Who brought this lot out?
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...
Author: Matthew Smith
The Holocaust: deniers, exploiters and heroes
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 Broken Mirror on the Muslim Boys
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...
Guess what? ID cards aren’t much use
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 on racism in crime reporting
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...
Muslim money talks
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: Stranded-shaikh con man in court
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...
Proscription plans unravelling
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...
Birmingham Christian Union suspended
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...
If you tolerate this …
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...
On the Texas Muslims film
Someone recently posted a copy of a Channel 4 documentary, Turning Muslim in Texas, onto Google's new video server, which is almost certainly illegal and, given that Channel 4 is a British company, probably...
It was going to end in tears
I'm sure everybody has heard of the bottlenose whale which swam up the river Thames as far as Battersea (south-west of the city centre) on Friday before being moved aboard a barge and taken...
Interpal: no case to answer
Osama Saeed asks that I draw attention to his post regarding the ongoing Interpal controversy. It appears that the charitable organisation is looking into taking legal action against Stephen Pollard (right-wing blogger and biographer...
ID cards will become compulsory
The BBC has an interview with the Lord Chancellor (head of the House of Lords and the Judiciary) in which he says what opponents of ID cards have always believed: that they will end...
Watching Jihad Watch
A new blog called Watching Jihad Watch (hat tip: UZ, who has links there to a number of hate-watch sites) has a long article on Spencer & co's "coverage" of the Armanious murders (note:...
The State We Are In: new book from Amal Press
Amal Press has just brought out a new book, The State We Are In: Identity, Terror and the Law of Jihad in which Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, Shaikh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti, Aftab A Malik, David...
Mad Mel: it’s the Muslims’ fault
Melanie Phillips once again turns her fire on the BBC, complaining that in a recent feature for Today on the recent violence in the French ghetto suburbs, the presenters "simply excised all references to...
Bigots intimidate with no-fee lawsuits
The British train drivers' union Aslef was recently sued for libel by a member of the British National Party after a Virgin train driver was called a racist in Aslef's magazine, the Loco Journal....
Is Feminism dead?
This week’s New Statesman contains an article by Zoe Williams (note: the site has is a “read once then pay” system), contending that “across a whole range of issues, including even abortion and rape,...
Interpal threatened yet again
The Sunday Telegraph is reporting that the governments of the US and Israel are yet again demanding that Interpal, a British charity for Palestine which has been investigated *twice* by the Charity Commission and...