Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Comment is free: Bush's historian Brian Whitaker on how Bernard Lewis, whose 90th birthday celebrations were attended by none other than Dick Cheney (full guest list here), is being talked up in the media...
Anyone who looks at The Spectator's front page (if they are a site member) will notice a link to an apology to Lady Colin Campbell regarding an article by its columnist Taki Theodoracopoulos: In...
Last week Joe Kaufman posted to FrontPageMag.com an article regarding a resolution passed by the Student Government at the University of South Florida which supported the dismissal of Sami al-Arian, recently acquitted on terrorist...
Comment is free: Enlighten me Madeleine Bunting on how the "hard liberals" misuse the Enlightenment, and how many of their its key thinkers were in fact religious believers: Something didn't seem to be adding...
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...
Clipping of picture of a Muslima in niqab from today's Observer This picture appeared in the Observer today, on page 19 of the Review section next to this article by Miranda Sawyer. The article...
The BBC reports that Isaac Hayes, the singer behind the 1971 hit *Shaft*, has quit the American TV show *South Park*, in which he “is the voice of the lustful Chef”, because it ridiculed...
Via Pickled Politics, London Student reports that the Mail on Sunday attempted to induce students at London universities to spy on meetings of Muslim student organisations. The offer came in an email from Sophie...
This is a link over to an article I’ve just published at *The Sharpener* in reply to a speech by Douglas Murray, author of the [Social Affairs Unit](http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/)’s pamphlet [Neoconservatism: Why We Need It](http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000676.php)....
Gary Younge in today's Guardian takes issue with people who call it brave to defend popular orthodoxies and make statements of bigotry just because liberals might attack them, with particular reference to the "Larry...
The Sunday Telegraph today published a letter from Abdul-Haqq Bewley (eighth letter down, "Most Muslims in Britain have conservative values") regarding the remarks Patrick Sookhdeo made regarding his and his wife's translation of the...
I got the following message in an email from Bookwright, the Danish publisher of Islamic texts. It concerns the call from the anti-Islamic rent-a-column writer Patrick Sookhdeo AKA Sookhdevil for Aisha Bewley's translation of...
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...
Cherry Potter has an article in today's Guardian (Train them like rats) regarding the Channel 4 series Brat Camp, in the latest version of which a group of recalcitrant teenage girls are taken out...
Last week I posted about the Daily Express's slander on our community (also see here and here) and, in particular, on the Muslim Council and Muslim Association. The leader, in particular, accused the community...
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...
The Spectator, a right-leaning political weekly magazine, has an article by Tom Walker (diplomatic correspondent for the Sunday Times) on how he attempted to investigate the "extraordinary renditions" of Muslim terrorist suspects to Morocco...
Osama Saeed has reprinted an article from yesterday's Sunday Express (via PhobeWatch) which trots out a number of tired canards regarding the Muslim community's response to terrorism, claiming that Labour are getting tired of...
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...