Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
In the Wake of “Obsession” Hate-DVDs: Muslim Children Gassed in Ohio Mosque | MuslimMatters.org For the last few years the Daily Express, in the UK, has been running a front-page hate campaign against Muslims,...
Leila Shahid: An urgent call for aid for Nahr el Bared in Lebanon (Comment is free) Leila Shahid (PLO representative to the UN) on the failure of Arab governments (as opposed to organisations) to...
Naomi Alderman, a regular Guardian columnist, on one of my pet hates in popular attitudes to education – the emphasis on the supposed value of competitive sport. I'm sure we've all heard the attacks...
Standpoint magazine, a new political magazine published by the Social Affairs Unit, a centre-right think tank, pubished a letter from me in response to an attack by Douglas Murray on Peter Oborne's exposé of...
Yesterday, Harry's Place published an article sourced from Gina Khan and one Paul Sikander, attacking Islamic courts and Muslim institutions' marriage practices. I wrote a lengthy article yesterday, but a bug in my blogging...
I'd just like to say well-done to all those who routed the racists and fascists in Cologne who wanted to whip up some hatred against the local Turkish and Muslim population. It seems that...
More4, the "grown-up channel" run by Channel 4 in the UK, is broadcasting Forbidden Lie$, about Honor Lost/Forbidden Love, the "novel" about honour killing in Jordan published as a book of fact, this coming...
From the South African Independent: Poor dietary and lifestyle habits during Ramadan pose grave health risks to fasting Muslims, local doctors and dieticians have warned. Night-time binge eating and consuming too much sugar and...
Last Wednesday, Jonathan Freedland, a former Guardian US correspondent, wrote this article suggesting that the international judgement will be harsh if the Americans elect McCain and Sarah Palin, with her record of putting religion...
When I first saw this story, I thought they meant goats kept by prisoners as a possible food source, but no, they really were there awaiting trial: The beasts were due to appear in...
Will there be no end to the repetitions of the myth that faith schools are the cause of the problems in Northern Ireland? A professor called David Canter has published a study, based on...
Linda Grant wrote this article in last Thursday's Guardian, on why small-town Americans vote Republican, even those who are well-educated like one she spoke to. Those she actually knows perceives "whitebread Republicans" as "like...
Zoe Williams, in today's Guardian, on the mawkish obsession with the horses and other pets which belonged to the family believed to have been murdered by its indebted father a couple of weeks ago...
With the fasting moving back to the very beginning of autumn and the first couple of days fasting being the most difficult they've been since, well, whenever they were last in April, I have...
Yesterday, a new organisation was launched called the Accord Foundation, which claims to be "a new broad-based coalition calling for inclusive schools and an end to special arrangements for state funded religous schools". Its...
The Channel 4 Dispatches programme last night returned to its theme of sending a reporter undercover to gather information on what's being taught in mosque study circles and being peddled in mosque bookshops. The...