Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...