Tarek Mehanna's Sentencing Statement

Read to Judge O’Toole during his sentencing, April 12th 2012.

In the name of God the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

Exactly four years ago this month I was finishing my work shift at a local hospital. As I was walking to my car I was approached by two federal agents. They said that I had a choice to make: I could do things the easy way, or I could do them the hard way. The “easy “ way, as they explained, was that I would become an informant for the government, and if I did so I would never see the inside of a courtroom or a prison cell. As for the hard way, this is it. Here I am, having spent the majority of the four years since then in a solitary cell the size of a small closet, in which I am locked down for 23 hours each day.

Sheikh Cameron in Indonesia - Democracy by the Barrel of a Gun

By Majed Iqbal

David Cameron’s Far-East trip hit headlines today across all major news sites as he delivered a Speech at an Islamic university in Jakarta in the worlds largest Muslim populated country.

Cameron was forthright in teaching Indonesia’s 240 million population what ‘Real Islam’ was all about. Making reference to the rise of Islamic Parties in the Middle East, Post-Arab Spring he said “If Indonesia can succeed, it can lead the world in showing how democracy can offer an alternative to the dead-end choice of dictatorship or extremism,”

CagePrisoners Event Review: Governments Prevent Strategy - Surveillance And Entrapment Of Muslims

April 6th 2012 Venue: Shahi Qila Restaurant, Blackburn

CagePrisoners ventured ‘up north’ with a clutch of well informed speakers to talk about their work in the context of the Governments Prevent Strategy. The event was well attended by a cross section of the local community, as well as some further afield, including convert to Islam, Daud Musa Pidcock the Chairman of the Islamic Party of Britain, and former Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police - Tony Farrell.

VIDEO: How Could Britain Ban Books in the 21st Century?

Contributor to Bayyina Foundation and Director of the Center for Muslim Affairs - Jahangir Mohammed, talks with Tariq Ramadan on "Islam & Life" PRESS TV (also banned in UK).

The Problem with Interest

In this continuing series of articles, we begin to take a closer look at underlying problems to the global economic crisis. Some of these have been these have mentioned in previous articles discussing investment in gold and silver, and the economic solutions offered to us in the Prophet Muhammad’s (saw) Final Sermon. These articles present the real reasons that have led the world’s economies to the point of collapse. Only by addressing these is there any hope of pulling back from the abyss… in truth, even now is too late.

A collapse of the global system is inevitable… it is merely a question of when. Only then will those in power be faced with no other option but to accept the truth of their foolishness in propping up a system at the behest of the ‘1%’ as against the ‘99%’.

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.