Melanie Phillips attacks article she hasn’t read
I’m not sure how much my earlier blog entry on Aberystwyth has to do with this, but I’ve been getting a flurry of comments the last couple of days on my entry What’s Going...
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Kamal Nawash’s alliance
For once, something worthwhile on MWU: an article by Hussain Ibish detailing the various organisations endorsing the “March Against Terror” Kamal Nawash‘s so-called Free Muslims Against Terrorism group is holding in Washington DC this...
Look who’s comparing Israelis with Nazis
The Daily Telegraph reports today that the elderly and vulnerable have been used as human guinea pigs in certain Israeli hospitals without the relevant permissions: Some children had their eardrums deliberately pierced so that...
WordPress 1.5.1 is out
The WordPress team have released version 1.5.1 of the PHP-based blogging application which is used to run this weblog. They have published a brief list of the major changes here; there are a few...
Reaction to Galloway’s election
As expected, the blogosphere is up in arms about George Galloway’s winning the Bethnal Green & Bow seat. I’ve made it clear in the past that I don’t think he’s a good MP or...
Abu Sofia on recent Mawlid event
I asked brother Abu Sofia to do a write-up of the recent Mawlid event in London, Uniting for the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). I intended that he submit it on his own...
Election thoughts
It’s been a hectic couple of days; I voted on the way to a job which came up late; another job came up for today in the middle of that job which itself finished...
Fraud watch
There’s a whole load of new reports about possible election fraud: In Bethnal Green and Bow, the Guardian reports that dozens of electors are registered at properties in Brick Lane which are in fact...
Yemeni woman’s life spared
The Times reported today that Amina Ali Abduladif, whose impending execution prompted international outrage (and the usual condemnations of Islam and Muslims), has had her life spared – for now: Amina al-Abduladif’s lawyer was...
Our local candidates
Stephen Vu has a report on the recent election hustings for my local constituency. Our seat (thankfully) is one where the defending candidate is a Lib Dem and the only other candidate with a...
Mary Kenny on east Europeans
A warm welcome to anyone who surfed on in after seeing my link on Channel 4’s Origination page. The Times (a paper I don’t read often) published an article by Mary Kenny today (The...
WordPress and trackback spam
Most people who read blogs regularly will have noticed that trackback is on the decline. An increasing number of MT sites which used trackback have shut the facility off. Blog House, which hosts one...
Who are we not to judge?
Muslim WakeUp recently published an article, Let God Be the Judge, in which the author recalls the emotional act she put on when asked to sign a declaration that the Qadiani sect are not...
Yemeni state about to murder woman
There have been reports that a young woman is facing imminent execution by firing squad in Yemen for the murder of her husband, which witnesses say was in fact carried out by her cousin...
London anti-fascist gig today
I came up town today without having planned to, because my family went out for a meal to a venue which I wasn’t willing to go to. I was passing by Trafalgar Square and...
Man rams car, punches passenger, gets let off
There’s an opinion piece in today’s Sunday Telegraph about how police officers in Ashford, Kent, dealt with an incident in which a man drove into the back of a car with a mother and...
First thoughts on the new Safari
When I got onto this computer at London’s Apple store, I noticed a blog entry apparently written by someone apparently using this very computer. Yesterday I was one of the people who queued halfway...
Demo in London today
Today I came up London to attend a demo against oppressive anti-terrorist laws organised by, among others, Stop Political Terror and the Free Babar Ahmad campaign. The demo started in Marble Arch and finished...
Next big thing? Not MT
The Guardian had a feature yesterday in its Online section entitled The next big thing, in which it seems to suggest that blogs are suddenly gaining visibility. Up until now, they have been “associated...
“Muslim for Labour” distances himself
Brother Atif Imtiaz at Bradford Muslim reported a few days ago that one of the elders in Birmingham whose name appeared at the bottom of a letter in the Guardian on 12th April telling...