Appeal regarding Bath mosque incident
Bath Chronicle: Yobs attack mosque in Bath Police have issued a CCTV image of two yobs who entered a mosque in Bath (England) on 11th July this year and urinated on worshippers’ belongings (strangely,...
Author: Matthew Smith
Monbiot: the NHS and the Fat Cats Protection League
This great free-market experiment is more like a corporate welfare scheme (from today’s Guardian) This is a great article by George Monbiot about the tendency of the “free market” system to act as a...
Back to democracy, back to Bhutto
A friend of feudalism (the Guardian, yesterday) William Dalrymple (of White Mughals fame) on the depressing spectacle of Benazir Bhutto trying to cut a deal with Busharraf in order to get back in power...
Intrusion as “art” or “journalism”
Right now the London South Bank Centre is playing host to the World Press Photo exhibition, containing “approximately 200 award-winning photographs from across the globe that capture the most powerful, moving and at times...
BBC discussion on Caliphate conference
MPACUK – MPACUK & HT Discuss Indonesia Caliphate Conference This is a Google Video of a recent discussion on BBC News 24 between Zulfi Bukhari of MPACUK and Nazreen Nawaz of Hizb-ut-Tahreer, regarding the...
Lady Di: get over it, please!
Am I the only one who’s really sick of the bickering over the upcoming 10th anniversary of Lady Di’s death, and in particular, of it being front-page news? Yesterday and at the weekend, there...
A born-again American idiot
No, not George Bush: Christopher Hitchens, who became an idiot in 2001 (well, some would say earlier!) and an American more recently than that. He wrote this article in yesterday's Observer, taking apart George...
American idiots
This just in from the BBC: the American military have managed to put backs up in Afghanistan by dropping footballs covered in various flags, including that of Saudi Arabia, which contains the shahada. Needless...
My impressions of Movable Type 4
Last week I installed the new version of Movable Type, version 4. Six Apart have made much fanfare, understandably because it's quite an overhaul of the software, and the look and feel of the...
Mission creep: Amnesty and abortion
Amnesty International last week announced that it had abandoned its policy of neutrality on the issue of abortion in favour of supporting it “in some circumstances”, including pregnancies resulting from rape or incest or...
The difference between hate and yob violence
Last month I wrote a review of Richard Littlejohn’s documentary “The War on Britain’s Jews?”, in which he presented as evidence of an upsurge of anti-Semitism an attack on a rabbi without mentioning that...
Chindamo judgement reawakens “foreign prisoners” issue
This afternoon a British judge accepted an appeal by Learco Chindamo, who as a 15-year-old delinquent killed a head-teacher who had come to the aid of another teenager whom his gang was attacking, against...
My Movable Type upgrade (updated)
Update: This site was down overnight, because my web host upgraded some of their software, and had backed up my files before they did that, and restored them, destroying all the work I did...
Muslim own goal in bombing the Yazidis
This afternoon, with the family car to myself as my parents have gone to Crete for a holiday, I took a ride to the coast to visit a friend of mine who owns one...
Fitz says kick Muslims out of Europe
Dhimmi Watch: Study the threats, and the response to them "Hugh Fitzgerald", the person Robert Spencer calls on (or pretends to be, as some suspect) when he wants to publish an intellectual-sounding article, calls...
Gandhi’s long shadow
The Guardian: A Father Betrayed This article appeared in the Guardian as part of a "special" in their G2 supplement on Tuesday. You can read other articles here under "The New India", including an...
Dispatches: condemned, but not yet cancelled
I guess I've taken my time in jumping on the bandwagon of Muslim bloggers commenting on the condemnation, last week, of the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, Undercover Mosque, in which a number of Muslim...
“Bakery” murder: no correction from the Observer
Last week the Observer printed a report on the murder of an American newspaper editor, Chauncey Bailey, by Black militants supposedly linked to "Your Black Muslim Bakery", dominated by a psuedo-Islamic sect that Bailey...
The hoax in the hospital
A few weeks ago, browsing the magazine shelves at Borders, which sells imported American magazines, I fell on a feminist magazine called Bitch, which had a feature on chain emails aimed at scaring women....
Life without hope
Life without hope: America's child prisoners – Weekend Guardian This story is a distressing read; it is about people locked up for life without parole as juveniles in the USA, in particular Michigan, although...