Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
Status of terrorism experts questioned (Education Guardian) The Education Guardian casts doubt on the number of so-called terrorism experts who have gained prominence since 9/11, some of whom (like Evan Kohlmann) have been called...
BBC NEWS: Threats to 'no-go areas' bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Anglican bishop of Rochester, has complained of receiving death threats in response to his accusations about no-go areas defined by adherence to Islamic ideology in...
Sister Kareema Hamdan, over at UmmahPulse.com, suggests a Muslim boycott of Dutch products in response to Geert Wilders’ planned film insulting the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) or Islam, claiming that a similar...
Boris Johnson will be answering questions on the BBC London (94.9FM) drive-time show at 5pm this evening. If it follows the same pattern as Ken Livingstone’s last week, the interview will happen at 6pm....
The two faces of Amis – Features, Books – The Independent Johann Hari interviews Martin Amis ([1], [2]) for the first time since the controversy over his “adumbrations” to Ginny Dougary. He tells us...
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...
In early 2007, a one-horse town in Quebec passed a code of conduct for new immigrants, particularly Muslims it seems, which in its intial drafting (PDF; some of this is said to have been...
Guardian Unlimited: To believe in a European utopia before Muslims arrived is delusional Gary Younge (regular Guardian columnist on race issues) on the tendency of the European chattering classes to ascribe all sorts of...
Today, the Guardian printed a defence of Martin Amis, in response to Ronan Bennett’s deconstruction of Amis’s anti-Muslim remarks in his interview with Ginny Dougary. Entitled Martin Amis is no racist, the article took up the bottom half of two pages, with the top half empty apart from the headline. It seemed that a big gun had to be brought in to defend Amis – someone of Amis’s own supposed stature – but the arguments were astoundingly flabby.
Ronan Bennett on Martin Amis's threatening remarks about Muslims | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Ronan Bennett takes apart the attacks made by Martin Amis on the Muslim community, including that in the Ginny...
A report was published yesterday by the “Policy Exchange” alleging that so-called hate literature is widely available in British mosques (PDF), many of it subsidised by Saudi Arabia. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, this was published on the same day as a Saudi state visit. The report is written by Denis MacEoin, on whose letters to various newspapers I have commented here in the past. He is well-known for having anti-Islamic attitudes, having written letters to newspapers opposing Muslim girls’ rights to wear hijab and on one occasion alleging that “multiculturalism gets you Northern Ireland”, rather than invading someone’s country and gerrymandering a state so that your planted minority can rule over a section of the majority population in that country.
I came across a short film produced by the so-called David Horowitz Freedom Center, narrated by Nonie Darwish who is an anti-Islamic harpy who features on Townhall.com and a number of other American "conservative"...
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Rebuking obnoxious views is not just a personality kink This is an article by Terry Eagleton, who has been involved in a public argument with the novelist...
Bath Chronicle: Yobs attack mosque in Bath Police have issued a CCTV image of two yobs who entered a mosque in Bath (England) on 11th July this year and urinated on worshippers’ belongings (strangely,...
Today’s Daily Mail carried a letter from Qasim Omar, a former Test cricketer, which mentioned that he had been attacked recently, with stones thrown at him by youths in the street, apparently in response...
The propaganda website WorldNetDaily has published a shocking story about "al-Qa'ida" in Iraq supposedly baking young boys and serving them to their families: "Speaking through an American interpreter, Lt. David Wallach, who is a...
BC Radio last week broadcast a programme called Turning Right, which probed the British National Party’s lame attempts to hide the thuggish and criminal natures of a number of its major activists, including its leader, Nick Griffin. Griffin made little effort to conceal his real opinions, asserting that he now believed what he had to, because he would otherwise be extradited to France (“otherwise”, for example, includes maintaining his devotion to Holocaust denial). The programme also gave airtime to an outfit called the Christian People’s Alliance, which they claim drove down the BNP’s support in its white, working-class east London “heartland” by concentrating on local issues. However, the CPA and the BNP are on the same side on one issue: opposition to the so-called “mega mosque”, which is proposed for a site near to the main Olympic stadium. An examination of material issued by the CPA, however, reveals its reliance on misinformation and bigotry.
Manal Omar on her five piece Islamic swimsuit – The Guardian I don't know why I'm surprised that a woman has run into problems wearing an all-over swimsuit; Manal Omar's run-in with some staff...
Guardian Unlimited: Something remarkable Robina Qureshi on what you might not hear about the situation in Glasgow vis-a-vis the resettled asylum seekers: the fact that the community has rallied around them, to the extent...