I was reading around some Islamic blogs that I have subscribed to in my feed reader and I was surprised to see a few bloggers advocating a vote for the BNP party in the recent British elections. This is surprising for a couple of reasons. Obviously first up, it would have appeared that the BNP with it's hardcore stance on anti-immigration, Islam and Niqabi... would fly in the face of the opinions of national and non-national Muslims. Why would you vote for someone who wanted rid of you? But it also seemed strange because fundamental Muslims believe in a thing called Shirk. Shirk basically means that to involve yourself in the election of a government official is to dissolve your belief in Allah being the Almighty. For you see, voting destroys first pillar of Tawheed and this first pillar of Tawheed is to reject Tāghūt (anything worshiped, obeyed or followed besides Allah), which means Muslims cannot accept a legislator besides Allah over them.
Some Muslims who did vote, argued that voting is allowed if it prevents the greater of two evils: in this case the election of BNP MPs. There were some however that thought the contrary to be more correct. They argued that the BNP actually represented the lesser of the two evils, that if the BNP got their way and removed British troops from Afghanistan, that would mean that hundreds and thousands of Muslim lives would be saved from slaughter in the military conflicts in the Afghan country. One voter in particular also liked the idea of leaving Britain with the GB£50,000 deportation incentive the BNP were offering to all immigrants, to re-establish themselves back in their native country. They saw it as the perfect way to fund their own personal Hijra out of Britain.Most hardcore, fundamental, and extremist Muslims abstained from voting at all though, due to the Shirk thing. Just goes to prove nothing is straight forward.
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This blog has had a very 'Arabic' feel lately, I worry that Gamma Goblin has been abducted, raped and slaughtered by the Mujahideen. They surely would have videotaped this raping, and I for one hope this is released to the media sooner rather than later. I only want to see the rape section, I can take or leave the rest of it, to be honest.
This is actually a hugely interesting not, though for £50,000, I'd happily up sticks and get the fuck out of pretty much any country too. I wonder how the Shirk policy works in Australia, what with it being illegal to abstain from voting (even by postal ballot)?
When reading about how different adherents of the same religious system can get caught up in knots like this, I'm reminded of Christopher Hitchens' core thesis that Religion poisons everything.
I feel as though the last few posts on my blog have been somewhat religiously intolerant lately, but when so much of the impact of religion you feel is arbitrarily distrusting science, forbidding civic involvement, and finding different subsets of people to hate, it's difficult to defend such supplication.
BMD: That was some big bag of rape you just opened there. One more mention of the R word and I may have cried! And this blog has always had an Arabic feel. S for your infidelity, I place 5 Jihads upon you, and 2 Allahu Akbars for good measure!
notRuairi: I see how you got your name. I'm still trying to figure out if that "not" in your first sentence was a brain fart or if you were taking the piss out of me. Since you continued, I shall assume the former. Islamic Australians just seems too weird to ponder; Allahu Akbar, mate! Throw another Jew on the barbee? That was a dolly mixture of racial stereotypes, slurs and taboo, just for you! Another Jihad for your sins!
Sully: Imagine if you could take all the best bits of religions and stick them together to form a super religion! Child rape, bigotry and beheadings during a Sunday mass, while you rest easy at night knowing that all your bad acts were because of Xenu sending you bad thetans as you slept. It would be like heaven on earth. Oh I nearly forgot, for your scandalous freethinking: 10 Jihads, 12 Allahu Akbars, and 3 Fatwas. I love a good Fatwa don't you?
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