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Friday, 14 September 2007 |
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 One of the driving forces behind MPACUK is the Islamic obligation to protect the oppressed, and it is with this obligation that MPACUK takes on two of the most intransient of culprits - one by design the other by omission. If we avoided both and just focused on Action Alerts we would be loved and supported. If we supported one over the other we would be loved by one side and despised by the other. In fact, we take the path of most resistance and with the Grace of Allah are winning in gaining ground and forcing change. But we are hated equally by both sides.
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Friday, 14 September 2007 |
 What happened in the period of mass disorientation after the attacks was,
in retrospect, a domestic form of economic shock therapy. The Bush team,
Friedmanite to the core, quickly moved to exploit the shock that gripped the
nation to push through its radical vision of a hollow government in which
everything from war fighting to disaster response was a for-profit venture.
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
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 People need dramatic examples to shock them out of complacency. Islamic history is full of examples where shock tactics have been necessary to elicit change. When the Prophet (pbuh) smashed the idols in the Kabah, he was giving the Quraish a dramatic, powerful lesson in the singularity of Allah - an open challenge, a declaration of intent. When Isa (Jesus pbuh), overturned the tables of the money lenders in the old temple he was throwing down the gauntlet.
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
 There's an 5D strategy (Divide, defame, decapitate....) involved here. Both Sheikh Riyadh ul Haq and Dr Chandia have pro-actively advocated political activism especially with respect to Palestine. Indeed Sheikh Haq is banned from there. Dr Chandia has been pro-active in both teaching Islam at University level and also strongly guiding newly qualified Ulema to go on do secular degree courses, eg IT, Law, Journalism etc.
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Saturday, 08 September 2007 |
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 Today's front-page story in the Times, Hardline takeover of British mosques, along with several related articles, contains a toxic mixture of fact, exaggeration and outright nonsense. It is certainly true that the Deobandi movement - as Ajmal Masroor has already explained
on Comment is free - is an influential one, particularly in the UK. It
is also true that most people, including most Muslims, will regard the
statement attributed to Mahmood Chandia, a graduate of the Bury-based
Deoband-influenced Darul Uloom.
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Monday, 03 September 2007 |
 Palestine is the land of conflict. It's the land of interfactional
conflict. Since Hamas came into power, we've witnessed the infighting
between Hamas and Fatah. They should be united in their common goal,
but instead they're fighting each other instead of their common enemy. IslamOnline.net's Youth 4 the Future spoke to a young adult living in
Gaza in an effort to gauge the youth's opinions on the situation that
may well define their lives.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
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The Muslims of the West have, on the most part, been relying on a very
traditional model of operating mosques, with a few exceptions. First, in the West, no government bears the administrative and
maintenance costs of the mosque, putting the onus on the members of
that mosque's community to donate money to ensure its operation.
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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 A glance
at the Electoral Commission's latest report into party finances shows
that the Muslim Friends of Labour donated over £300,000 to Scottish
Labour's election campaign this year. When the group was set up a few years ago with a dinner at Glasgow
Central Mosque, the obvious problem was not whether Muslims were
friends of Labour, but whether Labour were friends of Muslims.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
 It is an honour of a kind, I suppose, to briefly have the most active
thread on the Comment is free site. But not much of one when 95% of the
posts rarely rose above the level of vitriolic name-calling. The
posters probably know that by now I am immune to playground taunts of
"scum" and "Nazi", but the abuse, I suspect, is meant more as a warning
to others who might criticise Israel. Keep quite - or else.
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
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 So Shimon Peres proposes a plan for the complete ethnic cleansing of Israeli Arabs, and it is being reported by the media as an offer to give ‘land equal to 100% of West Bank‘ to the Palestinian Authority to create a ’state’. This might strike some as being geographically impossible since Israel insists on keeping 100% of its settlements, which litter nearly 42% of the West Bank. However, we are told that in return for this land, Israel will swap its Arab towns.
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 |
 Reading the newspaper nowadays is heavy going if you are a British
Muslim. Headline after headline and opinion after opinion drive home
the message that we British Muslims are a problem. We need to work on
our "cohesion" and our "integration." Our dress code is up for public
debate. We are suspected of harboring terrorists within our midst and
of being in need of English lessons and citizenship classes in order to
ram "British values" into our suspect skulls.
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
 Saima Khan:
How
interesting to read this piece - I wonder how accurate it is. For
instance your comment that "Sayeeda Warsi stayed tight-lipped" about
certain aspects of the report are plain and simply wrong. She was one
of the very few who did express concerns about some of the tone and
language used - as your "leading group of Muslim Conservatives" well
know. Where were these voices at that time? Their current comments are
akin to closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
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It was interesting to hear Ali Miraj, a senior activist of the Conservative Party, blast David Cameron for substance over spin. It’s interesting not because Ali (first name basis here at MPACUK), was a former blue-eyed boy of Michael Howard, the former leader of the Conservative Party and arguably the man that stopped the Tory ship sinking. It is remarkable because it highlights a pattern of Muslim politicians who are no longer insecure about standing up and being counted.
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Saturday, 28 July 2007 |
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 Your recent press releases regarding the condemnation of the recent terror attacks was much appreciated, and in view of the fact that two doctors were involved, made it all the more essential.I fully understand the need to give every assistance we can to the authorities, and also consider it the duty of every member to co-operate or report to the Police if they should gain knowledge or suspicions which might help suppress such terrorist attacks.
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
 The Gap widens and more and more Muslims are being left behind. And
so on this truculent wet day, I wonder how on earth can Muslims in
their communities begin to empower themselves to be Masters of their
own destinies. And that is the nub of it. In Iraq, the average Joe, or
should I say Mo, is left hanging between a immoral invasion, sectarian
gangsters, rebels and inept political leadership - the institutions of
the state have failed.
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
 A much needed article, short story, call it what you please, a true
account none the less. Collated here are many of the worst case
scenarios that only those, whom have experienced, can truly understand
the emotional trauma going through the ‘victims’ minds, with a little
humour to keep you reading to the end, my intention is not to offend
anyone, nor to point the finger, but I do want to highlight the
importance of clarifying the difference between that of a forced
marriage and one arranged on an individuals behalf.
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
 Undetected and deep underground a seismic shift has happened in
Southall. MPACUK will leave the general analysis of by-elections to
the political commentators who are best placed to look into the
competing strengths and failures of each of the parties, their
campaigns, their leadership and their respective candidates. MPACUK will comment on the Southall by-election as a group of Muslim
civil rights activists who were working to promote democracy and
empower Muslims to use the power of the ballot box.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
 So it seems one of the more obvious truths (for those who look for the truth anyway), has finally surfaced, and that truth so terrible, so dark, that if it ever got out Zionism, that wicked ideology of religious supremacy in the holy land, would crumble and the fate of the world would change. A truth that Zionists have tried to keep hidden from the public. So what is this terrible truth that MPACUK have uncovered, what is this secret that Zionists have kept secret for so long? | | Comments closed |
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
And so another day and another 1,000 leaflets, I miss my family, I work away from home Monday to Friday, I get back from work Friday evening after my kids have gone to sleep and on the weekends I do my MPACUK work and having to miss spending time with my kids on one of the days of the weekend for the last 3 years is hard, spending both days away from them is even harder, on me, them, and my patient supportive and long suffering wife, but that I keep telling myself is the ‘Jihad’. The love of this world, has to be controlled so that my sacrifice for Allah is worthwhile.
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