to Damascus well into the 1960s. Many family members of the sultan's entourage, the Abids, the Azms, the Yusefs, went on to dominate Syrian politics up to 1963. Seeing the sultan on screen has sparked off a healthy historical debate on where to place Abdulhamid II on the spectrum of Arab and Muslim history. His image reminds both his admirers and critics that, whether they like it or not, Arab countries and Turkey are inseparable. Sami Moubayed is editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine. (Copyright 2010 Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd. All rights reserved. URL: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamicPersonalities_1.aspx?ArticleID=3391

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Asadullah Syed

Muslims and Islamophobia

04 Sep 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com

Ground Zero Mosque Controversy And The Moderate Muslim's Fate

Emotions run high in the "Ground Zero Mosque" debate, and the stakes are significant. They're just not what many on the left and the right of the aisle think. Faisal Devji explains AS CONTROVERSY over the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" in Lower Manhattan takes up more and more airtime in the US, the arguments deployed by both sides have become ever more narrow. On the one hand, those defending the proposed Islamic centre talk about the threat of anti-Muslim prejudice to constitutional freedoms, while at the same time endangering efforts to promote the kind of "moderate" Islam represented by its director, a New Age sufi called Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. On the other hand, pleas for Muslims and all those backing the project to heed American "sensitivities" are coupled with dark hints about Rauf's true intentions, sources of funding and indeed the problem represented by Islam itself in the West. Although this public debate generates an enormous number of new facts, interpretations and other details every day, these are all squeezed into a shrinking circuit of concepts and categories, very few of which are able to address the controversy's larger and more lasting implications. Interesting about the nature of this debate, in its very narrowness, is that it marks the first time Islam has become a serious domestic issue in the US, frequent invocations of Al-Qaeda, the Taliban or Iran notwithstanding. Indeed it is the centre's opponents who are concerned with Islam as a domestic issue, whereas its supporters routinely back it by referring to the importance of promoting "moderate" Islam abroad in a way that once would have been called imperial. But this concentration on domestic politics, including the allegedly Muslim background and sympathies of President Obama, have little to do with a Republican effort to reclaim votes in mid-term elections by the use of a wedge issue. Crucial instead is the fact that those opposing the centre, far more than its backers, appear to have realised that the Global War on Terror is effectively over, and that the US faces no existential threat from terrorism, despite the continuing possibility of random attacks at home and the need that still remains to deal with some insurgencies abroad. The fear that marked public reaction to the 9/11 attacks has vanished, together with the remarkable tolerance then displayed towards American Muslims, who might have been profiled and more readily picked up by agencies of the state, but didn't suffer large scale violence against their persons or property. Indeed if anything the Bush administration was far more outspoken about the evils of "Islamophobia" and encouraging of "moderate" Muslims including Rauf than its Democratic successor, something that indicates more than disingenuous politicking either then or now. For the popular outcry against American Muslims cannot be attributed to the calculations of party politics without falling into the realm of conspiracy theory. Instead it might be more productive to recognize that Muslims can be reviled today precisely because they are no longer feared as a global threat, having become domesticated into a minority like many others who faced discrimination in the past: ethnic Germans, Italians and Japanese during one or both World Wars, Catholics and Jews among religious communities, and today the Latin populations targeted as "illegal immigrants" alongside those old favourites for criminal profiling, African-Americans. However novel the circumstances, anti-Muslim feeling in the US, whether justified or not, falls into a received pattern of domestic prejudice against minorities. This marks Islam's baptism by fire as an American religion, which is exactly what Rauf and his backers say they want, after all. Ten years from now there are likely to be books written and television programs made about the shameful history of anti-Muslim sentiment in the US, by which time Islam will have become naturalised within it precisely because of today's debate. The truly interesting thing about the controversy, in other words, is neither Islam nor even "Islamophobia" but the transformation of right wing politics in the United States. Sharing a great deal with the Tea Party phenomenon in American conservatism, though open to a more diverse set of supporters, the anti-mosque movement represents a networked mobilization outside the planning and control of the Republican Party – thus forcing its establishment to follow a protest over which it exercises little leadership as yet. So even though Obama's presidential campaign was touted for its use of social networking sites and electronic fundraising, it turns out to have been his rivals who have ended up embracing the possibilities of technological mobilization with more ardour. Of course the most successful (or at least the most celebrated) example of such mobilization against traditional structures of authority is that of militant Islam in its global form as al-Qaeda. The Internet-savvy and self-motivated soldiers of a franchised jihad share a great deal, at least organizationally, with their right wing American critics in Tea Party-style activism. The latter, however, are far less adventurous, still linked as they are to institutional politics and its domestic arena, something that Islamic militancy is unable to do given the weakness of political institutions in much of the Muslim world. Weak or discredited states and the rise of religious entrepreneurs among the laity have led to a crisis of authority within Sunni Islam, which like most religions outside Christianity, lacks institutional form. It is this crisis that militancy in part represents. In the US, on the other hand, the crisis of authority among conservatives might have moved against political institutions but certainly not beyond them. What has been lost in the debate has been any claim to authoritative speech or knowledge, as demonstrated by so many of the arguments against the "Ground Zero mosque" or about President Obama's religion and place of birth. This is simply the consequence of a media-driven society with multiple sources of information that can no longer be contained within any effective hierarchy of knowledge.  Matching the warnings about Muslim fanaticism and terror by the mosque's opponents, its supporters have begun worrying about "Islamophobia", which has even made it to the cover of TIME magazine this month. Yet it is important to point out that 'Islamophobia" is not some generic phenomenon. Its manifestation in Europe differs significantly from what happens in the US, however much activists in the latter learn from the narratives of their European sympathisers. Thus the presence of Dutch politician Geert Wilders at an anti-mosque rally in New York on September 11th may boost his popularity among supporters at home and admirers abroad, but the politics of Islamophobia in Europe has little to do with its American form. In the Old World anti-Muslim sentiment no longer possesses a nationalist character, with Islam seen as representing a threat to Europe, itself a fairly new and still ambiguous political entity lacking traditional institutions of sovereignty. In the New World it has become part of a debate on nationality. And while in Europe the threat posed by Islam appears to have trumped the old fears of race, this is far from being the case in America, where African-Americans and Mexicans represent formidable threats in the perceptions of many. A quasi-political entity defined by "civilization," Europe is threatened by Islam, an equally formless civilization.America, meanwhile, still has the nation state and racial politics to think about.     Whatever the sympathy he deserves, we should perhaps be thankful that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's New Age brand of government-sponsored Islam has been put on the back foot for the moment  – not because there is anything sinister about it, but in light of the ill-effects that Islam's politicization by Western powers has given rise to in the recent past.  The litany: Napoleon's attempts to encourage a jihad against the British Empire during his conquest of Egypt, to similarly destructive but unsuccessful moves on the part of Kaiser Wilhelm during the First World War, Hitler during the Second and finally, this time with spectacular success, Ronald Reagan's jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan. This long history of Christian-Muslim partnership in holy war saw the increasing militarization, on an international and eventually global level, of the Muslim groups involved. The consequences for their sponsors, in our days Saudis and Pakistanis as much as Americans and British, were often disastrous. The different thing about today's conflict, however, is that for the first time Islamic militancy does not just represent a means towards some other end, but has become the object of politics in its own right. This means that promoting any kind of Islam is to participate in a potential civil war within a religion undergoing its most severe crisis of authority in many centuries. In such a situation the task surely should be to de-politicise Muslim groups rather than the reverse, which is what sponsorship of any one of them will end up doing.     Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity  (2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics  (2009). Source: Currentintelligence.net URL: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamMuslimsAndIslamophobia_1.aspx?ArticleID=3392

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Asadullah Syed