.... I suggested it was a tragedy that east London, for so long associated with Jewish immigration and the fight against fascism, had now become the home of the Islamist extreme right.
How had East London Mosque and the London Muslim Centre, both dominated by Jamaat-i-Islami (South Asia’s version of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood) come to be the first port of call for British politicians? .... The reality is that the institutions have played a central role in promoting a sectarian Islam that represents only one strand of thinking within the magnificent diversity of this world religion. [The JC.com] Read more
Martin 'The Great Koran Con Trick' Bright Issues Call For Alliance Against 'Islamists' .... There is a lazy pseudo-intellectualism that pervades the thinking and writing of those, like Bright, who employ the sort of reductionism that allows them to equate Jamaat-i-Islami with the Muslim Brotherhood, and both these movements with ‘totalitarian politics’.
The reductionism is deliberately employed to conjure up images of a single pervasive enemy with no regard for the multiplicity of views which prevail within movements such as the JI and MB, let alone at the East London Mosque and the London Muslim Centre. [ENGAGE] Read more
