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At our meeting on 3 March, Haringey & Hackney AWL branch discussed Islamism in Egypt.
Clive Bradley gave a talk about the issue: this is a summary of what he said.
Egypt is one of the birthplaces of modern Islamism - that is, of political movements based on Islam that take the form of a modern political party. In 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt.
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By Yasmine Mather
Elections for the seventh session of the Islamic Parliament in Iran are very strange elections, even by Iranian standards.
The scrutiny of the Islamic credentials of candidates by the ultra-conservative Council of Guardians has led to a ridiculous situation where many sitting MPs as well as some 2,500 other candidates have been eliminated from the electoral list. If you are a secular candidate, you can't put your name forward for elections, but even amongst the candidates of various Islamic groups, a very large number were considered too "liberal" by the Guardian Council.
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Gerry Byrne begins an examination of the relationship between the Russian Bolshevik Party that made the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Islamic subject states of the Tsarist empire they i
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The term "Islamic fundamentalism" first became common during the Iranian revolution of 1978-79. The Western-backed Shah (who had been put in power by the CIA) was overthrown by an enormous popular revolt, one element in which, led by the Ayatollah Khomeini, expressed itself through the largest traditional religion in the country, Shi'a Islam.
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Le numéro 6-7 de la revue Ni patrie ni frontières vient de paraitre. On y trouve notamment des traductions en francais de l'article de Faryal Velmi (de l'AWL) sur le Parti de Travail de Pakistan et de l'article de Rumy Hasan sur l'Islamophobie. Tous disponsibles à mondialisme.org/nipatrienifrontieres.
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Weekly of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
In this issue:
* Unveiling the Debate on Secularism and Rights, Maryam Namazie
* Islamic veil and political Islam - an attack on civil society, Fariborz Pooya
* We must stop the Islamists' assault on secularism, Hossein Moradbeigei
* Copper mining factory protest: Four dead and tens of striking workers injured
* Teachers' strike in Iran
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By Mahmood Ketabchi
mekchi@msn.com
January 14, 2004
The French government's decision to ban religious insignia from the public schools has the Islamists scurrying to mount an international campaign to oppose secular and progressive rules. The Islamists are running this campaign under the rubric of "personal freedom, secularism, and protection of people's privacy." But, they are lying for they never stood for these principles when Islamic atrocities occur on a daily basis in Islamic stricken countries both where the Islamists are in power or in opposition. This campaign is founded on sheer lies and demagogy.
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A press conference on 17 January to oppose the introduction of Shari'a law in Iraq, called by the Organisation of Women's Freedom of Iraq (OWFI) followed directly on from a counter-demonstration to the Muslim Association of Britain's protest against the French headscarf ban. The discussion was somewhat dominated by that issue.
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Today, Saturday 17 January 2004, two protests were held outside the French Embassy in London.
The Muslim Association of Britain (British offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Arab world's largest Islamic-fundamentalist movement) demonstrated against the French governnment's proposed legislation to ban the Islamic headscarf in state schools.
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This is a brief comment on an article in the SWP's Socialist Review about the Bolsheviks and Islam, by David Crouch. Although it refers to the early 1920s, and then the rise of Stalinism, the article is plainly a justification for the SWP's recent dalliances with MAB and the mosque.
