Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
After Shahadah – MuslimMatters.org The above article is about how the Muslim community accommodates converts, and these issues have long been discussed on various websites including the blogs that sprung up in the mid-2000s...
Proud and Prejudiced on Channel 4 (available to watch for another month at the time of writing) Proud and Prejudiced featured Saiful-Islam, one of the public speakers of the group commonly called Al-Muhajiroun, a...
Recently there were two court cases which further established the secularism of the British state, despite its nominal Christian character: one involved an atheist councillor in Bideford, Devon, who resigned from a council after...
Why British Muslim women struggle to find a marriage partner | Syma Mohammed | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Syma Mohammed is claiming that Muslim women find it significantly more difficult than men to...
UK immigration: Polygamy, welfare benefits and an insidious silence | Mail Online This article by former Tory peer, Baroness Shreela Flather, appeared in the UK Daily Mail on Friday, and consists of a broad-brush...
Wanted: Single White Female (Muslims) | iMuslim.tv The BBC issued an advert asking for “Caucasian” white Muslim women to contribute to a programme about their lives since 9/11. They say: The BBC World Service, Heart and...
The new Muslim marriage contract will help empower women | Tehmina Kazi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk About three years ago, I wrote a response to a new "Islamic marriage contract" which had...
An evil man in the community | Peace, Bruv The "evil man" in question is Dawud Adib, the African-American "salafi" preacher, who delivered a lecture some weeks ago at a "salafi" conference in New...
The Guardian have been running various stories lately over files released which show the extent of virginity tests which were being carried out on Asian brides, either on arrival at Heathrow or before they...
Muslim women: beyond the stereotype | Life and style | The Guardian G2 carried the above article, and it featured a number of Muslim women who claim they are challenging stereotypes and extremism; they...
After I posted my article on Usama Hasan the other day, I found that my blog had been linked to by the secularist Spittoon blog, which had been copied by Harry’s Place. The author...
Recently the east London imam, Usama Hasan, who has been involved with the Quilliam Foundation (a media-friendly group of purported former extremists) and promoting the idea of reconciling Islam with Darwinian theory, went beyond...
So, the vicious old creep Jack Straw has yet again stirred up trouble for Muslims in the UK, this time with comments on the recent “Asian grooming scandal” involving groups of men of Pakistani...
This is, as far as I remember, the first time I’ve ever posted a review of a year to my blog, and that’s probably been because no old year has been as different from...
BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Young, Muslim and Black I heard this advertised on Radio 4 last week, and feared the worst when I heard the presenter, Dotun Adebayo, enunciate the word...
Last weekend I witnessed an ugly incident on Facebook, which led to a relationship breaking up and the two erstwhile partners both retiring from the site (and Twitter) over accusations that seemed flimsy at...
This is a response to the ridiculous comments that have ensued from the recent John Ware documentary — he appeared in Ware’s earlier Panorama in which Ware attacked certain mosques at which offensive sermons...
Julie Bindel has an article in the current edition of Standpoint regarding the issue of the Asian pimp gangs that exist in some midland and northern towns in England, who exploit mostly local working-class...
Anyone who’s lived in London for a while knows about “charity muggers” – people who approach you in the street to get you to sign up to make direct debit donations to their charity....
Someone asked on DeenPort earlier today for advice to give to a female Christian friend who wants to do an experiment by wearing niqaab, the face-covering worn by some Muslim women, for a day....