Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
The last couple of weeks there has been a controversy over a new book being co-written by Hassan Butt, former al-Muhajiroun activist and self-proclaimed terrorist fixer and fundraiser, and the British writer and "journalist"...
Last week the Royal United Services Institute, "the leading forum in the UK for national and international Defence and Security" founded by the Duke of Wellington, published a report from a panel which included,...
This morning they were talking on Today about the woman who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist”, who wrote ghoulish poems about slicing people’s heads off and was convicted of possessing material “likely to be...
Last night, Shiraz Maher, a friend of Ed Husain's who was also a member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in England (much more recently), fronted a BBC Panorama documentary entitled "How I Became a Muslim Extremist". He...
Some guy has just been convicted of sending letter bombs (also here) to various companies which were involved in security and surveillance, and to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), citing an "overbearing...
I just managed to watch a clip of the recent Osama bin Laden video on YouTube, and saw for myself what this blogger points out: that the video is frozen shortly before the 2-minute...
This afternoon, with the family car to myself as my parents have gone to Crete for a holiday, I took a ride to the coast to visit a friend of mine who owns one...
Today’s Daily Mail carried a letter from Qasim Omar, a former Test cricketer, which mentioned that he had been attacked recently, with stones thrown at him by youths in the street, apparently in response...
This was the front page of today's Daily Express, or Daily Spew as I call it here, about an idiotic demonstration by a few women in "burkhas" against the sentencing of a group of...
The past couple of days the London BBC radio station has had features on possible candidates for the next London mayoral election. Yesterday, on Eddie Nestor and Kath Melandri's drive-time show, the candidate was...
The familiar call has gone out, in response to the recent London and Glasgow bomb attempts, for Muslims to somehow organise “not in my/our name” marches in order to condemn terrorism: for example, this...
Oh British Muslims! « Umar Lee As I'm sure everyone has noticed by now, there have been three attempts to set off car bombs in public areas in the UK, two in London and...
Catherine Bennett on terrorism (from yesterday's Guardian) Last Monday, five young British Muslim men were sentenced to life in prison for a plot to set off large fertiliser bombs in southern England. The targets...
Matthew Parris, writing in the most recent edition of the Spectator (part 1, part 2) in reply to David Selbourne, who claimed that American power is past its prime, that Islam is what has...
BBC NEWS: Ex-BNP man 'wanted to shoot PM' (hat tip: Lenin) Remember the case of the biggest-ever haul of explosive chemicals the police found at a house in Lancashire last October, which hardly made...
As an example of the sort of silly conspiracy-mongering George Monbiot was talking about in his article in the Guardian on Tuesday (which I linked), here is a reply to it (third letter down),...
The Guardian: A 9/11 conspiracy virus is sweeping the world, but it has no basis in fact George Monbiot takes apart the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change, which advances the well-known "no plane" theory:...
That's Me on Screen! (free registration required) Craig Murray (former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who resigned after exposing the human rights abuses carried out by "Islam Karimov" and then stood against Jack Straw) on...
Independent Online Edition > UK Politics The Independent today reports on the planned propaganda campaign to spell out British values to young Muslims in some sort of effort to lure them away from extremism,...
The latest edition of the British anti-fascist magazine Searchlight on last month's incident where chemical precursors to explosives were found at a house belonging to a member of the British National Party, which was...