Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Olympic mosque could create breeding ground for extremists, says senior Anglican – Telegraph This was in yesterday’s Telegraph, and it surprised me how many specific falsehoods and irrelevances could be crammed into one article....
Ziauddin Sardar, in the current New Statesman, has [a worthwhile argument](http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2008/08/muslim-government-british) about some recent government idea to “set up a board of Muslim theologians” in order to “steer the more radical elements of the...
Following last Sunday’s report ([PDF](http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pdf/IslamonCampus.pdf)) by the “Centre for Social Cohesion” (in reality, a right-wing think tank largely geared towards raising suspicion about Muslims) alleging that a large proportion of Muslim students support killing...
Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion Osama Saeed, who recently helped to establish the Scottish-Islamic Foundation, replies to accusations from the likes of the “Centre for Social Cohesion” that they are some sort of...
The Official Website of Shaykh Pirzada | News | Shaykh Pirzada condemns 42-day detention Further to the controversy over whether the British Muslim Forum’s shaikhs have supported or opposed the position of Khurshid Ahmed,...
The Sun reported today that “Britain’s top Muslim” had given his support for the government’s plan to increase the time police can hold someone on terrorist charges to 42 days, from the current 28....
Charles Moore, well-known writer for the Telegraph and Spectator and known among us for articles like [this one from 2005](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/07/09/do09.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/07/09/ixop.html), calling for the Muslims to bring forward a Gandhi (my response [here](https://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2005/07/12/we_dont_need_a_gandhi)), gave a...
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...
David T today posted [an alert at Harry’s Place](http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/12/17/shut_down_the_peddlers_of_hate.php) 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....
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...
To start off, now that it really is Eid and I’ve got the time and energy to type, Eid Mubarak everybody. Anyway … All this Ramadan, I’ve been working on the assumption that today...
Last night, Shiraz Maher, a friend of Ed Husain’s who was also a member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in England (much more recently), fronted a BBC Panorama documentary entitled [“How I Became a Muslim Extremist”](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7016299.stm). He...
MPACUK – MPACUK & HT Discuss Indonesia Caliphate Conference This is a Google Video of a recent discussion on BBC News 24 between Zulfi Bukhari of MPACUK and Nazreen Nawaz of Hizb-ut-Tahreer, regarding the...
Last Friday night I went to a City Circle event in London entitled Independent Voices: Challenging the Myth of Monolithic Communities, addressed by two founders of dissenting ethnic organisations, namely Brian Klug of Independent Jewish Voices and Sunny Hundal of the New Generation Network (and Pickled Politics) as well as Ehsan Masood, who writes for Prospect magazine.