Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Panorama last night broadcast an hour-long exposé of a locked ward for adults with learning disabilities and autism (although I did not notice anyone who seemed to have autism) on which the carers seemed...
Innocence Lost: What Happened to Girlhood? « Clutch Magazine The above article appears on a website mainly aimed at the African American community and I got the link from a Black American Muslim friend...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn finds sympathy in Paris | World news | The Guardian The above article lays out some of the conspiracy theories people in France entertain about why the former head of the International...
Does Every Child Matter? – itsmotherswork’s posterous I had meant to post a longer entry about this issue, but was too busy watching the debate on The Big Questions (“Does Britain Have a Problem...
The Guardian have been running various stories lately over files released which show the extent of virginity tests which were being carried out on Asian brides, either on arrival at Heathrow or before they...
Last week we had local elections in the UK, along with a referendum on whether to change the voting system to the Alternative Vote, which is currently used in Australia (and to elect party...
Yesterday I was having a discussion on Facebook with an anti-vaccinationist who referred me to various websites which outlined the various supposed conspiracies that have gone on to keep parents in the dark about...
For the second time in about a month, I’ve come across the same person I know on Facebook throwing the word “ho” (whore) around at women who are not, in fact, prostitutes. Last time,...
Same Difference: review of One Last Goodbye by Kay Gilderdale I wrote a review of Kay Gilderdale’s memoir of living with and caring for her daughter Lynn (also Jessie), who suffered from ME very...
I don't watch al-Jazeera English (although I can get it, part-time, on Freeview) but saw this clip of David Frost interviewing Taj Hargey and Salma Yaqoob over the recently-introduced ban on the niqaab in...
Yesterday, the last in the present series of Waterloo Road, the BBC school soap, aired, and it featured the climax of two separate stories, that of Denzil and his death-defying stunts which nearly killed...
Next month we will be having a referendum in this country on whether to change our method of electing MPs from the traditional “first past the post”, in which the candidate with the single...
So, I made it to the demonstration yesterday, as I had arranged to meet Riven Vincent who wanted someone to walk with her. I got there late because I was delayed leaving home and...
Anti-cuts campaigners plan to turn Trafalgar Square into Tahrir Square | World news | guardian.co.uk I am planning to attend the march organised by the Trades Union Congress this coming Saturday (26th March), but...
BBC iPlayer – Dave Monk: Essex disability hate crime and Pebmarsh needs a donkey This was broadcast last Wednesday (so you will be able to listen to it until early next Wednesday). The focus...
BBC2 – 23 Week Babies: The Price of Life This was on last Wednesday on BBC2, and is available on iPlayer until next Wednesday. It examines whether it is worthwhile to resuscitate babies born...
BBC News – Insurance and pension costs hit by ECJ gender ruling The European Court of Justice today ruled that it was unlawful for insurance companies to charge different premiums for male and female...
Womanist Musings: When Is A Child Too Young to Learn About the Middle Passage? This story is about an incident in which two supply teachers decided to show a film called The Middle Passage,...
Islamophobia Watch – Documenting anti Muslim bigotry – Dutch broadcaster removes anti-Wilders cartoon after threats to staff Geert Wilders was a supporter of the Dutch cartoonists who depicted the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)...
BBC News – Big Society is my mission, says David Cameron David Cameron gave a speech today in which he claimed that, while reducing the budget deficit was his duty, his so-called Big Society...