Britain’s top Muslim? Hardly
The Sun reported today that “Britain’s top Muslim” had given his support for the government’s plan to increase the time police can hold someone on terrorist charges to 42 days, from the current 28....
Category: Organisations & Leadership
Who are the “Scargills of Islam”, then?
Charles Moore, well-known writer for the Telegraph and Spectator and known among us for articles like this one from 2005, calling for the Muslims to bring forward a Gandhi (my response here), gave a...
Who speaks for Muslims?
muslimmatters.org » Tarek Fatah (and…) Does NOT Represent Me: Muslims 101 for Media Muslim Matters (in this case Amad) on the media’s insistence on relying on fringe figures for details of what is wrong...
Hunt down the Sufis?
David T today posted an alert at Harry’s Place about an article at MPACUK calling on Muslims to expose 8 so-called Sufis who did the “research” on which the recent Policy Exchange report relied....
Ingrid Mattson on Woman’s Hour
BBC - Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - Ingrid Mattson This is an interview I heard today while out driving; Ingrid Mattson (president of the Islamic Society of North America and the first female, first...
A senseless Eid scandal
To start off, now that it really is Eid and I’ve got the time and energy to type, Eid Mubarak everybody. Anyway … All this Ramadan, I’ve been working on the assumption that today...
Shiraz Maher fails to prove his point (again)
Last night, Shiraz Maher, a friend of Ed Husain’s who was also a member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in England (much more recently), fronted a BBC Panorama documentary entitled “How I Became a Muslim Extremist”. He...
BBC discussion on Caliphate conference
MPACUK - MPACUK & HT Discuss Indonesia Caliphate Conference This is a Google Video of a recent discussion on BBC News 24 between Zulfi Bukhari of MPACUK and Nazreen Nawaz of Hizb-ut-Tahreer, regarding the...
City Circle: Monolithic Communities
Last Friday night I went to a City Circle event in London entitled Independent Voices: Challenging the Myth of Monolithic Communities, addressed by two founders of dissenting ethnic organisations, namely Brian Klug of Independent Jewish Voices and Sunny Hundal of the New Generation Network (and Pickled Politics) as well as Ehsan Masood, who writes for Prospect magazine.