Discipline, Tories and special schools
This morning they were talking on the Jon Gaunt show about the issue of black boys and the problems they face, and present, in British schools. The whole thing was touched off by Trevor...
Author: Matthew Smith
IHRC action alert
The Islamic Human Rights Commission have issued the following alert, about a brother (who is a British citizen) who is facing extradition to Algeria from Italy (hat tip: MPAC UK). Emphases are mine. 23...
Abu Hamza attacked by criminal
The Sun, a low-class tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, today led with the story that Abu Hamza, the preacher on remand for incitement to murder and also wanted for extradition to the USA on...
New boarding schools for ‘troubled’ pupils
The Independent is reporting today that the Government intends to establish “prestigious” new boarding schools for troubled teenagers as part of plans to renovate run-down inner-city areas. A senior government advisor says that “at...
Slapdown on Mark Steyn
Pearsell Helms slaps down a recent Mark Steyn diatribe cheering on the fall of the EU here: Cry of the Neocons: WE WANT EURABIA!
What’s race got to do with it?
I’m rather puzzled by the reaction to Amina Wadud’s speech in Toronto last month. I’m not surprised, of course, that Muslim WakeUp (or Go To Sleep as our sister Umm Zaid memorably called it)...
The Shabina Begum case (part 3)
The discussion of yesterday’s ruling on Shabina Begum’s jilbab has continued apace in both the media and the blogosphere today (given that the first morning papers to report the story would have been today’s)....
Prayer rugs? Arabic texts? Must be jihadis!
An amusing observation on Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch site: An additional note about Arizona: last night after I spoke, a woman in the audience told me about a friend of hers who has a...
The Shabina Begum case (part 2)
I posted here earlier (below insha Allah) about the ruling this morning that the school in Luton, England, which excluded Shabina Begum for insisting on wearing the Islamic jilbab to school violated her human...
Shabina wins headscarf rights
Alhamdu lillah, the BBC reports that Shabina Begum, the sister who was refused the right to wear her Islamic long gown (jilbab) to school, has won her case at the Court of Appeal, which...
Maxine Carr wasting money? No, the mob is
A letter in today’s Daily Telegraph, from Bob Hughes of Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Sir – Maxine Carr is being blamed for wasting taxpayers’ money over the preservation of her anonymity and safety (News, Feb 25)....
Look at the starey-eyed terrorist!
The BBC reports that a guy from Gloucester called Sajid Badat has been found guilty of conspiring to carry out a shoe-bomber type attack on a plane from Amsterdam to the USA. Let’s get...
About this blog (please read)
This blog belongs to a driver of small trucks and vans, blogger, aspiring web designer and software developer living under his generous parents’ roof in New Malden in South London. I’m a convert to...
Suddenly everything makes sense …
My mother just got this in a forwarded email, and sent it on to me … so now your friends will be able to read it without it cluttering up their Inbox. Suddenly everything...
Rape occurrences up, says the Times
The Times reported the other day that the number of reported rapes in England and Wales has gone up by a substantial amount (though the only statistic they quoted was for 2002, with around...
The Anglican church – an imperial throwback?
Anyone who’s been reading the news over here the last few days will have heard that a schism is looming over the international Anglican church over the American church’s decision to ordain openly gay...
Q-News on Malcolm X and ‘Dirty Kuffar’
Q-News magazine has a big feature on Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) this month, including pieces by his assistant Benjamin Karim, and by Yuri Kochiyama, in whose arms he died in 1965. There's also a...
The Apple Store
I just hate the way, when you go to the Apple Store in Regent Street, London, you can find people hogging the G5 PowerMac machines surfing the ‘net with Internet Explorer on Virtual PC....
Guardian article about French hijab issue
There is a piece in today’s Guardian, The reality of l’affaire du foulard (headscarf affair), about the inconsistent and hypocritical treatment of Muslims by the French state. She also mentions the speech Shirak gave...
Douglas Hurd on the ‘trivial’ British press
At last! Someone’s written a cogent article on the state of the British press, and its effect on politicians. Douglas Hurd’s headline article in this week’s Spectator focuses on the Daily Mail, but also...