No speaka de lingo
There’s a report in today’s Observer about the violence in Colombia surrounding the cocaine trade, which is supplying an increasinly sociably respectable drug to middle-class Brits. They talk to a 19-year-old girl who was...
Monthly Archive: February 2005
Immigration lunacy watch
Every so often, I link to articles here on the UK’s idiotic asylum and immigration policies, and the side-effects which impact on ordinary people. The most recent is a family in Wales, in which...
Job hunting …
Not long back from attenting a “selection interview” for an IT recruitment agency in Tolworth. I’ve been looking for a proper job for ages, half-heartedly because I’m not very good at interviews and writing...
The latest ‘racism’ hullabaloo
With that flying pig poster barely out of people’s minds, it seems that someone else has made the mistake of “crossing” a certain ethno-religious community. The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, got into a...
The plagiarism controversy
Visitors to Sunni Sister will have noticed the recent controversy over the unauthorised copying of a number of articles from Modern Muslima and various other websites run by Saraji Umm Zaid. Visitors to those...
Of daemons, evolution and intolerance
It’s fairly common for Muslims to enounter the arrogance of a particular religious sect, which prides itself on its lack of “dogma” but in fact probably exceeds all other religions in its total contempt...
My favourite software’s opening up at last
Yesterday I read on OSNews that the company behind Qt, the toolkit with which I write all my programs including Catkin, have finally decided to release the Windows version of the software as “open...
Flaws in Tories’ new asylum policy
There is a feature in today’s Times (London) from a practising barrister outlining the flaws in the Tories’ recently announced immigration policy. Among them is the fact that the new policy would breach Article...
Election news blues
A few depressing news stories today leave me wondering for how long this country will still be worth living in. This morning, they were discussing on the Jon Gaunt show a proposal to limit...
Schwartz on Sufism
Stephen Schwartz has had yet another article published in his favoured online magazine, David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com, on the subject of Sufism which he promotes as the friendly side of Islam. He starts off with...
Yet another embarrassment …
There is an interview with Omar Bakri Mohammed on a website called Christianity Today, in which some bizarre claims are made about the status of the so-called “Magnificent 19”, i.e., the 9/11 hijackers. (One...
Kilroy isn’t his party’s leader
The Independent is reporting that Robert Kilroy-Silk is, in reality, not the leader of Slurritas despite being its “star” and founder: “The fact that Kilroy quit UKIP so very acrimoniously because they refused to...
Evening Standard on ‘Muslim Boys’
There is a report in today’s Evening Standard (London) about a pseudo-Islamic criminal gang operating in south London. The report by David Cohen, Revealed: Rise of the Muslim Boys, claims that the gang’s hallmark...
More on that flying pig poster
Last week Labour issued a poster with the heads of Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin (in case nobody knew or cared, they’re Jewish) superimposed on winged pigs, next to the slogan “The day the...
Kilroy hates you
For anyone who’s heard all the speculation about Robert Kilroy-Silk’s new party, called “Veritas” (Latin for truth), but missed the actual launch … I thought I’d present a link to a rundown on Kilroy’s...
Islam, race and marriage
There’s recently been some heated discussion going on at Izzy Mo’s blog about the subject of inter-racial and inter-cultural Muslim marriages, which has produced another discussion over at Ginny’s blog. Ginny has recently posted...
Fasaad watch: oddity in coverage of Coptic murders
Spencer at Jihad Watch claims that a group of “Muslim fanatics” are posting to a “Jihadist website” the names, and other details, of Christians who debate with Muslims about religion on PalTalk, as some...