Dignifying the BNP, blaming the victims
Melanie Phillips: The true cause of the BNP’s rise Melanie Phillips had this article published yesterday in the Daily Mail (also on her home page) and she comes out with her usual line about...
Category: Windbags
Spooked: pamphlet on failures of ‘Prevent’
Arun Kundnani of the Institute of Race Relations has published a pamphet, Spooked: How Not to Prevent Violent Extremism (PDF), on how the government's "Preventing Violent Extremism" programme has turned into an intelligence gathering...
Standpoint runs front page Islam bash
Turning a Blind Eye to Misogyny | Standpoint Standpoint magazine, a right-leaning commentary magazine published by the Social Affairs Unit, has ran with a front-page feature on how the western left supposedly turns a...
How many Muslims has Wootton Bassett?
A guy called Shaaz Mahboob, one of the founder members of the so-called British Muslims for Secular Democracy (along with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Taj Hargey), has written a guest post on Pickled Politics accusing...
When to use the K word
As long as I’ve been a Muslim, there has always been a division among Muslims as to the use of the word kaafir, the Arabic word for unbeliever. Some, particularly born Muslims from non-English-speaking...
CSC report ignores Nazis’ shift to attacking Muslims
Sunny Hundal at Pickled Politics on the glaring omission from the latest report by the "Centre for Social Cohesion", The BNP and the Online Fascist Network (PDF), written by Edmund Standing, long-standing contributor to...
Denis MacEoin misrepresents the Shari’ah again
Yakoub Islam drew my attention to Denis MacEoin's promotional piece for his Shari'ah-bashing report for Civitass, published on Comment is Free. It contains a series of stupid misrepresentations of aspects of the Shari'ah, obviously...
Responses to Civitas report on Shari’ah courts
Another baseless MacEoin report – this time on Shari’ah councils Denis MacEoin has published yet another of its Islam-bashing reports, this time attacking “Shari’ah courts” in the UK, or rather, Muslim arbitration tribunals (more...
Muhajiroun versus Murray revisited
After writing my last entry linking to Yahya Birt's response to the abortive "debate" at Conway Hall, London, between Anjum Choudhary of al-Muhajiroun and Douglas Murray of the so-called Centre for Social Cohesion, my...
Yahya Birt: How not to deal with the Muhajiroun
Yahya Birt has posted an article on the incident earlier this week at Conway Hall, London, in which the "Centre for Social Cohesion" (run by Douglas Murray; a Civitas offshoot run out of the...
The moral inequivalence of 9/11 and Holocaust denial
Yesterday, there was another of Nick Cohen's rambling pieces in the Observer, drawing a moral equivalence between those who deny that the 9/11 attacks were the work of al-Qa'ida (so-called truthers) and Holocaust deniers....
Hatemonger Abu Hamza’s sons are crooks
BBC NEWS | England | London | Abu Hamza’s car scam sons jailed Two sons and a stepson of the hate preacher Abu Hamza (real name Mustafa Kamel), who occupied Finsbury Park mosque with...
KFC and the BNP
Harry’s Place » KFC and the BNP Edmund Standing at Harry’s Place on the Islamophobic reaction to the decision by KFC to offer halaal meat at eight of their outlets. The usual suspects have...
Muslims, Islam Channel and QF: who represents who?
The Quilliam Foundation recently put out a so-called “alert” about Islam Channel which drew attention to the “undesirable” elements which, they claim, account for “many of its speakers”. Those they name include Azad Ali...
Yasmin Alibi-Brain on Islam, women and justice
Update (6th May): The Independent printed a letter from me in response. See here – it’s the third section down, under “Don’t blame Islam for these injustices”. ما شا الله Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Who’d be...
Amad debunks Quilliam hit job
Amad at Muslim Matters has posted a refutation of a "hit job" article issued by the so-called Quilliam Foundation against a number of Muslim figures and organisations including Inayat Bunglawala, Yasir al-Qadhi and the...
Refuting Taj Hargey: hadith and McCarthyism
Taj Hargey had a lengthy whinge printed in The Times last Friday, in which he complained of having been “victimised, like other forward-looking Muslims, by a campaign of classic McCarthyism”: Just as Senator Joseph...
Smug charlatan Hargey screws thousands out of Muslim Weekly
Taj Hargey has won a five-figure sum (also reported here and here) from the Muslim Weekly, a slim tabloid published in London, for their claim that he was a Qadiani. This claim was inaccurate,...
IJ gets a mention in the Spectator
I was browsing through the Spectator the other day, and noticed that Melanie Phillips had contributed a piece about a "new axis of Islamists and Evangelicals" against Israel. The subject was nothing other than...
WCPI @ Trafalgar Square: it was tiny after all
I managed to get to the WCPI "One Law for All" rally in Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon, and as others had advised me it would be, it was tiny after all. I took some...