Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
A peaceful protest is to be held this Saturday, regarding the cartoon affair, to counteract the yobbish antics of last Friday (hat tip: [Osama](http://www.osamasaeed.org/osama/2006/02/proper_rally_af.html)): Rally against incitement & Islamophobia, Saturday 11th February 2006 Date:...
Joan Smith had an article in this Tuesday's Evening Standard in which she claimed that the "real face of the militant fathers' rights movement", best known for its Superman stunts up cranes and the...
Ma sha Allah, it seems that one of the idiots who gave us all a bad name over the weekend has turned out to be a drug dealer who was out on licence at...
It appears that Jyllands-Posten were selective about whose taboos they’d risk offending; not that we want to see another of our prophets (‘alaihim as-salaam) defamed, but the hypocrisy is obvious.
This is an email I got from the New Muslims' Project email list, regarding the demo on Saturday: assalaamu alaykum, i was at saturday's demostration, yes the stewards were HT [Hizb-ut-Tahreer], almost all the...
A guy called Thom Holwerda, who posts many of the entries at the tech blog OSNews, today posted a piece about the security merits of Unix-type operating systems (like Mac OS X and Linux)...
Hugh Fitzgerald, Robert Spencer’s deputy and second windbag in command at Jihad/Dhimmi Watch, has a bit of a cob-on about converts at the moment, with one article after another puzzling over why anyone would...
This afternoon, after jumu'ah, there was a demonstration outside the Danish embassy in Sloane Street, London, which was supposed to follow a march from the "Central Mosque" near Regent's Park. I got to the...
Twice this evening I’ve received text messages telling me to vote “no” in a text vote for BBC Radio 5 Live regarding whether the Danish cartoons should be published here. This vote actually finished...
Speaking of orchestrated demonstrations and the like (see next entry down), did anyone get that impression of the demonstrations against the Danish cartoons that were shown on the TV last night? I was planning...
There is an interesting "sketch" piece on the BBC's website about this afternoon's rally outside Parliament against the proposed "religious hatred" law. (To be honest, I was considering going as I finished work around...
Mas'ud Cajee (contributor to Taking Back Islam) has written an article for AltMuslim on the much-exaggerated Muslim role in the Holocaust. Features a few things you might not know about the "Nazi mufti" and...
The Daily Mirror – AKA the Moron – today declared that a south London jail was "run by al-Qaeda", citing the vicious antics of the razor gang known as the Muslim Boys. This gang...
From the BBC: the Lib Dem peer in charge of reviewing anti-terror laws has changed his mind on ID cards: he says they would not be much use in preventing terrorist attacks: Liberal Democrat...
Ian Blair the other day found himself in hot water for suggesting that the media display racism in how they report crime. If it's a white victim, the story gets splashed all over the...
The BBC is reporting that a Danish firm has taken out advertisements in various Middle Eastern newspapers to disassociate itself from the cartoons of the Prophet (sall' Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam), fearing that the...
CAIR reported this week that a con man who has been swindling money out of Islamic centres in the USA for several years has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury and extradited from...
The New Statesman this week (30th Jan edition) has a feature by former Observer editor Martin Bright on how serious questions are being asked about the viability of banning Hizbut-Tahreer. The NS website has...
The Times today reported that the Birmingham Guild of Students (the student union at the University of Birmingham) has suspended the college's Christian Union because its constitution forbids non-Christians from joining. The people in...
The big news story this morning was the release by a judge yesterday of a set of pictures showing a group of youths beating up a homeless man on the South Bank of the...