Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Last Thursday Channel 4 broadcast a 65-minute-long discourse by Trevor Phillips, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality and then (after its amalgamation with all the other equality bodies) the Equality and Human...
A few people I know yesterday tweeted an article by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the mainstream media's favourite "Muslim" and authority on all things Asian, which claimed that "in-your-face racism" had returned and that she was...
Last week seven men from Oxford were found guilty of various sexual offences, including rape, for ‘grooming’ young girls and ultimately raping and allowing other men to rape them. Many of them were in...
This letter appeared in yesterday's Daily Mail in response to the article by David Goodhart about the Ahmadiyyah centre in Morden last Monday (see earlier article). The letter starts off by stating that her...
A mega mosque in a suburb that was 90 per cent white 30 years ago and the polite apartheid dividing Britain | Mail Online Barely a month ago I responded to an article in...
BBC News – Barbados rapes: MP warns travellers island is 'unsafe' Stephen McPartland, Tory MP for Stevenage, has been putting pressure on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to declare that Barbados is “not a...
‘I feel like a stranger where I live’ – Telegraph This article appeared in today’s Telegraph and I had the ‘pleasure’ of seeing the print edition which has several stock images which are not...
Hope Not Hate has reproduced an article by Shiraz Maher from the Spectator, titled “Few would shed tears if Britain barred Anjem Choudary from returning”. Choudary is currently in Pakistan attending a conference of...
Shocking moment mother Amanda Lowe, 26, repeatedly stamps on man's head in racist attack | Mail Online A woman who took part with three men in a violent group attack on an Asian man,...
Last night it was announced that the actor Michael Clarke Duncan, best known for playing John Coffey in the 1999 film The Green Mile, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name,...
So, the Olympics has finally started. I had been planning an article last week about the chaos in the preparation for the Games, the security etc., and the traffic disruption that would result from...
Back in the days when Usenet was the main place online for discussion (if not the only), before web forums and blogs had been heard of (or at least, were anything like as sophisticated...
Name the Problem « You think I just don't understand, but I don't believe you. (also here) I don’t normally follow American (or any other) radical feminist blogs, but I saw this when a...
Last Monday, three men were found guilty of a shooting in south London that left a 5-year-old girl of Tamil origin, Thusha Kamaleswaran, paralysed from the chest down, and injured an Asian man, Roshan...
Keith Allen Meets Nick Griffin – 4oD – Channel 4 Keith Allen has previously done a programme in which he interviewed what he called “the God Hates Fags sect in Topeka, Kansas”, and whose...
BBC Three – My Hometown Fanatics: Stacey Dooley Investigates Stacey Dooley is presented as someone who was plucked from working as a shop assistant at a perfume counter at Luton airport to presenting an...
There is a long article in today’s Guardian about the racism facing the Roma population in Hungary, which has faced acute discrimination since (at least) the end of Communism, particularly in the education system...
The hearts of white people, part II « Abagond I saw this post after a friend on a social networking site posted a link to it. The author, who claims his blog is a...
Yesterday the two men convicted of murdering the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, when they were teenagers were jailed “at Her Majesty’s pleasure” (effectively a life sentence), one for a minimum of fourteen years and...
BBC iPlayer: The Big Gypsy Eviction This programme was on BBC1 last night (you can watch it until next Thursday, if you are in the UK) and is the result of six years of...