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- 25% ME Group
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- Same Difference
- Severe ME Book
- Site that Breathes, the
- Surviving Severe M.E.
- Tymes Trust
- Wheelie Catholic
- Where's the Benefit?
- WildKat blog
Islamic blogs: brothers
- Abdusalaam Al-Hindi
- Adnan Tariq
- AE (Abu Eesa)
- Ahmed’s World of Islam
- An American Muslim
- Avari
- Bin Gregory Productions
- Bradford Muslim
- Chill Yo Islam Yo
- Dr.M’s Analysis
- Dunner’s blog
- HAhmed.com
- Hamza Tzortzis's blog
- Haq Islam
- Irrelevant Opinions
- Madhab al-Irfy
- Manrilla Blog
- Mas’ud Blog
- Mind, Body, Soul
- Mr Moo
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- Mujahideen Ryder (defunct)
- Naeem’s blog
- Peace, bruv
- Rolled Up Trousers
- Seeker's Digest
- Shahada
- Yahya Birt
Islamic blogs: sisters
- A Nightingale
- Egyptian’s Wife
- Ginny's Thoughts and Things (Old)
- Happy Muslim Mama
- Hijabi Apprentice
- Ibnat al-Hidayah: Daughter of Guidance
- Ify Okoye (ex Muslim Apple)
- iMuslim.tv
- In the Shade of the Veil
- Inner Reflections Transcribed
- Islam, My Inspiration
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- Online Rihla
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- Waqt Well Wasted
Islamic blogs: groups & issues
Islamic links: general
- Amal Press
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- European Institue of Human Sciences
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- Kitaba – Islamic texts for the blind
- Lamppost Productions
- Mama List of Islamic Links
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- New Islamic Directions
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Islamic links: converts
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Category Archives: Media
Somalia? Send a proper journalist
LIZ JONES: The caring professions? They just don’t seem to care at all | Mail Online The above article is a rant by Liz Jones, normally a fashion columnist on the Daily Mail also well-known for covering in nauseous detail … Continue reading
Is there money to burn in Basildon?
BBC iPlayer: The Big Gypsy Eviction This programme was on BBC1 last night (you can watch it until next Thursday, if you are in the UK) and is the result of six years of filming at a Gypsy site near … Continue reading
Press attitudes and bureaucratic nightmares
Teenager who doesn’t exist: Birth certificate blunder in Spain means British girl can’t get passport or even a bus pass | Mail Online The above report is about a young girl who was born in Spain to two British parents … Continue reading
Hacked or not, Fraser Brown story is wrong
The Sun today was very proud to declare that Gordon Brown was wrong to accuse them of hacking his phone, or illegally accessing his voicemail, to make their “scoop” in November 2006, and that the real source of their story … Continue reading
News of the Screws — screwed
It was with much satisfaction that I learned that the News of the World, the British Sunday tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, was going to publish its final edition today. This happened, for those overseas who didn’t hear, after it … Continue reading
Emmerdale, assisted suicide and the drama imperative
I don’t plan to watch the Terry Pratchett assisted suicide show that is on tonight, but I did watch the sequence of episodes in Emmerdale in which Jackson Walsh, who sustained a spinal-cord injury in an accident some months ago … Continue reading
Minorities may die in Midsomer Massacres
The BBC doesn’t have a monopoly on ridiculous plotlines in its drama, despite the recent trends of Casualty, Holby City and EastEnders (not to mention the sappy ridiculousness of the school drama series, Waterloo Road). ITV has been running a … Continue reading
Casualty plots getting ridiculous
Recently I stopped watching EastEnders regularly, as I found the plotlines were getting frustrating and repetitive and were going nowhere. Some would say that Casualty (and its week-night sister programme, Holby City) went the same way years ago, but I … Continue reading
The cartoon Geert Hitlers couldn’t live with
Islamophobia Watch - Documenting anti Muslim bigotry - Dutch broadcaster removes anti-Wilders cartoon after threats to staff Geert Wilders was a supporter of the Dutch cartoonists who depicted the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as a terrorist with a bomb … Continue reading
PACE trial: What’s fear got to do with it?
Study finds therapy and exercise best for ME (from the Guardian, 18th February) On Thursday, the results of a trial of various supposed methods of treating what the authors insist on calling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome were published, and to nobody’s … Continue reading
Dispatches: “Lessons in Hate and Violence”
Last night, Channel 4 broadcast another Dispatches programme titled “Lessons in Hate and Violence” (not available currently to watch online, possibly because arrests have been made in connection to some of the footage, but there is an article by the … Continue reading
Not exactly medical journalism
Earlier this week the Panorama documentary featuring Kay Gilderdale, titled “I Helped My Daughter Die”, won the Medical Journalists’ Association’s “best broadcast TV” award at their Winter Awards 2011 (the MJA don’t actually announce the winners of their own awards, … Continue reading
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Suzanne Moore, Newsnight and the EDL
If the Left is to rise again, it must lift the official silence on race and culture | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian This weekend the so-called English Defence League held a “homecoming” march in Luton, the … Continue reading
Wot no spam?
It was reported last week that there had been a substantial drop in the level of spam on the net since last August and a precipitous drop since Christmas, which a Symantec analyst put down to a drop in output … Continue reading
Review of my 2010
This is, as far as I remember, the first time I’ve ever posted a review of a year to my blog, and that’s probably been because no old year has been as different from the one before it as this … Continue reading
The prejudicial coverage of the Yeates murder
A loss of faith in the morality of the British press | Minority Thought I must say I never had much faith in it to begin with, but this article exposes some of the prejudicial coverage of the arrest of … Continue reading
Clamp down on imaginary Islamisation, says Torygraph
Islamophobia Watch - Documenting anti Muslim bigotry - ‘David Cameron must face the challenge of Islamisation’ says Torygraph The Telegraph published an interview with Marine Le Pen, daughter of the French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, and yesterday followed it up … Continue reading
A sad day for parliamentary democracy
Last night a set of “scandals” broke in which various senior Lib Dem politicians made statements which were not conducive to the love-in between their party and the Tories which has caused so much upset as they have ditched one … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – Young, Muslim and Black
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Young, Muslim and Black I heard this advertised on Radio 4 last week, and feared the worst when I heard the presenter, Dotun Adebayo, enunciate the word “reverts” (not that I ever use … Continue reading
Abdul-Hakim Murad and Panorama
This is a response to the ridiculous comments that have ensued from the recent John Ware documentary — he appeared in Ware’s earlier Panorama in which Ware attacked certain mosques at which offensive sermons were delivered. Abdul-Hakim Murad appeared very … Continue reading
