Does this lady look angry to you?
Clipping of picture of a Muslima in niqab from today's Observer This picture appeared in the Observer today, on page 19 of the Review section next to this article by Miranda Sawyer. The article...
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The Holocaust: deniers, exploiters and heroes
Mas'ud Cajee (contributor to Taking Back Islam) has written an article for AltMuslim on the much-exaggerated Muslim role in the Holocaust. Features a few things you might not know about the "Nazi mufti" and...
Another famine in East Africa
The BBC is reporting that there are severe food shortages in Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti, with corpses of animals lying everywhere in Kenya and 2 million people in Somalia alone needing urgent food aid....
Brass Crescent Awards 2005
Nominations have been opened for the second annual Brass Crescent awards, for the best blogs either by, or of interest to, Muslims. Categories are: Best Mid-Eastern or Asian blogger, Best Group Blog, Most Deserving...
New blogs and blogroll
As anyone who looks down a bit and to the right might notice … I've added a new section to my blogroll, consisting of "A-list and activist" Muslim blogs. These belong to what I...
White and disabled “privilege”
Following on from Umm Zaid's post on "white privilege" and how it affects white Muslims, Ginny posted one on that topic and one on how it specifically affects her as a blind person who...
Cabbie turned away Muslim disabled customer
A sister posted this to the New Muslim Project email forum. It is about how she and her husband was refused a cab to take them from a recent conference in London to the...
Abu Eesa: memories of Ambrose
This is a post I reproduced, with the author's permission, from IslamiBlog; I thought it relevant as it seems symptomatic of the "squeeze" being put on Muslims in some places even here in the...
UZ on Arab liquor stores
Further to her earlier post about the torchings in California of Arab-run general stores which sell booze, she has a lengthy post, Pops, focusing on one particular Arab booze dealer in New Jersey, his...
Abu Sinan on perceptions of converts
Abu Sinan's blog has an article on how converts are perceived and the continual "wannabe" tag which is applied to them/us in certain places: You get the Christians or Jews who are scared and...
Boris Johnson wheels out the Sookhdevil
On the way to an early job on Friday, I always look forward to what’s going to be on the front of the political magazines, the New Statesman and the Spectator, associated with the...
French reap what they sow
I'm not a good graphic manipulator and never bothered to follow Linux Format's GIMP course, but if I were, there would be a graphic on the right showing a French flag with the stripes...
Winter lights? Not our idea
Nobody who heard the local news in London yesterday morning could have failed to hear the latest bizarre story about a local council bending over backwards to "accommodate" people who never asked to be...
Cohen on racism in Handsworth
Another civil disturbance, another Nick Cohen comment (duplicated on his blog), and you can bet he'll use it to drum for his pet causes – among them his opposition to sectional politics of any...
“Honour” Killings
Why oh why oh why? Both The Times and the BBC have recently reported on another “honour” killing in the British Muslim community. A disgusting remnant of Indo-Pak life that has sadly been brought...
Thoughts on Jewish-Muslim dialogue
There’s an article on a Jewish blog called Adloyada about dialogue between us and them, and in this particular case it involved our very own Abdul-Hakeem Murad, best known for his translations and articles...
What comes of starting Ramadan too early …
OK, OK, so some people may have less sympathetic assessments of this excuse for a poem at Muslim Wake Up: Ramadan is an annoying guest who comes too often and stays too long (Him...
Wednesday Ramadan
Given the flood of “major” mosques which have declared that Ramadan is tomorrow on the basis of dubious “sightings” in Saudi Arabia, I’ve collated a list of places where people are starting on Wednesday....
HT defence & McGill prayer room controversy (updated)
First, Natasha Walter in the Guardian states what we all knew: that Hizbut-Tahrir are not a violent organisation and that there is no reason to ban them. I have to say that her quotes...
It’s a bit flat
An interesting follow-up to the story of Qibla Cola’s failure can be found here in today’s Guardian “g2” supplement (third story down), which gives another angle on why the product failed, rather than the...