Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Umm Zaid ([1], [2], [3]) and Izzy Mo have had some correspondence with Ray Hanania, one of the advisory board for the so-called Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism despite being a Christian (albeit an...
A while ago there was a controversy in which British TV showed a documentary about the murder of a Saudi princess for some infraction of honour, and the Saudi government attempted to put pressure...
Another civil disturbance, another Nick Cohen comment (duplicated on his blog), and you can bet he'll use it to drum for his pet causes – among them his opposition to sectional politics of any...
This week yet another London bus route, the number 38, lost its Routemasters to be replaced by bendy buses (commonly called happy buses or free buses due to the scarcity of inspectors). The only...
Today was the last day of British Summer Time, by which for seven months of the year, the British call midnight 1am and noon 1pm. For the five months from the end of October...
I have to admit I was rather surprised to hear that the president of Iran had made some remarks about wanting to see Israel "wiped off the map", and that other countries were ever...
As a lot of you noticed, I recently switched my blog tool back to Movable Type. With a vengeance – I actually bought an unlimited personal licence while it was reduced for a few...
As a geek I've got a soft spot for Brazil, which is one of a handful of third-world countries which is at the forefront of open-source software adoption. This is mostly due to most...
The most recent Guardian Online has an interview with Paul Goggins, the British Home Office minister concerned with internet crime, about recent Government proposals to police internet use by requiring service providers to keep...
Anyone who saw the shortlisted pieces for last year's Turner Prize might have noticed that part of one of the exhibits was off display. The exhibit was by Langlands and Bell and consisted of...
Islamophobia Watch have a feature on how Maryam Namazie's friends in the Worker-Communist Party of Iran were thrown out of a CND conference last weekend for causing a disruption: Jeremy Corbyn, who was chairing...
Did anyone else see Ziauddin Sardar on BBC2's Culture Show in the feature on emel magazine last night? He had the gall to criticise "emel" for being too "orthodox", something he's not too keen...
Since Robert Spencer has recently drawn attention to a discussion we had last April which started when I replied to a post about female circumcision on his Dhimmi Watch sub-blog, I thought I'd do...
After I went to the London Linux World Expo a couple of weeks ago I ordered a copy of Novell's new SUSE Linux package, having missed the "product launch without a product" which was...
Craig Murray has a piece in today's Guardian calling out Hazel Blears, a Home Office minister, for relaying a straightforward untruth regarding the so-called Islamic Jihad Union, a purported terrorist organisation operating in Uzbekistan,...
Via Guardian Newsblog, a guy called Jakob Nielsen has laid out a list of the Top Ten Design Mistakes commonly found on blogs. I guess mine falls foul of quite a few of them:...
Nick Cohen has written an appreciation of Maryam Namazie of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran for today's Observer newspaper (also at his site here). This wouldn't be so bad if Cohen actually made it...
With the ongoing saga of the ongoing troubles on the Northern or "Misery" Line (caused by the drivers' unions' refusal to drive unsafe trains), I just thought I'd point out a letter in tonight's...
In today's Times, it's reported that Rita Verdonk (what a name!), the "hardline" integration minister of the Netherlands, has told the country's Parliament that "she was going to investigate where and when the burka...
As a fairly good example of the certain hysterical websites run by immature Muslims I've alluded to in posts announcing the establishment of Blogistan, I found on the MPACUK website this morning a good...