Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Islamophobia Watch - Documenting anti Muslim bigotry - Dutch broadcaster removes anti-Wilders cartoon after threats to staff Geert Wilders was a supporter of the Dutch cartoonists who depicted the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)...
Islamophobia Watch drew my attention to an article by Barbara Smoker, former president of the National Secular Society, in the latest edition of the Gay Humanist Quarterly. The edition is freely downloadable but is...
Yesterday there was another rally in London’s Trafalgar Square: this time at the end of a so-called “March for Free Expression” at which a gaggle of people assembled to hear speeches defending people’s right...
Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch notes that the organiser of the upcoming “March for Free Expression” has backtracked on his earlier enthusiasm for his followers to bring placards bearing copies of the Danish cartoons...
Prospect Magazine (a British Lottery-funded left-leaning intellectual magazine) has published an exchange of letters between Prospect contributing editor Kamran Nazeer and Emel magazine editor Sarah Joseph (Should Muslim turn a blind eye to the...
Umm Ibrahim has an insider’s view on what happened at the “protests” in Beirut, in which the building housing the Danish embassy was torched by “fanatical Muslims”. It seems that they were not fanatical...
Another weekend, another Muslim demonstration in London regarding those wretched cartoons. What with rioting in Libya and now Nigeria and a KFC getting burned out in Pakistan, some people might not have expected a...
In the absence of a proper post since Wednesday (work!), here’s a link to Imam Zaid Shakir’s as-ever (ma sha Allah) measured response to the cartoon affair: Clash of the Uncivilized: Insights on the...
A peaceful protest is to be held this Saturday, regarding the cartoon affair, to counteract the yobbish antics of last Friday (hat tip: Osama): Rally against incitement & Islamophobia, Saturday 11th February 2006 Date:...
Ma sha Allah, it seems that one of the idiots who gave us all a bad name over the weekend has turned out to be a drug dealer who was out on licence at...
It appears that Jyllands-Posten were selective about whose taboos they’d risk offending; not that we want to see another of our prophets (‘alaihim as-salaam) defamed, but the hypocrisy is obvious.
This is an email I got from the New Muslims’ Project email list, regarding the demo on Saturday: assalaamu alaykum, i was at saturday’s demostration, yes the stewards were HT [Hizb-ut-Tahreer], almost all the...
This afternoon, after jumu’ah, there was a demonstration outside the Danish embassy in Sloane Street, London, which was supposed to follow a march from the “Central Mosque” near Regent’s Park. I got to the...
Twice this evening I’ve received text messages telling me to vote “no” in a text vote for BBC Radio 5 Live regarding whether the Danish cartoons should be published here. This vote actually finished...
Speaking of orchestrated demonstrations and the like (see next entry down), did anyone get that impression of the demonstrations against the Danish cartoons that were shown on the TV last night? I was planning...
The BBC is reporting that a Danish firm has taken out advertisements in various Middle Eastern newspapers to disassociate itself from the cartoons of the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), fearing that the...
A while ago there was a controversy in which British TV showed a documentary about the murder of a Saudi princess for some infraction of honour, and the Saudi government attempted to put pressure...