I first found out that Richard, my step brother, had become an Islamist in a newspaper article. My initial reaction was one of disbelief – it had to be someone else, or a mistake…but it wasn’t. Rich was the newest recruit of a man dubbed by the media the most dangerous man in Britain, Anjem Choudary.

Tree surgeon-turned-filmmaker Robb Leech is an ordinary white middle-class boy from the Dorset seaside town of Weymouth. So too is his stepbrother Rich, but a little over a year ago Rich became a radical Islamist who now goes by the name of Salahuddin. He associates with jihadist fundamentalists and believes the UK should be ruled by Sharia law.In a film that took over twelve months to shoot, Robb sets out to reconnect with his extremist stepbrother and find clues to what led Rich to become Salahuddin. It charts the brothers’ relationship and Robb’s attempt to understand why the person he’d once looked up to as a teenage role model could so strongly reject all that his family and the Western world believe in. BBC – sendt første gang den 4 april 2011. (Robb Leech: My Brother The Islamist: Dealing with the shock and hurt.) – Fremragende, seværdig dokumentar.

Londons ‘Taliban’ indfører tørklædetvang

Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on imposing sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed today.

Other targets of the ‘Talibanesque thugs’, being investigated by police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, include homosexuals. Stickers have been plastered on public walls stating: ‘Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment’. […]

An Asian woman who works in a pharmacy in east London was told to dress more modestly and wear a veil or the shop would be boycotted.

When she went to the media to talk about the abuse she suffered, a man later entered the pharmacy and told her: ‘If you keep doing these things, we are going to kill you’. […] ‘Wear a headscarf or we will kill you’: How the ‘London Taliban’ is targeting women and gays in bid to impose sharia law

Islamisk Trossamfund nervøs for deres offentlige tilskud – efter mødet

Hvis vi kunne gøre det om, ville vi ikke invitere Bilal Philips, siger talsmand Imran Shah. Det var en fejl at invitere Bilal Philips, som vil henrette bøsser og utro kvinder, og som taler til unge muslimer på Nørrebro kl. 15.00 i dag.Det erkender talsmanden for Islamisk Trossamfund Imran Shah nu. En fejl at invitere Bilal ( DF: Opløs Islamisk Trossamfund, Uriasposten: “Vigtigt, at indvandrere og danskere står sammen”, sagde socialisten – men det gjorde de ik’ TV 2 video: Sharia for Danmark. Gangsteren lille A lyttede til prædikant.)

Jagten på enhjørningen: Bilal Philips’ teologiske modstykke

Det er ikke let at finde hoved eller hale på mainstreammediernes placering af Bilal Philips inden for islamisk teologi, og det er selvfølgelig fordi der ikke er nogen. Philips betegnes i mange historier som “fundamentalistisk” eller som formet af “wahabismen”, med et ønske om “sharialovgivning”. Den rigtige, bøssevenlige islam er altid impliceret, aldrig nærmere udpeget.

[…] Hans uddannelse i islam blev derfor formet af den saudiarabiske udgave af islam: wahabismen, som er en tekstnær og konservativ udgave af islam. […] Portræt: Den jamaicanske guitarist, som blev radikal islamisk prædikant

Den islamiske djævel finder man kun i detaljen: De muslimske helligtekster er altså vitterligt bøssehadende, og i shariastyrede samfund vanker der den blodige henrettelse som Bilal Philips lige nu samler lidt enfoldig forargelse over at støtte – altså forargelse der uden risiko for at blive uanstændig kan rettes mod en person, og ikke mod dennes ideologi.

Siden journalister ikke kunne drømme om det, kunne man prøve at gøre deres arbejde for dem og se om man kan finde den ikke-tekstnære, ikke-shariastøttende islam der hvad lige homoseksualitet angår står i klar modsætning til Bilal Philips. Vi bragte for et par dage siden dokumentation for det teologiske fundament for islamisk homofobi med dertil hørende blodigheder. Kan man finde modsat rettede strømninger der kan gøre mindst lige så stærkt krav på at repræsentere den sande islam? Dét var den lille opgave vi prøvede at løse. Yderligere bekræftelse af det barbariske syn på homoseksuelle finder man uden videre ved googling:

[…] Shedding more light on the legal penalty for homosexuality, Dr. Taha Jaber Al-`Alwani, President of the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences and President of the Fiqh Council, states: “The scholars of this Ummah are in agreement – based on what has been revealed in the Qur’an and what has been authenticated in the Prophetic Tradition (Sunnah)- on prohibiting both behaviors (gayness and lesbianism) because in each of two actions there is an assault on the humanity of a person, destruction of the family and a clash with aims of the Lawgiver, one of which is the establishment of sexual instincts between males and females so as to encourage the institution of marriage. […] Scholars debate punishments for homosexuality giving textual citations

Al-Azhar Cleric Farahat Said Al-Munji against Homosexuals and Sexual Education on TV – al-Azhar er som sikkert bekendt sunni-islams førende institution. Det er dog i modsætning hertil også let at finde omtale af organisationer af homoseksuelle muslimer, f. eks.: Dissident Sexualities: Muslim and Gay in the UK. Det er endda også muligt at finde imamer med tolerante synspunkter på homoseksuelle:

Muslim religious leaders have joined Christian and Jewish leaders for the first time in issuing a joint plea for tolerance for gay people. […]

It states: “We affirm our resolute support for Dr Williams’s endeavours and we rededicate our efforts to fighting fundamentalism, aggressive proselytism and homophobia, and to defending the values of tolerance, inclusiveness and respect for differences which we all cherish.” […] Imams join plea for gay tolerance

Dette er stadig langt fra det teologiske fundament for tolerance som vi prøver at indkredse, og desværre er det ikke lykkedes Snaphanen at komme nærmere svaret på hvordan man kommer uden om den lille hage med ‘blodige homofobiske islamiske tekster’ og ‘Muhammeds homofobiske eksempel’. Det nærmeste synes at være denne pludrende Bæk Simonsen’ske snak om “skiftende social kontekst” og “dynamiske processer” fra et medlem af en organisation for muslimske homoseksuelle:

[…] “While we understand that the extreme homophobia of some Muslims leads non-Muslim gay people to characterise Islam itself as homophobic,” says Ifti, an Al-Fatiha spokesperson, “we have to be very careful to make a distinction between the two so as not to alienate potential straight Muslim supporters and to offer homosexual Muslims the possibility of being true to their faith. We have to emphasise the fact that interpreting the religious texts is a dynamic process and that application of religious laws must take into account the changing social context. […] Sodom & the Koran

Succeskriteriet for vores lille jagt må være at indkredse en stærk sunni-muslimsk retning eller teolog der af autoriteter som al-Azhar anerkendes som sand muslimsk, og som altså står for en tolkning af islam der ikke pålægger barbarisk afstraffelse af homoseksuelle. Måske har vi ikke søgt længe nok, eller denne retning gemmer sig rigtig godt for Google (LFPC).