Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Telegraph Comment: Sinister security Surprisingly hostile response from the London Telegraph's "Digital Democrats" to the news of a deal between the US Homeland Security department and un-named Brussels Bureaucrats. Admittedly this comes from Europe,...
The other day Umar Lee posted his comments on the ignorance of provincial white Americans in response to the moronic remarks of the Congressman Virgil Goode, who wrote to his constituents in response to...
Has anyone else had 419 scammers try to chat them up using Yahoo (or any other) Messenger? Just now I had some idiot pretending to be one “Dr Lawson Koffi”, whose supposed position of...
YouTube – Channel 4's alternative Christmas message This is the Alternative Christmas Message that Channel 4 broadcast after the earlier candidate, Khadija Ravat, pulled out after discovering that the community was opposed and that...
Yesterday Saddam Hussain’s automatic appeal against his death sentence was rejected, and it was announced that he has to be hanged within 30 days, and that it could happen much sooner. Today, he was...
From today's Guardian: Scots and English would pay dearly for ending the union This article expresses a number of my own concerns about the prospect of Scotland becoming independent from the UK, or rather,...
Sunday Telegraph: Ban veils in public, says Asian bishop The Anglican Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali (son of a convert to Catholicism from Islam) jumps in on the latest bogus veil controversy by calling...
Comment is free: Lifting the veil Rajnaara Akhtar (chair of Protect Hijab) on the recent fake scandal involving the Somali who was involved in murdering the policewomen Sharon Beshenivsky and supposedly might have escaped...
BBC NEWS: "I'm a risk to myself at Christmas" This article addresses the thing I hate most about Christmas – the fact that the whole country goes into shutdown mode, with no public transport...
The Grave of Hakimul Ummah Desecrated – Contemplating Chishti Some disturbing reports from the Pakistani press about the desecration, suspected to be by fanatical Hindus in northern India, of the grave of Maulana Ashraf...
Guardian Film: Secret of Borat's fluent Kazakh – it's Hebrew From the Guardian website: not only is the "Kazakh" spoken by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat actually Hebrew, but the film is full of...
In reading various reports about the situation of people being refused asylum despite having been raped, tortured or having other strong claims, the name Uganda seems (with hindsight) to have turned up again and...
This is a letter I wrote to David Robey, the managing editor of BBC London, about the Vanessa Feltz show last Monday, in which she recycled a story from the Daily Star about a...
Did anyone see the Channel 4 documentary on the Islamists' takeover of southern Somalia yesterday evening (Unreported World, 7:30pm)? The documentary made repeated comparisons to the Taliban and alleged that the Islamic Courts Union...
There's a letter in this week's Newsweek refuting the claim by Zeyno Baran in last week's edition that there is a 50-50 likelihood of a coup in Turkey in the coming year (see this...
Guardian Unlimited: No retreat Sara Wajid interviews the novelist Alice Walker, best known for writing The Color Purple and – uh, not much else. They discuss the recent elections, 9/11 and the reaction to...
I'm sure that by now the Ipswich murders are known far beyond the UK – for those who have not heard, five young prostitutes have gone missing from the red light district of Ipswich...
Guardian: Downing Street guest faces deportation The Guardian and the Independent today reported on the bizarre story of Farhat Khan, a woman who fled to the UK on advice from a colleague at the...
This morning, Vanessa Feltz took her BBC London radio show to a new low by recycling a story from the Black Hole, otherwise known as the Daily Star, about non-Muslims supposedly being banned from...
It was with some delight that I read the news this evening that General Pinochet had died. It cheered me up somewhat since I've been feeling rather depressed this week. I don't have any...