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OP - August 07, 2010, 09:54 AM

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Hundreds expected at UK Muslim anti-terrorism camp

LONDON (Reuters) - Over a thousand young Muslims are due to attend a camp in Britain to discuss terrorism this weekend, but rather than encouraging militancy the organisers' mission is to destroy the arguments of extremists.

The three-day "al-Hidayah" camp, which gets underway at the University of Warwick in central England on Saturday, is billed as the first event of its kind in Britain specifically aimed at targeting terrorism.

"I feel it is my duty to save the younger generation from radicalisation and wave of terroristic recruitment in the west," said Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, head of the global Minhaj ul-Quran religious and educational organisation which is hosting the camp and hopes to attract some 1,300 attendees.

"We need to prepare them mentally and academically, intellectually and spiritually, against extremist tendencies and terrorist attitudes."

Qadri, a prominent Islamic scholar figure who has promoted peace and inter-faith dialogue for 30 years, made news in March when he issued a 600-page fatwa denouncing terrorists and suicide bombers to be unbelievers.

The Pakistan-born Qadri, who has written about 400 books and is a scholar of Sufism, a long tradition within Islam that focuses on peace, tolerance and moderation, said his edict went further than any previous denunciation.

He has widespread global support, with millions of followers in Pakistan, but told Reuters earlier this year he was worried about the radicalisation of young British Muslims.

Reuters.com

You can download the English translation summary of the fatwa here.
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Re: Muslim anti-terrorism camp / Fatwa against terrorism
Reply #1 - August 07, 2010, 10:49 AM

The problem is that the hot-blooded sections of the young Brits influenced by Dawahgandists and Salafist nutters appeal to their 'revolutionary' side where they feel they must 'stand up' against 'oppression' and do what is right and forbid what is wrong to make society save itself from an apparent moral decay.

The aggressive PR skills of such fronts tends to numb the critical thinking capabilities of such young people and they become mindless foaming at the mouth Islamists who are 'under threat from the evil west' all the time.

I like Tahir-ul-Qadri. He is a smart man with a progressive thinking that a lot of Muslim scholars and ulema clearly lack.

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Reply #2 - August 07, 2010, 12:47 PM

Quote from: Abood on August 07, 2010, 09:54 AM
Reuters.com

You can download the English translation summary of the fatwa here.

That fatwa is 'As Silly As Muslim Mullahs and imams who issue fatwas for keeping their jobs/salary or trying to appease STUPID MUSLIMS and the rulers of Islamic countries. But it is good start. Some one from Muslim community must stand up against Muslim bullies., and that is what was lacking since Islam begin. That link says
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Britain has about 1.7 million Muslims, mainly of Pakistani descent, and the security services say that nearly all major terrorism plots since 2001, including the 2005 London bombings which killed 52 people, were linked to Pakistan.

Frankly speaking Britain is squarely responsible giving asylum to ROGUE Muslim preachers to get the best of Muslim rulers back in home though out 80s up to mid 90s of last century. And some of those good preachers turned tables against London..

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Reply #3 - August 08, 2010, 12:19 AM

This news story has made it to the beeb:
Muslim group Minhaj ul-Quran runs 'anti-terrorism' camp
and
Muslim summer camp preaches 'anti-terror' message

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Reply #4 - August 08, 2010, 04:54 AM

Quote from: yeezevee on August 07, 2010, 12:47 PM
That fatwa is 'As Silly As Muslim Mullahs and imams who issue fatwas for keeping their jobs/salary or trying to appease STUPID MUSLIMS and the rulers of Islamic countries. But it is good start. Some one from Muslim community must stand up against Muslim bullies., and that is what was lacking since Islam begin. That link says Frankly speaking Britain is squarely responsible giving asylum to ROGUE Muslim preachers to get the best of Muslim rulers back in home though out 80s up to mid 90s of last century. And some of those good preachers turned tables against London..

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Reply #5 - August 08, 2010, 05:42 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10905479

Thousands of young British Muslims have travelled to Warwickshire to take part in a summer camp to combat terrorism.

Dr Muhammad Tahir-Ul-Qadri, a Muslim cleric from Pakistan who earlier in the year issued a fatwa - or religious ruling - denouncing terrorism, led the camp at Warwick University.

It is being billed as the first of its kind in the UK.

Satnam Rana reports.

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Re: Muslim anti-terrorism camp / Fatwa against terrorism
Reply #6 - August 08, 2010, 05:49 PM

It's a good start, definitely.

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Reply #7 - August 10, 2010, 03:52 PM

Finally someone is directing the "Islam does not condone terrorism" message at those whom it NEEDS directing at, rather than the non-Muslims.

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Reply #8 - August 10, 2010, 04:26 PM

Having said that (and I truly don't want to come across as a relentless cynic on a mission to squash people's hopes) is the Tahir-Ul-Qadri mentioned in the above article one and the same as the Tahir-ul-Qadri who wrote the following?:

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Jihad and terrorism have no relation with each other nor is there anything in common between them. On the other hand Jihad stands for the eradication of terrorism. Jihad-bil-qital is characterized by ending terrorism. But if ! threats are posed to human life, property and honor, fighting for defending these areas is called Jihad.

It is not meant for grabbing wealth. Expansionist designs have nothing to do with the Islamic concept of Jihad. Every Charter of Human Rights terms taking up of arms against injustice and unwanted blood-letting, crushing down of rebellion and revolt, uprooting of conspiracies, violence and mischief-mongering as not only being legal but also making it binding. All that is done with a view to making the earth safe. When any individual or party transgresses its limits and encroaches upon others' rights, only in that case the Holy Quran ENJOINS upon believers to WAGE JIHAD, so that mischief-mongering is halted and peace comes to our planet, earth.

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Reply #9 - August 10, 2010, 05:01 PM

More.

According to the Ahmadiyya Times one "Mullah ul Qadri [pictured below] believes the punishment for apostasy in Islam is death.".

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Is the the same person as the one who atheist.pk above says he "likes" as a "smart man with a progressive thinking"

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