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Category Archives: Islam
Baroness Warsi and Anjem Choudhary: takfir on demand
Lady Warsi: extremists forfeit their right to call themselves Muslim | Politics | The Guardian Baroness (Syeeda) Warsi recently said in an interview with the Guardian that Muslim extremists such as Anjem Choudhary, who led the group which was threatening … Continue reading
Blast from the past: the “Islamic” marriage contract
The new Muslim marriage contract will help empower women | Tehmina Kazi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk About three years ago, I wrote a response to a new “Islamic marriage contract” which had been issued by the so-called Muslim … Continue reading
Review: My Brother, the Islamist
My Brother, the Islamist is a documentary in which a film-maker I had never heard of, named Robb Leach (his home page, incidentally, has no biography or reference to any other work by him), tries to find out why his … Continue reading
Deen Intensive programme for 2011 announced
I’ve been asked to publicise the upcoming Deen Intensive programme, which is to be held at Uludag near Bursa, Turkey, for three weeks starting 30th June. The focus will be on Imam Ghazaali, and will teach from his Ihyaa and … Continue reading
Disability, punishment and attitude
I got a comment earlier today from WildKat (Kimberley Robbins) in response to a post I’d made in August about the incident in Saudi Arabia in which a man who had been paralysed in an attack demanded that the judge … Continue reading
Yes, the law DOES apply to middle-class White people
This past week or so, there have been two major news stories in the UK about men arrested for saying things on the Internet that made a strong suggestion of violence that may not have been meant, but because of … Continue reading
Idiots insult troops and poppy
This image, by Willie Vass shows Celtic fans displaying a slogan insulting the poppy appeal and British troops over the centuries. While British troops have actually done a lot of bad things in Ireland, these are Scottish football fans, not … Continue reading
How much can we blame al-Awlaqi?
So, Roshonara Choudhary, the stupid woman who tried to murder the MP, Stephen Timms, has received a 15-to-life sentence. Today, the Guardian (and probably other papers) printed transcripts of her interviews with the police after the stabbing, in which she … Continue reading
Who’s radicalising who?
Today it was revealed that a report commissioned by University College London, the college where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to bomb a plane from Amsterdam to the USA last December, concluded that he was not radicalised while at the … Continue reading
Retaliation and the story of Khidr
I saw an article today posted at Harry’s Place and also at Foreign Policy Journal, entitled “The Problem of Honor Killings” by one Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, described in his biography as “a student at Oxford University and an intern at … Continue reading
Replicating spinal cord injuries in Saudi Arabia
Last week there was a news story about a man who faced the prospect of having a spinal cord injury inflicted on him surgically in Saudi Arabia as an Islamically-prescribed retaliatory penalty. The usual penalty for bodily injuries in Islam, … Continue reading
What is the true meaning of halal?
The true meaning of halal | Catherine Fildes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Catherine Fildes has published a response to Nesrine Malik’s article from last week, on the Guardian’s website, which argued that the debate about halaal (and kosher) … Continue reading
Why get sanctimonious about Tantawi?
About 24 hours ago, Muhammad Tantawi, the shaikh of al-Azhar in Cairo, died of a heart attack at Riyadh airport. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon. Formalities over …
Andy versus Maajid
I just watched the online copy of last night’s “discussion” between Anjum “Andy” Choudhary of al-Muhajiroun (which will no doubt have a new name by the end of this week, as the government has decided to ban them under anti-terrorism … Continue reading
Muslims versus Anjum Choudhary
Recently the “Muslim extremist” organisation currently trading as Islam4UK — really al-Muhajiroun — announced that they were planning a march through Wootton Bassett, the town just outside Swindon through which the motorcades bring the bodies of fallen soldiers after they … 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
Blaming it on witchcraft
A sister tweeted earlier today that a “religious lady” had told a relative of hers that her apparent difficulty in finding a spouse might be due to “nazar” or the “evil eye”. I tweeted back that the sister should either … Continue reading
Splitters!
Recently some of us have been debating on Facebook whether to take part in a forthcoming coutner-demo to an al-Muhajiroun front group demo, which was to take place on the 31st. The event was titled “Say no to Andy’s fanatics!” … Continue reading
Can we really detect a sign from God?
Last week a tornado hit Minneapolis, and some Muslims were quick to connect the event to a convention being held by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in one of the buildings which suffered minor roof damage, on the grounds that discussions … Continue reading
What are the shibboleths of ignorance about Islam?
I’ve been getting a lot of tweets lately about talk of a ban on the so-called burqa in France, the latest chapter in the long saga of the French obsession with what Muslim women wear on their heads (Muslim responses: … Continue reading
