Emel interviews Carmen Callil
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...
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Recruiting Muslim spies
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...
Suspicious Muslim minds
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...
Hunt down the Sufis?
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....
Ingrid Mattson on Woman’s Hour
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...
NHS hymen repairs
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...
A senseless Eid scandal
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...
Shiraz Maher fails to prove his point (again)
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". He...
Dentists as moral arbiters
The BBC yesterday reported that a Muslim dentist in Bury, near Manchester, has been brought before a disciplinary tribunal accused of demanding that a Muslim woman wear a hijab to his practice if she...
“Radical” books in east London libraries
BBC NEWS | UK | Radical books in London libraries A report by the so-called Centre for Social Cohesion, a project of the right-wing think tank Civitas, has found that libraries in Tower Hamlets,...
BBC discussion on Caliphate conference
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...
Silver Bling Thing
Ministry of Truth » Silver Bling Thing Until I read the above blog article, I was planning to write an entry about how I supported Lydia Playfoot’s campaign to be able to wear a...
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf on Holocaust denial
Holocaust Denial Undermines Islam (By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf) at HAhmed.com This is a brilliant article ma sha Allah on Holocaust denial, to which I've noticed a lot of Muslims are susceptible, and the Islamic...
Qadianis throwing lawsuits around
Suspect Paki » Blog Archive » Ahmadiyya Intellectual Cowardice I was intrigued to discover that the Qadiani (so-called Ahmadiyya) cult, which follows the notorious fake prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who deceived a few thousand...
“Ed” Husain and other dividers
Sister Summayah Evans, who recently entered the Muslim blogging community, has posted this lengthy entry on the scandal of Muhammad Mahbub "Ed" Husain, the author of the book The Islamist which was published last...
United bigots of the “mega-mosque” campaign
BC Radio last week broadcast a programme called Turning Right, which probed the British National Party’s lame attempts to hide the thuggish and criminal natures of a number of its major activists, including its leader, Nick Griffin. Griffin made little effort to conceal his real opinions, asserting that he now believed what he had to, because he would otherwise be extradited to France (“otherwise”, for example, includes maintaining his devotion to Holocaust denial). The programme also gave airtime to an outfit called the Christian People’s Alliance, which they claim drove down the BNP’s support in its white, working-class east London “heartland” by concentrating on local issues. However, the CPA and the BNP are on the same side on one issue: opposition to the so-called “mega mosque”, which is proposed for a site near to the main Olympic stadium. An examination of material issued by the CPA, however, reveals its reliance on misinformation and bigotry.
Radio 4: Muslims leaving the UK
BBC Radio 4 – I'm a Muslim, Get Me out of Here! This programme (to which you can listen until this time next week) examines the phenomenon of educated, professional Muslims leaving the UK,...
Abdul-Hakim Murad: the churches and Bosnia
Abdal-Hakim Murad – The Churches and the Bosnian war This is something br. Mas’ud Khan posted to his website a couple of weeks ago, which I only just got round to looking at for...
Marriage visa age to rise
BBC NEWS | Politics | Marriage visa age to rise to 21 The Government have announced that they are raising the minimum age for acquiring a marriage visa to the UK from 18 to...
City Circle: Monolithic Communities
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.