Jerk sent back to jail
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...
Category: Media
JP wouldn’t lampoon another prophet …
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.
They weren’t all extremists, then
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...
Extremists crash the party again (updated)
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...
Feltz gets in on the cartoon affair
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...
Cartoon controversy
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 Broken Mirror on the Muslim Boys
The Daily Mirror – AKA the Moron – today declared that a south London jail was "run by al-Qaeda", citing the vicious antics of the razor gang known as the Muslim Boys. This gang...
Ian Blair on racism in crime reporting
Ian Blair the other day found himself in hot water for suggesting that the media display racism in how they report crime. If it's a white victim, the story gets splashed all over the...
Muslim money talks
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...
Proscription plans unravelling
The New Statesman this week (30th Jan edition) has a feature by former Observer editor Martin Bright on how serious questions are being asked about the viability of banning Hizbut-Tahreer. The NS website has...
On the Texas Muslims film
Someone recently posted a copy of a Channel 4 documentary, Turning Muslim in Texas, onto Google's new video server, which is almost certainly illegal and, given that Channel 4 is a British company, probably...
The State We Are In: new book from Amal Press
Amal Press has just brought out a new book, The State We Are In: Identity, Terror and the Law of Jihad in which Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, Shaikh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti, Aftab A Malik, David...
Bigots intimidate with no-fee lawsuits
The British train drivers' union Aslef was recently sued for libel by a member of the British National Party after a Virgin train driver was called a racist in Aslef's magazine, the Loco Journal....
Another retort to Anthony Browne’s pamphlet
The Sharpener: Quaking under the jackboot of political correctness. Or not Recently a hawkish hack writer in the Times and Spectator, among other places, published a pamphlet through Civitas, entitled The Retreat of Reason...
Menzies or Minghis?
BBC NEWS Magazine – Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? This is for anyone wondering about why the man who could become the leader of the third biggest party in the UK has such an...
Dalrymple: Asian youths and “white sluts”
This is Theodore Dalrymple I’m talking about, not our old friend William (of White Mughals fame), in a piece written in the New York City Journal last Autumn which Marcus at Harry’s Place noticed...
The defrocking of “The Religious Policeman”
Not much to add to this particular story myself, but brother Abu Sinan has been working on exposing the deception behind the so-called Religious Policeman, who purports to be a Saudi exile in London...
Daily Mail reporter on the burqa
The Q-News homepage reprinted an article on which I intended to comment a couple of months ago when I saw it in print, about how one of the Daily Mail's reporters spent a week...
Hijab not Tunisian enough?
Via Islamophobia Watch, the Boston Globe reports that the Tunisian "religious affairs minister", Aboubaker Akhzouri, has claimed that the hijab worn by religious Muslim women does not "fit in with the North African country's...
Williams and Carey on Christmas
The Daily Telegraph reports on comments by Rowan Williams and George Carey (respectively, the current and previous archbishops of Canterbury) defending Christmas against these misguided "false accommodations" involving removing explicit mention of Christmas and...