FORBIDDEN ISLAM: British Courts Ban "Political Islam" In Move Towards McCarthyism

The British State has been attempting to develop a version of Islam that is subservient to a secular ideology, ever since the Rushdie affair. This version of Islam has been widely described as "moderate" Islam in the media. The State has also been grooming individuals and organisations whom it would deal with as representatives of "moderate" Islam (moderate Islam for them being Islam without politics and ideas of governance).

A New Milestone in the War on Terror

Illegal: The 60s Syed Qutb classic,

Milestones, was readily available

in Egypt during the Mubarak regime.

The dissemination of this version,

published by Maktabah booksellers

in England, was made illegal

because of the appendices which

include the syllabus of the Egyptian

Muslim Brotherhood

Landmark conviction of Ahmad Faraz for distributing and publishing books exposes extremely serious implications for society at large and Muslims in particular

In August 1966, Egyptian thinker and writer Sayyid Qutb was convicted in Cairo of conspiring against the State. The evidence used to incriminate him consisted primarily of extracts from his book Milestones, a treatise on Islamic governance written by Qutb during a previous stint in prison. For Egyptian President Nasser, the ideas contained in Milestones were as threatening to his position as the birth of Moses was to the Pharaoh thousands of years earlier. Nasser’s solution to his dilemma was little different from that of the Pharaoh. Kill the ideological revolution in its infancy. Qutb was executed in prison on 29 August 1966. All known copies of the book were confiscated and burned by military order, and anyone found in possession of it was prosecuted for treason.

The Danger Of Believing

In September of this year, Manchester based Munir Farooqi, was given four life sentences for preparing “terror” acts, soliciting murder, and disseminating “terrorist literature”. Israr Malik, and Mathew Newton were also convicted. Munir’s son Harris Farooqi, was charged with similar offences but acquitted.

The 12-month investigation, trial, conviction, and current attempts to seize the Farooqi family home appear to have set new and worrying precedents in the targeting of Britain’s Muslim community by the British State.