New website for Imam Zaid Shakir
Thanks to Qadeeb al-Ban at Mere Islam, I've found a new website "dedicated to disseminating the work of Imam Zaid Shakir through print and audio formats". The site is called New Islamic Directions, and...
Monthly Archive: November 2005
Boris Johnson wheels out the Sookhdevil
On the way to an early job on Friday, I always look forward to what’s going to be on the front of the political magazines, the New Statesman and the Spectator, associated with the...
Euro court rejects Turkish headscarf appeal
This just in from the BBC: Turkey can ban Islamic headscarves in universities, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The court rejected an appeal by a Turkish woman who argued that the...
Scum misrepresents bomb victim
Anyone see the front page of the Scum newspaper yesterday, the one with the face of a burned 7th July bomb victim on it and an appeal for everyone to write to Tory Bliar...
Bliar defeated
Good news today, which certainly justifies an update: Tory Bliar's proposal to lock suspected terrorists up for up to 90 days got defeated in the Commons, with 322 against and 291 in favour. 49...
How great Apple Stores are
For the year and a half I've been a Mac owner, my Mac's monitor has had niggling monitor problems – bits of colour in places they shouldn't be. This usually means a "halo" effect,...
Galloway lets his people down (again)
I've long lost any respect for George Galloway, but the contempt with which he apparently regards his followers was displayed in his behaviour during the Commons vote on the Government's terrorist legislation this week....
Reply to Hirsh and Ashworth on leftist “anti-semitism”
Two of the directors of Engage, Jane Ashworth and David Hirsh, have written a defence of Zionism and a critique of leftist anti-Zionism on the website of Progress, “the independent organisation for Labour party...
French reap what they sow
I'm not a good graphic manipulator and never bothered to follow Linux Format's GIMP course, but if I were, there would be a graphic on the right showing a French flag with the stripes...
Winter lights? Not our idea
Nobody who heard the local news in London yesterday morning could have failed to hear the latest bizarre story about a local council bending over backwards to "accommodate" people who never asked to be...
Why Godwin’s Law isn’t law here
Fifteen years ago, when most people had never heard of the Internet and only people at universities and in various government departments had access to it, nobody had heard of PHP forums (or PHP...