Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Just as I was writing my post about the validity of the term ‘Islamophobia’ yesterday morning, the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live programme were discussing it. A hotline called “Tell MAMA” (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) had...
Obliged to Offend: It’s time to stop using the term ‘islamophobia’ (reproduced at Harry’s Place) Back when I was at college, a feminist lecturer had a sticker on her door: “I’ll be a post-feminist...
Lessons in Islamophobia (from CounterFire) This is an article about a Muslim mother who was barred from parents’ evening at her son’s school because the staff insisted on her removing her face-covering for “security”...
Keith Allen Meets Nick Griffin – 4oD – Channel 4 Keith Allen has previously done a programme in which he interviewed what he called “the God Hates Fags sect in Topeka, Kansas”, and whose...
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...
Building for the Future Blog: The Daily Mail and the “Strict Muslim” – Part 2 The above article reproduces the response of the Press Complaints Commission, a deliberately toothless “self-regulation” body for the British...
BBC Three – My Hometown Fanatics: Stacey Dooley Investigates Stacey Dooley is presented as someone who was plucked from working as a shop assistant at a perfume counter at Luton airport to presenting an...
Anders Breivik: cold and calculating, yes – but insane? (from today's Guardian) This article by Simon Baron-Cohen appeared in today's Guardian and questions the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia given him by "independent" experts in...
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...
The end of Eurabia – FT.com Ths image is from the Spectator, the British political magazine, and represents what passed for journalism on the European and American right during the post-9/11 era. The occasion...
Warning to the US: Don't Play by Islamic Rules (from Standpoint magazine) This article is Douglas Murray’s treatment of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque controversy, in which he smears Muslims by equating them with...
Islamophobia Watch – Documenting anti Muslim bigotry – ‘David Cameron must face the challenge of Islamisation’ says Torygraph The Telegraph published an interview with Marine Le Pen, daughter of the French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le...
This past week or so, there have been two major news stories in the UK about men arrested for saying things on the Internet that made a strong suggestion of violence that may not...
Blackballed by Cameron | The Spectator Some years ago Douglas Murray gave a speech in the Netherlands in which he called for sweeping restrictions on Muslims, among them an end to immigration from Muslim...
I haven’t commented on the Park51 affair yet — the 13-storey mosque and community centre that some group wants to put up in Lower Manhattan — mainly because other Muslims (and others) have said...
Britain goes halal (…but nobody tells public) | Mail Online The front page of today’s Mail on Sunday was dominated by the above story: the revelation that a number of entertainment venues, such as...
Swedish elections: The impact of immigration | World news | The Guardian This is an article about the rise of the “Sweden Democrats”, a far-right party which has been increasing its share of the...
Inayat Bunglawala drew our attention yesterday to an apology published in the Spectator, a British right-wing political magazine (a tedious rag where people flaunt whatever privilege and bigotry they might have). It reads: Stephen...
France’s ban on the Islamic veil has little to do with female emancipation | Law | guardian.co.uk Joan Wallach Scott, the author of The Politics of the Veil, on the real motivation behind the...
This is something I got through a tweet from 5CC or Tabloid Watch, but Osama Saeed jogged my memory about it. An election campaign card which was used by Phil Woolas during his (successful)...