Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Last week the Quilliam Foundation, a think-tank founded by Ed Husain and his acolyte Maajid Nawaz, held its grand launch event at the British Museum in London. It was entitled "Reviving Western Islam &...
Status of terrorism experts questioned (Education Guardian) The Education Guardian casts doubt on the number of so-called terrorism experts who have gained prominence since 9/11, some of whom (like Evan Kohlmann) have been called...
Before the week begins in earnest, I thought I might offer a round-up of stories which caught my eye the past week: Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian on the stupid, racist gibberish which has...
New Statesman – Letters My letter, regarding the portrayal of Croydon in Brendan O'Neill's article "What's Driving the BNP?" last Friday, got printed in this week's New Statesman. The letters pages seem only to...
Johann Hari wrote this article in today's Independent, regarding the tendency of supporters of Israel to smear their opponents with accusations of anti-Semitism. Hari wrote an article last week about his travels in the...
As I am sure most of you know by now, London now has a new mayor, Boris Johnson. Johnson won on second preference votes, a circumstance one would have expected would have favoured Livingstone...
The Spectator this week led with a "Happy 60th Birthday, Israel" feature by Melanie Phillips. Perhaps there is nothing unusual about that, given that it repeats a whole load of the usual pro-Israeli claims...
Been wondering recently why you can’t get The Ecologist in the Whole Foods shops in London? (These include the former Fresh & Wild stores.) The reason is apparently that the magazine printed a feature...
Islamophobia Watch – Home – Stop pandering to Muslims says 'silent majority' Last week an outfit calling itself "British Muslims for Secular Democracy" had their big launch party, attended by Baroness Kishwer Falkner and...
Brendan O'Neill interviews the British Nazi Party trying to win hearts and minds in Stanmore (with all the Jews!) and runs into a chick from Croydon bleating about how out of place she is...
Be very afraid: Zoe Williams on the possibility of Boris Johnson as mayor of London | Politics | The Guardian I know it's a bit late as the polling stations are about to close...
Are there some people we shouldn’t invite onto WHYS? « BBC World Have Your Say Ros Atkins (presenter of BBC World Have Your Say) on how she booked Ed Husain to appear on her...
'A world of casual racism' exposed at BA – Home News, UK – The Independent This was the front-page feature in the Independent yesterday: a former senior pilot with British Airways revealed that casual...
Harry's Place, a blog I read often but generally disagree with, posted this last week, about Yvonne Ridley winning a case for harassment, sex discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal against the Islam Channel. Since...
Peter Wilby, in last Friday’s Guardian, posted this article exploding some of the myths about World War II which are commonly used to justify the war in Iraq, particularly the last justification used after...
An unusually perceptive Ziauddin Sardar finally delivers a dissenting view of the media's lionising of "Sir Edward Husain" and his clique in today's Guardian, on the grounds that it ignores those who always resisted...
Technorati Tags: ed husain, andrew anthony, david edgar On Monday, the Guardian printed an abridgement of Andrew Anthony's response to David Edgar's piece in the Guardian Review about the recent fad for "defection literature",...
The recent issue of Red Pepper contains an editorial, written by Oscar Reyes, about the upcoming mayoral elections in London. Reyes notes that Boris Johnson, the Tory challenger for the position against Labour's Ken...
Smith invites moderate imams into UK to help Muslim communities fight extremism (from the Guardian) Jacqui Smith, the new Home Secretary, proposes to invite moderate foreign imams (from the Indian Subcontinent) in an apparent...
Wi-fi cameras to track drivers’ average speed | News (from Evening Standard) Today, the Evening Standard reported that a new wi-fi-based speed camera system is to be tried out along the A13, the main...