Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Last (i.e. Thursday) night, and the night before, BBC1 showed a two-part series called Honour Kills, about honour-related murders in the British Asian community (mostly Pakistani, with one Kurdish case). Abu Eesa has already...
muslimmatters.org » Tarek Fatah (and…) Does NOT Represent Me: Muslims 101 for Media Muslim Matters (in this case Amad) on the media’s insistence on relying on fringe figures for details of what is wrong...
Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester (previously: [1], [2], [3]), has been given another bit of space in the Sunday Telegraph to write an Islamophobic article (also see front-page feature here). This time, he's alleging...
Ed Jones on being driven from his Salford home by vandalism, racist abuse and violence – Guardian Unlimited This was a really shocking story which was in the Guardian yesterday. The author, who had...
BBC NEWS: Cycling fury at beheading ‘joke’ Matthew Parris, Times columnist and former Tory MP, has apologised in his column for making a joke about decapitating cyclists. Among those it offended were the Rhyl...
This is a link to a YouTube video of Benazir Bhutto alleging that Osama bin Laden was murdered by one Omar Shaikh – presumed to be Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was implicated in...
In early 2007, a one-horse town in Quebec passed a code of conduct for new immigrants, particularly Muslims it seems, which in its intial drafting (PDF; some of this is said to have been...
This afternoon during my lunch hour, I had an MSN conversation with someone in Sindh, the home region and power base of the late Benazir Bhutto. Naturally, since I knew where she lived (not...
Emel Magazine, a British Muslim lifestyle magazine (Emel is a woman's name meaning hope, and ML stands for Muslim Lifestyle), has an interview with Virago Press founder Carmen Callil. The website has not yet...
I’m not the most knowledgeable person about Pakistani politics, and I really have no opinion as to who is behind the murder of Benazir Bhutto, given that fingers are pointing in each direction right...
Last week, the popular obsession with kicking out foreign prisoners returned, when a prison service memo stating that officials have no interest in deporting foreigners jailed for less than a year came to light,...
BBC – Radio 4 – News and Current Affairs – Recruiting Muslim Spies This is a BBC Radio 4 programme about attempts by the British security services to recruit Muslims as informants, supposedly to...
Regular readers will know that I rarely use this site to preach, preferring to use it as a column in which to defend both Muslims' rights and also other causes I support. However, the...
David T today posted an alert at Harry's Place about an article at MPACUK calling on Muslims to expose 8 so-called Sufis who did the "research" on which the recent Policy Exchange report relied....
New Statesman – Person of 2007 Anas el-Banna, the son of the Guantanamo detainee Jamil el-Banna, has won the New Statesman's Person of the Year Humanity Award for 2007 (the competition included anti-arms trade...
Rolled-up Trousers: Newsnight rips apart mosque extremism report A few questions were asked about the Policy Exchange report (which moaned about books saying things non-Muslims don’t like being sold in some mosque bookshops) on...
BBC – Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – Ingrid Mattson This is an interview I heard today while out driving; Ingrid Mattson (president of the Islamic Society of North America and the first female, first...
Guardian Unlimited: To believe in a European utopia before Muslims arrived is delusional Gary Younge (regular Guardian columnist on race issues) on the tendency of the European chattering classes to ascribe all sorts of...
We motorists are in denial about our terrible speed habit (The Observer) This is an article about speeding and speed cameras. The author got a speeding ticket and was given a place on a...
Canoeist charged with fraud and deception (The Observer) I kind of got the impression that this disappearing act was a scam, if not from the moment he turned up, then not long after. The...