Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Today, the Guardian printed a defence of Martin Amis, in response to Ronan Bennett’s deconstruction of Amis’s anti-Muslim remarks in his interview with Ginny Dougary. Entitled Martin Amis is no racist, the article took up the bottom half of two pages, with the top half empty apart from the headline. It seemed that a big gun had to be brought in to defend Amis – someone of Amis’s own supposed stature – but the arguments were astoundingly flabby.
This morning’s potboiler issue on the Vanessa Feltz show was that the Metropolitan Police had scrapped its mascot, a 9-foot-high figure of a Police Community Support Officer (the recently introduced police-lite) called Steve, because...
Ronan Bennett on Martin Amis's threatening remarks about Muslims | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Ronan Bennett takes apart the attacks made by Martin Amis on the Muslim community, including that in the Ginny...
The other day, Vanessa Feltz brought up the issue of the NHS offering hymen repairs to women of certain ethnic origins who need to appear to be virgins on their wedding night. Apparently, according...
This afternoon I had the opportunity to take a look at the new, redeveloped St Pancras station, which is now used for the Eurostar trains to Paris and Brussels (and a few other places,...
Comment is free: Panic stations Christian Wolmar (British railways commentator) on the ridiculous security arrangements at the new St Pancras railway station in London, the terminal for trains to Paris: St Pancras, which reopened...
BBC NEWS: ‘Bangle’ pupil is excluded again This is a report about a Sikh girl, aged 14, who has been excluded from school in south Wales for insisting on wearing the kara, or bangle,...
muslimmatters.org » “NeO” to Giuliani — United Against a Presidential Nightmare At the request of Amad, and at the risk of getting a flood of “how dare this Limey stick his nose into American...
BBC NEWS: Former head sentenced for cruelty This loathsome creature, who ran a dumping ground, I mean special school, for children with special needs in Norfolk – not a million miles from the place...
Islamophobia Watch – Home – Muslim brands Britain 'Nazi' – according to the Express Islamophobia Watch prints an extract from today's sanctimonious carping from the Sunday Express in reaction to the comments by the...
Every so often I do a Google search for the name of my old school, Kesgrave Hall. (Even before Google came online, I used to search for it using other search engines like Infoseek...
In the last few weeks there has been the usual flurry of new Linux distribution releases. Ubuntu’s new one, Gutsy Gibbon, came out in October; SUSE released version 10.3, Mandriva have just put out...
YouTube – Riz Khan – Has Islam been hijacked in the UK? – 31 Oct 07 This is a debate between Dean Godson of Policy Exchange, which published the report on “hate literature” in...
Last Friday, in the Guardian, Simon Jenkins wrote that he welcomed the decision of the Scottish Qualifications Authority that they would accept text-message spellings in school examinations in “a direct challenge to the English...
Having watched the second episode of Britz, sister Safiya posted a second article outlining its inconsistencies. She concludes that the programme is "prejudiced garbage" and that the Muslims involved in it should be ashamed....
CCTV is no silver bullet – it risks making life less safe – Guardian Unlimited A timely article by Libby Brooks about the proliferation of CCTV cameras in the UK. We have 20% of...
I was not going to comment on the latest twist in the divorce saga of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills until I saw the front page story on today’s Daily Mirror, in which Mills...
Outlines: And I thought Sleeper Cell was bad… I have to say that I agree with much of what sister Safiya says in this review. I was sceptical about this programme from the outset,...
A report was published yesterday by the “Policy Exchange” alleging that so-called hate literature is widely available in British mosques (PDF), many of it subsidised by Saudi Arabia. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, this was published on the same day as a Saudi state visit. The report is written by Denis MacEoin, on whose letters to various newspapers I have commented here in the past. He is well-known for having anti-Islamic attitudes, having written letters to newspapers opposing Muslim girls’ rights to wear hijab and on one occasion alleging that “multiculturalism gets you Northern Ireland”, rather than invading someone’s country and gerrymandering a state so that your planted minority can rule over a section of the majority population in that country.
I've just got a message from CAIR that "Young Americans for Freedom", one of the groups who have sponsored one of the so-called Islamofascist Awareness events in the USA, at which Rick Santorum spoke...