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Shocking treatment of 89-year old Prof Ghulam Azam
Sunday 05th February 2012
Professor Ghulam Azam’s wife Mrs Syeda Afifa Azam expressed concern about the life of her husband in a statement. She went to see Prof Azam in the BSMMU hospital prison on Friday along with her son and a granddaughter where she found her husband in a very frail condition..."We are shocked at the behaviour of the hospital and prison authorities in spite of advice from the specialists...After seeing him today, I am worried about my husband’s life..."
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A coward's war
Thursday 02nd February 2012
George Monbiot, The Guardian: "These power-damaged people have been granted the chance to fulfil one of humankind's abiding fantasies: to vaporise their enemies, as if with a curse or a prayer, effortlessly and from a safe distance. That these powers are already being abused is suggested by the mendacity of those who are deploying them. The CIA, which is running the undeclared and unacknowledged drone war in Pakistan, insists that there have been no recent civilian casualties. So does Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan. It is a blatant whitewash. As a report last year by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism showed, of some 2,300 people killed by US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2004 until August 2011, between 392 and 781 appear to have been civilians; 175 were children. In the period about which the CIA and Brennan made their claims, at least 45 civilians have been killed. As soon as an agency claims "we never make mistakes", you know that it has lost its moorings..."
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Islamophobia & the Media
Wednesday 01st February 2012
Inayat Bunglawala, New Statesman: "Back in June 2011, the Daily Mail published a column by Melanie Phillips in which she described ENGAGE as an "extremist Islamist group" and claimed that they were funded by the government. As I pointed out to the Leveson Inquiry, Mel P has a very particular worldview. She is on record for repeatedly suggesting that the "litmus test" for deciding whether someone is a "moderate Muslim" is whether they "'understand that fundamentally Israel is the victim in the Middle East." I suspect most sane people would happily fail her 'litmus test'."
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Peter Aspden in the Financial Times on Hajj exhbition
Tuesday 31st January 2012
Peter Aspden in the Financial Times:"The show has demanded new presentation skills of the museum. Whereas the objects from its collections normally tell the story with sufficient eloquence, there is more to say here. 'We have tried to evoke the feeling of being there,' says Venetia Porter, the exhibition’s curator. As you enter the corridor to go into the show, you are 'accompanied' by photographs of pilgrims and recordings of incantations. 'They are saying, ‘I am here,’ ' says Porter. The aim is to create, or at least hint at, the ecstatic relief of a spiritual journey ended".
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Sadiq Khan MP on Hajj Exhibition
Tuesday 31st January 2012
I toured it with a non-Muslim friend. He was as fascinated as I was to see how pilgrimages undertaken hundreds of years ago compare to those of today, where modernity and tradition meet, and the beauty of Islamic art, found in everything from milestones to water bottles.
This exhibition gives us a new window not just on to Islam, but on to modern London too.
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Hajj: British Museum Exhibition
Tuesday 31st January 2012
Jonathan Jones in The Guardian:"This is one of the most brilliant exhibitions the British Museum has put on – and certainly the most confrontational, in its enthusiasm for a religion regularly represented in the British media as violent and extreme. Its power lies in the way it brings together history and archaeology with contemporary images and stories (even plane tickets are included) to give an immediate, graspable sense of religious experience. Liberal-minded non-Muslims, who are more than happy to admire Islamic art, may be challenged by what is a forthright celebration of Islamic belief itself, an argument for the beauty of Islam as a religion. Following the exhibition's reconstructions of the great pilgrim routes, you are led to your destination – an attempt to recreate the intense experience awaiting pilgrims at Mecca, where no one can say they have performed the Hajj until they have completed a series of exhausting and arduous ceremonial activities."
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How to integrate Europe's Muslims
Thursday 26th January 2012
Jonathan Laurence in the NYT: "...Over the next 20 years, Europe’s Muslim population is projected to grow to nearly 30 million — 7 to 8 percent of all Europeans — from around 17 million. Granting Muslims full religious freedom wouldn’t remove obstacles to political participation or create jobs. But it would at least allow tensions over Muslims’ religious practices to fade. This would avoid needless sectarian strife and clear the way for politicians to address the more vexing and urgent challenges of socioeconomic integration"..
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Rushdie's Games Continue
Tuesday 24th January 2012
Sameer Rahim in the Telegraph: "Last Friday the novelist Salman Rushdie pulled out of a planned appearance at the Jaipur literary festival in Rajasthan, India citing specific death threats made against him...The case grew murkier on Saturday when the director-general of the Mahrashta police (in charge of dealing with the Mumbai underworld) denied any knowledge of a plot: "When we had no information that gangsters or paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld had planned to eliminate Mr Rushdie,” he told The Hindu, 'how could we have shared it with anybody?' ”
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Obama scare
Monday 23rd January 2012
Haaretz: "The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran. Adler, who has since apologized for his article, listed three options for Israel to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons in an article published in his newspaper last Friday...."
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The war on democracy
Friday 20th January 2012
John Pilger in the New Statesman: "Since the Second World War, the United States has:
1) Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of them democratically elected.
2) Attempted to suppress a populist or national movement in 20 countries.
3) Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.
4) Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
5) Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.
In total, the United States has carried out one or more of these actions in 69 countries. In almost all cases, Britain has been a collaborator. The 'enemy' changes in name - from communism to Islamism - but mostly it is the rise of democracy independent of western power, or a society occupying strategically useful territory and deemed expendable, like the Chagos Islands..."
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