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For many years now, the Pakistani Muslim commentator Maajid Nawaz has been advanced in the media as a model of Islamic reform. Once a crazed Islamist and member of the terroristic faction Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Nawaz suddenly lurched into ‘moderation’ in 2007, having become ‘disillusioned’ with both the means and ends of the Islamist project. His confessional ‘Radical: My Journey Out of Islamic Extremism’ was roundly commended by the Liberal media, and Nawaz is now a paid-up candidate for the Liberal Democrat Party.
Given this reputation, one can imagine the surprise in Liberal circles when yesterdays news broke and was promptly shared around the internet. In case you haven’t heard, a video has been released showing Nawaz – now a self-described ‘Feminist’- enjoying a striptease, during which he violates conventions by groping the woman performing the tease, eventually following her out of the booth to continue the harassment.
Getting a strip-tease is nothing illegal, but it’s fair to say that real ‘feminists’ are not altogether keen on the practice. We are thus prompted to wonder whether this was merely an aberration or in fact a revealing reversion to religious type. My guess is the latter.
Despite his warm words and political gestures in favour of civilisation, Nawaz remains a believing Sunni Muslim. Since his religion anti-sexual, he shuns access to the tact and subtlety that come as the reward of a modern imagination. He is sexually unpredictable for this reason. You cannot shake off the neurosis of faith by changing political direction.
Toxic beliefs, whether or not they are watered down, always find a way of exposing themselves. Moderate Muslims are useless to the counter-jihad cause, for latent within them are all the evils they claim to have overcome.
To call yourself a Muslim, moderate, liberal or orthodox, you must believe certain things. Prime among them is faith in the divine authorship of the Qur’an and its infallibility. This means you stand by passages describing women as secondary to men. There is no way around that. The passages are very clear and cannot be explained away as poetry or metaphor. To be a Muslim, you also have to believe that the conduct of the Prophet is noble, moral and worth emulating. This includes numerous practices deemed to be immoral and unlawful in modern Western society.
The source of Muslim dysfunction is therefore innate in the system of belief itself, in its articles of faith and the conduct of its holy figures.
While Ex-Muslims have the potential to be our best friends,’moderate’ Muslims like Nawaz fail to recognise the source of the problem and must be rejected for that reason.
D, LDN.
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In all fairness, tho, i think we do get accused of ingrained Christianity…
Yet, i guess if people aren’t being harassed, forced or punished, they can carry on with their family traditions how they like. It might take a gen or two before beliefs get watered down. It seems like by that time, we might be drowning in polar ice caps. Oh well!
I’m embarrassed to say i didn’t know patrons weren’t supposed to grope the lap dancer at the strip club i went to (going back about 10 years ago). I’m not the most “emotionally intelligent” person in the world. LOL.
I try. But lately, there have been too many new rules to the game of getting along with everyone… or maybe i am just that dense. I don’t know anymore.
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OK. Glad it’s resolved.
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I don’t think that Maajid Nawaaz is a Muslim anymore.
How can one outright ridicule and condemn slavery, beating of wives, underage marriage, antisemitism and anti-homosexuality and yet calls himself a believing Muslim is beyond me.
All the things that he condemns & ridicules are explicitly and implicitly sanctioned by the Islamic scriptures, which to a believing Muslim, are ‘Perfect’ and ‘unalterable’.
His claim to be a ‘moderate’ Muslim also is tenuous, for all the ‘moderate’ Muslims I know, never question the infallibility of the Islamic scriptures.
I think that he is a closet non-Muslim, and putting on a ‘Muslim’ mask to retain his credibility within the Muslim community (He doesn’t have ANY credibility, most or all believing Muslims consider him as an apostate. It’s high time Maajid acknowledges it!) and to have credibility as an anti-Islamism Muslim via the Quilliam foundation.
I saw the video, & I think that his actions in the club, are more due to drunkenness ( another Muslim no-no) and horniness. These things are quite expected and probably a routine nuisance in this particular environment ( that’s why these clubs have bouncers!) and I, for one, would not read much further ulterior motives into his actions, than plain drunkenness and horniness.
Let’s give him a break! Already, the Islamists are having a field-day on the net for his ‘unIslamic’ behavior.
Maajid is a great asset to us in the counter-Jihad movement, and I wish that we in the counter-Jihad movement treat him as an ally, which he is. He just needs to come out of the closet and declare himself as an Ex-Muslim apostate like Ayaan Hirshi Ali or Ibn Warraq.
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I’m afraid I don’t have any respect for him at all. First, if he claims to be a Muslim, he should be believed. Only apostasy is good enough. There is a long tradition of deception in Islam and having ‘one foot in and one foot out’ is a well-worn tactic of manipulation.
And second, he is a Lib-Dem and therefore seeks to prop up the Marxist agenda that allows for further Islamisation.
He is very shifty indeed. I don’t believe he bears any comparison with a brave writer like Ibn Warraq.
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I’m not a fan of the Quilliam foundation. The organisation to support is the Council of Ex-Muslims.
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I don’t think its good to try to guess who is still a Muslim and who isn’t. Its up to the individual to clearly state one way or the other. Sajid Javid is a case in point here – he claims to be an ex-Muslim but he says he still goes to the mosque (according to wikipedia anyway). That suggests to me he is a chameleon and would say he was a Muslim if he thought it would help him politically. It also suggests that he doesn’t really see a problem with Islam. We have to make it clear that there is no middle way.
I was surprised Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s latest book seems to be joining the reforming bandwagon, but as I understand it she is highlighting the split between the mecca and medina periods, thereby revealing the true schizophrenic nature of the religion, so maybe its a good thing anyway. I can imagine this revelation would be more likely to make people just start to question their faith rather than try to reform it.
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I saw Ms Ali’s interview on Newsnight and it didn’t sell the book to me either. It sounds more reconciliatory than her previous works. A shame. Perhaps the ‘racist’ accusation is wearing her down.
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After thinking about what you said, I confess that I have to agree with you.
For these reasons.
1. Why claim to be a Muslim and yet oppose almost all of its teachings? It’s like claiming to be a Catholic and not accepting the Pope as the head of the Church.
2. Why cling on to this ‘faith’ and call yourself a believer?
Is it because ‘The Quilliam foundation’ is being (in vain) being funded by the (Dhimmi) British government in a forlorn attempt to ‘moderate’ Islam.
Is Maajid cashing in on this misplaced multicultural largesse?
Reportedly, the UK govt. funds the Q.F to the tune of a million pounds per annum. Good job and good money, if you can continue to rig the system!
Why spoil it all by claiming to be an Ex-Muslim and admit that it’s impossible to reform a ‘perfect’ religion.
Just how much money is the govt. spending on Council of Ex Muslims(CEMB)? They are so lucky that they have not been banned (yet) for ‘Islamophobia’!
3. You’re right DTMW! I agree.
What we need is more of CEMB and less (and less) of taxpayer money-sucking organizations like the Q.F. The CEMB are working for nothing, out of conviction that ‘The Religion of Peace(TM)’ is anything but.
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The CEMB will not receive a dime from the UK Gov’t. It goes against the dogma of ‘Multiculturalism’. Every culture is valuable in Britain…apparently.
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But not the culture of Ex-Muslims?
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Leaving Islam and then criticising it is considered Islamophobia. See the treatment of Hirsi Ali for details.
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