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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The story of a small skirmish: Sufi poetry sets young Muslims’ minds in motion, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

War on Terror
The story of a small skirmish: Sufi poetry sets young Muslims’ minds in motion
By Farrukh Dhondy

The Muslim population of Britain, immigrants in the main from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Somalia and a smattering from Arab states, have today established themselves as a small but significant fraction of the country and the city. Their affairs and opinions are debated in the national press. Their public protests are taken seriously. They are, presumably, though one can't have evidence of this, under the surveillance of the British security services, because from their ranks come the namak haram who live off the British taxpayer and in the name of Islam hatch plots to bomb, kill and maim people going about their business on the streets, in the buses, trains and planes.

Islam in Britain has been, according to my Muslim friends, some of them intellectual apostates, some of them devout believers, distorted to perversity by ignorant or politically paid and motivated preachers.

The demographic spread of immigrant Muslims has facilitated this concentration of primitive and fundamentalist ideologies.

Britain imported Pakistani and Bangladeshi labour to work the unacceptable shifts in its Yorkshire and Lancashire mills. The populations of Mirpuri and Bangladeshi peasantry accumulated in these mill-to-mosque towns.

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