Jordan Sheard’s sentence will be appealed
I received a letter today from the Attorney General’s office, in response to an open letter I had sent (which many readers of this blog had signed) regarding the sentence of Jordan Sheard, who...
Category: Good News
More tabloids admit: we printed garbage
British Muslim Initiative: The Sun and Daily Mail withdraw unfounded allegations by Policy Exchange Hot on the heels of the Daily Spew grovelling to the McCanns yesterday, the Sun and the Daily Mail (or...
Forest Gate: it was either this or that
STOP PRESS: the Forest Gate brothers have been released Plus: in this week’s New Statesman, former editor Peter Wilby on the contradictory stories of the events last Friday: The brothers who lived there were...
Bindel: I’m glad Arsenil lost
An amusing article from Julie Bindel (very rare indeed for me to agree with anything she writes) on why she’s glad the Gunners lost in the match with Barça last night. Particularly interesting is...
Sheikh Mazhar tries it on Galloway
Guardian Unlimited - Gold teeth: a sure sign of a media sting I’ve not normally got much time for George Galloway and his party nowadays, but my attention was drawn to this story about...
Slobo dead
And some good news to finish the week off: the ironically named Slobodan (meaning freedom) Milosevic is dead. From Gene at Harry’s Place: “Let the conspiracy-mongering begin” To paraphrase a headline from the Sun,...
CAIR: Stranded-shaikh con man in court
CAIR reported this week that a con man who has been swindling money out of Islamic centres in the USA for several years has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury and extradited from...
Ginny on Nashville TV
Ginny gave me a link to a local TV station in Nashville which had a news report on her work at the Nashville benefits office and how she uses the computer and telephone system...
Bliar defeated
Good news today, which certainly justifies an update: Tory Bliar’s proposal to lock suspected terrorists up for up to 90 days got defeated in the Commons, with 322 against and 291 in favour. 49...
New edition of Dala’il al-Khairaat
A new edition of the Islamic classic Dalaa’il al-Khairaat has been published, with a beautiful MP3 of the text’s recitation (via Seeker’s Digest). The page (the default page just contains a picture of the...
Expelled union official reinstated
Via Islamophobia Watch, Keith Shilson, who was expelled from Middlesex University (in London) for insisting on holding a “question time” with Hizbut-Tahrir on campus, has been reinstated, although HT remains banned on the campus....
Good riddance
Founder of the National Front and later head of the British National Party, Nazi scumbag and inciter of racial hatred, John Tyndall, has snuffed it at the age of 71 at his home in...
Good News: Crimean Tartars’ rights restored
Following on from CAIR’s occasional “Good News” features in their mailings, I’ve decided to do one of my own whenever a good news feature (or apparent good news feature) appears in the media. Today...
Good news from Rwanda
An entry in al-Muhajabah’s blog gives some news from Rwanda, where the number of Muslims has doubled since the genocide, in large part because Muslims stayed out of that atrocity and gave shelter to...