Who’s radicalising who?
Today it was revealed that a report commissioned by University College London, the college where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to bomb a plane from Amsterdam to the USA last December, concluded that he...
Category: Windbags
Let them eat halaal meat
Yesterday the Daily Star (the Black Hole to you and me), a London tabloid from the same pig-sty as the Daily Express (AKA Daily Spew), ran a story about the “scandal” of the borough...
Christina Patterson again: London’s human zoo
Since my last entry on the bigoted ravings of Christina Patterson in last week’s Independent, Patterson herself has written a follow-up piece on all the demented people who have written to her and blogged...
Haredis and FGM: like a newly caught fish
I was alerted to an article by one Christina Patterson (former director of the Poetry Society and literary programmer at the South Bank Centre in London) setting out what she considers the “limits of...
Jon Gaunt: gatekeepers and free speech
Yesterday Jon Gaunt, the talk show host who used to run the morning show on BBC London, lost an attempt to appeal against a censure by Ofcom, the British broadcast media regulator, against his...
“9/11 a dry run for Tel Aviv ram raid”
The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips | Digested read | Books | The Guardian This is a pretty hilarious parody of Melanie Phillips's latest book, The World Turned Upside Down. The Guardian's...
JPost editorial tells Europe how to deal with Muslim women
Jerusalem Post: Rejecting the burka As Muslims it's been our recent experience that many of the voices raised loudest against Muslims in the west have connections to Israel, particularly in the United States but...
Taj Hargey defends Christians by attacking Muslims
What has Britain come to when it takes a Muslim like me to defend Christianity? | Mail Online This article appeared in today’s Daily Mail, and is meant to be in defence of Shirley...
Robert Spencer, Patrick Sookhdeo and me
It seems I’ve been getting a lot of referrals from the ghosts of the American right-wing Islamophobic blogosphere lately, as shown in my Incoming Links on my control panel. They all had to do...
Attempt to link Islamic societies to terrorism
Last Thursday BBC Radio 4 broadcast a Report programme in which they attempted to “investigate” the links between British university Islamic societies (or ISocs) with terrorism, on the basis that Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalib, who...
The nasty party begins to re-emerge
In 2002 Teresa May, the chairwoman of the Tory party appointed by Iain Duncan Smith, told the party’s conference that people called her party the “nasty party” and that their base was too narrow...
Early 1990s Kilroy flashback
Does anyone remember what Robert Kilroy-Silk was like before he wrote that column in the Daily Express — AKA Daily Spew — saying that the West owes Muslims nothing, being as we are all...
Opposition to the war wasn’t just about anti-Americanism
There is a letter in the Observer today in response to an article from last week’s paper from Nick Cohen, who said that the Chilcot inquiry won’t declare Blair a war criminal and disputed...
Taj Hargey launches fresh anti-Islam stunt
Taj Hargey is no stranger to long-time readers of this site: he is notorious for his anti-Shari'ah publicity stunts and for being able and willing to come out and attack Muslims in the press,...
Andy versus Maajid
I just watched the online copy of last night’s “discussion” between Anjum “Andy” Choudhary of al-Muhajiroun (which will no doubt have a new name by the end of this week, as the government has...
Rod Liddle and the Independent
Recently some of my Facebook friends joined a group called something like “I won’t buy the Independent again if Rod Liddle becomes editor”, and I thought briefly of joining. But I haven’t. The simple...
Mad Mel: ban Shari’ah to stop terrorism
MELANIE PHILLIPS: To our eternal shame, Britain is STILL a hub for Islamic terror | Mail Online Melanie Phillips, in response to the attempted aeroplane bombing on Christmas day, writes another of her rants...
Lactose intolerance
A post on Deenport that struck a chord regarding the latest rant by Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Ahmad “al-Alawi” against Shaikh Hamza Yusuf: On the night of the mi’raj the Prophet(saw) was offered wine...
The Spectator: where arrogant privilege meets bigotry
Rod Liddle has managed to outdo himself this past week, with two shockingly bigoted and ignorant articles on the Spectator's website the same day. One of them is in support of the ban on...
“Connection with Allah” overrides Shari’ah, says columnist
Kevin Myers: 'Fear of Islamophobia stopped Hasan's superiors from disciplining him for his jihadist outpourings' – Kevin Myers, Columnists – Independent.ie Kevin Myers, a columnist on the Irish Independent (a paper whose website is...