What’s race got to do with it?
I’m rather puzzled by the reaction to Amina Wadud’s speech in Toronto last month. I’m not surprised, of course, that Muslim WakeUp (or Go To Sleep as our sister Umm Zaid memorably called it)...
Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
I’m rather puzzled by the reaction to Amina Wadud’s speech in Toronto last month. I’m not surprised, of course, that Muslim WakeUp (or Go To Sleep as our sister Umm Zaid memorably called it)...
The discussion of yesterday’s ruling on Shabina Begum’s jilbab has continued apace in both the media and the blogosphere today (given that the first morning papers to report the story would have been today’s)....
An amusing observation on Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch site: An additional note about Arizona: last night after I spoke, a woman in the audience told me about a friend of hers who has a...
Jumping on the desktop-pictures bandwagon … here’s mine, taken with my Mum’s digital camera last night: If I were to post the original version (which I’m not going to, because it’s a huge file),...
I posted here earlier (below insha Allah) about the ruling this morning that the school in Luton, England, which excluded Shabina Begum for insisting on wearing the Islamic jilbab to school violated her human...
Alhamdu lillah, the BBC reports that Shabina Begum, the sister who was refused the right to wear her Islamic long gown (jilbab) to school, has won her case at the Court of Appeal, which...
A letter in today’s Daily Telegraph, from Bob Hughes of Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Sir - Maxine Carr is being blamed for wasting taxpayers’ money over the preservation of her anonymity and safety (News, Feb 25)....
The BBC reports that a guy from Gloucester called Sajid Badat has been found guilty of conspiring to carry out a shoe-bomber type attack on a plane from Amsterdam to the USA. Let’s get...
This blog belongs to a driver of small trucks and vans, blogger, aspiring web designer and software developer living under his generous parents’ roof in New Malden in South London. I’m a convert to...
OK guys, I’ve finally had enough. I’m currently in the process of migrating my whole blog over to WordPress. From now on, all new content will appear at my WordPress blog formerly known as...
My mother just got this in a forwarded email, and sent it on to me … so now your friends will be able to read it without it cluttering up their Inbox. Suddenly everything...
The Times reported the other day that the number of reported rapes in England and Wales has gone up by a substantial amount (though the only statistic they quoted was for 2002, with around...
Anyone who’s been reading the news over here the last few days will have heard that a schism is looming over the international Anglican church over the American church’s decision to ordain openly gay...
Q-News magazine has a big feature on Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) this month, including pieces by his assistant Benjamin Karim, and by Yuri Kochiyama, in whose arms he died in 1965. There’s also a...
I just hate the way, when you go to the Apple Store in Regent Street, London, you can find people hogging the G5 PowerMac machines surfing the ‘net with Internet Explorer on Virtual PC....
There is a piece in today’s Guardian, The reality of l’affaire du foulard (headscarf affair), about the inconsistent and hypocritical treatment of Muslims by the French state. She also mentions the speech Shirak gave...
At last! Someone’s written a cogent article on the state of the British press, and its effect on politicians. Douglas Hurd’s headline article in this week’s Spectator focuses on the Daily Mail, but also...
Does anyone else hate going into cyber-cafés, when they have a TFT screen set on less than that screen’s resolution, and they’ve set up the Control Panel so that it doesn’t allow you to...
David T at Harry’s Place has replied to my last piece, Harry on IDS and Cohen on Livingstone (Again), taking issue with my definition of a religious community; he seems to think I define...
Nick Cohen has had yet another article printed in the Observer, attacking the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, for his connections (a meeting or two and a hug) with the Muslim scholar, Yusuf al-Qaradawi....