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 …
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 laws) and Maajid Nawaz of the Quilliam Foundation. This follows a familiar pattern of […]
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 land at RAF Lyneham. Needless to say, this has produced outrage in pretty much […]
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 some commenters on the “Muhajideen Ryder” blog. This provoked a predictable flurry of […]
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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 tell the lady to mind her own business, and failing that, ignore her, and […]
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!” (Andy being the nickname of Anjem Choudhary of al-Muhajiroun from the time when he […]
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 were being held about relaxing the church’s doctrine on homosexuality. The twister also damaged […]
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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: 1, 2. I’m sure I’m not the only Muslim who gets annoyed at the […]
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Yahya Birt has posted an article on the incident earlier this week at Conway Hall, London, in which the “Centre for Social Cohesion” (run by Douglas Murray; a Civitas offshoot run out of the same building as the Tory think-tank, Policy Exchange) were to debate the al-Muhajiroun front group, the “Global Issues Society”:
How not to […]
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Won’t somebody please think of the children (from The Spittoon)
This is an article from a liberal perspective on controversies about publications which find fault with the marriage of the Prophet (صل الله عليه و سلم) with A’isha, which was consummated when the latter was nine years old, as authentic sources confirm. This naturally raises […]
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