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YouTube video – British TV – ‘What Women Want’
What do Muslim women want in the Muslim world? Dr Nazreen Nawaz, Hizb ut-Tahrir. (45 mins video. From Islam Channel Live.)
Dr Nazreen Nawaz (Hizb ut-Tahrir) and Dalia Mogahed (Senior Analyst of Muslim Studies at Gallup, who also serves on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) discuss findings from survey of Muslim women. 4th Oct 2009.
While you digest this, and ponder Obama’s way forward in this world, here is something else to chew over …
WHAT GAME IS GILLIGAN PLAYING NOW?
Blair Supporter & Andrew Gilligan in agreement?
Hmmm…mm…
I was referring to strange bedfellows recently. It was with regard to the Daily’s Mail’s turning of a blind eye to the SWP and Military Families Aginst the War, both organisations supported by the man who accused Tony Blair of having “blood on his hands” in St Paul’s nominally “commemorative” service? Hereafter to be dubbed “the Archbishop’s outing”.
Little did I suspect I’d find myself anywhere within touching – or rather reading and writing distance of this fellow, Andrew Gilligan – he of the “sexed up dossier” disrepute whose “outing” of David Kelly may, just may have led to Kelly’s suicide. (You remember that? The suicide with Blair’s name written in blood.)
But life is stranger than Gilligan’s fictions.
Gilligan’s Greenwich sounds coolish on the Olympics Village. This huge spread for worldwide consumption will be clearly on view from Greenwich, which is due south across the Thames. You will recall that the 2012 Olympics was seen as a triumph for Tony Blair’s persuasive powers.
So no co-incidental (dis)interest there then, by the whistleblowers’ favourite whistleblower.
He describes himself as – “a renowned investigative journalist and London Editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. He was previously at the Evening Standard and was named “Journalist of the Year” at the British Press Awards in 2008.”
Gilligan he still insists on working for Iranian state sponsored Press TV when (some ) others British jouranlists have resigned.
Back to strange bedfellows. Why is The Telegraph using this man now?
Wonders aside, his co-authored article, uncritical in tone, but nonetheless interesting, appeared here in The Telegraph.
Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood
President Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.
By Andrew Gilligan and Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 8:00PM BST 08 Oct 2009
Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified” and the majority of women around the world associate it with “gender justice”.
The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.
The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.
Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir’s national women’s officer, Nazreen Nawaz.
During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular “man-made law” and the West’s “lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism”.
They called for Sharia Law to be “the source of legislation” and said that women should not be “permitted to hold a position of leadership in government”.
Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that “promiscuity” and the “breakdown of traditional values” were what Muslims admired least about the West.
She said: “I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media.
“The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.
“The portrayal of Sharia has been oversimplified in many cases.”
Sharia in its broadest sense is a religious code for living, which decrees such matters as fasting and dressing modestly. However, it has also been interpreted as requiring the separation of men and women.
It also includes the controversial “Hadd offences”, crimes with specific penalties set by the Koran and the sayings of the prophet Mohammed. These include death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality and the removal of a hand for theft.
Miss Mogahed admitted that even many Muslims associated Sharia with “maximum criminal punishments” and “laws that… to many people seem unequal to women,” but added: “Part of the reason that there is this perception of Sharia is because Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood.”
The video of the broadcast has now been prominently posted on the front page of Hizb ut Tahrir’s website.
Miss Mogahed, who was born in Egypt and moved to America at the age of five, is the first veiled Muslim woman to serve in the White House. Her appointment was seen as a sign of the Obama administration’s determination to reach out to the Muslim world.
She is also the executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a project which aims to scientifically sample public opinion in the Muslim world.
During this week’s broadcast, she described her White House role as “to convey… to the President and other public officials what it is Muslims want.”
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said Miss Mogahed was “downplaying” Sharia Law.
“There is a reason sharia has got a bad name and it is how it has been exercised. Regrettably in the US there have been acts of injustice perpetrated against women that are driven by the Sharia-type mindset that women are objects not human beings,” she said.
She cited the example of Muzzammil Hassan, a Buffalo man who ran a cable channel aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes and was charged earlier this year with beheading his wife after she filed for divorce.
“Americans understand by example, it’s not as if we are an ignorant mass of people. Just as we don’t broad brush all Muslims, so should Dalia not downplay the serious nature of sharia law.”
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Mogahed has made news before.
She was a member of the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project, which called for “engagement” with the Muslim Brotherhood — the organization that has a 100 year plan for subverting and overthrowing the West.
She teamed up with John Esposito to conduct a poll on Islam, then misrepresented some of the results (some called it “cooking the books”) in order to increase the number of Muslim “moderates.”
What makes Mogahed’s demonstrably untrue assertion about shariah even more disturbing is that she made it in an interview hosted by a member of the radical Islamist organization Hizb ut Tahrir.
Hizb ut Tahrir is committed to the overthrow of democracy and capitalism and the worldwide imposition of shariah Islamic law. The organization has been banned as a terrorist organization in several countries — but remarkably, not here in the United States.
For Mogahed to assert that shariah promotes “gender justice” would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic.
That she has the ear of the White House is yet another chilling reminder of how our nation is being led down the path of forced Islamification that England and Western Europe have already walked.
This is another reason why, over the past few weeks, we have been issuing such an urgent call to action to you, our members. If you have not yet responded to our fall “Call to Action,” there’s still time to help us reach our goal.
There are ample signs that a large percentage of the American people, once adequately informed about the multiple threats of radical Islam, don’t want an America that looks like England.
Help us reach them. Help us educate them. Help us mobilize them. There is time — but we don’t have ten or fifteen years. We need to act NOW, as if our very future depends on it — because it does.
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