Source: southwalesargus.co.uk
A BRITISH Muslim community is sponsoring 125 buses to run in the South-West of England and Wales – including Gwent – to mark 125 years since its foundation in 1889.
It is part of a wider awareness campaign that has spanned the UK from Glasgow to Bournemouth and also sponsored buses across the UK during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Its message is simple – that it stands for loyalty, freedom, equality, respect and peace, values common to Islam and Britain.
Muhammad Noman, Regional President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community South West said: “There remains a concern about Islam especially in light of events. We certainly believe in jihad – but the true concept of jihad is one of self-reformation and not of harming others.
“A true Muslim can never raise his voice in hatred against his fellow citizens. He should remain loyal and fully abide by the laws of the land of which he is a subject.”
The campaign comes at a time when there are renewed debates for ‘British values’ to be asserted by all the citizens of Britain.
Muhammad Noman added: “The true peaceful Islam is poles apart from the exclusion and hatred that is preached by a minority.
The buses – which run in Newport – feature the community’s slogan of ‘Love for All, Hatred for None’.
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Extremism
Who started the First World War? Muslims? Who started the second World War? Muslims? Who Killed about 20 millions of Aborigines in Australia? Muslims? Who Threw Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Muslims? Who Killed more than 100 millions of Red Indians in North America? Muslims? Who killed more than 50 millions of Red Indians in South America? Muslims? Who took about 180 millions of African people as slaves and killed 88% of them and threw in Atlantic oceans? Muslims? No! They were not Muslims. 1st of all you have to define terrorism properly… If a non-Muslim does something bad, it is a crime…. But if a Muslim does same he is a terrorist??? Remove this double standard then come to the point!!!
a Birmingham school […] was branded inadequate by Ofsted inspectors for doing “too little to keep students safe from the risks associated with extremist views””
Just what are the risks that Ofsted judged to be so great that the school has been deemed inadequate, I wonder? Whilst the ‘risk of extremism’ is indeed a part of the current framework, it’s a murky area, much less easy to quantify and judge than the quality of teaching…and we already know how much HMCI has had to say about the quality of inspectors’ judgements on that allegedly more straightforward aspect! If inspectors can’t agree on what good teaching looks like – something they must surely encounter in every school – how can they evaluate the ‘risk of extremism’ which must feature in a relative handful? Further evidence, if any were needed, that the inspection framework, as applied by a cadre of inspectors of variable quality, is no longer fit for purpose.
Extremism starts with the NATO clandestine services and the IMF and world of banking. War is profit nothing more. Don’t send your kids to die for their bank accounts! Traditional British value = racism. NO, Traditional English value = racism. Tories should know there is a diversity in your state! Asian, middle east, other European must be respected the way they are. The way to stop extremism is to stop invading other ppls countries and supporting US foreign policy, simple as Dave
Thousands of Iraqis dead in Iraq. Thousands of Afghans dead in Afghanistan. Drone Attacks in Yemen and Pakistan, hundreds dead. Maybe that’s a clue perhaps? who did all that ? nahhhhhh, its got nothing do with the UK Colonial foreign policy….eh ? Wake up Pal, get a grip, get some reality in ya. Muslim countries (civilians and troops) are the biggest victims of terrorists. I think people should bare that in mind. After Blair and Iraq the swap is so enormous we couldn’t possibly drain it. There’s only one way to deal with extremists, through dialogue. Let me see how things have faired so far, using military intervention – fail. Economic sanctioning against countries who are perceived as threats – fail. Using draconian terror laws – fail. Putting people into prisons without trail or court and thus trying to put fear into a community – fail. May and Gove can talk till the sun dies the only way they will change extremists is by changing the cause of extremism which isn’t religion but
You try invading their lands and stealing their wealth, see if they still meet your definition of ‘peaceful’! But lets not look at the actions of the West and longer term plans for the Muslim world, especially the Mid East, that have been put into action since 9/11, an event the thorough investigation of which was blocked by none other than G.W Bush…why do you think that was? Or is your mind so conditioned with hate that you choose to only look at ‘evidence’ that supports your view of Muslims & Islam!perverse foreign policy which is being cited time and time again but ignored time and time again.
If they really wanted to tackle extremism, which they don’t, they would stop interfering militarily in Islamic countries, like arming and training extremists to fight in Syria. They would also stop the Islamic fundamentalist gulf states like Saudi Arabia from building and running mosques in Britain, where they are promoting their extremist Wahhabi brand of nonsense. However, they don’t want to tackle extremism because it divides the country. If we are arguing amongst ourselves about Islamic extremism, then we’re not arguing about how shit the government is and we’re not talking about important things such as climate change. Because it doesn’t matter what’s going on in the world, floods, monsoons, tornadoes, fukushima etc just put a story about some girl getting executed for apostasy or a Nigerian extremist group kidnapping school girls, in their echo chamber newspapers, with F-all context behind it and suddenly all the EDL types come out the woodwork, were arguing about Islam and nobody cares about any of that other important stuff.
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London School of Islamics Trust