Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
'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...
This is England is a film about skinheads in the English Midlands in the early 1980s, written and directed by the British director Shane Meadows (interviewed here) and set mostly on a council estate which turns out to be in Nottingham, although no reference to Nottingham is actually made anywhere in the film; some scenes are shot in Grimsby, an east coast port and seaside resort. It mainly revolves around the character of Shaun, a 12-year-old boy who has recently lost his father in the Falklands war, and who is partly based on Meadows (and some of the other characters are also partly based on people Meadows knew).
BBC NEWS | UK | Organic move to cut food flights The Soil Association, the organisation which advocates for and certifies organic food in the UK, is considering stripping organic status from food which...
Melanie Phillips delivers her usual denunciation of what she calls "two egregious additions on British television to the demonisation of Israel and the consequent furtherance of Jew-hatred", one of them being a Channel 4...
Abdullah Faisal, the extremist Muslim preacher who was jailed in 2003 for delivering speeches which incited murder and racial hatred, has been deported to Jamaica after serving a large part of his sentence. I...
Brown's betrayal of democracy (Guardian letters) The latest in my occasional series on the impending "divine-right succession" of Gordon Brown to become British Prime Minister: the letters in today's Guardian, which show why it...
muslimmatters.org » Beware the Do-Gooders in Body Armor: The True Motives of those in Support of Divestment in Sudan A number of articles and blogs recently have picked up on the inconsistency of those...
Last Saturday the Guardian printed a full-page interview with “Ed” Husain (full name, Muhammad Mahbub Husain, as has already been established elsewhere on the Internet), the author of a memoir entitled The Islamist, recently published (although not that widely available, since I’ve yet to see it in any bookshop other than Foyles) in the UK to praise from, among those named by Madeleine Bunting, Martin Amis, Simon Jenkins, David Aaronovitch and Melanie Phillips, who published two blog entries ([1], [2]) telling us all to read it. I wrote a letter in reply on Monday (perhaps too late), but since it is Thusday and it has not yet been printed, I will reply here, insha Allah.
In the wake of the recent disappearance, as yet unresolved, of Madeleine McCann on the Algarve in Portugal, nobody who listens to the British media could have missed the flood of smug mums and...
Is the smoking ban a good idea? | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited In a few weeks' time, smoking in enclosed public spaces will become illegal in the UK; such places include pubs and...
The Guardian: A Mars Bar a day? No longer an option if you are vegetarian It’s not a rumour this time – I’m well aware how annoying these food rumours are which do the...
[A man’s best friend is his dog? Are you barking?](http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2078427,00.html) This is a fantastic article which sums up most of the reasons why I hate dogs, and in particular, stupid dog owners: >In the...