Forbidden Islam: The British State’s War on Islamic Books and Ideas.

Read Jahangir Mohammed’s latest article at NewCivilisation.com:

He highlights a conviction this week, in a UK court, that is based upon “Forbidden Islam: The British State’s War on Islamic Books and Ideas:

You can read the full article here: http://www.newcivilisation.com/home/uk-europe/forbidden-islam-british-courts-bans-political-islam-in-move-to-mccarthyism

Excerpt:

“On the 13thDecember, a Birmingham bookseller, Mr. Faraz (in Regina vs Faraz ), was sentenced to three years, for publishing and distributing a number of books and DVD’s classed as terrorist material (using the opinions of an expert Muslim witness whose own ideology was clearly different to that of the authors in question, and hence his opinion was a difference of thought , not expertise ).”

“The books being judged and sold by Faraz inlcuded Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, and a number of writings by Sheikh Abdullah Azzam , Hassan al Banna and others. These were written in a different era, and for different conflict situations, yet judgements were made on them in Britain 2011.”

“The prosecution case, the “expert” testimony and the Judges summing up, all point to the fact that it was not Faraz who was on trial but Qutb, Abdullah Azzam and the ideas and thoughts in the books; and whether or not they constituted legitimate Islam as defined by the states prosecution and “expert “.

Having established that the books on trial represented an erroneous interpretation of Islam, Faraz as was bound to be found guilty.

His crime was to be a publisher and bookseller of the books and hence to be associated with them, and by implication an adherent of the “erroneous “ideas and thoughts in the books now defined as “terrorist”.

Therefore we have had the ludicrous situation where a British Court has been debating at length the legitimacy of the ideas of Syed Qutb, Abdullah Azzam, Hassan al Banna, Ibn Taymiyyah; and whether they had correctly interpreted verses of the Quran. And we have had the absurdity of a British Jury and Judge passing judgment on what is and isn’t legitimate Islamic thought and ideas.”