Radical Islamism & Jihad *Taliban: Constructing a New “Islam” for the pre-Islamic Jahiliya they live in <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1316> *
...it is necessary first to appreciate the imagined Islam of the Taliban as an act of construction rather than reversion. Doing away with hundreds of years of jurisprudence of Classical Islamic law, of administrative procedures and methods of reasoning, of sources of law and juristic analysis, the Taliban has redefined Sharia as a performative tableau rather than a jurisprudential exercise. An entire judicial system thus is reduced to the application of hadd punishments, floggings, beatings and amputations. Thus the Qazi, arguably the most integral of those involved in justice provision, is nearly always invisible, while the crowd, the victim and those meting out a punishment play a central role. Justice is redefined as a means to subjugate and punish, with the entire collective crowd partaking in its pornographic enactment. There is no mention of the basis of the Islamic law applied, the deliberations which led to the application of the punishment, or any form of legitimacy that would associate the punishment with being Islamic. It is instead the anti-modernity of the whole spectacle, the absence of institutional safeguards, that makes the scene Islamic. The calculation is simple and persuasive: the more visibly different from the epithets of modernity that the Taliban can be, the more automatically Islamic it becomes. -- *Rafia Zakaria* More...<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1316> Islam and Politics *Friday, Apr 10 2009* Should Muslims elect Muslims? <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1310> *Is Exclusivist, Separatist politics the answer?* With their focussed, bloc voting, and significant presence in over a hundred parliamentary constituencies, Muslims have emerged as probably the most influential vote-bank for so-called secular parties. Every secular party would appear to be vying for their vote. But some Muslims would rather fritter away the opportunity it gives them, as they feel they are not able to convert this influence to advantage in terms of better representation in legislatures or government jobs, etc. Hence the demand as *N Jamal Ansari *makes in the following article that Muslims elect Muslims. This alone, he says, will ensure Muslim political empowerment. The question is: Would it really do so, or would it prove a recipe for further Muslim disempowerment? Muslims must debate. Is exclusivist, separatist politics the answer? Are we Muslims in as dreadful a situation as some of us keep complaining? Is the politics of grievance-mongering all the politics we can play? Is promoting victimhood among Muslims all that our intellectuals can do? Should we occasionally express gratitude too for all the advantages we have, before demanding or in fact working towards betterment for ourselves and our country? – *Editor* 4 Comments More<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1310> Islamic Ideology *No true Islam anywhere in the world <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1303>* *Right Islam or Wrong Islam vs. Islam and non-Islam* The above Quranic verses, along with numerous other verses, confirm the truth that as far as God is concerned, there has always been one religion Islam, which was decreed for Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. All the scriptures revealed to mankind from God advocate one and the same religion. This religion God calls “Submission” or in Arabic language “Islam”. It is a mistaken concept among Muslims and non-Muslims alike that Islam was founded by Mohammad, who happened to be an Arab. -- *Muhammed Irtaza* DO YOU FIND THESE ATTRIBUTES AMONG MUSLEMEEN? If your answer for both of the above sets of questions is NO – then trust me there is no true Islam anywhere in the world. -- *Bashir Abid, *Chief Organizer, Tehreek Tolu-e-Islam Pakistan 5 Comments More.<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1303> -- Syed M. Asadullah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. Wanna subscribe to this group, send email to [email protected] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ *********************************************************** The Official Website of Group is LAUNCHED, http://www.geocities.co -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
