Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Yesterday morning, Jade Goody, the British reality TV “star”, died of ovarian cancer, so ending the last phase of her roller-coaster media career. Goody first appeared in the third edition of Big Brother in...
That is how the Sun, which is of course a world-renowned upholder of journalistic standards, described the Daily Mirror when it printed pictures of the late Princess Diana working out in a gym, secretly...
In today's Guardian, a senior NHS doctor, using a pseudonym, talks about the target culture which led to the scandal at Stafford Hospital yesterday, in which 400 more patients died in three months than...
BBC News: Conviction quashed after 27 years A man has been freed after spending 27 years in jail for the murder of a woman who was strangled in her car in 1979. The man...
I’ve never cared much for the MuhajiGoons, but seeing this display of “patriotism” by a wannabe lynch mob of Britain’s “finest” made me a bit more sympathetic. They did not seem to be saying...
BBC News: Sad goodbye to 'cosmopolitan' Cairo The BBC laments how the old nightclubs and belly-dancing joints of Cairo have either closed down or are shadows of their old selves. The problem is that...
In case anyone was really thinking that the Tories had become the party of civil liberties in the UK (rather than the party which started the ball rolling on bringing in laws restricting the...
A small group of young men from al-Muhajiroun (or Muhajigoons, the Voice, the Ears and Eyes of the Morons) yesterday caused a commotion at a parade in Luton by soldiers returning from Iraq. The...
BBC Radio's File on 4 put out this programme last week about how teachers' careers are being ruined by false accusations, particularly of assault, often coming from pupils with a history of violence themselves....
I was browsing through the Spectator the other day, and noticed that Melanie Phillips had contributed a piece about a "new axis of Islamists and Evangelicals" against Israel. The subject was nothing other than...
I managed to get to the WCPI "One Law for All" rally in Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon, and as others had advised me it would be, it was tiny after all. I took some...
New Statesman – You’re Jewish? You can’t be English I read this in this week’s New Statesman, by one Rhoda Koenig, a theatre critic on the Independent and Punch, who lives in London but...
Letter: Why I’ve withdrawn from National debate | Stage | The Guardian A letter from Rabina Khan (this one, possibly) on why she’s pulled out of the debate on the National Theatre play, England...
William Dalrymple charts Pakistan’s descent into chaos | World news | The Guardian This appeared in the G2 supplement in the Guardian yesterday. Dalrymple has in general been sympathetic to Pakistan in his writings,...
There is a rally to be held in London this coming Saturday, organised by the so-called One Law for All campaign, against “Shari’ah courts” (i.e. voluntary Shari’ah councils which arbitrate in some family and...
In the Shade of the Veil: What’s the problem here? Last week, there was a huge controversy over the use of a presenter with one hand missing on a children’s TV channel run by...
Jack Straw: Our record isn't perfect. But talk of a police state is daft | Comment is free | The Guardian Jack Straw (currently the Justice secretary in the British government) wrote in yesterday's...
Nearly a month ago, I flagged up a review by Ben White on an evangelical website of a new book by Patrick Sookhdeo, who I have taken to calling Sookhdevil for reasons anybody who...
Denis MacEoin, a serial Islamophobic letter-writer and think-tank hack, has published another report attacking Muslim schools. The sneering tone of the report might be gauged from the title: Music, Chess and Other Sins (PDF...
A brother has asked me to review the Panorama programme entitled Muslim First, British Second which was on BBC1 on Monday night. You can watch it (as I did) on the BBC's iPlayer here...