Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Yes, an Asian religion, I hope you weren’t thinking of Islam? Last night a large protest by Sikhs took place outside the Birmigham Repertory Theatre against a play called Behzti (Dishonour), and the vast...
Anyone who reads the blogs linked here will have witnessed the flame war currently going on between “Dr Maxtor” and the Canadian Islamophobe who posts under various names on Izzy Mo’s blog. I am...
This should, perhaps, be a lesson to those who asked us to declare our religion in the 2001 UK census, just so that an accurate figure for the numbers of British Muslims could be...
Those of you who’ve been following the British news might have heard of Zahid Mubarak, a young Asian man who was beaten to death by his cellmate in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution, near London...
Properly, this time, I hope (insha Allah). I ended up having to take the whole lot down and start again, reinstalling the whole Movable Type package from scratch. So far, I haven’t had the...
I’m seriously looking into changing either my hosting provider, or my weblogging software, or both. I need some advice. I chose Fasthosts because they seemed to be the best value – a full gigabyte...
There are reports tonight that a stroke victim endured a 570-mile journey, from south London to Inverness (the last major city before the north coast of Scotland), without any food or water – while...
I am just about getting sick to the back teeth of our moronic Home Secretary David Blunkett (Plonkett) and the liberties people allow him to take just because he’s blind (and let’s face it,...
Well, my Nan gave me £150 as Christmas money, and I decided to buy myself a Palm PDA (a Tungsten E). I got a penny change.
A number of major British universities are closing important departments including chemistry, physics, architecture and music, the BBC reports. This is leading to a number of their luminaries returning honorary degrees in disgust: Two...
Here’s a report from Reuters about what sounds like an attempt by a secular government to use “Shari’ah” in order to suppress Islam (linked off Ginny’s blog): On 6 November, Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov...
I just ordered a book on computer programming, Practical Qt, from Amazon. The thing is, I had to order it from Amazon in Germany (amazon.de), making as best use I could of my very...
The BBC has been much criticised in recent months for airing a series of scare stories about “what might happen” in a number of given situations. There was a gridlock story, I think, and...
I’ve finally registered my copy of Ecto, a desktop blogging package from Japan. It only cost me about 12 quid, so it’s cheap, although it only lets you submit and manage entries – the...
The Ecologist is probably the best environmental magazine here in the UK – it’s got hard-hitting and relevant news about the environmental situation without too much of the quasi-spiritual stuff you find in certain...
A brother on BewleyUpdates has posted details of what he says is the first Ahlus-Sunnah tafseer book published in the UK, in English and Urdu, written by Shaikh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada, the principal...
The BBC has published a report about a Muslim woman of Iraqi origin who was attacked in the street in Kilburn, London, on Sunday (5th Dec). They also have a picture of a man...
This piece appeared in the Independent today, explaining why spammers post their ads on blogs – merely to push their ratings up on Google and other search engines which list sites according to people...
The topic of the recent events in Holland has recently come up on a New Muslims’ group I belong to, and this piece was posted to the forum by Rahma Bavelaar (you can read...