Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
This great free-market experiment is more like a corporate welfare scheme (from today’s Guardian) This is a great article by George Monbiot about the tendency of the “free market” system to act as a...
A friend of feudalism (the Guardian, yesterday) William Dalrymple (of White Mughals fame) on the depressing spectacle of Benazir Bhutto trying to cut a deal with Busharraf in order to get back in power...
Right now the London South Bank Centre is playing host to the World Press Photo exhibition, containing “approximately 200 award-winning photographs from across the globe that capture the most powerful, moving and at times...
MPACUK – MPACUK & HT Discuss Indonesia Caliphate Conference This is a Google Video of a recent discussion on BBC News 24 between Zulfi Bukhari of MPACUK and Nazreen Nawaz of Hizb-ut-Tahreer, regarding the...
Am I the only one who’s really sick of the bickering over the upcoming 10th anniversary of Lady Di’s death, and in particular, of it being front-page news? Yesterday and at the weekend, there...
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...
This just in from the BBC: the American military have managed to put backs up in Afghanistan by dropping footballs covered in various flags, including that of Saudi Arabia, which contains the shahada. Needless...
Last week I installed the new version of Movable Type, version 4. Six Apart have made much fanfare, understandably because it's quite an overhaul of the software, and the look and feel of the...
Amnesty International last week announced that it had abandoned its policy of neutrality on the issue of abortion in favour of supporting it “in some circumstances”, including pregnancies resulting from rape or incest or...
Last month I wrote a review of Richard Littlejohn’s documentary “The War on Britain’s Jews?”, in which he presented as evidence of an upsurge of anti-Semitism an attack on a rabbi without mentioning that...
This afternoon a British judge accepted an appeal by Learco Chindamo, who as a 15-year-old delinquent killed a head-teacher who had come to the aid of another teenager whom his gang was attacking, against...
Update: This site was down overnight, because my web host upgraded some of their software, and had backed up my files before they did that, and restored them, destroying all the work I did...
This afternoon, with the family car to myself as my parents have gone to Crete for a holiday, I took a ride to the coast to visit a friend of mine who owns one...
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 Guardian: A Father Betrayed This article appeared in the Guardian as part of a "special" in their G2 supplement on Tuesday. You can read other articles here under "The New India", including an...
I guess I've taken my time in jumping on the bandwagon of Muslim bloggers commenting on the condemnation, last week, of the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, Undercover Mosque, in which a number of Muslim...
Last week the Observer printed a report on the murder of an American newspaper editor, Chauncey Bailey, by Black militants supposedly linked to "Your Black Muslim Bakery", dominated by a psuedo-Islamic sect that Bailey...
A few weeks ago, browsing the magazine shelves at Borders, which sells imported American magazines, I fell on a feminist magazine called Bitch, which had a feature on chain emails aimed at scaring women....
Life without hope: America's child prisoners – Weekend Guardian This story is a distressing read; it is about people locked up for life without parole as juveniles in the USA, in particular Michigan, although...
Johnson 'would destroy London's unity' as mayor – Guardian Unlimited Politics Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has told the Guardian that she thinks Boris Johnson, if elected mayor of...