Letter from me in the New Statesman
New Statesman – Letters My letter, regarding the portrayal of Croydon in Brendan O'Neill's article "What's Driving the BNP?" last Friday, got printed in this week's New Statesman. The letters pages seem only to...
Category: Media
Who should have their say?
Are there some people we shouldn’t invite onto WHYS? « BBC World Have Your Say Ros Atkins (presenter of BBC World Have Your Say) on how she booked Ed Husain to appear on her...
Yvonne Ridley wins case against Islam Channel
Harry's Place, a blog I read often but generally disagree with, posted this last week, about Yvonne Ridley winning a case for harassment, sex discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal against the Islam Channel. Since...
Don’t kill the fattened calf for Ed & co
An unusually perceptive Ziauddin Sardar finally delivers a dissenting view of the media's lionising of "Sir Edward Husain" and his clique in today's Guardian, on the grounds that it ignores those who always resisted...
Idiotic response to a positive proposal
Five Chinese Crackers covers the tabloid response to the recent NUT faith education proposal. I did start writing a piece after reading the Guardian's write-up of it, by which account it seems to be...
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...
Tobacco display ban: beyond the easy parodies
Over the weekend the government announced that it was considering banning the open display of cigarettes for sale, as is commonly found in any tobacco shop, whether a local corner shop or a supermarket....
Who are the “Scargills of Islam”, then?
Charles Moore, well-known writer for the Telegraph and Spectator and known among us for articles like this one from 2005, calling for the Muslims to bring forward a Gandhi (my response here), gave a...
What about our children?
It was reported today that a paedophile who was taken to Australia at the age of five (he is 61 now) has been deported back to England. He is not by any means the...
More tabloids admit: we printed garbage
British Muslim Initiative: The Sun and Daily Mail withdraw unfounded allegations by Policy Exchange Hot on the heels of the Daily Spew grovelling to the McCanns yesterday, the Sun and the Daily Mail (or...
Daily Spew admits: we printed garbage
The Daily Spew and Black Hole today printed front-page apologies to Gerry and Kate McCann, whose daugher Madeleine went missing in Portugal last year, for printing false and defamatory stories about them on numerous...
Yobs and military uniforms
BBC News report on abuse of soldiers This morning, the BBC made a big fuss of a report about incidents of verbal of abuse of air force servicemen in Peterborough by people opposed to...
The death penalty in light of the recent murder convictions
The last three working days in a row, there has been a man convicted for acts of violence against women. Last Thursday, it was Steve (or was his actual name Steven?) Wright, the man...
Times non-story about Muslim eating scruples
Last Friday the Times published a story claiming that "senior Muslim figures" had expressed shock that a number of Walkers crisp products had contained alcohol. The fact was "discovered" by one Besharat Rehman, the...
Ignorance and bigotry unleashed by Williams speech
Technorati Tags: shariah, rowan+williams Last Thursday the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, gave a lecture to an assembly of lawyers in London on the subject of Muslims in the UK whom, in his...
Nazir-Ali complains of death threats
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...
Mrs Brown’s Indian dress
Sarah Brown, the wife of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has been attacked in certain sections of the media for wearing Indian dress on a visit to Delhi as part of a visit...
Sensationalism over early puberty
Girls Hitting Puberty at 3?! « Tariq Nelson Tariq pointed up this article in the London Sun newspaper, but I just saw an ITV programme on the subject, which focussed on girls who are...
Familicide presented as honour killing
Last (i.e. Thursday) night, and the night before, BBC1 showed a two-part series called Honour Kills, about honour-related murders in the British Asian community (mostly Pakistani, with one Kurdish case). Abu Eesa has already...
Who speaks for Muslims?
muslimmatters.org » Tarek Fatah (and…) Does NOT Represent Me: Muslims 101 for Media Muslim Matters (in this case Amad) on the media’s insistence on relying on fringe figures for details of what is wrong...