The Middle East Eye has just published an interview it recently carried out with Adam Deen from the Quilliam Foundation. Deen is not a scholar of Islam and as far as I am aware has no qualifications in Islamic subjects. But this does not stop him wishing to be the Crusader for a reformed Islam, a faith much more in tune with Western values and mores. He is becoming very popular in some circles where this kind of discourse is promoted.
A screenprint from the article below criticises the Islamic approach to ethics that is rooted in the Quran and hadith. He apparently argues for ‘the inalienable right to sin’ that should be the basis for a ‘reformed practice of Islam’. Deen seems to uphold the Western secular ethic that you can do what you want as long as it does not harm anybody. The whole ethics of Islam in contrast is related on the individual and social plane to the Shari’ah or Divine Law. As the Quran says:
And now We have set thee (O Muhammad)
on a clear road (Shar’) of Our Commandment;
so follow it, and follow not the whim
of those who know not.
Quran 45:18
It is the Law of God which has taken course aforetime. Thou wilt not find any change in the Law of God
Quran 48:23
Adam Deen
Excerpt from the interview in The Middle East Eye:
Categories: Extremism, Islam, Quilliam, Quotation, Utterly idiotic
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I used to like this guy. His logical reasons for god is good, but pretty standard, I think.
As soon as he joined Quilliam Foundation, that was it. Why would a sane Muslim do that unless they are necessarily unprincipled or ignorant of the Prophetic mission (as explained in the quran and sunnah)?
I wonder now whether he’s some stooge, as his recent decisions boggle the mind.
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no, he’s not a stooge. His thought is evolving under is own impetus in a much more liberal, secular direction, probably influenced by the environment of his new work. But it seems he has crossed a red line – away from normative Islam into a hybrid religion.
I have seen such a trajectory in Christianity, see the Church of England for example with its compromises with modernity. It only ends in tears.
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Someone of knowledge ought to recognise the obvious compromise that undermines one’s deen when particpating in an organisation with a blatant (trojan horse) state-sanctioned will to Church of Englandise (and thereby destroy) the deen. It necessarily makes one question the said person’s actual knowledge… Or intentions.
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Man, you British Muslims are something! At one end, you’ve got Anjem Choudary and company, and on the other end you’ve got Quilliam. In the middle, you’ve got people who think Mumtaz Qadri is a martyr.
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Kmak, there are 1.6 billion muslims, one would expect to find a range of views held though I suspect the vast majority have never heard of the individuals you mention.
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Salaam Paul, I finally got around to writing a post related to our discussion on this thread:
I would post there but it looks like the comments are closed. It’s really not about Adam so much as Maajid but the idea is the same.
The title is a little off from topic, because I had something a little different in mind when I started…but it just flowed the way it flowed, as articles often do. Anyway here it is:
https://icanhazkhilafah.com/2016/04/24/essential-lexicon-islams-center-of-gravity/
Take care. 🙂
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