Zionist Tesco’s insecure web service
Tesco is the biggest of the UK’s supermarket chains by a long way, and besides its big superstores both in town centres and outside, it also runs stores at Esso petrol stations and has...
Monthly Archive: March 2005
Questions, questions …
Umm Zaid has asked me five of her own questions, which she promised to do even before I saw LH’s set. So let’s see:
The Cantona kung-fu incident, 10 years on
The Croydon Advertiser today reported that, when all the Manchester United fans came to my old home town to see their team play Crystal Palace, they did so on the 10th anniversary of the...
Pakistani court suspends rape ruling
Given all the interest among the bloggers in the Mukhtar Mai/Bibi case, I thought you might all like to see this: Rape ruling in Pakistan suspended An Islamic court in Pakistan has suspended a...
Levantine’s interview
OK, the interview meme has finally caught up with me … Ahmed Weir has picked me at random to answer five questions of his choosing. So here’s my answers:
Dell fires 30 workers for … praying
Not often that I repost CAIR press releases, but since this covers both Muslim community issues and tech issues, I thought this would interest any Muslim interested in buying Dell’s overpriced, overrated computers with...
My letter’s in the Telegraph
Further to the recent couple of articles on special schools, my letter was printed in this morning’s Telegraph: We must get a grip on special school closures They’ve edited out bits of it, though....
WordPress bug, and SUSE release
Yesterday I discovered that WordPress’s latest release isn’t displaying my categories properly. It should be displaying them in alphabetical order, and there is a published way of changing the order of displaying the categories,...
Discipline, Tories and special schools
This morning they were talking on the Jon Gaunt show about the issue of black boys and the problems they face, and present, in British schools. The whole thing was touched off by Trevor...
IHRC action alert
The Islamic Human Rights Commission have issued the following alert, about a brother (who is a British citizen) who is facing extradition to Algeria from Italy (hat tip: MPAC UK). Emphases are mine. 23...
Abu Hamza attacked by criminal
The Sun, a low-class tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, today led with the story that Abu Hamza, the preacher on remand for incitement to murder and also wanted for extradition to the USA on...
New boarding schools for ‘troubled’ pupils
The Independent is reporting today that the Government intends to establish “prestigious” new boarding schools for troubled teenagers as part of plans to renovate run-down inner-city areas. A senior government advisor says that “at...
Slapdown on Mark Steyn
Pearsell Helms slaps down a recent Mark Steyn diatribe cheering on the fall of the EU here: Cry of the Neocons: WE WANT EURABIA!
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)...
The Shabina Begum case (part 3)
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)....
Prayer rugs? Arabic texts? Must be jihadis!
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...
The Shabina Begum case (part 2)
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...
Shabina wins headscarf rights
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...