Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
The argument between the Indian “Muslim feminist” Asra Q. Nomani and her local mosque committee in Morgantown, WV, has somehow made it onto the BBC’s news website: “US Muslim woman defies hardliners”. The pictures...
A lot of our ‘ulama’ say that TV is haraam for various reasons, and the harm exposure to it causes children is not in much doubt. I just found this interesting piece on why...
Not for the first time, the media in the west have been taken in by an anti-Muslim hoax perpetrated by a middle-eastern non-Muslim. First it was Jean Sasson, now it’s Norma Khoury, who put...
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that a group of veteran hate-mongers have met in New Orleans, among them David Duke and the founder of the British National Party, John Tyndall. Apparently they have...
As anyone reading the UK news might be aware, Tony Blair, hot on the heels of a not-so-good report on his grounds for taking us into war in Iraq, has announced some new plans...
In this country us Mac users have access to three major magazines: Mac Format, run by the same people as Linux Format, and their homepage is a month behind the actual magazine, as is...
Yesterday I got an email from a sister in the USA who I am in regular contact with. Somebody has been posting anti-hadith propaganda to a sisters’ email forum she subscribes to, and she...
The Angry Arab has posted a review of Michael Moore’s new film on his blog here. (Hat tip: Saraji.)
Islamica magazine has published an obituary of the great shaikh of Damascus, Abdul-Rahman al-Shaghouri, who passed away a few weeks ago (inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon). Read it here.
This evening was the first I have spent at the cinema for many years – I haven’t been since I became Muslim (in 1998), and I don’t think I did for some years before...
I’m sure nobody in the UK missed the controversy yesterday over Shaikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi who is currently in London to attend a number of meetings including with the Muslim Association of Britain and one...
Of late a number of websites have sprung up attacking a section of the British population they call “chavs”, which roughly equates to “white trash” (I’ve never heard black people being called this). I...
We all know Nick Cohen as the opponent of the anti-war marches, who constantly alleged that the Stop the War coalition was an alliance of Marxists and religious reactionaries. Today in the New Statesman...
I’m sure most of you reading this has read Saraji’s driving peeves on her blog – and yesterday on my first driving trip up town for a while I was reminded of a few...
Time Magazine has published a feature on the US Homeland Security department’s “Highway Watch” scheme, in which professional drivers are being trained to inform the department of “suspicious” things they see on the highway...
Today I took my usual weekend stroll through London, or rather, through the diminishing bookshop quarter of it around Charing Cross Road area since the local landlords (allegedly) priced the other companies out of...
Following on from CAIR’s occasional “Good News” features in their mailings, I’ve decided to do one of my own whenever a good news feature (or apparent good news feature) appears in the media. Today...
On past evidence I was pretty sure we were not going to make it to the finals of the current European championships (Euro 2004), and last night, if you hadn’t heard already, the English...
There was an interesting piece in the most recent New Statesman, regarding the rise of the star journalist as politician – referring, of course, to the loathsome Robert Kilroy-Silk. (You may be able to...
As a truck driver I regularly have to experience the joys of using Britain’s motorway service stations, particularly of course those around London. Now the AA has said ours are Europe’s worst, and they...