Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
I got the following message in an email from Bookwright, the Danish publisher of Islamic texts. It concerns the call from the anti-Islamic rent-a-column writer Patrick Sookhdeo AKA Sookhdevil for Aisha Bewley's translation of...
Hugh Fitzgerald, Robert Spencer’s deputy and second windbag in command at Jihad/Dhimmi Watch, has a bit of a cob-on about converts at the moment, with one article after another puzzling over why anyone would...
A new blog called Watching Jihad Watch (hat tip: UZ, who has links there to a number of hate-watch sites) has a long article on Spencer & co's "coverage" of the Armanious murders (note:...
Melanie Phillips once again turns her fire on the BBC, complaining that in a recent feature for Today on the recent violence in the French ghetto suburbs, the presenters "simply excised all references to...
Brother Habib Abbasi asked me to comment on a post made recently at Dhimmi Watch about converts, in which a series of ulterior motives are given for why westerners of various categories accept Islam....
Yesterday I found in the Guardian's letters section a letter from Derek Lennard, disassociating gay humanists from the much-reported opinions of Andy Armitage, the former editor of the Lesbian & Gay Humanist magazine ([1],...
This is Theodore Dalrymple I’m talking about, not our old friend William (of White Mughals fame), in a piece written in the New York City Journal last Autumn which Marcus at Harry’s Place noticed...
If anyone out there still has time for George Galloway, he's just taken more time out of representing the East Londoners who voted for him last May by entering the Big Brother house, along...
One of Robert Spencer's minions has come close to delivering the "wimp" taunt that politicians seem to fear these days, whether it is on the death penalty or on the so-called War on Terror....
Br Amir Butler has provided his own account of the recent riots in Sydney. To my knowledge, this is the first Muslim blog account of the incidents (surprisingly, Irfan Yusuf doesn't seem to have...
As Matthew Turner has noticed, Melanie Phillips is fast running out of friends. In just two days, she has decided that the Conservative party, the Metropolitan Police and the Daily Telegraph have somehow deserted...
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...
Melanie Phillips today linked this tragi-comic piece of Front Page drivel, The First Step to Britishness Is Your Poppy. In it, Carol Gould describes how she was accosted by some idiot of Arab origin...
Shaikh Riyadh Nadwi has written a reply to Melanie Phillips' ignorant suggestion on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze, among them that the standard Muslim practice of removing body hair is to...
Not that I want to make this a digest of Juan Cole's blog, but he's posted a rather long reply to Dennis Prager's "same old difficult questions" editorial in the LA Times (it'll probably...
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...
I've long lost any respect for George Galloway, but the contempt with which he apparently regards his followers was displayed in his behaviour during the Commons vote on the Government's terrorist legislation this week....
Islamophobia Watch have a feature on how Maryam Namazie's friends in the Worker-Communist Party of Iran were thrown out of a CND conference last weekend for causing a disruption: Jeremy Corbyn, who was chairing...
Since Robert Spencer has recently drawn attention to a discussion we had last April which started when I replied to a post about female circumcision on his Dhimmi Watch sub-blog, I thought I'd do...