Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Here is a police statement regarding the malicious story circulated in the press yesterday regarding PC Alexander Omar Basha, who was excused duty guarding the Israeli embassy in London for the duration of this...
The author of this article at Comment is Free drew this outrageous conclusion to her story about growing up in a Pakistani family which wasn’t that religious but was very strongly “traditional” with regard...
Carol Sarler, in today's Daily Mail, suggests that the BBC Radio 4 staple Woman's Hour has no real purpose now that women's issues, such as the weight one sometimes puts on after a pregnancy...
Over the last couple of weeks, two separate news stories have emerged, both related to people owning toys which, frankly, are too big and grown up for them: dogs and cars. Last weekend a...
BBC News Video: Advertisers targeting Ramadan A BBC news report on how Ramadan keeps Muslim families at home together – which often, in practice, means in front of the TV, which advertisers see as...
New Statesman – Watching you watching me Brendan O'Neill (of Spiked fame) on the huge popularity of CCTV cameras in the UK, including a visit to a hidden "spy bunker" beneath London's Trocadero centre,...
Did anyone read the article in yesterday's Evening Standard about how Abu Izzadeen (Omar Brookes), the ex-Muhajiroun activist who heckled John Reid at his Leyton speech last week, is "looking for a second, third...
Guardian Unlimited: Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them A follow-up to George Monbiot's three articles in the Guardian's G2 supplement last week on global warming, all edited extracts...
Last Sunday I blogged an article from the Spectator by James Bartholomew (now back behind the Spectator’s paywall, but you can find an unedited draft at his own blog) in which he announced that...
We've all heard by now about how the Home Secretary, John Reid, was heckled by Omar Brookes (Abu Izzaddeen) ([1], [2]) when he went to address Muslims in Leyton, east London, yesterday (he also...
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown wrote an opinion piece in the Independent yesterday (available here if you care to pay the fee) demanding to know why Muslims did not join demonstrations like the Day for Darfur last...
Guardian Unlimited: George Monbiot on climate change and oil giant ExxonMobil This is a lengthy article, which appeared in today's G2 supplement in the Guardian, by George Monbiot. It is about the "global warming...
It's depressing to see Muslims once again resorting to violence in response, no doubt, to rumours about what the Pope may or may not have said in his speech at Regensburg last week (extracts...
In A Class of Her Own from this week's Spectator (free registration required; goes PPV when next edition is out). The author, James Bartholomew, explains why he is taking his daughter out of school...
Via Islamophobia Watch, the Italian journalist notorious for her outbursts on Islam, Oriana Fallaci, has died. You can read obituaries on her here and here. The latter, in the Times surprisingly enough, highlights the...
This week is the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, if anyone hasn't been listening to the news or watching the calendar. It's fair to say that the day was a watershed; it...
Guardian Unlimited: BBC did not know of 9/11 film’s link to religious right Anyone see that “path to 9/11” film that was on BBC1 earlier this week? It turns out that the director was...
The Guardian's legal writer Marcel Berlins has a column in today's paper about how certain causes – in particular, Palestine and Muslims – are continually let down by the poor English displayed by the...
Rachel from North London and Kitty Killer have recently posted on the Blair-Brown "succession" controversy. My position on this has long been very simple: Brown is not fit for the job, because he considers...
The Guardian's readers' editor responds to speculation on various websites and blogs that a report, accompanied by photographs, of an attack on a Red Cross ambulance (which prompted Melanie Phillips to write this entry...