Nazir Ahmed Quotes
For me, anyone burning the Union Jack, as members of al-Muhajiroun have recently, is inciting hatred. These people are effectively biting the hand that feeds them - something that is not permitted in Islam, and a highly offensive gesture.
Nazir Ahmed, Member of the British House of Lords, First Lord of Pakistani Origin to serve in England, Founder of The British Muslim Councilors’ Forum, The London Evening Standard, April 27, 2004
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This phrase has been used by fundamentalists to justify forced conversion and the imposition of religious law—Sharia—on believers and unbelievers alike. The logic is that if God says believing orthodox Mosems are the best, that is what he wants for all. And therefore by forcing others to be orthodox and of the faith, one is doing God’s bidding. See Husain Haqqani, “Islam’s Medeval Outposts,” Foreign Policy November/December, 2002.
This is not terribly different however from Christians and Jews selectively quoting the Bible.
At the time almost everyone thought him overly pessimistic. Despite huge efforts to bridge the differences including the partition of India and creating a separate Muslim state, the Muslims have become even more discontented in modern times. The Muslim antagonism however has expanded beyond the Hindus, to include the Christians, Jews, Bhais, Buddhists and any other religion in control of land where there are Muslims or they feel should have Muslims. Today, as in 1925 however, the difficult was caused be a very vocal and often violent extremist minority of the Islamic population.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Islamic clergy would not agree with his definition. Some of the Islamic modernists share his view, but there are relatively few of them in the Muslim counties and most reside in the West.
A very passionate minority of India’s Muslims demanded a separate Islamic State (that would become Pakistan) but Hindu’s and Muslims were mixed throughout India and many Indians and British were concerned that there would be a bloodbath if the plans for independence went forward. When the decision had been made to partition India, Radcliffe had the unenviable task of deciding where the boundary was to be between Pakistan and India. No one on either side was satisfied with his effort. So, realizing that violence was about to break out, he packed quickly and went back to England. Over two million Indians were killed in the violence that broke out in the next weeks as there was a huge migration and ethnic cleansing to implement Radcliffe’s boundaries. Fifty years later, both India and Pakistan acknowledge that Radcliffe did a very reasonable job.
The problem was that the British had adopted an Indian Civil Service system and instituted an educational system to train Indians. The Hindus attended the schools and did very well on the examinations. The Muslims, however, resisted the secular education, and most of their young men could not pass the examinations. See {616924} & {616925}.
Richard Southwell Bourke. Victoria was then Queen. The role of the Islamic religion in terms of violence, terrorism & rebellion is not uniquely a question of the 21st century. The 19th Century saw much Islamic fundamentalist violence in India and other Islamic Colonies—much more than from other religious groups in similar colonial status. Opinion was divided between those who saw Islam—especially the Wahabi sect—as inciting violence per se. Mayo assigned one of his administrators to do a study of the issue. See {616924} for the study of William Wilson Hunter. Ironically, Lord Mayo was stabbed to death in a terrorist attack on him personally in 1872.
This statement was made in the aftermath of 9-11. However, three years earlier, at a Hamas meeting, the Cleric did not seem to be concerned about the lives of the innocent. See {617372}.
English Muslim terrorist organization. This quotation illustrates what is perhaps the greatest difference between Muslims and most members of other religions. Most others think of their personal identity in national terms and then occupational, religious and racial. A Christian might say ‘I am a French Attorney who is a Christian’; a Buddhist , ‘I am a Cambodian Buddhist. But most Muslims would say, ’I am a Muslim from France’ or a ‘Follower of Islam residing in Lebanon.
These kinds of inflammatory sermons are delivered with the approval of the king and royal family who crack down on any cleric who preaches what they do not approve of.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed is a British politician of Pakistani origin. A former member of the House of Lords, he was created a life peer in 1998 on the recommendation of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair. Ahmed sat in the House until his retirement in 2020, prior to pending expulsion after being found guilty by the Labour Conduct Committee of sexually exploiting a young woman. Many of his political activities relate to the Muslim community both in the UK and abroad.
