Hassan Butt’s deception exposed
Channel 4 News has exposed the deception perpetrated by Hassan Butt, a one-time loudmouth with al-Muhajiroun, who has supposedly turned tail and written a book with Shiv Malik about his “exploits” as a militant...
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Finger-jabbing? Us?
Technorati Tags: michael burleigh Britain’s phoney war on terror – Times Online Via Islamophobia Watch. Michael Burleigh on the alleged weakness of the European response to "terror" compared with the tough talk coming from...
Round-up: Irshad Manji, moons in mosques, the OLPC fiasco, Pauline Campbell, Obama versus Agar, Undercover Mosque
Top Muslim blog piece this week, in my opinion, was brother Marc Manley's piece, The Trouble With Muslim Pundits today. While the establishment are busy fêting the likes of Ed and Maajid here in...
Challenging the future with a profound lack of history
Last week the Quilliam Foundation, a think-tank founded by Ed Husain and his acolyte Maajid Nawaz, held its grand launch event at the British Museum in London. It was entitled "Reviving Western Islam &...
Round-up: Austria, Hassan Butt, Julian Baggini in Rotherham, life in Yemen
Before the week begins in earnest, I thought I might offer a round-up of stories which caught my eye the past week: Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian on the stupid, racist gibberish which has...
Here’s gratitude for you
The Spectator this week led with a "Happy 60th Birthday, Israel" feature by Melanie Phillips. Perhaps there is nothing unusual about that, given that it repeats a whole load of the usual pro-Israeli claims...
Who should have their say?
Are there some people we shouldn’t invite onto WHYS? « BBC World Have Your Say Ros Atkins (presenter of BBC World Have Your Say) on how she booked Ed Husain to appear on her...
Don’t kill the fattened calf for Ed & co
An unusually perceptive Ziauddin Sardar finally delivers a dissenting view of the media's lionising of "Sir Edward Husain" and his clique in today's Guardian, on the grounds that it ignores those who always resisted...
What don’t people get about Ed Husain?
Technorati Tags: ed husain, andrew anthony, david edgar On Monday, the Guardian printed an abridgement of Andrew Anthony's response to David Edgar's piece in the Guardian Review about the recent fad for "defection literature",...
How sincere is Hassan Butt?
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"...
Omar Bakri expresses dim view of Amir Khan
Today's Sun (Murdoch-owned London tabloid) led with a front-page story about something Omar Bakri said about Amir Khan. Omar Bakri is the former leader of the disbanded al-Muhajiroun, who ran noisy demonstrations and street-corner...
No great courage
Ed Husain showed up again in last Sunday’s Observer (which I have finally got round to blogging after three days of early starts and long driving shifts), blowing the trumpet for an Egyptian preacher...
Nazir-Ali’s unsatisfying explanation
Yesterday afternoon, I dropped a line to the Bishop of Rochester's public email box (bishop.rochester at rochester.anglican.org) questioning the claims he made in last Sunday's Telegraph. I included my home address and mobile number....
Put up or shut up, Nazir-Ali
Michael Nazir-Ali ([1], [2]) has been lent yet another adulatory interview by the Sunday Torygraph, with the same claims about death threats and one about his claim of no-go areas being “based on evidence”,...
The presumption of Melanie Phillips
Today the storm over the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech last Thursday rumbles on, with the Scum newspaper having circulated a complaint form which it urged its readers to fill in and send to the...
Showing their concern
I am sure anyone who reads the Independent will have heard of Parwiz Kambakhsh, the Afghan student jailed (and at one point threatened with the death penalty) for supposed blasphemy, which allegedly involved downloading...
Nazir-Ali complains of death threats
BBC NEWS: Threats to 'no-go areas' bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Anglican bishop of Rochester, has complained of receiving death threats in response to his accusations about no-go areas defined by adherence to Islamic ideology in...
Muslims in London: Challenge Boris Johnson tonight!
Boris Johnson will be answering questions on the BBC London (94.9FM) drive-time show at 5pm this evening. If it follows the same pattern as Ken Livingstone’s last week, the interview will happen at 6pm....
The rebranding of Abdullah Quilliam
Abdullah Quilliam: Britain’s First Islamist? at Yahya Birt Yahya Birt demolishes the attempt to rebrand Abdullah Quilliam, the pioneer British Muslim of the Victorian era, as some sort of mascot for the pacified “British...
Ed Husain on Nazir-Ali’s “no-go” nonsense
Sunday Telegraph:Bishop right to tackle no-go area in our minds Ed Husain (who else?) has given the "Muslim response" to Michael Nazir-Ali's diatribe in last Sunday's Telegraph, alleging that no-go areas have appeared in...