Syed Abul Ala Maududi does indeed reflect the same ideology as that of the Islamic State, but he is also completely mainstream. Go into any Islamic bookstore in the UK or the US and you will see books by Maududi. That ought to tell authorities something, but it doesn’t, because they don’t want to know.
Meanwhile, the UK Prison Service is mad to distribute this book, but since all of the British government and establishment is mad, why should the Prison Service be any different?
“UK Prison Service Allowing Jihadi Book to Be Distributed to Inmates,” by Felicity Capon, Newsweek, April 15, 2015 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
The extreme views of a “racist, homophobe and anti-Semite”, who supports killing non-Muslims and “stoning adulterers” are being made available to prison imams and prisoners throughout England and Wales with the blessing of the authorities, according to a former adviser to the UK government….
Newsweek has discovered that hundreds of gold-laminated, hardback copies of Maududi’s analyses of the Koran were distributed last month at a training event for prison imams and chaplains held at the prison service college in Rugby. The books came from the Markfield Institute for Higher Education, part of the Islamic Foundation, a UK-based organisation that publishes educational materials on Islam.
A spokesman for the commercial sales arm of the Islamic Foundation, Kube Publishing, confirmed that it does supply books to the Muslim Chaplaincy and publishes books by Maududi, but said that it had no contracts with Her Majesty’s Prison Service, and was unaware of the prison training event.
The Islamic Foundation is “inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood”, according to Rashad Ali, a Counter Terrorism Interventionist for the Home Office, and is the only publishing house to have published the entire translations of commentaries on the Koran by Sayyid Qutb, who was widely cited as the scholar who most inspired the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden….
While a minority of the imams and chaplains at the event in Rugby expressed concern about the books, they were told by HM Prison Authorities that the only banned author from prison libraries is Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Muslim cleric who advocated violent jihad against the US, and was linked to a series of attacks including 9/11.
In one of his books, Maududi says: “There are only two methods of dealing with an apostate. Either make him an outlaw by depriving him of his citizenship and allowing him mere existence, or end his life. The first method is definitely more severe than the second, because he exists in a state in which ‘he neither lives nor dies’ .Killing him is preferable. That way both his agony and the agony of the society are brought to an end simultaneously.”
Hannah Stuart, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and an expert on extremism, terrorism and jihadi ideology, said the ideas expressed in Maududi’s books are “inherently violent if not explicitly violent” and that revelations about their availability in UK prisons was “worrying”.
“All jihadis have the ideas that Maududi expresses at their root,” says Stuart. “His books have the same underpinning as what Islamic State are doing”….
JeffS says
In Hannah Stuart’s comment above, how about exchange Maududi for “the Qur’an”?
The ideas expressed in the Qur’an are “inherently violent if not explicitly violent”…“All jihadis have the ideas that the Qur’an expresses at their root. The Qur’an has the same underpinning as what Islamic State are doing”.
Bamaguje says
Indeed the Quran is the mother-lode of Islamic violence and extremism… and it’s allowed in prisons.
So I don’t understand the hullabaloo about Maududi’s Jihad book.
mortimer says
You didn’t read Maududi then.
pfbonney says
“In one of his books, Maududi says: “There are only two methods of dealing with an apostate. Either make him an outlaw by depriving him of his citizenship and allowing him mere existence, or end his life. The first method is definitely more severe than the second, because he exists in a state in which ‘he neither lives nor dies’ .Killing him is preferable. That way both his agony and the agony of the society are brought to an end simultaneously.””
Well, my word! Distributing these bloody books, which are “inherently violent if not explicitly violent” to Muslim prisoners with a bent towards violent crime, is such a marvelous way to get Muslims to love the British, now, isn ‘tit?
CogitoErgoSum says
I have not read Maududi’s books but if this paragraph which you quoted is any indication of Maududi’s thought process, I would not waste my time with him. How would killing an apostate end his agony? Would Allah not send the apostate’s soul directly to hell for being an unbeliever? Would the apostate not be subjected to the eternal suffering of an unending fire, including being given frequent gulps of boiling water poured down his throat? Don’t Muslims see some sort of disconnect here? The agony of a “non-believer” does not end upon the execution of his corporeal body. Death to an apostate is just the beginning of the “real” agony for him…. or at least that is my understanding of the Quran. How does Maududi and those who follow him reconcile this contradiction? If Islam had any concept of contrition and forgiveness, killing someone for apostasy would be a sin itself because doing so takes away any chance an apostate has of reconciling with Allah. And this power of killing apostates is granted to every Muslim? Compare this with Christ’s granting to his Apostles the power to forgive sins. Islam is perverse and makes sense to me only if I view it as the antithesis of Christ’s teachings.
Marty says
The UK jails are full of muslims, because they have the most brutal prison gangs and can offer protection in our understaffed and ultra liberal prisons.
As with the UK & Europe, our jails are reaching a tipping point where criminals go in as thieves and come out as jihadists. In name if not in fact in many cases.
In the UK converts to islam are usually low level criminals who want an excuse for not having made the big time.
Convert and carry on as before, as part of an infinitely larger gang and with divine authority.
The government is terrified of Islam, and gives them most of what they want, often all of it.
A senior judge recently ruled that mohammedan women can give evidence from underneath veils,
so undermining 1,000 years of legal history and promoting illegal political uniforms.
cs says
Make every possible mistake you can…
That is their motto, then don’t get surprised when we eventually sink.
Oliver says
Why not do what Castro did (Mariel boatlift)–empty out the prisons ( and mental wards) –and send them to Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, S. A., Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Somalia, etc.
The US, UK and Israel, Canada, France & Germany –to start–should do this.
Richie says
Madness! It would be like providing the Nazi war criminals with copies of Mein Kampf
mortimer says
Ah….yeah.
Shabad el shindig says
The apostate had his chance to become a Muslim you now have to KILL them to burn in the hell fires given to us by ALI
Matthieu Baudin says
It makes you wonder what books are being forbidden by the Prison Authorities and on what grounds?
It costs tens of thousands of Pounds per year, courtesy of British tax payers, to keep each of these criminals incarcerated and their bureaucracy decides to allow the distribution of violent religious propaganda.
Well, what issues will the Brits give top consideration during the upcoming general elections?
Ephesian says
Matthieu…..how about”peace for beginners” or “how to apply for a job” or”is your wife over the age of six? All your questions answered”. What issues will the British give top consideration in the elections? Who says any will take the effort to go and actually vote?Apathy reigns,more interested in the soaps,Britain’s Got Talent,and Kim Kardashian’s rear….oh,and how United got on.May God help us come May 7th.
katarzyna says
yep, ”the game is up”(May)
Perfidious Albion.
Linda Rivera says
There is only one reason why the UK Prison Service is allowing the jihadi book to be distributed to inmates – HM government want Muslims when they are released to wage violent jihad against hated infidels. It is also why Britain (and Europe) was colonised with Muslims to transform by any and all means, the once great nation of Britain into an Islam conquered country.
Linda Rivera says
We only have a few short years left to turn things around!
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