Imran Khan the secular sufi...

[Abu Ikrimah]

Interesting interview:

http://www.islamicamagazine.com/Issue-14/Interview-Imran-Khan.html

[Abu Maryam PK]

Bismillah
U have to believe the sufi interviewer for starters. Second, the questions were loaded. Third, i doubt whether imran knows abour NHM Liar, Hamza Yusuf or Winters or what they stand for. Not everyone who respects sufis in lahore necessary knows what they believed or preached. Fourth, i know from personal contacts that Imran has been in contacts with salafi jihadis in pak. And lastly, he is like many, ignorant about Islam, hence his political views. So IMHO, it is not fair to call him a secular sufi

[kamran]

Assalam o alaikum,

Imran has been in contact with a lot of other groups as well. He has good relations with JI (despite what happened to him in PU), LeT, Tanzeem Islami and others. One brother-in-law of his is with Tableeghi Jamaat and his wife (Imran's sister) spent quite a number of years at Al-Huda and together they have lived pious lives. The marriages that take place in their family are carried out in segregated environments. That's one side of the story.

And yes, Imran has not studied Islam formally and he has been influenced by Salman Ahmad, Junoon's guitarist. But that too is mainly due to the fact that they are distant relatives. Salman is my aunt's nephew.

Yet, despite that Imran only recently said that Musharaf should be hanged for what he did at Lal Masjid.

It is really odd actually that some of us get to hear of some weird deviant view that is specific to some deviant cult. That view may be held by an erring simple Muslim. And of course when that happens, we immediately paint that erring Muslim in black.

Kamran

[Abu Maryam PK]

Bismillah
Salman was rumored to be a qadiani, is that true. I think it was salman who said that he was leaning towards extremism untill imran talked him out of it

[kamran]

Assalam o alaikum,

No he is not a Qadiani. His mother comes from a Pathan family and happens to be my aunt's first cousin.

Kamran