London bombings: fifth anniversary post
I refuse to call them 7/7. The first time I saw that was on the front page of the Times the next day. It seemed quite clear to me that this was their way...
Category: London bombings
Rachel North: no truth or justice yet
Rachel from North London has posted her reaction to the verdicts in the terrorism trial at Kingston Crown Court today: So there will never be justice, but there can be the other thing so...
“Left to pick up the pieces”
This week’s Media Guardian on the invasion of Beeston, the home town of three out of the four people who bombed London last July, by reporters who had no idea of what sensitivity means:...
British Muslims, alienation and terrorism
The Guardian recently carried two related depressing stories about the Muslim community here and terrorism. The first was that, according to some survey carried out by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, British Muslims had more negative views about their non-Muslim fellow citizens than do Muslims in Europe and more likely to believe conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks
Church meeting fixed for Clarke
Rachel from North London, a clergyman’s daughter (not sure which church) who was injured in last July’s bombings, writes about how her father met the Home Secretary (and her father’s local MP) Charles Clarke...
London under siege?
So, it appears that this rather cynical post at Shot By Both Sides was correct, and the police messed up big-time in Stockwell yesterday. The guy they followed from a flat they’d been watching...
Norman Geras’ false comparisons
Norman Geras, professor of government at the University of Manchester, author of Normblog, and friend of Harry’s gang, has an article published in yesterday’s Guardian regarding people saying “I told you so” with regard...
Thursday’s rally
Recently people have been talking on DeenPort about holding a Muslim march against terrorism so that we can show our distance from these actions and the people who carry them out. I’m not entirely...
We don’t need a Gandhi
The Daily Telegraph last Saturday published a piece by Charles Moore, Where is the Gandhi of Islam?, containing an awful lot of waffle and a few plainly false assertions. The article basically casts doubt...
Further thoughts on yesterday’s bombings
It’s the end of the day after London’s first experience of al-Qa’ida-style terrorism; the death toll continues to rise (although they do not believe it will reach 100), and the media is full of...
I am still here
Alhamdu lillah, I’m still around. Thanks to all the people who wrote to me and commented here to check whether I was safe after this morning’s bombings in London. I actually had a rather...