Radical Islamism & Jihad *Yemen: Where does “Islamic” terrorism come from? <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1317>*
*Time Sana’a reined in fundamentalists * What is more dangerous is that tribes legislate for the culture of violence both directly and indirectly. They target state interests and behave outside of the legitimacy of law. These tribes are assisted by some who use religion for their own twisted purposes. This is what happened when a man in the Ministry of Youth and Sports issued *a fatwa stipulating that celebrating Mother’s Day is illicit because it imitates Jews and Christians*, as he said. In addition, a preacher at a mosque considered the Parliament members to be unbelievers *(Kafirs*) after they passed a law that determines *the legal marriage age to be 17 years*. He said that this act is *blasphemy*, as legislation comes only from God and not from human beings. *Fatwas* such as these prompt youths – particularly frustrated youths – to resort to violence and suicide. In fact, the government’s remissness with such people makes us suffer from a backward mentality that doesn’t believe in reason. Rather, such a mentality believes in killing and destroying the laws, principles, and values that are the basis of solidarity in society. Security forces are aware of what is going on, yet they believe that such groups don’t constitute a true security threat. However, many groups were weak in the past, but because they were left alone they turned into strong fanatics. -- *Adel Al-Shuj’a* More...<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1317> 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,Terrorism and Jihad *Now a shocking video of Taliban butchering a Pakistani soldier surfaces <http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1318>* *Pakistani women protest religious extremism, American imperialism* ** More.<http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1318> -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
