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- Surviving Severe M.E.
- Tymes Trust
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- Where's the Benefit?
- WildKat blog
Islamic blogs: brothers
- Abdusalaam Al-Hindi
- Adnan Tariq
- AE (Abu Eesa)
- Ahmed’s World of Islam
- An American Muslim
- Avari
- Bin Gregory Productions
- Bradford Muslim
- Chill Yo Islam Yo
- Dr.M’s Analysis
- Dunner’s blog
- HAhmed.com
- Hamza Tzortzis's blog
- Haq Islam
- Irrelevant Opinions
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- Manrilla Blog
- Mas’ud Blog
- Mind, Body, Soul
- Mr Moo
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- Mujahideen Ryder (defunct)
- Naeem’s blog
- Peace, bruv
- Rolled Up Trousers
- Seeker's Digest
- Shahada
- Yahya Birt
Islamic blogs: sisters
- A Nightingale
- Egyptian’s Wife
- Ginny's Thoughts and Things (Old)
- Happy Muslim Mama
- Hijabi Apprentice
- Ibnat al-Hidayah: Daughter of Guidance
- Ify Okoye (ex Muslim Apple)
- iMuslim.tv
- In the Shade of the Veil
- Inner Reflections Transcribed
- Islam, My Inspiration
- Jamerican Muslimah
- Margari Aziza
- Muslimness
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- Nzingha’s soapbox
- Obscure Sanctum
- Old Muslim Woman in the Shoe
- Online Rihla
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- Scream-free Muslims
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- The Scent
- Tradicionalista
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- TwennyTwo
- Waqt Well Wasted
Islamic blogs: groups & issues
Islamic links: general
- Amal Press
- Dar al-Mustafa
- DeenPort
- DeenPort (mobile)
- European Institue of Human Sciences
- Guidance Media
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- Iqra Islamic Publications
- Kitaba – Islamic texts for the blind
- Lamppost Productions
- Mama List of Islamic Links
- Media Monitors Network (MMN)
- New Islamic Directions
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- Shaikh Muhammad IH Pirzada
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- The Cult
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Islamic links: converts
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Tech links
Author Archives: Indigo Jo
Mad Mel: ban Shari’ah to stop terrorism
MELANIE PHILLIPS: To our eternal shame, Britain is STILL a hub for Islamic terror | Mail Online Melanie Phillips, in response to the attempted aeroplane bombing on Christmas day, writes another of her rants for the Daily Mail, claiming that … Continue reading
Anwar al-Awlaki: trauma and extremism
Recently we heard that the Yemeni-American Muslim preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki, may have died in air strikes in Yemen, although other reports said he was miles away from where the strikes happened and was safe. Some people said “good riddance”, including … Continue reading
Friends
Yesterday I got a tweet from one of my Twitter friends that most of my “followers” (I hate that term) aren’t aware of saying that she had decided that someone she had been friends with for a number of years … Continue reading
Kaney O’Neill: who’s an unfit parent then?
A while back, I read a heart-warming story about a woman who was paralysed in an accident during Hurricane Floyd in 1999 while she was serving with the US Navy who had a baby boy earlier this year. However, not … Continue reading
Borders turns off lifts for last week
The bookshop chain Borders UK is set to close next Tuesday, with all 45 remaining Borders and Books Etc stores closing (a few, and most of Books Etc, already have), and the place looks eerily like Woolworths did this time … Continue reading
My reward for being a good customer
I’d forgotten that I’d been on Borders’ mailing list, which happened after I agreed to fill in some sort of survey after buying a book in the Kingston branch. I got various mailshots which gave me £5 off books costing … Continue reading
Supreme Court bans JFS racial discrimination
Today, the British Supreme Court ruled that the policy of the Jews’ Free School (or JFS) of taking converts to Judaism only when they had been through one denomination’s conversion ritual rather than another was racially discriminatory. The problem was … Continue reading
Dumping the Droid
I’ve had my T-Mobile G2 (or HTC Hero, for anyone on any other network who might be offered one) since last Friday, and I’ve already had enough. There is a cooling-off period of seven working days, so I contacted T-Mobile … Continue reading
Linux Format rant on Mono debate
The other day I bought the January 2010 edition of Linux Format, the UK’s best-known magazine for that platform. In the letters page, there is a letter from a guy called Nick Canupp, having a go at sections of the … Continue reading
Arrogant privilege rears its head again
A while back, before I got the hang of Twitter as a means of announcing blog posts and conducting cross-border conversations without having to log into a chat client (and well before getting my Android phone yesterday and being able … Continue reading
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Tagged darren johnson, green party
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Lactose intolerance
A post on Deenport that struck a chord regarding the latest rant by Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Ahmad “al-Alawi” against Shaikh Hamza Yusuf: On the night of the mi’raj the Prophet(saw) was offered wine or milk and he chose milk … Continue reading
The Spectator: where arrogant privilege meets bigotry
Rod Liddle has managed to outdo himself this past week, with two shockingly bigoted and ignorant articles on the Spectator’s website the same day. One of them is in support of the ban on minarets which was passed the Sunday … Continue reading
Under pressure: the search for an Android
I am due a mobile phone upgrade next week, insha Allah. I have my heart set on an Android unit, the main manufacturer of which seems to be HTC; the Hero is the best known of them. My service provider … Continue reading
Romanians bilked by self-employment scam
BBC News - Romanian workers reveal true cost of beauty This is a story about Romanian workers who were tricked into coming to the UK to sell cosmetics on a “commission-only”, “self-employed” basis. This involved selling the products in a … Continue reading
Two sides of the facilitated communication debate
Doctors said my son’s brain was damaged — but he was bright | Life and style | The Guardian This article is by Rahila Gupta whose son, who died in 2002, had cerebral palsy and had extreme difficulty communicating, but … Continue reading
On Switzerland and boycotts
It seems that offence has been taken at my reference to two bloggers in my last entry who reacted to the vote against minarets in Switzerland last Sunday to the effect of “I won’t be going there then”. I’ve Googled … Continue reading
The Swiss minaret law and its implications
I’ve been asked to offer my opinion on the result of yesterday’s referendum on minarets in Switzerland, perhaps inevitably. I had expected such a law to be passed, contrary to the opinion polls which suggested that it wouldn’t, because a … Continue reading
WordPress permalink tip
For anyone setting up a new self-hosted WordPress blog (not on wordpress.com or any similar hosting service), here’s a tip on getting your permalinks set up and getting rid of the queries in the links. When you select a permalink … Continue reading
Vanuatu Prime Minister loses job
BBC News - Vanuatu PM loses parliamentary seat over blunder All because he failed to send an explanation to the speaker of Parliament. Back when I was the chair of council in my student union (or ‘Guild’) in Aberystwyth, I … Continue reading
Why Tories messed up in attack on Islamic school
Why Conservatives failed the test on Islamic schools - Education News, Education - The Independent It appears that the Tories overlooked a number of things while criticising state funding for two schools supposedly linked to Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Slough and north … Continue reading
