Anjem Choudary constantly speaks about the real Islam and Sharia Law. He appears to represent plenty of folk - all Muslims...Because in every interview he's in - not once has a so called moderate Muslim ever taken him on.
www.theguardian.com/world/video/2011/jan/17/muslim-resistance-struggle-within-video
www.facebook.com/MuslimsAgainstAnjemChoudary
If your going to make such outrageously idiotic comments at least check your facts first. It didn’t take me long to find numerous condemnations of Anjem Choudhry from within the Muslim community. I didn’t even need to put that much effort in as all it takes is just one muslim to condemn him to disprove your hypothesis that he represents ALL muslims and already numerous muslim and non posters here from Crescent, Gosh, Yruapita and Cote have all told you he doesn’t represent them but you see you already know that.
The important bit of your sentence MrsStatham was that he is a self-appointed mouthpiece. The only people he represents are the minority of Radical muslims who support him and are part of his group. Your comment acknowledges that he hasn’t been selected for this role by the muslim community but has appointed himself. So why are you trying to propagate the idea that Anjem CHoudhry speaks for all muslims?
Lets examine in more detail this fallacy that he represents all muslims. I have never ever heard Anjem Chaudhry speak live. I have never even heard of a single event that he has organized that has been hosted in a mosque. He cant speak in mosques because they wont give him a platform. You only ever see him speaking outside mosques or near to mosques. Why? Because they wont let him inside at least not to preach. The only reason why mainstream muslims are exposed to his vile views is because he is given a platform to preach his hate by the British media. Ask most muslims and they will only be able to recognize him because they saw him on TV or in the news. Me and my husband were joking after watching another documentary on British tv where al muhajiroun were interviewed that they must have a special collection of videos and article clippings of all the times they have been in the media.
Furthermore what credentials has Anjem Chaudhry got to talk about Islam. Im going to make a guess that to become a priest/bishop/pope/biblical scholar etc you need to have some sort of formal training in biblical texts maybe early Christian history etc. The same is true for anyone wishing to call themselves a cleric/shaykh/Imam/mufti/scholar etc or any one who claims to hold a position of Islamic knowledge within the community. Anjem Chaudhry does not speak Arabic, he has not memorized the Quran or hadith. He has never attended any Islamic institution of higher education or completed a formal course in Islamic Sciences either in the UK or abroad (not studied Islamic Jurisprudence, theology, history, Arabic language, Hadith sciences, Quran exegesis, prophetic history any field of study which would be essential for someone who calls themselves a cleric). In short he has NO FORMAL EDUCATION in Islam to call himself a scholar, cleric, Imam or whatever. What he is, is an acolyte of self taught preacher Omar Bakri, who has also fudged a lot of information about his own credentials and Islamic education.
(Omar Bakri) Knowing he had no credentials as a scholar in Islam, had been claiming to his UK non-Arabic speaking audience for the last two decades that he was born in Aleppo, Syria, where he enrolled into al-Kuttab Boarding School where he studied the Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, Seerah and other sciences. He also claimed to have accompanied prominent scholars in Syria and studied with them Usul al-Fiqh, AI-I’jaaz, Arabic Language, l’lm aI-Khitaba, l’lm al-Tassawuf, Fiqh and IIm as-Seerah (different branches of Islamic sciences), later to join “the Shari’ah Institute at Damascus University where he studied Fiqh and Shari’ah.”[1] After his return to Lebanon in 2005 he reconstructed his past and completely contradicted himself saying, “I have never seen Syria in my life. As for what they say about me that he studied in Syria and graduated from the faculty of Law, then this is all hearsay.”
At the back of his book, Essential Fiqh, it states, “He studied in many famous and well noted Islamic institutions including the Shari’ah University in Damascus, Al-Azhar University, Umm al-Qura in Makkah and al-Jamia al-Islamia in Madinah.” This lie was exposed by Shaykh Abd al-Rahman al-Dimashqiya who said, “He pretends to be learned and makes frequent claims to that effect”…He took a group of non-Arabs in Britain for a ride…his history is not that ambiguous, because throughout his stay in the Kingdom (of Saudi Arabia) he did not study in any of the universities. He was only an employee of a company called Eastern Electricity, owned by Shamsan and ‘Abd aI-’Aziz al-Suhaybi in Riyadh. He then moved to its branch in Jeddah. He did not approach any university during his stay there.
So despite Anjem Chaudhry’s lack of education (he hasn’t just lied about being a lawyer) and the lack of support that he has within the wider muslim community why do Islamophobes insist on perpetuating the myth that he is somehow representative of the muslim community. The reason is that for Islamophobes he is the ideal poster boy of their hateful image of Islam. Him and his followers are the breathing, walking, talking actualization of all the creeping Sharia fears of the far right. However, the inconvenient truth for you is that his voice IS in the minority. He and his follower’s views ARE challenged by the muslim community. So you have to create this fallacy that he has more influence then he actually does to convince others of all the delusional fantasies about the so called 'islam threat' which are just not true and hope that people are not going to double check your wild claims.