Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
I’m sure a lot of you have heard that the UK may be about to pass a law intended to ban “incitement to religious hatred”, which plugs a loophole in the existing law on...
No, I’m not talking about the newspaper mentioned below … I’m talking about the computer I blogged about finally getting running the other day. (There isn’t much use for the newspaper.)
There is a story just posted to BewleyUpdates, from Asians in Media (space it differently and it could say Asian Sin Media!) about the Sun newspaper’s newest columnist – one Anila Baig, a hijab-wearing...
Saraji recently made two posts (here and here) about two issues which are actually related: first, the racism by which Muslims of “eastern” origin look down on Afro-American Muslims, and on people who attempt...
I’m not a big fan of the ASBO system (Anti-Social Behaviour Order, one of our infamous Home Secretary’s many schemes) but, given the one they have imposed on Camden Town by which they allow...
Just watching a programme called Someone to Watch Over Me, which is about social workers in Bristol, which features a 14-year-old girl called Nadia, who was out of control at home, put in care...
Last month I bought (through eBay) a Sun workstation – an Ultra 5, which is a late 1990s machine. I really bought it for the nostalgia of using a “real” Unix machine like those...
I found a translation of an article in the Polish magazine Rzeczpospolita (meaning Republic) on a blog belonging to a Norwegian called Bjorn Staerk. The article is about a conflict between two groups of...
Every so often I come across something that reminds me of exactly why the left in certain countries don’t quite get enough support to get enough votes to actually win an election, rather than...
There is an interesting blog piece on the election in Ukraine here which gives some information on the criminal past of the so-called winner Victor Yanukovich: Yanukovych has always seemed perfectly fitted for this...