Indigo Jo on August 22nd, 2010

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, if the victim insists on it, is retaliation in kind whether the injury consists of […]

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Indigo Jo on March 22nd, 2010

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) slaughter is a distraction from much bigger scandals regarding animal welfare and factory farming, and […]

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Indigo Jo on March 11th, 2010

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 …

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Indigo Jo on January 13th, 2010

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 pitting […]

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Indigo Jo on January 6th, 2010

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 every […]

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Indigo Jo on December 27th, 2009

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 acrimony. (More: […]

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Indigo Jo on November 24th, 2009

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 not […]

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Indigo Jo on October 25th, 2009

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 wasn’t […]

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Indigo Jo on August 26th, 2009

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 the […]

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Indigo Jo on June 22nd, 2009

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 tiresome […]

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Indigo Jo on June 19th, 2009

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 […]

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Indigo Jo on June 5th, 2009

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 Ùˆ 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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Indigo Jo on May 12th, 2009
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Indigo Jo on March 18th, 2009
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Indigo Jo on March 11th, 2009
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Indigo Jo on February 11th, 2009
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Indigo Jo on February 3rd, 2009
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Indigo Jo on January 25th, 2009
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Indigo Jo on January 6th, 2009
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Indigo Jo on December 3rd, 2008
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