Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Last month the British Linux magazine, Linux Format, did a big comparison of the current crop of Linux packages or distributions (distros for short), concentrating on the ten most popular as measured by DistroWatch....
New Statesman – Time Out with Nick Cohen: Steve Jones Nick Cohen interviews Steve Jones, professor of biology at University College, London (the same professor who did the anti-Creationism speech at Hay on Wye...
The BBC’s news programme File on 4 today ran a feature on aid to Afghanistan since the war, and reveals how difficult Afghanistan has become to live in since the fall of the Taliban....
Last week I got an invite, from Bint-eh Adam of Tranquilart fame, to attend the launch of Peter Sanders’ photographic essay The Art of Integration (you can see miniatures of the photos here and...
I’ve just finished watching a programme on Channel 4 called Keith Allen Will Burn In Hell, in which someone nowadays best known for being the father of a mediocre pop star goes out to Topeka, Kansas, to get inside the cult known as the Westboro Baptist Church. The church have been well-known for years for picketing funerals, first of homosexuals and more recently of soldiers killed in Iraq. They hold up brightly-coloured placards proclaiming “God hates fags”, “Thank God for AIDS”, “Fag Flag” and the like. More recently they have taken to posting their offensive messages in videos on YouTube.
Suspect Paki » Blog Archive » Ahmadiyya Intellectual Cowardice I was intrigued to discover that the Qadiani (so-called Ahmadiyya) cult, which follows the notorious fake prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who deceived a few thousand...
BBC NEWS | Politics | ‘Ridiculous’ visa rulings set out The independent monitor of the UK visa service has published a report which outlines some of the stupid reasons why foreigners are refused visas...
Self-pitying, pretentious and ungrateful – so why has Rushdie been knighted? | the Daily Mail This is an article by Ruth Dudley-Edwards, criticising the decision to give a knighthood to the infamous Salman Rushdie....
I was rather surprised to hear that Tony Blair, in a speech last Tuesday at Reuters’ HQ in London, had accused the media of behaving like “a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations...
Naomi Klein (of No Logo fame) has an article in today's Guardian about the current success of Israel's economy, apparently despite its present "difficulties" and having lost out after the "dot com" bubble burst...
London is getting into the Olympic spirit – by kicking out the Gypsies – Guardian Comment George Monbiot notes on the recent eviction of Gypsies and other Travellers from their sites in east London...
'Imams are not the solution to terrorism' – Education Guardian An article which appeared in today's Guardian Education supplement, featuring an interview with Shaikh Ibrahim Mogra, on why government funding for imam training may...
Sister Summayah Evans, who recently entered the Muslim blogging community, has posted this lengthy entry on the scandal of Muhammad Mahbub "Ed" Husain, the author of the book The Islamist which was published last...
Here are a few pictures I took at yesterday’s Enough Occupation demonstration in London to mark the 40th anniversary of the Israel seizure of the West Bank and Gaza. The demonstration wasn’t massive –...
Islamophobia Watch – David Cameron accuses Muslims of 'cultural separatism' David Cameron gave this speech at a conference on "Islam and Muslims in the World Today", hosted in London by Cambridge university earlier this...
BBC NEWS: Red-haired family forced to move This report is about a family which has had to move house twice because of harrassment by moronic neighbours who took objection to … their red hair!...
Lately Jamal at Radical Muslim has been posting requests for people to sign a petition to the UK Prime Minister asking him to approve the construction of the Abbey Mills mosque. Several people have...
I've posted here before about the stupid truckers I occasionally encounter while driving in London, particularly on narrow dual carriageways like the Western Avenue and the one near where I live, the Kingston By-pass....
Melanie Phillips’s Diary; The Islamic duty to respect Israel Melanie Phillips, courtesy of “Arabs for Israel”, has found a selection of Qur’anic verses which supposedly enjoin Muslims to respect Israel – not the prophet...
I woke up this morning to find that my bedside alarm-clock-radio was off, which could only mean one thing: a power cut. That had me worried, because I had heard on the radio yesterday...