Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Shoot the Messenger was on BBC2 last night; it featured David Oyewolo (from the drama Spooks, British slang for spies) as Joe, a young black teacher who entered the profession after attending a meeting to discuss the chronic underachievement of black boys in British schools, at which one lady announced that what was needed was more black male teachers to provide positive role models.
A week or so ago, in response to Stephen Schwartz's screed in the Spectator, I wrote the magazine a letter as well as the article I posted here. The editor decided to print two...
Last Saturday Gita Saghal of Awaaz South Asia Watch and “Women Against Fundamentalisms”, an organisation which monitors and opposes religious fundamentalism in south Asia, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s programme Hecklers, so-called because one...
In reply to last week's Guardian article purporting to give a glimpse "behind the scenes" at the supposedly secretive Tablighi Jama'at, Emdad Rahman posts his observations: Paul Lewis’ article contained a number of factual...
BBC NEWS | UK | 'Porn-link' safety advert banned This is a story about how an anti-child-porn website, ThinkUKnow, was advertised on the radio, leading one lady to type what she heard – think*you*know...
John Ware, the guy behind the anti-MCB documentary last year and a more recent one attacking charity support for Hamas-run schools, was interviewed for yesterday's Guardian Media supplement (free registration required): He says he...
It looks like Ziauddin Sardar has finally overstepped the mark … in his latest column in the New Statesman, he insists that we Muslims "respect differences among ourselves – particularly when they appear to...
Guardian Unlimited: 'Bidet toilets, they're the future – I've sat on one' Helen Pidd in today's Guardian about the toilets which allow for what we call istinja – washing yourself after you relieve yourself....
The Guardian today printed a story raising the urban legend of the “jihad training camp”, which in this case was supposedly based in British national parks. As you might expect when a scare story...
Via [IACN](http://www.iacn.org.uk/)’s TV circular, [Channel 4](http://www.channel4.com/) has a programme on tonight called [What Muslims Want](http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/D/dispatches2006/?hpos=LST) as part of its *Dispatches* slot; it’s on at 8pm and lasts an hour: >Channel 4 News presenter Jon...
It's been widely reported in the press, both yesterday and today that the Muslim day at Alton Towers has been cancelled (strangely, this hasn't appeared on the Muslim Leisure website which is entirely dedicated...
Interpal respond to the recent Panorama programme Faith, Hate and Charity which accuses it of giving money largely to Palestinian charities which are fronts for Hamas. Also, Osama Saeed gives his response.
MediaGuardian.co.uk: "Private family chatter became a sensational story" Roy Greenslade of the Guardian (and formerly of the Sunday Times) reveals how Mazher Mahmood's record of broken confidences seems to stretch back further in his...
There’s been quite a bit of activity on the issue of the filming of Brick Lane, a film based on Monica Ali’s novel of the same name. Monica Ali belongs to a certain set...
Last weekend Janet Street-Porter wrote for the Independent rubbishing the entire medium of blogs, while Yasmin Alibhai-Brown last monday wrote for the same paper suggesting that bloggers must have no life (you can read...
BBC NEWS: Is this the end for 'fake sheikh'? An analysis of the attempt by Mazher Mahmood, a reporter on the Murdoch-owned News of the World who entraps people into dropping themselves in it...
Martin Bright’s documentary on British Foreign Office dealings with “radical Islam” finally aired on Channel 4’s 30 Minutes slot last night, and did not really contain any surprises for me. Martin Bright’s position is that the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), in its dealings with the Muslim community, has largely restricted itself to dealing with groups led by the Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-e-Islami, to the exclusion of ordinary, moderate “Sufi” Muslims.
It's still open season on niqabis, as the Independent prints four letters in response to Deborah Borr's attack on them in Saturday's edition. The letters can be read here in the left-hand column (not...
Radical Middle Way Event: Shaikh Walead Mohammed, an American graduate of al-Azhar (who has also studied in Damascus) is to give a talk this Tuesday in London and next Sunday in Oxford on the...
A woman called Deborah Orr (or should that be Deborah Borr) wrote an article for today's (Saturday's) Independent attacking Muslim women who cover their faces ([1], [2]), alleging that face coverings are "are physical...