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July 5, 2007
British or Muslim? Does One's Country Matter?
Topics: Understanding IslamThe recent terrorist plot by jihadists in Britain has called into focus now more than ever before the question of whether Muslims' national identity matters at all, since success in the war on terror and against jihadism (in the Islamist sense of the word) requires the valuable assistance of the Muslim community itself if we are to limit the limitations on freedoms inherent in Western societies in the process of fighting radical Islam and its followers - the Islamists.
Albeit, the jihadists in the recent Glasgow-London attempted suicide attacks were from outside the country, nonetheless, far too many Muslims who live in the UK put the ummah before their country, and owing to this, it is appropriate to question the extent Muslims in the UK and other Western countries who are not engaging in terrorist plotting actually disapprove of such plotting - and how many passively allow it to continue under their noses.
Take for example Hizbollah's annual conference in Birmingham a few years ago that attracted about 8,000 people:
How serious and how extensive is the Islamist threat that lies inside the Muslim community? It is DEADLY serious and GLOBAL. This SHOCKING video is the unofficial ad used for the Khilafah Conference International 2007, held in Jakarta, Indonesia (at the national stadium) on the 12th August 2007. It was the largest every Islamic conference held anywhere and it was organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is still operating in the UK and throughout the world (Groups just like it are active throughout the U.S. in communities like Islamberg):
Western nations need to be cognizant and much aware of the ummah issue and how far too many Muslims put the ummah before their country, and Muslims themselves need to re-think their understanding of the ummah. As Yahya Birt discussed in Q-News Magazine back in November 2005 (I point to his piece for reference here but there's much in it that I believe to be slanted toward helping to push Islam on non-Islamic cultures and societies):
... is it (the ummah) a form of nostalgia for the imperial Ottoman model misinterpreted as a unity based on the collective human community of monotheists, with the state re-imagined along the lines of interwar European totalitarianism? Rather it is the case, as Ibn Taymiyah and Shah Wali Allah contended in different ways, that the ummah is a body of purpose based upon the worship of God, upholding values of universal mercy and justice for all of God's creation, which philosophically allows for the practical recognition of multiple polities within itself, a multiplicity that is in any case an abiding fact of Muslim political history. This correct attachment to the ummah of purpose does not render the Muslim rootless, unanchored from the nation-state, as the philosopher Roger Scruton has contended, but rather loyalties emerge from the ground up, recognised variously in the principles of moral conduct, social obligation, and contractual and legal obligations. The rights of creation (huquq al-`ibad) encompass family, clan, neighbourhood, city, nation, religious community and humanity, and Muslims are held to be morally and legally responsible for their fulfilment either individually or collectively.In a much related article, this is the kind of cooperation from Muslims that is needed to defeat the Islamists, who are determined to take-over the religion of Islam and reframe it in the model of their violent ideology of hate and intolerance: "British Muslim leaders urged their communities yesterday to help fight extremism after three failed car bombings, amid signs that the new government may be better able to win over their 'hearts and minds.'"
Posted by Richard at July 5, 2007 6:13 AM
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