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Ed Husain's autobiography The Islamist: why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left (Penguin, 2007) is a remarkably candid account of the life of a British-born Muslim who was initially seduced by radicalism but gradually came to his senses to return to the more spiritual and devotional Islam that had defined his early years. It is also an important work, in that it both carefully grounds the issue of radicalisation that has so dominated recent intellectual and political discussion of Muslim communities in Britain, and points to potential solutions. Ed Husain grew up...

“We Muslims will set India on fire. We will kill them and blow them up.” Many Muslims in Pakistan are seeing the prospect of war between India and Pakistan as the latest episode of the 1,400-year jihad against India, one of the bloodiest of jihads, very little known in the West. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS contains the whole shocking story of the jihad against India, told from Muslim sources. “Jamaat-e-Islami is recruiting volunteers if India and Pakistan go to war,” by Roohan Ahmed, Samaa, March 2, 2019: Eleven-year-old Aamir Khan is homeless, doesn’t know who his...

Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said, a punishment that risked provoking an angry reaction from his supporters. Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at Dhaka Central jail after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea against a death sentence imposed by a special tribunal for genocide, rape and orchestrating the massacre of top intellectuals during the war. Nizami, 73, a former legislator and minister, was hanged at 12.01 a.m. local time, Law Minister Anisul Haq told...

The head of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party was executed early Wednesday for his role in acts of genocide and war crimes during the country’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971, a senior government official said. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Motiur Rahman Nizami, the 73-year-old leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hung at 12:10 a.m. Wednesday inside Dhaka central jail amid tight security. […] Nizami is the fifth senior official from opposition parties to be executed since 2013 for war crimes carried out during the 1971 war. Three other senior members of Nizami’s Jamaat-e-Islami party and a top leader of...

This is another one of those days when you have to wonder why people keep going after Donald Trump every time he opens his mouth. I recall just last week when Talking Points Memo drew a bead on The Donald, seemingly aghast that he would suggest that officials take a look at the rest of the family of the San Bernardino terrorists. Oh the horror! Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he would “go after” family members of terrorists because they “know what’s happening” when their loved ones commit acts of terrorism.Trump said...

Updated at 8 p.m. ET: NEW YORK - A suspected terrorist parked a van packed with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb next to the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan and tried to detonate it Wednesday morning before he was arrested in a terror sting operation, authorities said. The suspect, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, is a Bangladeshi national who came to the U.S. on a student visa in January for the specific purpose of launching a terror attack here, authorities said. He allegedly told an undercover agent last month that he hoped the attack would disrupt...

Bangladesh indicts Islamic leaders for war crimes ... the chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, on 16 charges, including genocide and murder... Bangladesh — with help from India — won independence from Pakistan in 1971 after a nine-month war. Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed some 3 million people, raped about 200,000 women and forced millions to flee their homes during the war. Jamaat-e-Islami openly campaigned against breaking away from Pakistan during the war, and several party leaders now stand accused of collaborating with the Pakistani army in committing atrocities.

SNIPPET: "Literature that is required reading for ICNA members and that is provided at its conferences prominently features a host of radical scholars and an ideology that casts the practice of Islam as incompatible with the West. As members advance into deeper stages, they are required to master more strident texts, ICNA bylaws show. In addition, the group's extremism, which has included glorifying the death of another young Muslim American convert in a Pakistani jihad, and its admitted links to the radical Pakistani organization, Jamaat-e-Islami, continue unabated. Jamaat-e-Islami has pledged itself to conquering all spheres of human life, including economic,...

Note: Photo included. Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Beirut: Jamaat-e-Islami Leader Meets With Hamas Official Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, director of foreign affairs of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami, meets with Hamas’s Deputy President Musa Abu Marzuq in Beirut. Source: www.jasarat.com, Pakistan, accessed April 15, 2009 Posted at: 2009-04-15

San Franciscans have recently been finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of riding around on public buses plastered with the words “ISLAM - Submission to God.” I say “uncomfortable” because San Francisco is famously amongst the most secular and non-religious cities in the nation. But there has been nary a peep of comment or protest about these ubiquitous in-your-face ads, which are shown here in photos taken on March 2 in San Francisco. Such was not the case a few weeks ago in Ft. Lauderdale, however, which is one of the cities where the ads first appeared on buses. As...

The bizarre story behind the construction of Boston's most controversial building

Jamaat-e-Islami Leader: U.S. Is Eternal Enemy Of Islam And Pakistan The Deputy Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province Maulana Muhammad Shah Mengal has said that the United States is the eternal enemy of Islam and Pakistan. According to a report in the Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jasarat, Maulana Mengal criticized Pakistani leaders for allowing the U.S. to mediate in the country’s internal affairs. The statement came in view of the mediation by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher during last weekend’s talks in London to resolve the issue of restoring sacked judges. Boucher’s mediation failed, leading to the collapse...

KARACHI: Benazir Bhutto’s son, Bilawal Zardari, is likely to succeed her as the PPP’s chief but he will not be able to lead the PPP immediately because of his education. “Ultimately, Bilawal has to lead the party. But someone else might lead the party for now as ‘guide’,” PPP Deputy Information Secretary Sajjad Bokhari told Daily Times.

Text of report headlined "Karachi: Student killed, 3 hurt in two groups' clash" published by Pakistani Geo News TV website on 25 August Karachi: A student was killed and three others injured on Saturday [25 August] when two groups of students exchanged fire at the Jinnah Hospital Karachi. The incident has caused tension and affected work in the hospital. The situation in the hospital was returning to normalcy after a firing incident 10 days ago, police said. Armed men of a student organization started reaching the Jinnah Hospital on Saturday morning at 10.30 a.m.[0530gmt]. It caused anger in the activists...

Minarets tower over two of the tallest roller coasters in the world, on the flyer announcing today’s big event at Six Flags’ Great Adventure & Wild Safari.  On this day, the park will be “transformed,” as thousands of Islamists from across the northeast come together in Jackson, New Jersey for "The Great Muslim Adventure Day."  Regrettably, Muslims will be the only ones having fun, as non-Muslims have been told that they are not welcome. The event, which also goes by the name "Muslim Youth Day," is being sponsored by the New Jersey chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA),...

Bounty put on prophet cartoonists' heads The Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns Danish travellers to Pakistan of increased hazard after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of Muslim prophet Mohammed What began as a protest demonstration in Pakistani capital Islamabad two weeks ago, has ended in death threats and a price on the heads of a number of Danish illustrators who heeded the call of daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten to send in cartoons of Muslim prophet Mohammed. The newspaper published twelve of the cartoons in September, sparking angry reactions from Denmark's Muslim population and a number of Muslim countries. Daily newspaper Berlingske...

A killer earthquake struck Pakistan killing almost 40,000 people but could not jolt the Islamic republic out of its historical anti-Semitism since Pakistan snubbed Israel's offer of humanitarian aid. The snub endorsed the view that Pakistan's recent overtures toward Israel should not be taken as either a "historic breakthrough" or a "revolutionary breakthrough", but rather, as meaningless political rhetoric. ZOA President Morton A. Klein said, "We are deeply disappointed by President Musharraf's snub of Israel's generous offer of aid. It seems to indicate that Pakistan's hatred of Jews is greater than their desire to save Pakistani lives. By this appalling action, Pakistan seems to refuse to acknowledge Israel's very existence...

A rabid Mullah Omar clone wreaks havoc on the country's 'moderate Islamic' image Hena Khan REAL NAME: SIDDIQUL ISLAM Guilty of torturing, killing eight Left activists ; Member of the Jamaat-e-Islami till ’98; quit courtesy its decision to accept women leaders; Joined Jagroto Muslim Janata Bangladesh, which wants to establish a Taliban-type state ; He is its operations chief and member of its highest policymaking body He is Bangladesh’s Mullah Omar, intolerant, fanatical and, yes, charismatic. Like the erstwhile Taliban supremo, his avowed goal is to establish a society based on the Islamic model laid out in the Quran and...

VIENNA — Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan presided over a nuclear smuggling operation so brazen that the government weapons laboratory he ran distributed a glossy sales brochure offering sophisticated technology and shipped some of its most sensitive equipment directly from Pakistan to countries such as Libya and North Korea. The brochure, with photos of Khan and an array of weapons on the cover, listed a complete range of equipment for separating nuclear fuel from uranium. Also for sale were Khan's "consultancy and advisory services," and conventional weapons such as missiles, according to a copy of the brochure provided to the...

Hunt for captured al-Qaida fugitive started with narrow escape in southwestern Pakistan RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - The stunning arrest of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by Pakistani intelligence and CIA agents began with a near miss last month in a dusty border town and became a feverish chase fueled by communications intercepts and suspects' interrogations, security officials said Sunday. Mohammed, an unidentified man of Middle Eastern origin and Pakistani Ahmed Abdul Qadus were arrested early Saturday in Rawalpindi, a bustling city adjacent to the capital. Mohammed and the unidentified man were handed over to U.S. authorities and spirited...