Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Following my entry on the fake controversy over “segregation” (i.e. separate seating for men and women) at Islamic society events in London, Channel 4 News covered the issue this evening, featuring interviews with Maryam...
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...
There is a rally to be held in London this coming Saturday, organised by the so-called One Law for All campaign, against “Shari’ah courts” (i.e. voluntary Shari’ah councils which arbitrate in some family and...
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...
A junior minister, David Woolas, has offered his two-pennyworth on the niqab controversy in today’s Sunday Mirror, not online, by suggesting that it could play into the hands of the far right: “It can...
Yesterday evening there was a meeting held by the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, at which Peter Tatchell (OutRage), Ali Hilli (OutRage’s Middle East spokesman) and Houzan Mahmoud of the so-called Organisation of Women’s Freedom of Iraq spoke.
Yesterday there was another rally in London’s Trafalgar Square: this time at the end of a so-called “March for Free Expression” at which a gaggle of people assembled to hear speeches defending people’s right...
Yesterday I came across an article at Harry’s Place relating an incident in which a pro-Iranian London lecturer, Elaheh Rostami, addressed a Stop the War meeting along with Haifa Zangana (an Iraqi author whose...
Yesterday I found in the Guardian’s letters section a letter from Derek Lennard, disassociating gay humanists from the much-reported opinions of Andy Armitage, the former editor of the Lesbian & Gay Humanist magazine ([1],...
Islamophobia Watch have a feature on how Maryam Namazie’s friends in the Worker-Communist Party of Iran were thrown out of a CND conference last weekend for causing a disruption: Jeremy Corbyn, who was chairing...
Nick Cohen has written an appreciation of Maryam Namazie of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran for today’s Observer newspaper (also at his site here). This wouldn’t be so bad if Cohen actually made it...
The “Organisation of Women’s Rights-Iran” is to hold a public meeting at Conway Hall, London, on 19th October, Harry’s Place reports. Among the speakers is Homa Arjomand, “who co-ordinated an international effort to get...