Murabitun World Movement

The Murabitun World MovementChitwood, Ken. (2017). Murabitun World Movement. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_286-1. (Springer) or al-Muraabitoon (Soldiers of Liberation)Internet Archive; Salafi Marihaj, 2005: Deviant Sects. is an extremist right-wing Islamic sect,Scotland on Sunday; Denis Campbell, November 4, 1995: The Shadowy World of the Murabitun Sect and cult movement, with a history of antisemitism. It was founded in Spain by actor, noted Holocaust denier and antisemite in 1971. The sect had followers numbering 10,000 in 21 countries worldwide as of 2018.Aarhus University; Nils Bubandt, November 13, 2018: Murabitun: Global Sufism and World Transformation.Oscar Perez Ventura, Movimientos Islamistas en Espana: el Movimiento Munidal Murabitun, conversos al Islam en Al-Andalus, Instituto Espanol de Estudios Estrategos, 2012, p. 8 It has a presence in the UK, Italy, Germany, South Africa, and Mexico and elsewhere.Bidoun; Alexander Provan, 2010: The Golden Compass: Islam versus global capitalism. (archive snapshot) It is one of the most politically active of modern Sufi sects, and its proponents are highly active on the internet.
==Antisemitism==
A 1999 book by a Spanish journalist titled, The Mosque of Babel: The Sufi Nazism from the United Kingdom to the Autonomous Community of Andalucia,[Spanish: La mezquita de Babel: El nazismo sufita desde el Reino Unido a la Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía] argued that the Murabitun sect used Islam as a cover for neo-Nazism led by a man who professes an admiration for Adolf Hitler.Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Mexico: A group named Murabitun (or possible alternate spellings) based in Spain, its affiliations with ETA (Euzkadi ta Akatazuna) and other groups in the Middle East; its presence in Chiapas, and its links with the Zapatistas, 28 February 2002, MEX38247.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be7020.html [accessed 12 April 2019] The author describes the Murabitun as follows:
In its 1996 report on the United Kingdom, the Jewish policy group 'Antisemitism and Xenophobia Today' (AXT) noted that the sect engaged in antisemitic activity.
In the United Kingdom, the sect had links to the National Front, a far-right British political party with a history of antisemitism.
==Organization==
The sect was founded in the early 1970s by a Scotsman and ex-actor named Ian Dallas, who styles himself as "Abdalqadir as-Sufi". As a new religious sect, the Murabitun is almost entirely composed of converts.Bubandt, N.O. 2009, "Gold for a Golden Age: Sacred Money and Islamic Emancipation in a Global Sufi Order", Social Analysis, vol. 53 nr. 1, s. 103-122. The sect is divided into areas, each styled as a and headed by an Amir. The Diwan Press is affiliated with the sect, and publishes books written by members.Diwan Press: Classical and Contemporary Books on Islam and Sufism
===Key people===
* (born Ian Dallas, founder)
* Uthmaan Abdul-Majeed (Amir of London)
* Taariq Abdullaah (Amir of Scotland)
* Fazlun Khaalid (Amir of Birimingham)
* Idrees Mears (Amir of Norwich)
* Yasin Dutton (scholar)
====Uthmaan al-Itaalee====
Uthmaan al-Itaalee was a member of the Murabitun who left after members of the sect attempted to assassinate him and his family. He wrote a book titled; Ian Dallas, The Shaykh Who Has No Clothes in which he repudiates the sect and its teachings.Scribd. Ian Dallas — The Shaykh Who Has No Clothes. Retrieved April 2019.
====Umar Ibrahim Vadillo====
Umar Ibrahim Vadillo is an influential member of the sect, who is responsible for promotion of the Islamic gold dinar and silver dirham, which underpin the sect's views on zakat. He has written extensively on the subject, and is the director of a crypto related company called E-dinar.https://lessknowninfo.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/umar-ibrahim-vadillo/ Umar has also designed many of the gold and silver coinage produced by the sect.Professor Umar Ibrahim Vadillo (biography and summary). In 2003 he published a book titled; The Esoteric Deviation in Islam on the subject of Islam and the "new religion of capitalism".Umar Ibrahim Vadillo; 2003, The Esoteric Deviation in Islam. ISBN-13: 978-0620305693
==Zakat==
It is "possibly the only religious sect in history whose defining article of faith is a financial theory."In Gold We Trust. From gun-wielding libertarians to radical Muslims, an unlikely global cabal is plotting financial revolution. And they're putting their money where the Web is. by Julian Dibbell (01.01.02; 12:00 pm) Wired. Their principle tenet is in restoring zakat (Islamic obligatory alms-giving), but requiring that the zakat be in the form of gold (e.g., ) or silver. According to the sect, only the gold dinar is a halal currency.
==See also==
*Abd ul-Rahman Lomax, a former member
*Gold standard (economics)
*Pious fraud
==External links==
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*GF Haddad; The Murabitun & Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani: Refutation of Umar Vadillo’s The Esoteric Deviation in Islam
*Murabitun World Movement in the IEEE international terrorism database.
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