What have you been eating?
I caught sight of this entry on the blog Jowhara’s Chamber about the state of Muslim-run restaurants. The author explains how she passed a restaurant at which she had become quite a regular, stopped...
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Incident of harrassment by Central Trains driver
The following is a report which was posted to Deenport earlier today, regarding a distressing incident affecting a young Muslim woman on a train in the English East Midlands. Central Trains is the main...
Faisal Bodi: forcing desegregation doesn’t work
Comment is free: Birds of a feather… Faisal Bodi on a recent review of the Cantle report (PDF) of the 2001 disturbances in northern English towns by the report's author shows its author is...
City Circle: Islam and liberalism
Last night, as previously mentioned, City Circle held a debate between Alice Kneen of Magdalen College, Cambridge, proposing the motion that Islam was incompatible with liberalism, and Dr Richard Stone of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, opposing. I got there about 15 minutes late, which was probably more than halfway through Ms Kneen’s speech. She was predictably naming all the things about Islam which in her view made Islam incompatible with liberalism (the execution of apostates, etc.).
Whitaker: MCB elections this Sunday
Comment is free: A very British balancing act Hey, I never knew that Iqbal Sacranie was stepping down myself until I read this. The Muslim Council of Britain is holding its leadership election this...
Darwinism at Hay on Wye
At the time of writing, Comment is Free and all its articles are down. Sarah Crown on Comment is Free posted yesterday a write-up of a speech at the Hay Festival by Steve Jones,...
2001 riots “fuelled by racist propaganda”
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Report says riots product of racist propaganda The Burnley race riots of 2001 were fuelled by racists exploiting the perceived imbalances in council spending on different communities, according...
Crocodile tears for Ayaan
With Ayaan Hirsi Magan’s resignation after the exposure of her asylum grounds as largely false and her Dutch citizenship now in serious doubt, the hypocritical crocodile tears are beginning to flow in large numbers. Robert Spencer calls it “persecution”, the immigration minister Rita Verdonk “lamentable” and the politicians involved “despicable, black-hearted Dutch dhimmis” who “evidently want to take the greatest stateman they have produced in this age and send her back to Somalia and certain death”. Melanie Phillips talks of the Dutch being “in the throes of a pathological moral convulsion” and her downfall “a development that shames the Dutch people and should strike a chill throughout the rest of dhimmi Europe”.
Salma Yaqoob: the women voted for me
From Comment is Free, Salma Yaqoob's rebuttal to Nick Cohen's assessment of why she was elected as Birmingham's only Muslim woman councillor (here, with my rebuttal here). She accuses the local Labour and Lib...
Gambian crank healer murdered in Luton
Here's a report from the Guardian about the murder of a so-called faith healer from the Gambia in Luton, England. The police have named the victim as "Alfusaine Jabbi, also known as Abdula and...
MPACUK on Tooting murders
MPACUK – Two Murdered in Tooting A guest article on the gang situation in Tooting, south London, which led to the murder of two (Muslim) brothers a few weeks ago: The Pakistani gangs in...
Documentary on women in Iraq tonight
There is a documentary on Channel 4 tonight (Dispatches, 8pm) on women in Iraq and how they have fared since the "liberation" of their country (not very well, is the message). You can read...
Nick Cohen: communalism and the BNP
Nick Cohen has an article in today's Observer (which can also be found at his blog and at Comment is Free; the Observer's website is inaccessible to me at the moment) attempting to explain...
Not a good career for a Muslima
The BBC is reporting on a Muslim woman who wears hijab and whose aunt is an actress in Iran and wants to make it on the stage or screen here. I don’t see how...
First Qibla Cola, now al-Quds jeans (updated)
Last September the British Muslim run company which produced Qibla Cola, a Coke substitute which donated 10% of its profits to various good causes and was intended to relieve Muslims’ apparent dependence on the...
Met Police thuggery alive and well
Anyone thought that malicious police harrassment of ethnic minority men died a death after the Brixton riots of the early 1980s? This report might make you think again: in the last three years, but...
Turabi pushes tired liberalism
Inayat Bunglawala (one of the leaders of the Muslim Council of Britain) writes at Comment is Free that Sudanese politician Hasan al-Turabi has made a speech supporting some rather old "Islamic" liberal positions: Turabi...
On Phyllis Chesler and Jack ‘n’ Condi
This Tuesday I found [an interview](http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1746131,00.html) in the Guardian with the American “feminist” Phyllis Chesler, whose recent output – much of it on [Front Page Magazine](http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1947) – seems to consist of attacks on Muslims...
Shoddy Joe Kaufman cuts my work out for me
Last week Joe Kaufman posted to FrontPageMag.com an article regarding a resolution passed by the Student Government at the University of South Florida which supported the dismissal of Sami al-Arian, recently acquitted on terrorist...
So, Shabina has lost
Today the House of Lords, effectively the UK’s supreme court, allowed an appeal by a school which had excluded a Muslim female pupil, Shabina Begum, because she insisted on wearing an Arabic-style jilbab, which...