Category: Islam

Review: My Brother, the Islamist

My Brother, the Islamist is a documentary in which a film-maker I had never heard of, named Robb Leach (his home page, incidentally, has no biography or reference to any other work by him),...

How much can we blame al-Awlaqi?

So, Roshonara Choudhary, the stupid woman who tried to murder the MP, Stephen Timms, has received a 15-to-life sentence. Today, the Guardian (and probably other papers) printed transcripts of her interviews with the police...

Who’s radicalising who?

Today it was revealed that a report commissioned by University College London, the college where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to bomb a plane from Amsterdam to the USA last December, concluded that he...

Retaliation and the story of Khidr

I saw an article today posted at Harry’s Place and also at Foreign Policy Journal, entitled “The Problem of Honor Killings” by one Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, described in his biography as “a student at...

What is the true meaning of halal?

The true meaning of halal | Catherine Fildes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Catherine Fildes has published a response to Nesrine Malik’s article from last week, on the Guardian’s website, which argued that...

Why get sanctimonious about Tantawi?

About 24 hours ago, Muhammad Tantawi, the shaikh of al-Azhar in Cairo, died of a heart attack at Riyadh airport. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon. Formalities over …

Andy versus Maajid

I just watched the online copy of last night’s “discussion” between Anjum “Andy” Choudhary of al-Muhajiroun (which will no doubt have a new name by the end of this week, as the government has...

Muslims versus Anjum Choudhary

Recently the “Muslim extremist” organisation currently trading as Islam4UK — really al-Muhajiroun — announced that they were planning a march through Wootton Bassett, the town just outside Swindon through which the motorcades bring the...

Anwar al-Awlaki: trauma and extremism

Recently we heard that the Yemeni-American Muslim preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki, may have died in air strikes in Yemen, although other reports said he was miles away from where the strikes happened and was safe....

Blaming it on witchcraft

A sister tweeted earlier today that a "religious lady" had told a relative of hers that her apparent difficulty in finding a spouse might be due to "nazar" or the "evil eye". I tweeted...

Splitters!

Recently some of us have been debating on Facebook whether to take part in a forthcoming coutner-demo to an al-Muhajiroun front group demo, which was to take place on the 31st. The event was...