On Will Cummins: This Way Lies Riots
It’s not unusual to find sections of the British press displaying Islamophobic or racist sentiments – we all know about the Daily Express and its long-standing vendetta against immigrants, and at the other end...
Author: Matthew Smith
The Devil’s Deception of ‘Shaikh’ Abdullah Faisal
Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem For an explanation of the terms used, click here. I became aware of Shaikh Faisal over several months in 2000 and 2001, through hearing his tapes played in certain Islamic bookstores...
Article Index
The Devil’s Deception of Abdullah Faisal An Unhelpful Contribution – review of Vincenzo Oliveti’s book Terror’s Source Qadianis – answers to common doubts Les doutes fréquents sur le Secte Qadiyani (anonymous French translation of...
What’s going on at Aber?
I found (via Discarded Lies) an intriguing attack on my old university at Aberystwyth on Melanie Phillips’ website. For American readers, Melanie Phillips is a columnist who writes for the Daily Mail, but used...
The Hundred Greatest Kids’ TV Shows
I’m watching yet another of Channel 4’s epic Top 100 shows – in this case, 100 Greatest Kids’ TV Shows. This thing started at 8pm, when most kids go to bed given that tomorrow’s...
Attacked in Russell Square
After I posted my last entry, I headed for the Globe for their free open day. After that I went by tube to Russell Square, which is fairly near an organic food shop where...
Student wears ‘burka’ for a semester
I found a report on website of the Eastern Echo, the student magazine for Eastern Michigan University, about a female student who wore a “burka” for a semester as a kind of academic project....
The meaning of irony
I decided to come up to town this afternoon after hearing on the news that that a whole series of events have been laid on to celebrate St. George’s Day. For those of you...
An enterprising idiot
How’s this for dumb: a student in Ireland hears the name the new Pope has chosen, and sets up an email address: popebenedictxvi@hotmail.it. And tries to sell it to him! Hello, don’t you think...
Al-Muhajiroun back with a vengeance
I had prepared an article on yesterday’s fiasco at Central Mosque in London in which, it seems, former members of al-Muhajiroun disrupted a presentation by the Muslim Council of Britain and assaulted Iqbal Sacranie....
So, there’s a new Pope
So, they’ve finally chosen a new guy to be Pope – the 78-year-old Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was for more than 20 years the head of the “congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith”,...
“Defending Islam” by attacking hadeeth
Every so often Muslims run into people who believe Islam exists without the hadeeth literature – the record of what the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said or did. There are a couple...
New web browsers out
I just got the Apple OS X update for my Mac, among the many benefits of which is said to be a new version of Safari, Apple’s own web browser. Apparently Safari has had...
Glenda’s five reasons to vote Labour
On my trip up to London yesterday, I picked up a copy of the Camden New Journal which is one of those papers you find in boxes free for anyone to take. It also...
Observer magazine on home education
There’s a lengthy article in this week’s Observer Magazine about home education, A class of their own. The article is balanced (noting that some kids don’t learn much from home schooling, according to some...
Bigots make hay over honour killing
The Independent reported a few days ago that a young woman was murdered in Gaza by members of Hamas, because she was seen walking in the streets with her husband. The story has been...
Jew blasts Howard over immigration
I found this report on the Independent’s website today – an Iranian Jewish immigrant had a go at Michael Howard on a BBC phone-in show for stoking hostility to immigrants. The man involved was...
Faith invaders!
Those of you in the UK should read the lead article in this week’s New Statesman, which is a largely Labour-supporting political weekly. It’s by Cristina Odone, a regular contributor who was formerly deputy...
Some old news about ‘Shaikh’ Faisal
Jihad Watch has just posted a story from the AKI website (based in Italy), about Abdullah Faisal, the Jamaican ultra-Wahhabi preacher currently serving time in the UK for incitement to murder, urging the poorer...
Crimebotch
I’m in the process of watching the BBC’s Crimewatch programme which appears every month. I couldn’t help noticing that the BBC’s presenters could not pronounce two Muslim names: Ahmadi and Ostadzadeh. The second, in...