The Heretical Counter
Some brother on a certain discussion forum has collated quite a few heretical views of this foundation for all to see. It just makes you wonder, Isnt it time that the Ulema start to publically in a safe union disown these people?
http://www.salaam.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=4&i=401140&t=400843
Here is the Heretical Counter. Inshallah to be updated with each heretical statement that they make
Ed on the Today Show 28/11/07
“and therefore Muslims should go far as to say that the other modes of reaching the noble aims of the Shari’ah in other words protection of life, property, reason, religion and so on, then why do we need to that barbaric, inhumane and outdated mode of stonging and flogging“
Ed in his article “The Gender Agenda” 23/10/07
“I don’t want Camilla’s generation to suffer the indignities of the scripturally justified attitudes of domestic violence, or her testimony to be worth half that of a Muslim man in court, or her legal inheritance in a Muslim country to be one-third of a man’s”
Ed in his article “There is more to Islam than a Teddy” 2/12/07
“Just as in Leviticus we find references to stoning sinners, in Muslim scripture there are some unpalatable references“
Rashad in his article “Addressing Islamist Grumblings”
“We can relieve ourselves of ancient and outmoded punishments, such as “flogging” and “stoning” as not being consistent with the actualizing of the Maqasid”
Maajid in his talk on the citycircle forum entitled “In and out of Islamism”
“Islamism is an ideology that believes sovereignty belongs to God, that legislation belongs to God…Those notions are alien to Islam“
“I dont think that in the realm of politics, we should be defining our political policies using scripture, because it is unhelpful“
“I dont think God revealed Islam to tell me how to run a state”
“Notions such as sovereignty belongs to God, or notions such as this state is Islamic and this state is not Islamic, are notions alien to Islam”
Ed the Islamist
“Religions are not for governments or states,they are for individuals. The state can assist individuals’ religious responsibilites, but governments cannot, should not, profess faith”
April 26, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Finally, let us return to the person with whom I began this piece. Of all the stories and familiar nonsensical arguments I have found in Ed Husain’s book, “The Islamist”, one story in particular caught my attention and should also have caught his. A certain uncle of Ed, Husam, during a visit to Makkah, had a dream about him. Ed wrote, “That night my mother told me that in Mecca Uncle Husam has dreamt that I was sitting on a branch of a large tree. Suddenly, without cause, I fell down and died.” (p.18.)
In the symbolic realm, true faith in Islam (al-Imaan) is represented in the Quran as a tree with long branches reaching into the heavens.
“Have you not seen how Allah sets forth a parable? A good Word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed, and its branches (reach) to the heavens. It brings forth its fruit at all times, by the leave of its Lord. So Allah sets forth parables for men, in order that they may receive admonition.” (Al-Quran, 14:24-25.)
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