Differing standards?
BBC NEWS: Abuse conviction concerns raised This story is about a man who had been in court as an expert prosecution witness in the trial of two staff members at a school for disturbed...
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Who’ll be my role model?
Yesterday morning, on the Vanessa Feltz show, they were discussing the issue of Black role models – a topic which came out of the launch of a new internet-based Black-oriented TV station called "Colour...
Giving civil liberties a bad name
This morning I heard a news item, marking a month since a ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces came into force, involving one Dave West, a club owner on Jermyn Street, London W1,...
My recent absence
As-Salaamu 'alaikum everyone Apologies for not posting anything for the last few days. Initially it was due to lack of material to write about, then it was tiredness due to work, and now there...
No excuses for revenge terrorism
Today’s Daily Mail carried a letter from Qasim Omar, a former Test cricketer, which mentioned that he had been attacked recently, with stones thrown at him by youths in the street, apparently in response...
Modern-day blood libel
The propaganda website WorldNetDaily has published a shocking story about "al-Qa'ida" in Iraq supposedly baking young boys and serving them to their families: "Speaking through an American interpreter, Lt. David Wallach, who is a...
Sexual harassment is no joke
Yesterday, for the second time in the space of a week, they were discussing sexual harassment on Vanessa Feltz's morning phone-in show. The occasion yesterday was the report that a driving instructor had been...
A bit of corruption and a lot of hypocrisy
Was anyone else as shocked as I was by the front pages of some of this morning’s papers? At least two of the right-wing commercial papers led with the story of the BBC having...
Hospitality? What Hospitality?
This was the front page of today's Daily Express, or Daily Spew as I call it here, about an idiotic demonstration by a few women in "burkhas" against the sentencing of a group of...
Pipes supports terrorists
Daniel Pipes: Unleash the Iranian Opposition This is an article by Daniel Pipes in the Jerusalem Post, plugging the so-called People's Mujahideen (or Mujahideen-e-Khalq), an organisation banned as a terrorist group in the US...
Silver Bling Thing
Ministry of Truth » Silver Bling Thing Until I read the above blog article, I was planning to write an entry about how I supported Lydia Playfoot’s campaign to be able to wear a...
Round-up of the week
In the absence of an entry since Wednesday on the grounds of too much work and too little energy for composing one, here's a round-up of this week's news, insha Allah: The Guardian printed...
Review of Littlejohn’s “War on Jews”
Technorati Tags: richard littlejohn Yesterday evening, the well-known talk-show host and newspaper columnist Richard Littlejohn presented an hour-long documentary, as part of Channel 4's Dispatches feature, entitled "The War On British Jews?", purporting to...
Stopped for looking at Muslim websites
This afternoon I had my third encounter with the police under the present anti-terrorism régime. However, it’s the first time that suspicion has been raised about me personally. Kingston has an Apple Store, which...
“Old really is gold”
Terrorism, Stability and Other Personal Thoughts « AE Abu Eesa has an interesting take on the recent phenomenon of turncoat "reformed extremists" who present themselves as some sort of true face of Islam, with...
Bushell, Boris and the Spectator now
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...
Ali Eteraz on “reformed extremists”
Ali Eteraz: Media Reliance on Former Terrorists and Radicals is a Joke – Media on The Huffington Post An interesting article on the celebrity ex-extremists the media have recently been parading in front of...
Why we don’t march against terrorism
The familiar call has gone out, in response to the recent London and Glasgow bomb attempts, for Muslims to somehow organise “not in my/our name” marches in order to condemn terrorism: for example, this...
Blaming British Muslims for the recent bomb attempts
Oh British Muslims! « Umar Lee As I'm sure everyone has noticed by now, there have been three attempts to set off car bombs in public areas in the UK, two in London and...
Shaikh Hamza Yusuf on Holocaust denial
Holocaust Denial Undermines Islam (By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf) at HAhmed.com This is a brilliant article ma sha Allah on Holocaust denial, to which I've noticed a lot of Muslims are susceptible, and the Islamic...