The War on Islam in Australian Universities:

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The Bogus ‘National Centre of Excellence

for Islamic Studies’
(National Centre of Kufr)

Muslims For Peace

http://www.mfp.org.au
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The War on Islam in Australian
Universities:
The Bogus ‘National Centre of
Excellence for Islamic Studies’
(National Centre of Kufr)

April 2008

Contents

• Introduction 2

• What is the ‘National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies’? 3

• Who runs the Centre of Kufr? 5

• The crucial role of the Centre of Kufr 8

• Centre of Kufr teaches: Islam endorses lesbianism! 10

• Global campaign for so-called ‘queer Muslim revolution’ 12

• Conclusion 15

• References 16
Introduction

W hen Muslims For Peace (MFP)

warned Muslims about the so-
called ‘National Centre of
Excellence for Islamic Studies’ in July 2007,
writing that this Centre should more
appropriately be termed a Centre of Kufr
(Disbelief), this characterisation was greeted
with howls of anger from the Modernist
Muslim establishment, and wild accusations
of ‘extremism’ were levelled at the author.
In The War on Islam in the West: How the
West Hopes to Eliminate Islam, MFP wrote:
The principal aim of the Centre of
Kufr is to train as many people as
possible (especially future imams
and sheikhs) in this deviation. Those
who support this Centre, in any way
whatsoever, assist this vile objective.
Less than a year later, the truth on this matter
is abundantly apparent. Its Directors call for
secularism (the doctrine that the Laws of
Almighty Allah have no relevance to daily
life) with increased frequency, and several of
the Centre’s leading figures are not even
Muslims. Units studied at the Centre include
101.471: Women in Arabic and Islamic
Literature, which supposedly uses Qur’an and
Ahadith, then other literature, to examine how
Islam impacts on women.
In reality, as will also be explained below,
Muslims enrolled in this course have faced a
barrage of propaganda in favour of
lesbianism. The Holy Qur’an has been
derided as supposedly misogynist. It has been
asserted that Ahadith are simply hearsay
accounts (so-called ‘Chinese whispers’) of
statements of Prophet Muhammad (S).
Students are taught that homosexuality ‘is
neither condemned nor condoned’ by Islam
and that hijab is not obligatory in Islam.
The present essay will prove each of the
claims made above. The analysis begins by
putting the present discussion in context, with
an examination of the Centre’s role and its
leading figures. It will show who is really
pulling the strings. It will be proven that the
‘National Centre of Excellence for Islamic
Studies’ is truly a Centre of Kufr. It cannot be
‘reformed’ because it is only being faithful to
its true nature.

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What is the ‘National Centre of Excellence
for Islamic Studies’?
I n July 2006 the Australian Government
announced a lavishly funded National
Action Plan (NAP) to combat
‘extremism’ among Muslims. Since the 2006-
07 Budget, a total of $160.6 million has been
budgeted for new homeland security
measures overall. NAP includes the
establishment of a National Centre of
Excellence for Islamic Studies at three
universities (Melbourne, Griffith and Western
Sydney). The Government is providing $7.9
million over four years to establish and run
this Centre, which will aim to train
‘Australian imams’, ‘providing an important
vehicle for the teaching of Islam in an
Australian context’. The Government hopes
that this Centre will ‘play a leadership role in
exploring the place of Islam in modern
society’ (Safeguarding Australia, 2006).
Classes at the Centre for Islamic Studies
began in 2007.
The next step, the Australian Government
hopes, will be the so-called state ‘licensing’
of these imams, and a few of the existing
imams and sheikhs. This dream has already
been expressed by Government
spokespersons. By implication, the khutba to
be read at Friday Prayers will also fall under
Government control — that is, the control of
the kuffar. The Government has not yet
explained what it will do to imams and
sheikhs who remain true to their religion and
remain outside of the satanic system of state
control.
The Government will provide a further $2.9
million over four years (including $38,000 in
capital funding in 2006-2007) ‘to assist the
Muslim community plan for and respond to
national security issues and incidents, and
emergencies’. This measure will enable law
enforcement agencies to penetrate the Muslim
community, recruiting and co-opting cadre
from it, who will ‘foster understanding of
issues affecting the community within these
agencies’ — that is, they will sell ‘security’ to
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other Muslims (Safeguarding Australia,
2006).
A further $15.1 million over four years will
be provided for projects with State and
Territory governments and community
organisations and a National Emergency Call
Centre and National Security Hotline, will be
established, to enable the Government to keep
track of Muslims who oppose its agenda
(Safeguarding Australia, 2006).
Why this sudden concern with monitoring
Muslims? After all, the secular state
authorities know that it is they who are the
ones most likely to commit mass murder of
innocent civilians (two World Wars,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki alone, testify to
that), and they are well aware who really
perpetrated 9/11. They know that Islam
opposes aggression and treasures peace.
Every Muslim needs to grasp that there is
absolutely nothing new about the current War
on Islam. The Qur’an and the Seera of the
Holy Prophet (S) demonstrate that, from the
moment our Holy Prophet first testified to the
Oneness of Almighty Allah, there has been a
War on Islam. This war has assumed different
forms throughout the ages — from attempts
to buy off the first Muslims, right through to
campaigns of harassment, psychological
pressure, economic boycott, imprisonment,
torture, assassination and outright physical
war, such as the Crusades. This war varies in
intensity from time to time and it is certainly
revving up to new heights at present. And
much worse is certainly to come. But there is
nothing new about this war.
The particular form this relentless war of the
unbelievers takes has always been determined
by concrete circumstances. This is also true
today. In our Muslim lands, the stress is
generally on physical methods of coercion by
the Godless states, combined with a peculiar
state-controlled neutered (shirk-ridden)
‘Islam’, which endorses every oppressive
action by the Godless dictators ruling these
lands.
In the West, as the MFP Essay The War on
Islam in the West: How the West Hopes to
Eliminate Islam (available free at the MFP
Web site) has shown, physical repression
definitely has its place, but the current
emphasis is on more devious methods. The
rulers of Western states pretend to be
‘tolerant’ of all Faiths, while pursuing
determined, calculated programs to firstly
‘redefine’ Islam and to identify and enlist
tame cat Muslim leaders and intellectuals
whom they hope will do their bidding. Large
rewards — in terms of status and
‘recognition’, but at times even financial
(massive grants to compliant ‘Muslim’
organisations) — are forthcoming to those
Muslim community leaders prepared to play
the game of the kafiroun. The kafiroun make
prodigious use of these collaborators, to all
the better divide the Muslims, so as to
advance their agenda.
Some Muslims naively delude themselves
that they are only being ‘intelligent’ by
playing along with the schemes of the
enemies of Allah (SWT). Some even imagine
that their denunciations of so-called
‘Extremist Muslims’ bring ‘security’ to
Muslim communities. This has been
repeatedly proven to be a most dangerous
illusion; the more that Muslim community
leaders denounce other Muslims on behalf of
the Godless state, the more that Muslim
communities come under attack. The Godless
states of the West ensure that their operations
target not only so-called ‘Extremist Muslims’,
but that all Muslim communities are
demonised. Then, when this happens, the so-
called ‘Moderate Muslim community leaders’
scratch their heads in wonderment!
complete elimination of Islam and those who
cling to it in any form. Today’s compliant
tools of the West’s War on Islam (the
‘Moderates’) will themselves become the
target in this war, when they have served their
shameful purpose. And, if today the emphasis
in the West is on psychological operations
against Believing Muslims, subverting
Islamic schools and mosques and on
constructing networks of pro-imperialist
Muslims, tomorrow physical repression of
Believing Muslims will be on the agenda, if
the Believing Muslims do not rally
themselves to defend the Deen, and if they
fail to seek the assistance of Almighty Allah
for their peaceful efforts.
The first step towards effectively and
peacefully resisting the Godless agenda
against Islam is to recognise the reality of the
ceaseless war being waged against all
Believing Muslims and the Deen of Allah
(SWT). This is a step that is well overdue for
many Muslims, who still cannot see that the
so-called ‘National Centre of Excellence for
Islamic Studies’ is arguably the Godless
state’s sharpest weapon in its War against
Islam and Muslims. This is clear, if we
consider the track records of the individuals
appointed to run this Centre and who is really
pulling the strings.

The Holy Prophet (S) warned those Muslims

who play these treacherous games what their
fate will be, telling us: ‘If anyone walks with
an oppressor to strengthen, knowing that he is
an oppressor, he has gone forth from Islam’
(Sunnat Baihaqi).

The kafiroun, at least, know exactly what they

are doing. They will never be content with
even destroying Believing (so-called
‘Extremist’) Muslims but only with the

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Who runs the Centre of Kufr?
T his ‘National Centre of Excellence for
Islamic Studies’ is led by two Co-
Directors: Professor Abdullah Saeed
(University of Melbourne) and Dr. Mohamad
Abdalla (Griffith University). Melbourne
University’s Associate Professor Shahram
Akbarzadeh has just been made Deputy
Director of the Centre. Both the Co-Directors
are notorious ‘Muslim Modernists’. (Shahram
Akbarzadeh promotes ‘Modernism’, but is
actually made of different stuff, as will be
shown below.) ‘Modernist’ Islam asserts that
the Holy Qur’an and Ahadith need to be
‘reinterpreted’, and this is reflected in Saeed’s
and Abdalla’s works.
Professor Abdullah Saeed
One prominent example of this on Saeed’s
part is his book Interpreting the Qur’an,
which argues for ‘a more flexible approach’
to ‘interpreting’ the Holy Qur’an, based not
on traditional Islamic scholarship (which he
scorns as the ‘legalistic-literalistic approach’),
but on a so-called ‘Contextualist’
methodology. This latter is defined as taking a
‘more flexible approach’ based on relegating
the interpretations of the scholars to the
dustbin of history (since the real meanings of
the Qur’an from ‘the first/seventh century’
allegedly do not apply any more). Instead, he
offers an approach that stresses ‘the
contemporary concerns and needs of Muslims
today’ (Saeed, 2005: 1). This lead him
(Saeed, 2005: 2-3) to declare that much of
fiqh is no longer ‘viable’.
More recently (Saeed, 2008), he has praised
the abandonment of Shar’iah ‘based on the
foundation texts of Islam, the Koran [Qur’an]
and traditions of the prophet’ (S) by Muslim-
majority countries, hailing this as ‘bring[ing]
them into line with contemporary concerns
about gender equality and human rights’
(Saeed, 2008).
According to Saeed (2008), Muslims in
Australia can be arbitrarily divided into ‘three
groups. Through this (unproven) assertion,
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Saeed makes it appear that pious, practicing
Muslims are weird, if not dangerous. Thus,
Mumineen (the first group) are described as
follows:
The first group, very few in number,
take a hardline position. They argue
it is difficult to be a good, practising,
committed Muslim in a Western
country such as Australia, living
under non-Muslim laws, because of
the overall non-Islamic environment
they are subjected to and the non-
Muslim laws they live under.
The Law of Almighty Allah is described as
‘classical Islamic rules and norms’, in order to
convey the impression that it is somehow old
fashioned, if not obsolete. Professor Saeed
does not bother to show how his typology can
be verified by any objective data. He simply
mendaciously asserts it, in order to
manipulate his readers towards his preferred
‘group’:
The third group — which I would
argue includes the vast majority of
Muslims living in Australia — see
no problem at all in living as good,
committed, practising Muslims
within a non-Muslim legal
framework and among non-Muslims.
This group believes there is no need
for Muslims to follow classical
Islamic law, including family law, if
this is not in line with existing
Australian law. For them, Australian
law, including family law, is
sufficient and just fine. Muslims in
Australia, they argue, have the
freedom to practise their religion and
are equal before the law, with no
discriminatory laws targeted against
them.
Indeed, he adds, given that in Australia the
values of justice, equity and fairness are
allegedly upheld for all, including Muslims,
this ‘non-Muslim country is already Islamic’!
As far as Saeed is concerned, in fact, the
entire world could be under Godless secular
law and everything would be fine, as long as
Muslims are allowed to pray and fast. Saeed
therefore asserts:
Islam is primarily a relationship
between an individual and God, a
relationship based on a set of ethical-
moral values and norms, and that this
can be practised anywhere where
there is religious freedom and
justice.
Apparently, Saeed has never heard of the
deepening state attacks on Muslims in West.
For him, Western ‘democracy’ is eminently
more preferable to Islamic Law, that is, to
legislation given to humanity as a mercy by
Almighty Allah! The Godless West needs
false scholars of Islam such as Professor
Saeed, in order to attempt to convince young
Muslims to progressively abandon their
commitment to Allah (SWT) and His Holy
Prophet (S). Saeed is paid handsomely to
teach young Muslims that Islam is supposedly
backward, and inferior to Western
democracy, since it does not allow Muslims
to simply follow their nafs as the West
advocates. Such is the accursed role of
‘Modernist’ Islam.
Dr. Mohamad Abdalla
Dr. Mohamad Abdalla showed his colours
when he addressed a Conference convened by
the University of Western Sydney on 3
September 2007, for the purpose of
promoting its Centre. In his presentation, he
distorted the Qur’anic (2:143) prescription for
Muslims to form an ’Ummat al-wassat (a just,
balanced community), to mean an ’Ummah
that abstains from opposing oppression.
Indeed, Dr. Abdullah even suggested at the
Conference that it was ‘discourteous’ to
practically oppose oppression perpetrated by
the Australian Government.
Dr Abdalla sees no problem about Muslims
killing other Muslims, provided they are in
the employ of the Australian Government at
the time. He is on record enthusiastically
supporting Australia’s military wars against
Islam:
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Embracing events such as Anzac
Day does not contradict Islamic
teaching. Muslims have joined the
Australian armed forces and received
medals. Anzac Day events are not
factors in inciting hatred. In fact,
they can help Muslims and non-
Muslims interact positively
(Courier-Mail, 12 April 2007).
Perhaps this is what is meant by ‘integration’?
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Associate Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh
researches the politics of Central Asia and the
Middle East, ‘political Islam’, and US
relations with the Muslim world. He is
Deputy Director of the Centre of Kufr.
Akbarzadeh has only comparatively recently
professed any sort of interest in Islam. His
PhD concerned nationalism in the former
Central Asian Soviet republics. He has never
professed to be a Muslim (despite his name,
and his birth in the Iranian city of Mashad).
This is hardly surprising, since (until the
collapse of the USSR), he was the Australian
representative of an Iranian radical Marxist
group, the Sazman-e Kargaran-e Engelabi-ye
Iran/Rah-e Kargar (Organisation of
Revolutionary Workers of Iran/Worker’s
Voice).
There has never been any indication that
Akbarzadeh is a practicing Muslim. This has
not prevented him from hastening to lend his
voice to advocacy in favour of ‘Modernist’
Islam and his dishonest denunciation of the
so-called ‘literalist approach’ — that is,
authentic Islam, based on Qur’an and Sunnah.
He agrees with his boss that ‘secular
democratic laws may be called “Islamic”’
(Akbarzadeh, 2008) and demands that Islam
change, in order to fit in with kufr:
If Islam is a living religion, as
Muslims believe it to be, then its
laws and dictums need to evolve and
keep up with the contemporary
issues that face Muslims. If Islam is
 a religion for all times, it needs to birth of superman. Allah (SWT) says about
have a real and organic relevance to such blasphemy: ‘[18.5] a monstrous word it
all times. It needs to be evolutionary is that comes out of their mouths; they speak
and adaptive (Akbarzadeh, 2008). nothing but a lie’.

And, together with another academic Nietzsche’s intellectual influence was

advocate of Modernism, he writes elsewhere:
Since the mid 19th century Muslim
thinkers and scholars have been
trying to create an Islamic
democratic society in which Islamic
principals (sic) and modernisation
can go hand in hand. There is,
however, still a long way to go, as an
unlikely ‘coalition’ of religious
traditionalists and authoritarian
secular leaders are resisting change
(Mansouri & Akbarzadeh, 2006: 2).
essential to the esoteric, pagan-spiritual,
ideology of the Nazi elite. Adolph Hitler kept
a bust of him and in 1943 gave his works to
Mussolini. The Nazis built a monument for
Nietzsche in 1938 (Taha, 2005). (This is not
to imply, of course, that Kamal is a Nazi; his
politics is actually Kurdish nationalist fitna,
strongly influenced by atheistic Marxism.)
Several other academics at the Centre of Kufr
do not even pretend to be Muslims.

In short, everywhere one looks in the public

writings of these supposed scholars of Islam
in control of the Centre of Kufr, one finds
advocacy for Islam to adapt itself to kufr, and
denunciation of pious Muslims striving to live
by Qur’an and Sunnah as somehow irrelevant
(and possibly authoritarian) dinosaurs.

Muhammad Kamal

Dr. Muhammad Kamal is another academic

associated with the centre of Kufr. According
to his University Web Page Kamal is a nihilist
philosopher specialising, among other things,
in utterly useless contemplative Sufism, in the
nihilistic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
and in the ‘ontology of Martin Heidegger’
(Kamal, 2004). The Nazi Heidegger accepted
appointment by Hitler’s National Socialists as
their first Nazi Rector of Freiburg University
in 1933 due of his authoritarian views on
higher education, argues Iain Thomson
convincingly (2003: 515). Friedrich Nietzsche
was even more important for Nazism. The
Nazis welcomed Nietzsche’s pagan
Aryanism, with its view of ‘Herrenmensch’, a
new type of man who with his robber instincts
was able to manipulate the masses and who
was a law unto himself. Nietzsche’s book
Thus Spake Zarathusthra climaxes with the
grotesque myth of the death of God and the

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The crucial role of the Centre of Kufr
M any Muslims have developed in
inferiority complex, having been
convinced that the West’s
distinguishing features are more sophisticated
and superior to our own, Islamic, traits. They
hold Western, non-Muslim, scholarly
opinions to be of more significance than
Eastern Muslim opinions.
Dr. Ali Shari’ati (martyred in 1978) was
familiar with this phenomenon and he wrote
about it in the context of the imperial
conquest of our Muslim lands. He explained
how it was necessary for Western colonisers
to first destroy the Muslims’ thoughts and
feelings, before they could dominate their
lives and countries:
Europeans want to change eastern
societies so that they can plunder our
property, ride upon our thoughts and
our feelings. They want to take the
food from our mouths as well as to
destroy our common sense values.
Without destroying these things, they
cannot take the food from our
mouths; they cannot take our
property.
Thus we must first empty ourselves
and leave our moulds. We must
forget all of our human values and
all of our traditions which were the
very things which kept us upon our
own feet. We must give these up and
break them within ourselves. Once,
empty‑headed with an impotent
spirit, crippled and without content,
we must become exactly like
garbage cans which are filled with
dirty and useless things and then are
emptied.
With the brain and the spirit of the
East, they are doing this. They empty
their contents. When they have no
faith in anything, they have no
intelligence or awareness so that they
have no hero, they think their past is
completely without value. When
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they believe their religion to be
empty and full of myths, they feel
spiritual meanings to
old‑fashioned, reactionary and that
way of life to be ugly and detestable.
They either do not know themselves,
be
their children and their spirituality or
else they know it badly. So what
form do they change? They come out
empty and thirsty and in need of the
orders of the exploiters. Whatever
the exploiters want to pour into their
interior, in whatever order they
choose, they get to work plundering.
It is because of this that they assign
permanent slogans to plundering the
East, emptying the minds of
Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus,
Iranians, Turks, Arabs, Blacks and
Whites. All must take one form.
They should only have one
dimension. They must be consumers
of Western economic products and
have thoughts, but not think for
themselves.
Insistence upon old values, human
values, tradition and religion which
are full of meaning, close the way to
the West and guard the East.
Insistence upon traditional values
stands like a watchtower with a
strong spirit against the West. They
defend Islam and independence.
Foreignness does not penetrate.
Moslems are overflowing with
honor, spiritual meaning, values and
pride. Their history, people, culture,
faith and religious characteristics
give them independence, greatness
and something to hold their heads up
high for.
They see the Westerners as nouveau
riche and newly civilized. They
criticize them, humiliate them and
confront them. But the West falls
upon the soul of the Easterners like
termites. Little by little they empty
out the contents. They even destroy
all of the forces of resistance which
 remain. In place of the brave
guardians of the watchtowers, full of
spirit and pride, they build a people
empty of common sense,
perseverance and pride. The
Easterners even [go] forward to meet
the enemy. They take whatever the
West gives and do whatever they
want them to do. They become
exactly as Westerners had willed
they would be (Shari’ati, nd).
Since then, the devastation of our lands by the
Godless West has forced millions of our
people to immigrate to Western Europe,
North America and Australia. The West’s
Godless capitalists now use the same
techniques to manipulate the minds of the
immigrated Muslims — especially our youth.
Now in the developed lands, as well, the
Godless West falls upon the souls of the
Muslims, emptying the contents and replacing
them with rubbish — globalised, soulless
monoculture: the ‘sex and drugs and
rock’n’roll’ of Ian Dury’s appropriately
named band The Blockheads:
Sex and drugs and rock and roll,
Is all my brain and body need,
Sex and drugs and rock and roll,
Are very good indeed.
Keep your silly ways or throw them
out the window,
The wisdom of your ways, I've been
there and I know,
Lots of other ways, what a jolly bad
show,
If all you ever do is business you
don't like.
Sex and drugs and rock and roll,
Sex and drugs and rock and roll,
Sex and drugs and rock and roll,
Is very good indeed…
Traditional Islamic values are a barricade
against such mental, spiritual and physical
conquest; that is why the West must demolish
them. Our youth, especially, must develop an
inferiority complex — be convinced that
Divine values are ‘old fashioned’: ‘we’re in
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the 21st century, man!’ Qur’an and Sunnah
(so-called ‘classical Islamic rules and norms’)
must be relegated to dusty shelves, as
Muslims are brainwashed to reject what
Abdullah Saeed ridicules as the ‘legalistic-
literalistic approach’. Qur’an and Sunnah
need to be replaced with a ‘more flexible
approach’, based on relegating the
interpretations of the scholars and Islamic fiqh
to the dustbin of history. Our youth must
become content to live their lives entirely by
Godless secular Western norms, as long as
they pray and fast, since ‘Islam is primarily a
relationship between an individual and God’
(Saeed, 2005: 1-3 & Saeed, 2008). This can
even include joining Western armies and
killing other Muslims! (Dr. Mohamad
Abdalla, Courier-Mail, 12 April 2007.)
The enemies of Islam are experts at what they
do — which is why they currently dominate
the world. They are very experienced and
extremely patient. They know how to start off
small, and work patiently, little by little, to
corrode religious belief and practice. Once
pious Muslims can become increasingly
formalistic in fulfilling their religious
obligations, once this Modernist Cancer starts
taking a grip on them. And there is always the
excuse at hand for such deluded souls to
deceive themselves with: ‘Professor X is very
learned, he says “do this”, so it must be OK!’
Indeed, well aware that they are incapable of
fulfilling their mission by themselves, the
enemies of Allah (SWT) seduce certain
‘Muslim community leaders’ as their
mouthpieces. These wretches do the talking,
but it’s the dollar pulling the strings. The
kufar prize ‘Islamic Thinkers’ whom they
have won to their side, praising them highly
in public and remunerating them handsomely.
They make very good use of such types.
The enemies of Almighty Allah know that
every ‘Modernist’ deviation they can infuse is
a step towards their final victory: the eventual
total abandonment of praying and fasting.
Step-by-step, the Modernist Cancer moves to
this outcome. After all, when Faith, Belief
and Morality are corroded from within, why
bother bobbing up and down five times a day
or starving oneself for a month? ‘We’re in
Australia, mate!’
This moral and spiritual corruption wreaks
tremendous psychological damage on our
youth when it is allowed to flourish, resulting
in them being alienated from the Deen of
Almighty Allah. Having destroyed the
Muslims’ thoughts and feelings, they can now
dominate their lives.
This is nothing less than a War on Islam:
‘[2.217] and they will not cease fighting with
you until they turn you back from your
religion, if they can’. Everywhere this war has
many dimensions, including a psychological
one, as indeed all wars have always had. In
the West, the psychological aspect is
currently the main component of the War on
Islam — which is why the US RAND
Corporation, one of the world’s major
imperialist ‘think tanks’, has written the most
significant strategy papers for the enemies of
Islam, explaining in intricate detail how to
destroy Islam and Believing Muslims. RAND
stresses: ‘Carefully targeting psychological
operations’ (Rabasa et al, 2004: 60-67).
Hence the so-called ‘National Centre of
Excellence for Islamic Studies’.
Centre of Kufr teaches:
Islam endorses Lesbianism!
T his is indeed a grim picture for
Muslims to face up to — and it is, in
fact, much worse than has been
described so far. Yet we must not conclude
that the enemies of Almighty Allah will
succeed. Allah (SWT) has promised the
Believing Muslims that their pious efforts to
unmask and resist the Unbelievers’ schemes
will be richly rewarded by Him:
[8.30] And when those who
disbelieved devised plans against
you that they might confine you or
slay you or drive you away; and they
devised plans and Allah too had
arranged a plan; and Allah is the best
of planners.
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And this is precisely what is now beginning to
unfold. For, in their arrogance, the enemies of
Almighty Allah have fallen into the trap of
showing exactly how contemptuous they are
of Qur’an and Sunnah, by employing an
internationally prominent advocate of
lesbianism as a Lecturer in the Centre of Kufr.
Dr. Samar Habib takes the Centre’s course
101.471: Women in Arabic and Islamic
Literature. Muslim students enrolled in this
subject have already expressed their dismay at
the thoroughly unprofessional, biased and
frankly anti-Islamic character of teaching in
this Unit.
The following is the Course Description of
this Unit:
Beginning with “Nisa”— the chapter
of the holy Quran dedicated to
women — and a collection of
pertinent ahadith, this unit focuses on
the impact that Islam’s philosophy
has had on various Muslim and Arab
cultures by examining literature from
throughout the Arabo-Islamic
civilization. Students are introduced
to a variety of interpretations of the
role of women in Islam and how
these interpretations are reflected in
literary and non-literary texts.
Students learn to detect the
tremendous influence that Islam has
had on Arabic texts and cultures,
even those which at first appear to be
of a secular nature.
According to the Unit Outline, subject matter
in this course is supposedly sweeping in
nature, examining the representation of
women in the Holy Qur’an and Ahadith. Yet,
Muslim students report that the lectures and
readings of this course are not scholarly texts,
but overwhelmingly personal reminiscences
by individuals aggrieved with Islam. The
Holy Qur’an and Ahadith are derided as
supposedly misogynist. In class discussions
about the Ahadith, Dr. Habib has asserted
(without proof) that Ahadith are simply
hearsay accounts of statements of Prophet
Muhammad (S).

Centre of Kufr Lecturer Samar Habib
teaches:
• Lesbianism is halal in Islam;
• Hijab is not obligatory in Islam;
• Ahadith are ‘Chinese Whispers’;
• Muslim scholars can be ignored,
since they are males.
The works of widely accepted Muslim
scholars are ignored since, Dr. Habib tells
students, they are males. Homosexuality and
lesbianism are represented as acceptable in
Islam and students are taught that ‘hijab is not
obligatory in Islam’. In other words, after
refusing to honestly come to terms with
Islam’s teachings on these matters in Qur’an
and Ahadith, Islam is then grossly
misrepresented.
The issue of lesbianism is being used to
facilitate advocacy of radical feminist and
radical lesbian political agendas, instead of
addressing broader issues and encouraging a
genuine spirit of enquiry. This Unit does not
genuinely contribute to knowledge about
Islam’s teachings (a supposed aim of the
Centre), but actually promotes hatred of
Islam’s teachings. Dr. Habib appears both
incapable and unwilling to impart Islam’s
teachings relevant to this course — which is
not surprising given her openly stated views
and her transformation of the classroom into a
platform for her bizarre views. She is not so
much a scholar as an internationally
renowned advocate for lesbianism.
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This is shown, for instance, by her lecture on
3 February 2008 in Haifa in Israel, at the
invitation of the leading Palestinian Lesbian
advocacy organisation ‘Aswat’. This meeting
also saw the launch of an Aswat book My
Right to Live, to Choose, to Be: A Collection
of Literal Texts Written by Arab Lesbian
Women. Aswat describes the purpose of Dr.
Habib’s lecture:
Dr. Samar Habib, a Palestinian
researcher and writer, from the
University of Western Sydney-
Australia, is joining us to
acknowledge this groundbreaking
work by Aswat (Queer Muslim
Revolution, 2008).
Aswat openly describes itself on its Website
as a lesbian advocacy organisation, declaring:
We are a group of Palestinian Gay
Women. Our group includes
lesbians, gay women, bi-sexuals,
transexuals and transgenders, queers,
questioning and inter-sex (LGBTQI)
(Aswat, 2005).
And:
Programs in Advocacy, Outreach
and Education through our
publications, such as the first book of
Aswat “Home and Exile in Queer
Experience: Collection of Articles
about Lesbian Homosexual Identity”,
also through various media stages
and other educational programs such
as the first Educational Seminar that
we held together with AlQaws and
Baladna for young activists (Aswat,
2008).
Dr. Habib has even written an introduction to
a translation of an erotic lesbian novel ‘on
Lesbian Desire in the Middle East’.
(Mansour, Elham (2008) I Am You (Ana Hiya
Anti): A Novel on Lesbian Desire in the
Middle East, Cambria Press, Youngstown,
NY.)
And all this is ‘excellence’ in ‘Islamic
Studies’? Clearly not — although it is
undoubtedly utter kufr.
Samar Habib’s main text advocating for
lesbianism (top) and an erotic lesbian
novel (bottom) containing a positive
Introduction by her, promoting
lesbianism.
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Global campaign for so-called
‘queer Muslim revolution’
Islam’s stand on homosexuality and
lesbianism has never been in doubt. Allah
(SWT) states:
[7.80] And (We sent) Lut when he
said to his people: What! Do you
commit an indecency which any one
in the world has not done before
you?
[7.81] Most surely you come to
males in lust besides females; nay
you are a transgressing people.
And:
[26.165] What! Do you come to the
males from among the creatures.
[26.166] And leave what your Lord
has created for you of your wives?
Nay, you are a people exceeding
limits.
And the Holy Prophet (S), in a well-known
Hadith, said:
‘Four types of people awake under
Allah’s anger and go to bed under
Allah’s displeasure’. Those who
were listening asked: ‘Who are they,
Messenger of Allah?’ He replied:
‘Men who imitate women, women
who imitate men, those who have
sex with animals, and men who have
sex with men’.
Homosexuality and lesbianism are
condemned as abominations in Islam. It is
surely a sign of age of fitna in which we are
living that these abominations are now
overwhelmingly regarded as acceptable and
even ‘normal’ in Western societies.
Schoolteachers can even face disciplinary
action for deprecating these perversions! The
Department of Education and Youth Affairs
in the State of New South Wales in Australia
even convened a conference in mid-April
2008 on so-called ‘sexual diversity’ entitled
That’s So Gay, under the pretext of combating of Pride — emphasizes the importance of
‘homophobia’. NSW Education Director- Hebrew and of Israel to the World Congress’.
General Michael Coutts-Trotter opened the
conference. Schools are coming under
pressure to provide lessons for gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender students and fill
their libraries with books and DVDs
promoting homosexuality and lesbianism.

Among the homosexual and lesbian

movement’s demands are the outlawing of
comments deprecating homosexuality and
lesbianism by teachers or students, and a
requirement for teachers to receive so-called
‘diversity training’. The NSW Federation of
Parents and Citizens’ Associations has called
for ‘appropriate literacy materials promoting
diversity in families’. Same-sex ‘attraction
issues’ are already part of students’ lessons. A
25-hour course, mandatory for all Year 11 ‘Muslim’ contingent in London
and 12 students in government schools, ‘Gay Pride’ march.
examines ‘issues relating to sexuality and
sexual diversity’.

Sydney’s Mardi Gras receives extensive in-

kind support from the City of Sydney, that its
organisers say is essential. And one of
Australia’s largest gay and lesbian events, the
State of Victoria’s Midsumma Festival, has
received Government funding of $21,500.

Modernism has already made so many

inroads among Muslims that some are even
joining such movements — which are
promoted and funded by the enemies of
Almighty Allah, including the Zionists. The
so-called ‘Al-Fatiha Foundation’ was
established in October 1998, with branches in
London and North America. Al-Fatiha’s
mailing list reportedly covers over 1,800
subscribers. This is only the most well-known
such organisation. These include The World
Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgender Jews: Keshet Ga’avah. The
World Congress consists of around 50
member organizations in Argentina,
Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany,
Hungary, Israel, Mexico, The Netherlands,
Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the
United States. According to its Website: ‘The
Hebrew subtitle Keshet Ga’avah — Rainbow
The World Congress supported an event in
San Francisco recently that raised $US17,000
for a so-called ‘gay Muslim’ outfit misnamed
‘Halal Films’, that produced a pro-
homosexual film blasphemously named In the
Name of Allah. The film addresses ‘the
hidden lives and daily struggles of gay
Muslims all over the world’. The so-called
Halal Films’ Web site reveals the deceptive
Modernist methodology of these evildoers:
The international chorus of gay,
lesbian, and transgender Muslims
brought together by In the Name of
Allah doesn’t seek to vilify or reject
Islam, but rather negotiate a new
relationship to it [i.e., incorporating
haram abominations]. In doing so,

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 the film’s extraordinary characters
point the way for all Muslims to
move beyond the hostile, war-torn
present, toward a more hopeful
future.
A ‘Gender and Militarism’ seminar was
organised by the Israeli Zionist-feminist
‘Coalition of Women for Peace’ and Israeli
Zionist-feminist ‘New Profile’ movement on
23-26 August 2007 in Israel. This reportedly
involved a number of Muslims, including
Ayşe Gül Altınay, Mehmet Tarhan and Ferda
Ülker, all from Turkey. The seminar’s
purpose was to show that ‘anti-militarism’
requires feminism and acceptance of
homosexuality and lesbianism. Naturally, it is
still necessary to maintain the racist, Godless,
state of Israel, of course; to oppose this would
be ‘terrorism’!
‘Lesbian Muslim’ advocate Irshad
Manji, and her champion the Zionist
butcher Shimon Peres.
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It is not surprising that Zionists, feminists,
lesbians and homosexuals club together to
promote evil. When one takes into
consideration abominations such as the Gay
Mardi Gras, the Midsumma Festival and
compulsory school classes promoting
lesbianism and homosexuality, this is only
part of a deepening trend in today’s global
Age of Fitna. But it is surely disgraceful that
Muslims join them in this. And it is
absolutely sickening that a so-called ‘National
Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies’
provides miseducation in the name of Islam
that spiritually and morally disarms young
Muslims, by teaching that lesbianism and
homosexuality are acceptable before
Almighty Allah. It is also completely in line
with the global fitna being orchestrated by the
enemies of Almighty Allah.
Conclusion
Muslims For Peace has been one of the very
few Muslim voices consistently opposing the
establishment and operation of this Centre.
We have warned that its principal aim is to
train as many people as possible (especially
future imams and sheikhs) in the ‘Modernist’
Islam deviation. And we have explained that
those who support this Centre, in any way
whatsoever, assist this vile objective. We
have added that this Centre only seeks to dull
the taqwa of the Believing Muslims and
divide the ‘Ummah of Almighty Allah. And
we have cautioned Muslims collaborating
with the schemes of the kafiroun against
Muslims, that they surely risk themselves
ending up kafiroun. As the Holy Prophet
Muhammad (S) said:
If anyone walks with an oppressor to
strengthen, knowing that he is an
oppressor, he has gone forth from
Islam (Sunnat Baihaqi).
For all these reasons, Muslims For Peace has
taken the clear stance of complete opposition
to this Centre and argued that Muslims must
have absolutely nothing to do with this
project, which is a central rampart of the War
on Islam.
Some Muslims have argued fatuously that we
only have ourselves to blame, if we fail to
‘engage’ with such schemes, and projects
such as the National Centre are then
unfriendly to genuine Islam. MFP responded
that it was:
the height of naivety to imagine that
individual Muslims can ‘influence’
the Centre of Kufr, since this deadly
(to Muslims) Centre can only be
understood in the framework of the
ongoing — and visibly deepening —
War on Islam. It is a vital part of that
War. The handful of Muslim
academics in Australia will never
change the essential character of a
Centre dedicated to kufr. But
(irrespective of the individual piety
of some who might decide to work
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for them) they will be used to give
‘halal’ credentials to this Centre of
Kufr. If Mumineen join their team,
the Centre would be able to point to
them as ‘proof’ that it is doing ‘good
work’. In other words, despite ‘good
intentions’, the end result would be
to provide a smokescreen for this
101% kafir operation to do its work.
Almighty Allah tells us explicitly
that our only duty is to warn people
of the consequences of defying Him,
and to leave the rest up to Him. If the
good advice of those upholding the
Deen is not heeded, we should turn
away from them:
[51.54] Then turn your back upon
them for you are not to blame.
And:
[6.106] Follow what is revealed to
you from your Lord; there is no
god but He; and withdraw from
the polytheists.
In its very short period of operation so far, the
‘National Centre of Excellence for Islamic
Studies’ has proven conclusively that it is
indeed the National Centre of Kufr. It is the
spearhead of the War on Islam in Australian
Universities.
Muslims For Peace therefore calls upon all
Muslims associated with this accursed Centre,
at whatever level — academics,
administrators, students or whatever — to
immediately disengage from the Centre.
Anyone can make mistakes — it is part of the
human condition to err. But now the wicked
nature of this Centre should be crystal clear
for all to see; for the sake of their Akhira,
Muslims should fear Almighty Allah and
break all connections with this diabolical
Centre of Kufr. We further, with respect, urge
our beloved and influential sheikhs and
’Ulema to break their silence and lend their
support to this call for all Muslims to break
from the odious Centre of Kufr.
And Allah (SWT) knows best.
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