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