Category Archives: Taj Hargey

Hargey attacks Islam along with the “burqa”

I don’t watch al-Jazeera English (although I can get it, part-time, on Freeview) but saw this clip of David Frost interviewing Taj Hargey and Salma Yaqoob over the recently-introduced ban on the niqaab in France on YouTube. The debate in … Continue reading

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Posted in Niqab (face-covering), Taj Hargey | 22 Comments

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

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Posted in Media, Reviews, Taj Hargey | 11 Comments

Taj Hargey defends Christians by attacking Muslims

What has Britain come to when it takes a Muslim like me to defend Christianity? | Mail Online This article appeared in today’s Daily Mail, and is meant to be in defence of Shirley Chaplin, a nurse in Devon who … Continue reading

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Posted in Interfaith, Taj Hargey | 12 Comments

Taj Hargey launches fresh anti-Islam stunt

Taj Hargey is no stranger to long-time readers of this site: he is notorious for his anti-Shari’ah publicity stunts and for being able and willing to come out and attack Muslims in the press, first of all on the BBC’s … Continue reading

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Posted in Taj Hargey | 32 Comments

Refuting Taj Hargey: hadith and McCarthyism

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Smug charlatan Hargey screws thousands out of Muslim Weekly

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Amina Wadud joins Hargey publicity stunt

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Manal Omar, the ‘burkini’, the rude busybody and the local media

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Posted in Islamophobia, Media, Taj Hargey | 34 Comments

An attack on the idea of communities

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Posted in Community, Media, Taj Hargey | 4 Comments

New Statesman slanders Dr Quick, boosts Hargey

This week’s New Statesman (the first I’ve had through the door on a now ended subscription offer of £4.80 for three months) has on its front page a feature marking the anniversary of the 7th July bombings last year. There are two long articles, one by Shiv Malik (yep, him again) on the background of the bomber Shazad Tanweer and one by Ziauddin Sardar (yep, him again) on young British Muslims. Laughably Shiv’s feature is entitled The Suicide Bomber in his own words, which refers to the personal statement on his UCAS (university application) form that he’s managed to get hold of. Depressingly, as I noted last year when writing about political magazine coverage of the bombings, these two were the only voices within the community the NS could find, with Shiv concentrating on Hizbut-Tahreer, which had nothing to do with the bombings. Continue reading

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Posted in Community, Shiv Malik, Taj Hargey, ZiaWatch | 4 Comments

Reflections on last Sunday’s Panorama

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Posted in Media, Taj Hargey | 32 Comments