Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
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....
The most recent edition of the Spectator (a British political magazine, edited by the Tory MP Boris Johnson) protests against the one-sided extradition agreement passed in 2003. In this case, it’s three bankers who’ve...
Leila (Scorpion) has filled in the latest survey that’s doing the rounds (she calls it “a mid-Muharram meme” although I’m not sure if it started in Muharram). Umm Zaid has filled in a shorter...
I’ve been watching the progress on the latest version of the WordPress blogging software, which is based on the old b2 code which has spawned a few other derivatives, notably b2evolution. The new release...
This past week (as explained earlier) I’ve been doing a temporary job driving a minibus, transporting the severely mentally disabled of New Malden from their homes and care facilities to two day care and...
Last night I got an email from a supporter of the Terri Schiavo campaign, asking me to join a “Blogburst” in their support. I clicked on the link in the email, and I discovered...
I’ve managed to come by a rather sweet temporary job with the local facilities for dealing with the learning disabled, which consists of (who’d have guessed!) driving them around. It basically involves driving them...
I’ve put this entry under the Politics header as I’ve got no intention of dedicating a whole category (not that it would use up much space) to the saga of Prince Charles’ allegedly impending...