I could have told them this
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...
Category: Media
Shoddy Joe Kaufman cuts my work out for me
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...
Bunting: Enlighten me
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...
Another weekend, another rally
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...
PhobeWatch: Free Speech march leader back-tracks
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...
Does this lady look angry to you?
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...
Giving it out, but …
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...
Snail Trail induced students to spy on Muslims
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...
The Sharpener: Neo-cons, Muslims and “Last Men”
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)....
Picking on the powerless isn’t brave
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...
Telegraph clarifies “Ban Qur’an” call
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...
Bookwright on “ban Qur’an” call
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...
Debate on the cartoons in Prospect
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...
Brat Camp and the “Teen Gulag”
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...
No apology from the Express
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...
Civilised Muslim demo in London
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...
Spectator: Render Unto Dubya
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...
Time to complain about Express slanders
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...
From Imam Zaid Shakir
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 proper rally this Saturday
A peaceful protest is to be held this Saturday, regarding the cartoon affair, to counteract the yobbish antics of last Friday (hat tip: [Osama](http://www.osamasaeed.org/osama/2006/02/proper_rally_af.html)): Rally against incitement & Islamophobia, Saturday 11th February 2006 Date:...