Crescent magazine is pro-Iranian anti-west extremist in direction and aligned with Russian disinformation Zafar Bangash is Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought who supports the Islamic Revolution of Iran, and opposes war against Islamic terrorists.
Crescent International | Monthly News Magazine from ICIT
https://crescent.icit-digital.org/ We are a magazine that attempts to reflect the global Islamic movement's perspective on current affairs through deconstructing imperialism, exposing Dr Kalim Siddiqui's key objectives after the Islamic Revolution in Iran was to help to turn the idea of the global Islamic movement
On Iran
Why don't you bash Iran? This is a question sometimes asked by those not well acquainted with ICIT's intellectual work and with zero understanding of the media obfuscation within the contemporary global order. The simple answer is that Islamic Iran is getting enough bashing from 99% of the global media and we are not going to join racists and neocolonial designs against the only working Islamic model.
A slightly deeper answer lies in the fact that Crescent International's support is not for Iran per se but for the Islamic system and the God-conscious and moral leadership present in Iran. If a similar system were to emerge elsewhere we would readily support it.
ICIT's scholars and thinkers base their support of the only working Islamic model on the primary sources of Islam and can confidently face anyone in an open debate on this topic.
We readily admit that Islamic Iran has some managerial and administrative flaws, but that does not disqualify it from being the only working Islamic state system that is truly independent of Zionism and imperialism.
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The Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) is an Islamic research and activist center. ICITdescribes itself as "international intellectual center of the global Islamic movement
Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought
The Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) is an Islamic research and activist center. ICIT describes itself as "international intellectual center of the global Islamic movement. It consists of individual activists, journalists and academics in all parts of the world who share a common commitment to developing the social and political ideas of the Islamic movement, and promoting them as an alternative worldview to that of Western civilization.Driven by the guidance provided in the Farewell Khutbah, much of the work of ICIT is to produce publications and provide programs that cultivate the Islamic personality, uphold economic justice, and protect social justice."
It was established in 1998 by the associates of Kalim Siddiqui (1931–1996), Director of The Muslim Institute in London. Members include director Zafar Bangashof Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Muhammad al-Asi and Imam Abdul Alim Musa of Washington DC, and Iqbal Siddiqui of London, now the editor of the Crescent International magazine.
Crescent International a monthly newsmagazine associated with the ICIT, published in Canada.[1][1][2] It is the continuation of a local Toronto Pakistani community paper founded in the early 1970s,[2] converted to an international news magazine by Kalim Siddiqui in 1980. Siddiqui acted as editor from 1975 to 1998. An Arabic edition, called Al-Hilal Al-Dawli, was published from 1986–89. Between 1998 and 2008, Crescent International was edited by Iqbal Siddiqui. It is now managed by an editorial board consisting of Zafar Bangash, Afeef Khan and Imam Muhammad al-Asi.
Other major contributors include Imam Muhammad al-Asi of Washington, D.C., whose tafsir is being serialised, M A Shaikh in London, and Perwez Shafi in Pakistan. Former editor Iqbal Siddiqui is now a columnist. Crescent International is also published online, under the name "Muslimedia", and with a daily news analysis under crescent-online.net.[3]
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- ^ Jump up to:a b Tony Ruprecht (14 December 2010). Toronto's Many Faces. Dundurn. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-4597-1804-3. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
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Zafar Bangash (Urdu: ظفر بنگش) is a noted Islamic movement journalist and commentator in Toronto, Canada. Bangash is Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), and president of the Islamic Society of York Region, a suburb of Toronto.
Zafar Bangash (Urdu: ظفر بنگش) is a noted Islamic movement journalist and commentator in Toronto, Canada. Bangash is Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT),[2] and president of the Islamic Society of York Region, a suburb of Toronto. He is Imam[3] at the Islamic Society of York Region's Mosque and community centre in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He is a former editor of Crescent International newsmagazine, and a Trustee and formerly assistant director of the Muslim Institute, London, where he worked with Dr Kalim Siddiqui (1931–1996), the founder of the Muslim Institute and Leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain. Bangash is also co-founder of the Muslim Unity Group.[4][5]
He is best known for his commentaries current affairs while editor of Crescent International. Though he stepped down as editor since joining the ICIT, he continues as a columnist and contributor to Crescent.
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Activities[edit]
In 2007, as a spokesperson for the Muslim Unity Group in Toronto, Bangash appeared with other Muslim leaders at a Toronto press conference calling for the Ontario government and Toronto District School Board to address the problem of increased harassment of Muslims and racial minorities since 9-11.[5]
He was the keynote speaker at a 2007 Marxist conference in Toronto, prompting Bangash critic Tarek Fatah of the liberal Muslim Canadian Congress to comment, "For atheists, considered worthy of the death penalty by Islamists, to team up with their ultimate opponents in attacking Canadian civic society, demonstrates the fundamental bankruptcy of these two political ideologies."[2] Bangash justified his collaboration with secular leftists saying "The issues of justice, inequality and poverty are common themes we can work together on. They are concerns of conscience."[2]
Bangash was the focus of controversy when his association with a planned mosque in Newmarket, Ontario was used as a rallying point by opponents attempting to convince the municipality to rescind zoning approval for the building. A group called "Concerned Citizens Against Terror for Citizens of Newmarket" led by Ron Banerjee of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy and Meir Weinstein of the Jewish Defence League organised protests and a public meeting against the mosque's construction. Banerjee claimed that Bangash himself posed a "clear and present danger to the safety and security" of the country. The protest group was accused by one community member of not being members of the community and coming in from outside for the purpose of "stirring the pot".[6] Mosque leaders have said that while Bangash is president of the Islamic Society of York Region to which the new mosque belongs, he is not the mosque's imam and has no direct involvement with the facility.[7]
In June 2007, the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) honoured Bangash at a gala dinner for his "unwavering" support of Palestine. CAF President Khaled Mouammar also defended Bangash, stating that "he is a man of dignity" and that "he has no blood on his hands like those Israeli war criminals who come to Canada and are received by our politicians, like Ariel Sharon." [8]
On 14 February 2010, at a conference entitled "Media War on Islam," Bangash stated the "Israeli-owned" International Consultants on Targeted Security runs security at Amsterdam airport, and therefore "the Israelis are in control of security," and thus allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a Detroit-bound plane with concealed explosives.[9]
Views[edit]
Support for the Iranian Government[edit]
Bangash is a staunch supporter of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran[10] and has called for Islamic revolutions in other countries, stating that "Muslims must strive to overthrow the oppressive systems in their societies through Islamic revolutions, and not by participating in fraudulent elections organized by the elites operating through various political parties that actually divide the people."[11] Tarek Fatah describes him as the "unofficial spokesperson for the Iranian regime in Canada."[11] However, Bangash has denied being an advocate of creating an Islamic theocracy telling the Toronto Star "I am suggesting not necessarily an Iranian-style theocracy but I am advocating that people in the Muslim world should get rid of their corrupt regimes in the same way as the people of Iran got rid of the corrupt regime of the shah, of course."[6]
In December 2009 following the presidential election protests in Iran, Bangash wrote an article in "Crescent International" in which he denied the alleged fraud in the Iranian elections and called the protesters a "small and rowdy mob" who wanted to "destroy the Islamic system of government" in Iran[12]
Homosexuality[edit]
In a speech from 1996, Bangash called for members of the LGBTQ community to be put to death, specifically,
In 2004, the Toronto District School Board proposed the introduction of "anti-homophobia education" at a downtown Toronto school. Bangash supported the right of Muslim parents to exclude their children from classes discussing families with same-sex parents. "We don't want our children subject to that kind of thinking. It's very clear in our belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. It goes against the core beliefs of Muslims; our understanding springs directly from the Qur'an," said Bangash.[14]
United States[edit]
Bangash opposes the United States, calling it "the greediest, most exploitative, most manipulative, most hypocritical and most ruthless power that the world has ever known."[11] He has also written that "unless the US and Israel realise that their murderous policies, far from cowing the Muslims, will only intensify hatred for them, there will be peace neither in the Muslim world nor for the US and its zionist surrogate, Israel."[15]
In an interview with on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Bangash stated that:
He told the National Post that he believes that the US government knew of Osama bin Laden's plans to launch the 9/11 attacks in advance and allowed them to occur to provide a pretext for attacking Afghanistan.[7]
In an interview with the Islam Times in October 2010, Bangash stated that "There is little doubt that the US is in terminal decline. Financially it is bankrupt and living on borrowed money. Its military has been defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan and stretched to the limit...Politically, the US is virtually in a state of civil war." He further stated that "As the US and the West suffer defeat at the hands of Muslims in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere, they will become more oppressive toward Muslims living in their midst." He also stated that the decline of the United States "offers a great opportunity for Muslims to reclaim the high moral ground in global politics and lead errant humanity to its salvation."[17]
In August 2012, Bangash spoke at an Al-Quds Day protest held outside the American Consulate in Toronto, where he stated (to cheers of "Allahu Akbar"):
| “ | "I want to send this clear message to this Satanic power whose representatives are hiding in that building: that your days are also numbered; you will see....America is destined to the dustbin of history...And when America goes, Israel goes, because Zionist Israel is dependent on America.[18] | ” |
At a protest outside the American consulate in Toronto on 22 September 2012, Bangash praised the crowd, stating that "You fulfilled your duty today and you delivered a slap on the face of our enemies whether they are in the United States or the Zionist state of Israel."[19]
Israeli-Palestinian conflict[edit]
In an article published in 2001, Banagash rejected the idea of a two-state solution or a power-sharing arrangement between Jews and Palestinians. He referred to Israelis as "thieves and bandits from Europe and America" and should go "back where they came from:the US, Canada Europe, Russia, or whoever is willing to take them in." [10][20] Bangash has also stated that "Zionist thugs will have to vacate every inch of Palestine if there is to be justice (and therefore peace) in that tortured land."[21] At the Toronto Peace & Justice Conference in March 2006, Bangash gave a speech in which he stated that "for the state of Israel, peace would mean when all the Palestinians have been put into the graveyard, six feet down."[22]
On the question of suicide bombing, Bangash told the Vancouver Sun that he opposes the targeting of innocent civilians. He argues that suicide bombing is an act of desperation by a people who do not have the tanks, aircraft and advanced weaponry – "it's the Israelis who have them, they are using them, and people under occupation have the right under international law to resist their occupiers." He also claimed that suicide bombers usually attack military targets.[23]
At an Al-Quds Day Rally at Queen's Park in August 2011, Bangash stated that "This black man in the White House, Barack Obama... He would rather have Americans starve to death but he cannot say no to the Zionist parasitical state...That is what makes them racists, that is what makes them inhuman, that is what makes them barbarians."[24] In the same speech, Bangash expressed his vision that Israel will cease to exist and will be replaced by an Islamic regime, stating that:
At an Al-Quds Day rally held in August 2013, Bangash stated that Queen's Park has become a "Zionist occupied territory" and that charged that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne "are leading Canada in the wrong direction." Bangash also called for the rally's participants to "continue to speak for the Palestinians under oppression" until "all of Palestine is liberated from Zionist occupation" and predicted that "Zionism will be eternally shamed."[26]
2006 Israel-Lebanon War[edit]
Bangash was active in protests against the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war and at one point elicited cheers when he announced the number of Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah forces during the conflict.[27]
Criticism of Taliban and Osama bin Laden[edit]
Bangash has criticised the Taliban and Osama bin Laden by saying their strategy was "the most stupid approach to take because you cannot convince the U.S. by attacking the U.S. You cannot force the U.S. to change its policies; you have to change your own situation in Muslim countries."[10] He has also criticised Bin Laden's call for jihad against the West saying "An individual cannot issue a jihad... Only highly qualified scholars respected through the Muslim world can do that, not somebody sitting on some mountain."[28]
Canadian intervention in Afghanistan[edit]
Bangash has spoken at rallies which oppose Canada's role in the invasion of Afghanistan and call for a national referendum on Canada's continued participation in the war.[4]
Relationship with non-Muslims[edit]
Bangash told the Toronto Star that when his Richmond Hill mosque opened, he and his congregation "went out of our way to contact the neighbours, contact the churches, Jewish groups, all kinds of people. We have invited to this centre United Church ministers to come and speak, Mennonite pastors to come and speak."[11] In 2005, the mosque held a service in which every member of the congregation was asked to bring someone who was non-Muslim. Speaking to reporter Michael Valpy, Bangash said that the mosque was packed and that "The congregation was thrilled by the result". Following the 9-11 attacks a Mennonitepastor, Gordon Alton, contacted the mosque. Bangash, in his words, "stretched the rules of Islam" to the limit and asked Alton to preach at the mosque. "I think never in history had that been done before," Bangash said, "but I felt we needed to return [his] gesture."[29]
Peter Leibovitch, who is Jewish and a long-time friend of Bangash, has defended him against his critics saying "we live in a free society and have the right to different positions," adding that many in the Jewish community don't support decisions made by the Israeli government. "And a lot of Jews are not happy with (U.S. President) George Bush's new militarism... Zafar Bangash doesn't agree with American foreign policy nor do millions of Canadians. I didn't know it's a crime not to agree with George Bush."[30]
Books and booklets[edit]
- The Makkah massacre and future of the Haramain (1988)
- In pursuit of the power of Islam : major writings of Kalim Siddiqui (1996)
- The seerah, a power perspective : papers (2000)
- The concepts of leader and leadership in Islam (2001)
- Power manifestations of the Sirah : examining the letters and treaties of the Messenger of Allah (2011)
- The covenant of Madinah and the inclusivist Islamic state (2011)
- Imam Khomeini and centrality of leadership in the Islamic movement (2011)
- The doomed kingdom of the house of Saud (2015)
References[edit]
- ^ He is described as being 52 in January 2003 in Andrew Chung's article "Angry Muslims turning to NDP --- Many disappointed with Liberals' failure to protect them Anti-terror policies eroded allegiance, community warns", Toronto Star, 6 January 2003
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Offman, Craig, "Karl's New Comrades; Rebranding Socialism for the 21st century", National Post, 12 May 2007
- ^ http://www.shiatv.net/search_result.php?search_id=Crescent
- ^ Jump up to:a b Wingrove, Josh, "Canada's Afghan role protested; Thousands take part in anti-war rallies across the country", Toronto Star, 29 October 2006
- ^ Jump up to:a b Marlow, Iain, "Address harassment, coalition urges", Toronto Star, 6 July 2007
- ^ Jump up to:a b Freed, Dale Anne, "Newmarket mosque meeting 'one-sided'; Executive member says leadership not invited to meeting, adding they don't share controversial imam's views", 26 February 2007
- ^ Jump up to:a b Blackwell, Tom, "'Town hall' targets Newmarket mosque: Jewish group leading protest has checkered past of its own", National Post, 26 February 2007
- ^ Toronto Sun (15 June 2007). "Gotta hate this idea – By Licia Corbella".
- ^ Conspiracies, propaganda top agenda at Islam summit by Joseph Brean, National Post, 16 February 2010.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Bell, Stewart, "Call to Jihad from a Markham Strip Mall: Newsmagazine propagates Islamic revolution", National Post, 6 April 2002 (Article available here
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d Toronto Star (6 February 2007). "Islamic leader under fire – by Michelle Shephard". The Star.
- ^ "Iran protests: the view from Tehran – By Zafar Bangash". December 2009.
- ^ "Canadian Imam Zafar Bangash: It Is Time to Pick Up the Stones, Stone Homosexuals to Death; Muslims Cannot Coexist with the Jews and the West (Archival)".
- ^ Benzie, Robert; Kalinowski, Tess & Scriverner, Leslie (18 November 2004). "Premier calls for 'gay-ed' tolerance (retrieved from Gai Écoute)". Toronto Star.
- ^ Zafar Bangash (3 August 2006). "Hundreds dying in Lebanon as Israel seeks to destroy the country and Hizbullah". Media Monitors Network.
- ^ Mehdi Geramifard (n.d.). "Interview with Zafar Bangash". Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
- ^ Canadian Muslims and the Global Islamic Movement – An interview with Zafar Bangash, Islam Times (English), 20 October 2010.
- ^ Al-Qudy Day Protesters rail against Jewish Canadian and Right-wing Mediaby Joanne Hill, Jewish Tribune, 21 August 2012.
- ^ Protests won't stop till Islam Rules the World, speaker claims by Joanne Hill, Jewish Tribune, 25 September 2012.
- ^ Wiesenthal Center objects to McMaster speaker by Sheri Shefa, Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, 2 February 2012.
- ^ Michael Coren (10 February 2007). "Problem? Judge for yourself". Toronto Sun.
- ^ Sumaira Shaikh (24 March 2006). "Toronto Peace & Justice Conference Draws Inspiring Speakers". Canadian Islamic Congress.
- ^ O'Neil, Peter, "Explosive Mideast conflict splitting NDP: Two leadership candidates jeopardize political party's link to Canadian Jews", Vancouver Sun, 20 January 2003
- ^ CANADA: Ontario’s hate mongering misfits by Alan Simons, the Jewish Chronicle, 4 September 2011.
- ^ Hizbullah Flag Flies in Toronto by Elad Benari, Israel National News (Arutz 7), 9 September 2011.
- ^ Canadian Muslim Leader: Zionism Will be Eternally Shamed by Elad Benari, Arutz Sheva, 5 August 2013.
- ^ Norris, Lindsey (Canadian Press) "Thousands decry Israeli, U.S. involvement in Lebanon: Peaceful Edmonton protest; tensions in Toronto", Edmonton Journal, 13 August 2006
- ^ Scrivener, Leslie, "Seeking to understand and to be understood --- Life after terrorism is more complex for the GTA's Muslim community", Toronto Star, 13 October 2001
- ^ Valpy, Michael, "From rickety barn to celebrated mosque; Big dreamers have done wonders at the Islamic Centre of York Region", Globe and Mail, 5 November 2004
- ^ Ferenc, Leslie, "York mosque wins approval; Residents angered about imam's political views", Toronto Star, 6 February 2007
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The Strange Case Of Sputnik Radio
Brian Becker, the aforementioned co-founder and co-leader of the PSL and National Coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition happens to have a show, called Loud & Clear on Sputnik (whose French branch openly collaborates with far-right members in the orbit of the National Front and GRECE), which premiered in December 2015. Becker’s fellow PSL member Walter Smolarek is a producer for the show, former CIA officer (whose mission involved spying on Communists and nowadays appears on Infowars[archive]) John Kiriakou has been co-hosting Loud & Clear with Becker from September 2017. Despite Becker being a self-proclaimed socialist, individuals associated to the far-right or conspiracists who appear on his show include:
- Zafar Bangash, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought [archive], which publishes [archive], among others, Cynthia McKinney (about whom I speak below in this post), Kevin Barrett (a Holocaust denier and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist), Catherine Shakdam (about whom I speak later in this post), Eva Bartlett (about whom I write later in this post), Eric Walberg (who appears to have the aberrant belief that al-Qaeda and Da’esh are comparable to Marxist revolutionaries of the 20th century and has contributed to the Duginist Journal of Eurasian Affairs [archive]) and Imran Hossein (an Islamic scholar with ties to Aleksandr Dugin [archive] and Alain Soral [archive]). Bangash has been on Barrett’s radio show [archive] and contributed to his book [archive] while his Institute’s YouTube channel reshares Barrett’s [archive] show[archive] regularly [archive]. Becker hosted Bangash on the 7th of April 2016 [archive], the 15th of March 2016 [archive], the 11th of May 2016 [archive], the 9th of June 2016 [archive], the 27th of June 2016 [archive], the 3rd of August 2016 [archive], the 22nd of August 2016 [archive]
- Issa Chaer of the Syrian Social Club, who animated a panel together with Thierry Meyssan at the Third New Horizons conference in Iran. Chaer was hosted by Becker on the 14th of April 2016[archive], the 26th of April 2016 [archive]
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