Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
BBC NEWS: EU stalemate on workers’ rights I heard this being discussed on the radio this morning, with a discussion on the Today programme between representatives of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and...
This morning they were talking on Today about the woman who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist”, who wrote ghoulish poems about slicing people’s heads off and was convicted of possessing material “likely to be...
Technorati Tags: gillian gibbons Last Thursday morning, Ed Husain and Massoud Shadjareh (of the Islamic Human Rights Commission) appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 – you can download it until next...
Technorati Tags: gillian gibbons In the further discussion of the Gillian Gibbons case on the radio this morning, the question of whether the teacher should be militarily rescued was discussed. Vanessa Feltz said she...
This week it’s appeared that serious consideration has been given to building a third runway, and a sixth terminal, at Heathrow Airport. The project will require the destruction of an entire suburban village, blight...
Technorati Tags: gillian gibbons Just when the latest round of knock-ons from the Undercover Mosque hatchet job were starting to fade away, the story of the British teacher jailed in Sudan for a supposed...
Yesterday I passed by the Zimbabwean embassy in the Strand, London, where there was a small group of protestors, black and white, who asked me to sign their petition, which I did. I struck...
Last Monday, the British media regulator Ofcom published a ruling that the Channel 4 documentary Undercover Mosque was not in breach of its code of conduct (PDF here; it’s on page 9). The complaints,...
If anyone's not heard yet, the England team lost a football match against Croatia last week, which means England won't be in the Euro 2008 tournament next year. Boo hoo. The manager (Steve McClaren)...
Woman killed after rejecting TV marriage proposal – Guardian Unlimited This is a story about a woman who was murdered in Spain after rejecting a marriage proposal from her violent partner, delivered on a...