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Islamic blogs: brothers
- Abdusalaam Al-Hindi
- Adnan Tariq
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- Ahmed’s World of Islam
- An American Muslim
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- Peace, bruv
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Islamic blogs: sisters
- A Nightingale
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- Ginny's Thoughts and Things (Old)
- Happy Muslim Mama
- Hijabi Apprentice
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- Ify Okoye (ex Muslim Apple)
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Category Archives: Disability
On Mercy
Yesterday a man who attacked someone who had burgled his house and terrorised his family had his sentence cut and suspended (having had his conviction overturned) and released. Also yesterday, a woman who had killed her brain-damaged son by giving … Continue reading
She ain’t heavy …
Yesterday William Peace AKA Bad Cripple commented on a recent case in Canada in which a French family were denied permanent residency because they have a daughter who has cerebral palsy (and, according to the authorities, “developmental delay”). David Barlagne … 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
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
Treading on eggshells
How far should we go to avoid the hypothetical possibility of offending someone? The other day, I came across a video posted on the disability group blog FWD/Forward in which members of the Disabled Young People’s Collective, based in North … Continue reading
Learning disability bullying claims victim’s mother
A mother has died in a fire while trying to save her son, after bullies set fire to their house by posting a lit firework through their door last night (5th Nov, Guy Fawkes night). The thugs had been bullying … Continue reading
Fight over life support for disabled boy
Father fights to stop hospital withdrawing life support for baby son I read a disturbing story in the Guardian this morning, which was reported across various other newspapers and in the BBC, that the parents of a young boy were … Continue reading
Appeal for Abu Sinan’s autistic son
Brother Abu Sinan, who some of you may remember as a regular on Umar Lee’s blog, has appealed for help as he needs treatment for his autistic son, Sinan, which is starting to get expensive as medical insurance does not … Continue reading
The line between compassion and pity
Last Sunday, the New York Times ran a feature on a young woman, Stephanie Smith from Minnesota, who became paralysed and brain-damaged after eating a home-cooked hamburger contaminated with a virulent strain of E-Coli bacteria. Such bacteria gets into the … Continue reading
Getting others’ hands dirty
Last week, there was an inquest into the suicide of a young woman, Kerrie Wooltorton, who drank poison and called an ambulance, supposedly because she did not want to die alone. The 26-year-old had been suffering from depression because of … Continue reading
Hey Emel, what have you done to my avatar?
Back in late 2008, I got contacted by Emel magazine, a British Muslim lifestyle magazine, for a feature on Muslim bloggers. The process of getting the material over there took months, and I dealt with two different sisters as the … Continue reading
Disability and brutality
One of the most distressing stories to be in the news last week was an inquest into the murder-suicide of a mother and her disabled daughter in Leicestershire. The family, consisting of the mother, Fiona Pilkington, and two children with … Continue reading
Wheelchair access at Green Park is money well spent
There is an article in the current issue of The Spectator by Andrew Gilligan, attacking a project to make Green Park station, an important London Underground interchange, wheelchair accessible or, in London Transport jargon, to provide ‘step-free’ access from the … Continue reading
Head injury, and disabled and black perspectives on Serena Williams
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Saturday Live, 12/09/2009 This programme features an interview with Jade Bracey, a young woman who suffered a head injury after being hit by a car on her 15th birthday. She had to have … Continue reading
Welcome home, Hilary
We’re all rehearsing for the presidency … I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army — Ani DiFranco, Not So Soft Yesterday evening, just before 7pm, a lady called Hilary Lister completed a round-Britain sailing trip. She had … Continue reading
Cameron rebukes idiot MEP
BBC NEWS | Politics | NHS attack MEP rebuked by Cameron David Cameron is the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK, and much as I despise that institution and much as I suspect that a conservative government would … Continue reading
Come on Steve, prove you’re one of us
Where Are the British Birthers? | TPM Calling on Stephen Hawking to provide his bona fides (hat tip: Ginny, via Twitter): Perhaps there will be some brave republican willing to spearhead an investigation of whether Stephen Hawking actually IS British? … Continue reading
Big Trev’s leadership pushes out equality staff
Perhaps to my discredit, I have not taken a great interest in the workings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the successor to several official equality commissions set up to monitor various anti-discrimination laws (one for sex, one for … Continue reading