Bullying is in the news again
The British charity Childline, which runs a helpline for children in need, has reported a 42% increase in bullying-related calls this year over last. An increasing number are from children 11 years old or...
Author: Matthew Smith
Microsoft warned over anti-Linux ads
Microsoft, an American company which makes an office package for the Mac and also a useless “operating” system for the PC, has been reprimanded for the British Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for a misleading...
Here are some real terrorists
When people in Britain these days think of terrorism, they usually mean so-called Islamic terrorism, specifically al-Qa’ida, or Palestinians attacking Israelis. In this country, a real terrorist campaign has been going on, in which...
Hey, is this a good idea?
There’s a report on the BBC news site that an “online school” is being set up in a small village in Wales, which will be a full school, with real lessons from real teachers...
Othman the Italian resurfaces
A few years ago a book was published called Ian Dallas: The Shaykh Who Has No Clothes, which purported to expose the leader of the Murabitun movement as a fraud. The author set up...
New “Ecologist” magazine out
The latest edition of The Ecologist (no prizes for guessing what it’s about) has recently come out. It’s a special feature on supermarkets: How they drive local business out of business How other local...
What’s all this about “middle-lane hoggers”?
The BBC reports that “up to a third of motorway capacity is being wasted by drivers’ poor lane discipline, according to research by the RAC Foundation” (the RAC is the Royal Automobile Club, a...
Polly Toynbee and the “Islamophobia awards”
Polly Toynbee, an anti-religious liberal who writes regularly in the Guardian, mentioned today that she had been labelled the “Most Islamophobic Media Personality” of 2004 by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. I had not...
Women and children targeted for immigration service abuse
There is a real blood-boiler in today’s Guardian, Women and Children First by Natasha Walter, in which she explains how the immigration services seem to be targeting women and children for deportation and abuse....
Neo-Nazis on the web
An interesting piece was published in the “Online” supplement of today’s Guardian – Fear and Loathing, by Nick Ryan, about hate material on the web and the violence and intimidation organised over the Internet....
The “frontline” for Muslim women: West Virginia
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...
Sometimes a “turnoff” is a good thing
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...
“Honour killings” story a hoax!
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 Protocols of the Elders of New Orleans
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...
So, it’s a new era for law and order …
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...
On recent Mac magazines …
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...
Anti-Hadith liars are on the march again …
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...
An Arab review of “Fahrenheit 9/11”
The Angry Arab has posted a review of Michael Moore’s new film on his blog here. (Hat tip: Saraji.)
Shaikh Shaghouri obit
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.
Just back from seeing Fahrenheit 9/11
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...