Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester (previously: [1], [2], [3]), has been given another bit of space in the Sunday Telegraph to write an Islamophobic article (also see front-page feature here). This time, he's alleging...
Technorati Tags: gillian gibbons Last Thursday morning, Ed Husain and Massoud Shadjareh (of the Islamic Human Rights Commission) appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 – you can download it until next...
Last night, Shiraz Maher, a friend of Ed Husain's who was also a member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in England (much more recently), fronted a BBC Panorama documentary entitled "How I Became a Muslim Extremist". He...
The BBC yesterday reported that a Muslim dentist in Bury, near Manchester, has been brought before a disciplinary tribunal accused of demanding that a Muslim woman wear a hijab to his practice if she...
Nick Cohen, in last Sunday’s Observer, posted an extraordinarily conspiracy-minded article about the Saudis’ financial muscle supposedly inhibits any investigation into their activities in the UK. He starts off on the subject of the...
No, not George Bush: Christopher Hitchens, who became an idiot in 2001 (well, some would say earlier!) and an American more recently than that. He wrote this article in yesterday's Observer, taking apart George...
Dhimmi Watch: Study the threats, and the response to them "Hugh Fitzgerald", the person Robert Spencer calls on (or pretends to be, as some suspect) when he wants to publish an intellectual-sounding article, calls...
The past couple of days the London BBC radio station has had features on possible candidates for the next London mayoral election. Yesterday, on Eddie Nestor and Kath Melandri's drive-time show, the candidate was...
Self-pitying, pretentious and ungrateful – so why has Rushdie been knighted? | the Daily Mail This is an article by Ruth Dudley-Edwards, criticising the decision to give a knighthood to the infamous Salman Rushdie....
Islamophobia Watch – David Cameron accuses Muslims of 'cultural separatism' David Cameron gave this speech at a conference on "Islam and Muslims in the World Today", hosted in London by Cambridge university earlier this...
Melanie Phillips’s Diary; The Islamic duty to respect Israel Melanie Phillips, courtesy of “Arabs for Israel”, has found a selection of Qur’anic verses which supposedly enjoin Muslims to respect Israel – not the prophet...
Melanie Phillips delivers her usual denunciation of what she calls "two egregious additions on British television to the demonisation of Israel and the consequent furtherance of Jew-hatred", one of them being a Channel 4...
Abdullah Faisal, the extremist Muslim preacher who was jailed in 2003 for delivering speeches which incited murder and racial hatred, has been deported to Jamaica after serving a large part of his sentence. I...
I waited for some time to pick up my copy of Melanie Phillips's book Londonistan, largely because I have a conscience about paying for books which are as full of damaging gibberish as this...
Manal Omar on her five piece Islamic swimsuit – The Guardian I don't know why I'm surprised that a woman has run into problems wearing an all-over swimsuit; Manal Omar's run-in with some staff...
Melanie Phillips’s Diary » The Beeb’s cultural cringe Melanie Phillips reproduces emails one Brian Gilbert sent to her (not sure who he is; there is a film director by that name, but it may...
Melanie Phillips’s Diary » The emperor’s green new clothes Melanie Phillips lapped up the recent documentary entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, a polemic produced by Martin Durkin, a veteran of the old Revolutionary...
New Statesman – Apocalypse now? Johann Hari reviews America Alone, the quasi-novel by Mark Steyn recently published by Regnery (the same publishing house behind a lot of Robert Spencer’s dross) which gives a warning...
Southern California InFocus – WAFA SULTAN: Reformist or opportunist? Thanks to Dr Maxtor, who reproduced the whole thing (with some of his usual acerbic commentary), this article exposes the various claims Wafa Sultan has...
In the past couple of weeks, three events led to much heated discussion about the idea of "communities" in the West, and "community leaders" in particular: a Policy Exchange report (PDF) suggesting, among other...