This Rand report
The Rand Corporation, a non-profit political think-tank, has published a report entitled Civil Democratic Islam, a proposal for how the West can deal with the Muslim world in a way that suits its own...
Monthly Archive: March 2004
Gilad Atzmon on Sh. Yassin murder
This is an article by Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli dissident living in London. Here’s his website. (Thanks to J. Muhsin Kilby for the info.)
The MMR debate
I just found this rather interesting article by George Monbiot about conflicts of interest in the debate over the safety of the MMR vaccine. Andrew Wakefield, who published a paper alleging links between the...
Reaction to my last post
Note: the original post, which I deleted, was in response to Jews gloating on the BBC’s website about the murder by the Israeli army of Shaikh Ahmed Ya-sin. The post said that the Jews...
Me and my Mac
I’ve had my Mac nearly a week now (since Tuesday) and I have to say I’m generally pleased with it. We had it sitting on the dining table until Friday, but of course it...
The Rally Yesterday …
Well I went to the rally yesterday, it was not as big as the huge anti-war rallies last year but it was big enough that people were still leaving the start (Hyde Park) as...
No More Lies, Mr Blair!
Saturday’s Stop the War march is intended to reinforce calls for political accountability and a withdrawal from Iraq, writes Andrew Burgin
A bizarre 419 invitation
I just got forwarded an exceptionally dumb 419 invitation through a mailing list I’m on, in which someone claiming to be Dr Mitchell Obi of some Nigerian financial organisation appeals for someone to do...
Muslims police their own? How?
It’s very common to hear, whenever a terrorist incident happens that bears the hallmarks of Al-Qa’ida, calls for the Muslims to control extremist elements in their own community. I read an article on a...
Thank God some people saw sense
It seems the Spanish – who, it must be remembered, did not want to get involved in Iraq to begin with – have had their fears confirmed by last week’s bombings in Madrid, and...
Mac vs PC comparison
I ordered a Mac on Friday – a G4 eMac which is all I could reasonably afford, but I did order some extra memory for it – and I also bought a copy of...
Guantanamo: the truth is coming out
Jamal al-Harith, one of the five British detainees released from Guantanamo, has told (not to mention sold) his story to the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid. You can read the full story by clicking...
Shukr Clothing Australian launch
An Australian website for the Syrian-based Islamic clothing company Shukr has been launched. The company is run by an American convert and the clothing is all made by religious Muslims. (I’d call it special...
Mandrake Linux v10.0
A funny thing to put just above the post on the Madrid disaster, but this is a tech blog as well as a war blog – it’s a general personal blog. So here goes....
About the Madrid bombings
At the moment it is not certain that the bombings in Madrid, which has killed nearly 200 people at the time of this writing, was the work of Al-Qa’ida. It has been said that...
Guantanamo Brits innocent after all
Al-Hamdu lillah, the five British detainees who were flown home from Guantanamo Bay yesterday have been released without charge. They have been held for two years and now it appears that not only have...
Vote Nazi, read the Mail
Searchlight Magazine, a British anti-fascist and anti-racist monthly, has picked up on the anti-immigrant vendetta in the tabloid press. It seems the BNP appreciate the support, as one of their goons held up a...
LGF’s latest horror story
Little Green Footballs, for reasons (ahem) best known to themselves as this has nothing to do with the Middle East or with anything political, have posted an article about a five-year-old girl who was...
The Morons Have Landed
An individual calling himself “Flanstein”, who has been pestering at least one other Muslim blogger by posting inhumanity-of-Islam ravings on her comments page, has started on my blog too. I think he found my...