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The Spectator (with my letter!) The Spectator (a right-of-centre British political magazine, formerly edited by Boris Johnson) has printed a letter from me in the current edition, written in reply to Rod Liddle who...
From Comment is Free, Inayat Bunglawala examines the case of Hassan Butt, the self-proclaimed ex-jihadist who tells Islam-bashers what they want to hear. He notes that, on his return from Pakistan, Butt attempted to...
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...
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...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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",...
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"...
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...
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...
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....
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”,...
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...
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...
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...
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....