Yahya Birt: How not to deal with the Muhajiroun
Yahya Birt has posted an article on the incident earlier this week at Conway Hall, London, in which the "Centre for Social Cohesion" (run by Douglas Murray; a Civitas offshoot run out of the...
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Aisha’s Young Marriage
Won’t somebody please think of the children (from The Spittoon) This is an article from a liberal perspective on controversies about publications which find fault with the marriage of the Prophet (صل الله عليه...
New Humanist on drawbacks of “Preventing Extremism”
Mills and minarets (New Humanist) A highly interesting piece (and not just interesting in the sense that it’s in this magazine and isn’t full of sneering at religious people) in the New Humanist, published...
Muhajiroun versus Luton white trash
I’ve never cared much for the MuhajiGoons, but seeing this display of “patriotism” by a wannabe lynch mob of Britain’s “finest” made me a bit more sympathetic. They did not seem to be saying...
Muhajiroun disrupt Luton army parade
A small group of young men from al-Muhajiroun (or Muhajigoons, the Voice, the Ears and Eyes of the Morons) yesterday caused a commotion at a parade in Luton by soldiers returning from Iraq. The...
Hassan Butt: I’m a professional liar
Al-Qaida fantasist tells court: I'm a professional liar (Guardian website) The Guardian reports on the most egregious of the "ex-extremist" fraternity, who, when the story about having actually been a terrorist got too hot...
Muslims, shaikhs and the oppositional mentality
Looking at the discussion which has ensued from Umar Lee’s original “Rand Institute Muslims” post two weeks ago, something which has stuck out is the oppositional attitude of some of the major contributors. It...
Study Islam, become an atheist?
Douglas Murray has an article in the latest edition of the Spectator (which at least had an edition last week, unlike the New Statesman which insisted that we make do with one edition for...
Who doesn’t deserve a funeral?
Harry’s Place » A Single Step The above post at Harry's Place is by the infamous Shiraz Maher (this is the guy who says he got involved in Islamism after 9/11 and changed his...
Who is a Muslim, and who isn’t?
Recently, I had discussions on two blogs about the legitimacy of takfeer, meaning calling someone a non-Muslim, against people who appear to be Muslims but who have deviant beliefs or opinions about a matter...
Eid Mubarak, and call to action
Just to wish all the Muslims reading this a fine and blessed Eid. On the subject of the Saudi moon fitna, is it not about time those of us in the west made our...
Marriage contract issue on BBC’s “Sunday”
Radio 4’s programme Sunday, its weekly religious affairs programme broadcast at 7am on Sunday mornings, today featured the “Islamic” marriage contract issue. You can listen to it here until next Sunday when the next...
Who are the real traitors?
Recently I had an exchange with an old school acquaintance who accused me of defending an enemy of my country, namely Abu Hamza, on my blog. Abu Hamza is currently in jail, having served...
Interview with ‘Shaikh’ Faisal
BBC NEWS | UK | Hate preacher ‘knew 7/7 bomber’ An interesting headline for an interview with “Shaikh” Abdullah Faisal, the extremist Wahhabi preacher who was jailed in the UK in 2003 for incitement...
Round-up: Irshad Manji, moons in mosques, the OLPC fiasco, Pauline Campbell, Obama versus Agar, Undercover Mosque
Top Muslim blog piece this week, in my opinion, was brother Marc Manley's piece, The Trouble With Muslim Pundits today. While the establishment are busy fêting the likes of Ed and Maajid here in...
Government puts trust in moderate foreign imams
Smith invites moderate imams into UK to help Muslim communities fight extremism (from the Guardian) Jacqui Smith, the new Home Secretary, proposes to invite moderate foreign imams (from the Indian Subcontinent) in an apparent...
How sincere is Hassan Butt?
The last couple of weeks there has been a controversy over a new book being co-written by Hassan Butt, former al-Muhajiroun activist and self-proclaimed terrorist fixer and fundraiser, and the British writer and "journalist"...
Omar Bakri expresses dim view of Amir Khan
Today's Sun (Murdoch-owned London tabloid) led with a front-page story about something Omar Bakri said about Amir Khan. Omar Bakri is the former leader of the disbanded al-Muhajiroun, who ran noisy demonstrations and street-corner...
Why Rochester is not a no-go area for Michael Nazir-Ali
Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester (previously: [1], [2], [3]), has been given another bit of space in the Sunday Telegraph to write an Islamophobic article (also see front-page feature here). This time, he's alleging...
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...