Comments on: Being British – What is that then? http://islamicpolitik.com/2005/08/being-british-what-is-that-then.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=being-british-what-is-that-then An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:09:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jacare http://islamicpolitik.com/2005/08/being-british-what-is-that-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-14 Jacare Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:27:00 +0000 http://islamicpolitik.com/2005/08/31/being-british-what-is-that-then/#comment-14 Anyway, being a British citizen for a Muslim born and/or living in Britain is merely an administrative fatality. Without a citizenship from a internationally recognized state, you cannot do almost anything from travelling to earning your Rizk.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14','Jacare'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14','Jacare','Anyway, being a British citizen for a Muslim born and\/or living in Britain is merely an administrative fatality. Without a citizenship from a internationally recognized state, you cannot do almost anything from travelling to earning your Rizk.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Anyway, being a British citizen for a Muslim born and/or living in Britain is merely an administrative fatality. Without a citizenship from a internationally recognized state, you cannot do almost anything from travelling to earning your Rizk.
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]]> By: Lothario Platonic http://islamicpolitik.com/2005/08/being-british-what-is-that-then.html/comment-page-1#comment-13 Lothario Platonic Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:36:00 +0000 http://islamicpolitik.com/2005/08/31/being-british-what-is-that-then/#comment-13 The secular governments discuss this topic in the context of values and allegiances. Then you get people saying you can be British and Muslim at the same time. Sure, if you’re saying it in a literal sense, that’s fine. However, you’ve got to realise when someone in the media asks you how British you are, they don’t mean which passport you hold or where you were born.

For me the answer is easy! Allah (swt) tells me in the Qur’an:
And who is better in speech than he who invites to Allah, does righteous deeds, and says: ‘I am one of the Muslims.’” [TMQ 41:33]

So whether I was born in Britain or Jamaica, my values and allegiances would be the same. That’s because my understanding of what is right or wrong comes from Islam. The only reason I eat fish and chips, play cricket or wear a suit is because Islam allows it. But when there’s a clash – usually in societal issues – I’m a Muslim, that’s it.

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