Channel 4 reports Islamic Radicalism
Apr 2011 19

Channel 4 reports Islamic Radicalism

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Why are Muslims in UK not taking measures to ensure that extremism doesn’t take root in their backyard? We’ve witnessed radicals hold Pakistan hostage to their delusional paranoia. We can’t possibly wait for the cops or civil society to tackle this problem. We must act and ask ourselves; do we want our children growing up thinking they can castrate anyone on the basis of religion. Shias, Ahmediys and Ismailis have been pissed on for decades now all over and it is high time we distinguish ourselves from these radical elements.

Police have arrested a man concerning alleged assaults on children at a mosque after viewing a Channel 4 documentary screened on Monday.

Dispatches, Lessons in Hate and Violence, secretly filmed a man apparently hitting and kicking children during Qu’ran lessons at a school in the Markazi Jamia mosque at Keighley, West Yorkshire.

An Islamic school in Birmingham in the same documentary, where a preacher was filmed making offensive remarks about non-Muslims, said it would close early for half-term, amid fears pupils could be the target of far-right groups. Read more

Albert Einstein – Religion and Science
Jan 2012 16

Albert Einstein – Religion and Science

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Please read the disclaimer before you read this series 1

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us. Now what are the feelings and needs that have led men to religious thought and belief in the widest sense of the words?

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  1. Source: The following article by Albert Einstein appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 9, 1930 pp 1-4. It has been reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1954, pp 36 – 40. It also appears in Einstein’s book The World as I See It, Philosophical Library, New York, 1949, pp. 24 – 28. ↩
Wahhabism: A deadly scripture
Feb 2012 28

Wahhabism: A deadly scripture

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King Abdullah will go home to Saudi Arabia today with the charges of human rights protestors ringing irritatingly in his ears. But his controversial visit may well have left an unpleasant legacy for the people of the country which has feted him with full state honours.

There was a hint of it in a report written this week by Dr Denis MacEoin, an Islamic studies expert at Newcastle who previously taught at the University of Fez. Leading a team of researchers over a two-year project, he uncovered a hoard of malignant literature inside as many as a quarter of Britain’s mosques. All of it had been published and distributed by agencies linked to the government of King Abdullah.

Among the more choice recommendations in leaflets, DVDs and journals were statements that homosexuals should be burnt, stoned or thrown from mountains or tall buildings (and then stoned where they fell just to be on the safe side). Those who changed their religion or committed adultery should experience a similar fate.

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