Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Last week Joe Kaufman posted to FrontPageMag.com an article regarding a resolution passed by the Student Government at the University of South Florida which supported the dismissal of Sami al-Arian, recently acquitted on terrorist...
When I was a kid growing up in Croydon, there were two types of buses: red ones and green ones. Red ones were run by London Transport, green ones (including the green and white...
Guardian Unlimited – Gold teeth: a sure sign of a media sting I've not normally got much time for George Galloway and his party nowadays, but my attention was drawn to this story about...
I was going to blog this clanger in Mad Mel's latest diary entry, but PhobeWatch and Saracen beat me to it. This is Mel excoriating "Britain's man of straw", the man MPACUK wanted to...
In today’s Guardian, Marcel Berlins approves of Jacques Chirac’s walk-out from the opening session of the EU spring summit last week, prompted by a speech in English by the French leader of the EU...
Comment is free: Enlighten me Madeleine Bunting on how the "hard liberals" misuse the Enlightenment, and how many of their its key thinkers were in fact religious believers: Something didn't seem to be adding...
Following my entry on dumb cycle lanes in which I linked to some pictures at the BBC news site of cycle lanes through phone boxes and the like, I've posted a few pictures of...
Yesterday there was another rally in London’s Trafalgar Square: this time at the end of a so-called “March for Free Expression” at which a gaggle of people assembled to hear speeches defending people’s right...
On Thursday you probably all heard that Norman Kember, a British peace activist who had been held hostage in Iraq by some rebel group or other, was freed by soldiers of various countries including...
Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch notes that the organiser of the upcoming "March for Free Expression" has backtracked on his earlier enthusiasm for his followers to bring placards bearing copies of the Danish cartoons...
Today the House of Lords, effectively the UK’s supreme court, allowed an appeal by a school which had excluded a Muslim female pupil, Shabina Begum, because she insisted on wearing an Arabic-style jilbab, which...
It looks like Ken Livingstone really does love the feel of bullets in his foot. I didn't think the concentration camp thing was the big issue it was made out to be, but this...
The Guardian on how $23billion of money entrusted by the UN for the redevelopment of Iraq was lost to waste, theft and fraud: Because the Iraqi banking system was in tatters, the funds were...
Yesterday the Stop the War Coalition organised yet another of their marches in London against the Iraq war and against any expansion of it (into Iran, for example) (more from the BBC here). While...
Clipping of picture of a Muslima in niqab from today's Observer This picture appeared in the Observer today, on page 19 of the Review section next to this article by Miranda Sawyer. The article...
Via Pickled Politics, with their memorable headline "Labour lose brown person to Tories", someone I knew as a union activist at Aberystwyth has joined the Conservative party just months after standing against the party...
In response to the civil union in the Netherlands involving a man and two women, Mad Mel wonders where all this liberalisation is leading us: [Charles] Krauthammer, however, sees all these developments merely as...
A great set of pictures of stupid cycle lanes, like the 15-mile cycle route alternative to a six-mile road journey, the cycle ride straight into a phone box, and this one from Middlesbrough: I...
The BBC reports that "Tamil people around the world are being intimidated and threatened into giving money to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, according to a new report" from Human Rights Watch. The extortion...
The title of this entry rather sounds like stating the obvious, but of course Iraq and Bosnia have something in common, namely a recent or fairly recent western intervention. David Aaronovitch, in yesterday’s Times,...