So, Abu Hamza’s off the streets
So, Abu Hamza’s finally been taken off the streets, not because of David Blunkett’s efforts to take his citizenship away so they can bury him alive in Belmarsh, but because the US government has...
Monthly Archive: May 2004
Back on the wagons
I’ve just done two more days of driving trucks around – yesterday it was in a sort of anticlockwise circular tour of Surrey county, from Croydon to Weybridge, Egham, Woking, Guildford, then down to...
So, where’s Manji’s hadeeth coming from?
If you’ve been reading carefully you’ll have noticed that one of our “correspondents” has quoted a hadith to the effect that “religion is the way we conduct ourselves toward others …”. I didn’t realise...
Kerry, Michael Moore and getting rid of Bush
Now that Michael Moore and his film have won the Palme D’Or in Cannes, I thought it was time to posit this possibility. We hear quite often that Kerry’s main draw is that he...
Out on the streets for Respect
Today I was out in Kingston town centre again handing out the new newspaper-style election leaflets for the Respect Coalition. I had to wear a ‘jacket’ consisting of two of their “Bliar, Bliar, Iraq’s...
Back to the blog!
I haven’t had the opportunity to blog for a couple of days because I have been busy working – I went back to my old job agency on Wednesday and was out at work...
Threats halt car pool vigilante site
I found a rather amusing story about a website which put up pictures of lone commuters in California using the lane reserved for car-pools – until it was taken down following threatening emails. Over...
IACN article on Khilaafa …
I didn’t think I was going to have anything to blog today, until I got the circular from the “Islamic Affairs Central Network” in Nottingham, which had an article (follow the link “Khilafa Callers...
Another anti-philosopher
Unlike Saraji, I briefly did philosophy when I was in college (AS-level, one year, 1994-5). A little of it was interesting, much of it was boring and some of it was profoundly disturbing. We...
Couple of articles from today’s Guardian
While a lot of people are celebrating that the Bharatiya Ja-Nazi Party has been booted out of office in India, George Monbiot reports that some of the darlings of western politicians have been booted...
Robert Spencer is still lying
Ginny posted yesterday about sitting in her family’s truck while they listened to the infamous Robert Spencer’s appearance on the Michael Savage show (see here). Ginny is of course not the first Muslim convert...
Panorama scaremongering?
Did anyone else see that Panorama programme that was on BBC1 this evening? Did anyone else think this was a scare story? Even the Home Office refused to take part for precisely this reason....
Mono
I’ve been thinking of starting a new sub-blog to cover my tech interests which are becoming more prominent in my life now that I’m about to start my college project (insha Allah). The last...
Iraq abuse; Moore accusations
CNN reports that a former intelligence official has alleged that the recent abuse scandal in Abu Ghuraib prison was in fact the result of Donald Rumsfeld’s policy – not of the antics of a...
Piers Morgan resigns
The BBC is reporting that Piers Morgan, the editor of the Daily Mirror has been sacked or stepped down (nobody is quite sure which, which is the norm when powerful people are sacked), and...
Well, my new Linux package is installed, and …
I’m pretty disappointed, actually. I’ve been using Linux as my main OS since about October 2002, and as I mentioned before I’ve used many Linux distros and always come back to SUSE. I think...
My SUSE arrived today!
Just taking a break from my revision (brushing up on my Java) to install the SUSE Linux package which was delivered this afternoon on two computers simultaneously … which should be done in about...
Red Hat could mean curtains for Windoze
An interview with Matthew Szulik of Red Hat has been published in today’s Independent. Red Hat has just issued another desktop version of its Linux desktop, which it will provide on a subscription basis...
I’m a better runaway than David Hargreaves
David Hargreaves recently told in the Spectator his story of how he ran away from boarding school in 1974, and he considers this one of the best moves he’s ever made. I was tempted...
‘Malware’, Microsoft and Open Source
Here is an interestng article on Groklaw about one Microsoft spokesman’s alleged recent comments about Linux and open source, and the cost of ‘malware’ (viruses etc) on Windows platforms including problems with Microsoft’s patches....