Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Something I just got through the New Muslims' Project mailing list … Al-Hamdu lillah, the British Press Complaints Commission has ruled in favour of the Islamic bookshop Dar al-Taqwa against the London Evening Standard...
OK, so who's heard of the Weblog Awards, 2005? The first I heard of them, the finalists had been announced, and people were being asked to vote for which of the top 20 were...
Jonathan Freedland had a piece in today's Guardian, The sickness bequeathed by the west to the Muslim world, in reaction to the recent comments of the president of Iran to the effect that "we"...
I just discovered a blog by three al-Jazeera workers (courtesy of Dunner) and an entry on it about a simple misunderstanding of language. Someone searched on the al-Jazeera site for stories on "honor killings",...
An example of the sort of "Ikhwanophobia" which might be bolstered by the recent "Project" revelations is the piece on page 14 of the current New Statesman, entitled "…and yet more leaks", apparently written...
Ziauddin Sardar for once has an article worth reading in this week’s New Statesman, entitled The Next Holocuast. It’s on the site’s front page, and can be read once, but is on a “read...
Harry's Place (dead link; the blog was cracked very shortly after I posted this) drew my attention to a bizarrely stupid side column to a profile of Muriel Degaque, the Belgian convert to Islam...
The London Evening Standard today printed a letter from one Papya Qureshi of west London, a Bengali Muslima "who has been taught to dress modestly": I have lost track of the names of clothes...
… but what he is saying actually doesn't make much sense either way. Yesterday, Michael Todd, Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police called on people not to buy toy guns for children this...
Juan Cole here comments on GW Bush's imbecilic idea of bombing al-Jazeera, which we are led to believe Saint Anthony Blair talked him out of. (Hat tip: Ginny. Update: Spectator editor Boris Johnson is...
The Spectator has finally published a reply to Patrick Sookhdeo's diatribe in the "Eurabia" issue two weeks ago. Headed "Eirenic Islam", it's not in the online edition, so here's an extract: I imagine many...
The BBC reports that its governors have caved in to pressure from hundreds of "listeners" and found that a From Our Own Correspondent report on the final departure of Yasir Arafat from Ramallah breached...
The Observer had a story on the front page of its review section last Sunday on niqab, the face veil worn by some Muslim women. The Big Cover-Up fails to ask the obvious question...
Further to my earlier entry about the Daily Express's contribution to the "Christmas is being banned" meme, Peter Gasston at Perfect.co.uk notes that the Halifax bank has written to Australian Mediawatch flatly denying the...
In the Sunday Times today, there's a very weird article by Minette Marrin entitled Muslim apartheid burns bright in France, in which the author describes how she once lived in a beautiful village in...
On the way to an early job on Friday, I always look forward to what’s going to be on the front of the political magazines, the New Statesman and the Spectator, associated with the...
Anyone see the front page of the Scum newspaper yesterday, the one with the face of a burned 7th July bomb victim on it and an appeal for everyone to write to Tory Bliar...
A while ago there was a controversy in which British TV showed a documentary about the murder of a Saudi princess for some infraction of honour, and the Saudi government attempted to put pressure...
As a lot of you noticed, I recently switched my blog tool back to Movable Type. With a vengeance – I actually bought an unlimited personal licence while it was reduced for a few...
Via Guardian Newsblog, a guy called Jakob Nielsen has laid out a list of the Top Ten Design Mistakes commonly found on blogs. I guess mine falls foul of quite a few of them:...