Bangladesh bans books by Islamic supremacist Maududi

I don't want their books banned in America. What I would like to see is all non-citizen muslims deported. All muslims who have had "anchor babies" deported along with their children. All mosques placed under constant surveillance. I Would also like to see islam ridiculed for the ridiculous ideology that it is. islam should be marginalized, much like skin-head, the kkk, and other such racist and supremecist groups have been. islam has no place in the prison system and all prison proselytizing should be halted. muslims trying to implement shariah are guilty of attempting to overthrow the government, and the constitution, and should be tried for sedition. Any muslim found guilty of sedition should be sentenced to life without parole in a super max facility.

Free speech yes, islam no.

A senior official from Jamaat-e-Islami, ATM Azharul Islam, described the move as an attack on Islam.

"Mr Maududi's books are being published in many countries and there have been no complaints against his writings so far," he said....

And, precisely, what would happen to someone who did complain? Would they be called a heretic? A kuffar? An Islamophobe?

Or would they be killed? What would Mohammed do?

".. I am not in favor of book banning.."
I beg to differ, books promoting hate and violence should be banned. Especially this one "The Ultimate manual of Terror"
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/accursed-book-le-livre-maudit.html

It's always interesting and often amusing to watch how certain Muslims in various ways try to "tone down" what Islam really says, in this instance the Bangladeshi government banning books. Irshad Manji trying to put a happy face on Islam is another example that comes to mind. What other religion has to engage in this even remotely to the degree Islam has? Of course, many Muslims don't want to tone down Islam one bit and they are the most annoying and lethal of the Muslim world. The bottom line, though, remains the same and that is that Islam itself is the problem. Always has been. Always will be.

Non-Muslims have "absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God's earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines."
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I've read this passage many times, and it says a great deal about the Islamic world view. The most obvious point is the Muslim supremacy and hatred of the Infidel—but this is not the only issue.

In the Muslim view, all power is *seized*—there is rarely an orderly transfer of power in Dar-al-Islam, except in the cases of hereditary monarchy—which many Muslims consider un-Islamic, as well—or unless the last dictator appoints someone new. Any Muslim country that actually holds elections—no matter how corrupt—is seen as tainted by Kufr.

Likewise, as far as Dar-al-Harb goes, there is absolutely no distinction made between a figure like Hitler or Pol Pot—who *really did* seize power, and the most orderly and uncontested election in Europe or America. It's *all* a case of Infidels "seizing the reins of power".

In the same way, these is no concept of *governance*—it is all "ruling"—the idea of the elected "public servant" simply does not exist in the Muslim world.

Similarly, Muslims assume that anywhere they haven't "seized the reins of power" for themselves that they are "oppressed". They must be—if they are not slave masters, surely they must be "slaves".

In the same way, the greatest and most equitable legal protections of minority groups and individuals in the West are no more than "misconceived doctrines", while stoning rape victims to death represents glorious Shari'ah law—an unchanging example of divine "justice".

What an ugly view of the world. As noted above, Syed Abul Ala Maududi's views are in no way unorthodox. But even in a place as shot through with Shari'ah laws and Muslim supremacy as Bangladesh, groups like Jamaat-e-Islami threaten the powers that be, which—after all—can *never* be Islamic enough.

"I am not in favor of book banning..."

This isn't book banning: this is Terrorist-Manual-Sedition-Instiruction-Subversion-Inspiration-Violent-Overthrow-of-Government-Manifesto Banning.

I'm with the people who are against book-banning, if only because my sacred book (the Bible) is one of the most-banned books in history!

Come to think of it, I also have a sort of warm spot for all clauses of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, too.

I've read snippets of Maududi and a whole book by Seyyid Qotb, and agree with most of us here that they were two of the most hate-filled creeps to ever draw breath. However, it is possible to refute evil speech by truth, ethical example, and the grace of God the Holy Spirit. To have a good and honest knoweledge of history, literature, philosophy, and comparative religion requires extensive reading in authors with whom one may vociferously disagree; including some who spew poison masquerading as ink (Maududi is one such author).

Leave the attempt to legislate "hate speech" to the heirs of the Berkeley so-called "Free Speech Movement", which wants to spew scatology and explicit sexuality while censoring political ideas they dislike as "hate speech".

Muslims have "absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of the earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines." If they do, "the non-believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the secular way of life."

Now, if an infidel says anything like this the mohammadans and their apologists would be screaming and foaming at the mouth calling the writer a racist, bigot and islamophobe.

But not a peep out of them other than "it's taken out of context!"

The profound hypocrisy of mohammadans and their apologists is what kills me.

Maududi is so scary I'm thinking about getting an English translation of the Quran with Maududi's commentary. It would be great education for my friends who think I'm a racist nutcase for doubting Islam is "peaceful", presuming I can get past the obvious reaction: Maududi is a nut so anything he says about Islam can't be true. Is there only one being sold in the US, or are there many versions? If so, which one is the best?

Sheikh Hasina is a mild islamist
Her family and Maudidists have been killing each other for 40 years
The Maudidists aided the Pakistani army in the 1971 bangladeshi genocide, and in 1975, they assassinated her father Sheikh Mujib

In 2009, the Maududists tried a coup to overthrow Sheikh Hasina, but fortunately the coup failed

Sheikh Hasina is not against islamists per se, but since islamists have tried to kill her several times, she decided to crush them, under the islamic blasphemy clause
Apparently the Maududists compared themselved to PBUH,
and Sheikh Hasina used this to get some islamic mullahs behind her in her attempt to crush the madudists

I will not be surprised to read one day that the decapitated body of the "government official" who banned Maududi's book is found in a ditch, with a scrawled note from Jamaat-e-Islami attached claiming credit.