Most Turks oppose hijab ban
IslamOnline reports that a recent poll in Turkey reveals that most people oppose the country's ban on hijab in the civil service and universities (see also this report from the Washington Post, thanks UZ)....
Monthly Archive: June 2006
Ahmedinejad misquoted
Comment is free: Lost in translation Jonathan Steele on how the president of Iran's notorious "wipe off the map" speech did not in fact contain the offending words at all: The New York Times's...
Quotes from Forest Gate brothers
BBC NEWS | UK | In quotes: Terror raid brothers Abdul Kahar: As soon as I turn around I just see an orange spark and a big bang. At that time I flew into...
Mel with Anita Anand on her supporters
A snippet from Anita Anand's conversation with Melanie Phillips (hat tip: Saracen; you can listen to it here until next Monday; it's 1hr 45mins in. Anita: This is another text that's come in just...
Mad Mel’s audience
Just checking for reviews of Melanie Phillips' new book, and came across this, on Amazon … the details of what people who bought Londonistan also bought. Bawer, Fallaci, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom, Bat Eeyore...
What have you been eating?
I caught sight of this entry on the blog Jowhara’s Chamber about the state of Muslim-run restaurants. The author explains how she passed a restaurant at which she had become quite a regular, stopped...
Forest Gate: it was either this or that
STOP PRESS: the Forest Gate brothers have been released Plus: in this week's New Statesman, former editor Peter Wilby on the contradictory stories of the events last Friday: The brothers who lived there were...
Crazies march today; real demo this Sunday
The family of the two men arrested in the raid a week ago are urging Muslims not to take part in a march organised by "al-Ghurabaa", an off-shoot of al-Muhajiroun, according to this report...
Londonistan panned in the New Statesman
New Statesman – Books – Losing the plot Brendan O'Neill (of Spiked Online) reviews Melanie Phillips' "hysterical" new book Londonistan and accuses it of repeating rumours and claims which have been debunked in an...
Incident of harrassment by Central Trains driver
The following is a report which was posted to Deenport earlier today, regarding a distressing incident affecting a young Muslim woman on a train in the English East Midlands. Central Trains is the main...
Faisal Bodi: forcing desegregation doesn’t work
Comment is free: Birds of a feather… Faisal Bodi on a recent review of the Cantle report (PDF) of the 2001 disturbances in northern English towns by the report's author shows its author is...
Deportations scandal: British citizen freed
The Guardian reported today that a British man of Bangladeshi origin who had been detained last month, pending deportation, has been released. This wasn't Saqib Almas, who is a British-Pakistani dual national, but an...
Forest Gate raid: another disaster
It now appears that the raid on a house in Forest Gate, east London, last Friday resulted in nothing suspicious being found and was based on false intelligence, as today’s papers are reporting. To...
PhobeWatch: UCL debate, Whitaker on Manji, reply to Mad Mel
A few interesting entries at Islamophobia Watch which I'll deal with in one entry, insha Allah: (1) There's a panel debate this Wednesday at University College London, including Dr Hisham Hellyer, Tariq Ramadan, Dr...
City Circle: Islam and liberalism
Last night, as previously mentioned, City Circle held a debate between Alice Kneen of Magdalen College, Cambridge, proposing the motion that Islam was incompatible with liberalism, and Dr Richard Stone of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, opposing. I got there about 15 minutes late, which was probably more than halfway through Ms Kneen’s speech. She was predictably naming all the things about Islam which in her view made Islam incompatible with liberalism (the execution of apostates, etc.).
Mad Mel soundbite (and book hold-up)
Melanie Phillips has latched onto the Inayat Bunglawala / Little Green Footballs controversy in her usual way, with a reference to "the truly demented ‘Zionist conspiracy’ theory emanating from Londonistan (Charles isn’t even a...
Whitaker: MCB elections this Sunday
Comment is free: A very British balancing act Hey, I never knew that Iqbal Sacranie was stepping down myself until I read this. The Muslim Council of Britain is holding its leadership election this...
Darwinism at Hay on Wye
At the time of writing, Comment is Free and all its articles are down. Sarah Crown on Comment is Free posted yesterday a write-up of a speech at the Hay Festival by Steve Jones,...
Inayat Bunglawala in death threat controversy
Little Green Footballs alleges that they received a death threat from a machine owned by Reuters last Friday. The threat came after someone posted a link to a LGF article in response to an...