Demonstration and public meeting this evening
There is a demonstration to call for a withdrawal from Afghanistan tonight at Downing Street, London at 5pm, organised by the Stop the War Coalition. There is also a public meeting at 7pm in...
Category: War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Muslims’ needs and the cause of Islam
In the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed something startling appearing on the Muslim ‘net: conservative Muslims attacking the Pakistani Taliban. These include a series of posts from Abu Eesa ([1], [2] with links...
Clive James on feminism and democracy
BBC NEWS Magazine: Clive James on feminism and democracy Clive James is arguing that the reason feminists are not loud on the issue of promoting democracy abroad when the alternatives are far worse for...
Muhajiroun versus Luton white trash
I’ve never cared much for the MuhajiGoons, but seeing this display of “patriotism” by a wannabe lynch mob of Britain’s “finest” made me a bit more sympathetic. They did not seem to be saying...
Muhajiroun disrupt Luton army parade
A small group of young men from al-Muhajiroun (or Muhajigoons, the Voice, the Ears and Eyes of the Morons) [yesterday caused a commotion](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7936485.stm) at a parade in Luton by soldiers returning from Iraq. The...
Let US clear up Guantanamo mess
[Some sense](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/article5425915.ece) from a columnist at the Times, no less: it was the USA who rounded up men too casually in their “war on terror”, and it is they who should take in the...
World War II myths justifying Iraq war
Peter Wilby, in last Friday’s Guardian, posted this article exploding some of the myths about World War II which are commonly used to justify the war in Iraq, particularly the last justification used after...
Yobs and military uniforms
BBC News report on abuse of soldiers This morning, the BBC made a big fuss of a report about incidents of verbal of abuse of air force servicemen in Peterborough by people opposed to...
Bhutto said OBL murdered
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg) is a link to a YouTube video of Benazir Bhutto alleging that Osama bin Laden was murdered by one Omar Shaikh – presumed to be Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was implicated in...
Anas el-Banna: New Statesman Person of 2007
New Statesman – Person of 2007 Anas el-Banna, the son of the Guantanamo detainee Jamil el-Banna, has won the New Statesman’s Person of the Year Humanity Award for 2007 (the competition included anti-arms trade...
Doubts over OBL video
I just managed to watch a clip of the recent Osama bin Laden video on YouTube, and saw for myself what [this blogger](http://www.boomantribune.com:80/story/2007/9/9/61032/95401) points out: that the video is frozen shortly before the 2-minute...
A born-again American idiot
Technorati Tags: christopher hitchens No, not George Bush: Christopher Hitchens, who became an idiot in 2001 (well, some would say earlier!) and an American more recently than that. He wrote [this article](http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2156380,00.html) in yesterday’s...
American idiots
This just in from the BBC: the American military have managed to put backs up in Afghanistan [by dropping footballs](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6964564.stm) covered in various flags, including that of Saudi Arabia, which contains the *shahada*. Needless...
Muslim own goal in bombing the Yazidis
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...
Pipes supports terrorists
Daniel Pipes: Unleash the Iranian Opposition This is an article by Daniel Pipes in the Jerusalem Post, plugging the so-called People’s Mujahideen (or Mujahideen-e-Khalq), an organisation banned as a terrorist group in the US...
What the West fought for
The BBC’s news programme File on 4 today ran a feature on aid to Afghanistan since the war, and reveals how difficult Afghanistan has become to live in since the fall of the Taliban....
Toynbee: the press’s hypocrisy
Guardian Unlimited: Our press, the worst in the west, demoralises us all Polly Toynbee (someone with whom I agree vary rarely) on the hypocritical media condemnations of the sailors who were captured by Iran....
Inside Bush’s Iraq
The project | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited This is the second part of Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s exposé of how the “Coalition” managed Iraq – in this case, by filling important positions in the Coalition Provisional...
Nick Cohen: crude parodies and a thinly veiled agenda
There are two extracts from Nick Cohen’s forthcoming book What’s Left? published in last Sunday’s Observer, in which he has a weekly column. For anyone who is not familiar with his writing, he is part of the same tendency as Paul Berman (of Dissent magazine and the author of Terror and Liberalism) and Christopher Hitchens; that is to say, he is from a left-liberal background but supports recent western military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and accuses the left generally of betraying its principles in its opposition to them. Until the early 2000s his columns had a strong pro-civil liberties stance and concern for asylum seekers; after the demonstrations against the war in Iraq in 2003, he denounced the Stop the War coalition of being an alliance of the “enemies of economic freedom” (the Socialist Workers) and the “enemies of sexual freedom” (the Muslim Association).
Pointless alliances with ignorant Americans
The other day Umar Lee posted his comments on [the ignorance of provincial white Americans](http://umarlee.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/goode-and-willful-ignorance-of-many-americnas/) in response to the moronic remarks of the Congressman Virgil Goode, who wrote to his constituents in response to...