Islamic Revival

On 19/1/2015, the UK Government wrote a letter to Muslim leaders demanding they do more to counter ‘extremism’ and that Mosques and other institutions should push “British values”. As soon as Muslims voiced criticisms, Prime Minister David Cameron closed down the debate saying that anyone who disagreed “had a problem” – addressing Muslims as though they are his subjects, not citizens that Prime Ministers are ‘supposed’ to serve. This letter appears to target three things: Firstly , it fuels propaganda in the context of the Counter Terrorism and Security Bill currently before parliament. This letter and other statements sustain a false narrative that the more Islamic you are, the more of a threat you pose. This is the flawed logic upon which the UK’s entire anti-terror policy is built. It deflects attention from foreign policy and the persistent abuse of Islam on an industrial scale. Even former intelligence chief Eliza Manningham-Buller admitted that the Iraq war fuelled t

Dr Abdul Wahid, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, will be writing to Imams and mosques across the UK this week. This follows the intimidatory letter issued by Eric Pickles on behalf of the government, in which he attempted to place responsibility – for acts of violence like those committed in Paris – on Islam and the entire Muslim community. In the letter, Dr Abdul Wahid asks Imams to resist the pressure to create a “British” or reformed Islam that is pleasing to the government, but which compromises the tenets of Islam itself. He asks Imams to play a crucial role in guiding the community and not succumb to the fear of being labelled “extremists” asking, “if those who have this sacred knowledge do not teach people, then who will?” He further states: “Muslims living in Britain have a choice similar to that Quraysh offered to Rasool Allah (salallahu alaihi wasallam). Either to adopt Cameron and Pickles’ values and stay silent at the munkar around u

The announce­ment by Saudi state  TV , of the death of King Abdul­lah bin Abdu­laziz, aged 91, will bring to an end the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion princes who have ruled the King­dom for most of its 80 year his­tory. It now ush­ers in a third gen­er­a­tion of princes who num­ber in the thou­sands. We are repub­lish­ing this 2012 analy­sis which analysed the House of al-Saud By   Adnan Khan Saudi Ara­bia, with the world’s largest oil reserves, is a crit­i­cal piece in the jig­saw of inter­na­tional order. With the pass­ing of King Abdul­lah, the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion princes who have ruled the coun­try for most of its 80 year his­tory is effec­tively at an end rais­ing the prospects of poten­tial insta­bil­ity due to a power strug­gle amongst the rul­ing family.   Mod­ern Saudi Ara­bia was a cre­ation of the Sykes-Picot Agree­ment in 1916,  a secret under­stand­ing between Britain and France defin­ing their respec­tive spheres of influ­ence after World War I. King Abdul-Aziz al-Saud