British passport codes – cracked!
Cracked it! Guardian Unlimited Steve Boggan explains how he and "a friendly computer expert" managed to crack the security codes on the new British biometric passport (the one which provided an excuse to hike...
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Craig Murray sees himself in BBC drama
That's Me on Screen! (free registration required) Craig Murray (former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who resigned after exposing the human rights abuses carried out by "Islam Karimov" and then stood against Jack Straw) on...
Mad Mel repeats blood libel
Apparently unaware of the irony of perpetuating a racial libel when she routinely refers to attacks on Israeli military practices as "blood libels", Melanie Phillips reproduces this appalling smear against the British from one...
BBC London and its “sudden death” swearing policy
Last night I was listening to the late-night show on BBC London hosted by Jumoké Fashola who was talking about "modern icons" in response to a feature on so-called cultural icons on the BBC...
Pros and cons of compulsory schooling
Pros and Cons of Compulsory Schooling This is from the Society supplement in today's Guardian, in which a former headteacher discusses the case of "Charlie", "a determined 15-year-old truant" who has been working, illegally...
British to “wage propaganda war” against al-Qa’ida
Independent Online Edition > UK Politics The Independent today reports on the planned propaganda campaign to spell out British values to young Muslims in some sort of effort to lure them away from extremism,...
Racist rabble-rousers let off
The BBC reports that the leader of the British Nazi Party, Nick "well-directed boots and fists" Griffin, and one of his lieutenants, Mark Collett, have been cleared of inciting racial hatred at their retrial...
Widespread corruption in US election
The Guardian reports on the widespread corruption and "technical problems" which are alleged to have affected the recent American congressional elections: The former first daughter Chelsea Clinton ran into polling trouble. Senator Clinton told...
Provincial Tories reject Asian City worker
The local Conservative party in Witham, Essex have rejected an Asian candidate, City chartered accountant Ali Miraj, dealing a blow to David Cameron's policy of getting more ethnic minority candidates selected for winnable Commons...
British gynaecologists back euthanasia
I always find myself surprised when I agree with anything Melanie Phillips says, but when she’s not talking about global warming (or the lack thereof) or anything to do with Islam, Israel, or the so-called “War on Terror” and its offshoots, which is nowadays what she’s best known for, I often do. In this case, it’s the declaration of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in favour of the “active euthanasia” of severely disabled babies. In the Netherlands, infant euthanasia is allowed “for a range of incurable conditions, including severe spina bifida and the painful skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa”.
Not getting sanctimonious about Saddam
Now that the court in Iraq has handed down (sooner than I expected, I have to say) a death sentence on Saddam Hussain over the Dujail massacre, a number of people have piped up...
Spelling reform and cultural vandalism
I just posted an article to the Sharpener in response to the article in the Guardian by Simon Jenkins on Friday trying to arouse interest in "reforming" English spelling. He thinks it's great that...
Why “spelling reform” is cultural vandalism
Last Friday, in the Guardian, Simon Jenkins wrote that he welcomed the decision of the Scottish Qualifications Authority that they would accept text-message spellings in school examinations in “a direct challenge to the English...
Niqab row “has increased veil’s popularity”
BBC NEWS: How veil remarks reinforced its support How Jack Straw's comments on his dislike of the niqab (and the idiotic tabloid press campaign which followed it) increased the popularity of the veil among...
Searchlight features Nazi bombs and niqab
The latest edition of the British anti-fascist magazine Searchlight on last month's incident where chemical precursors to explosives were found at a house belonging to a member of the British National Party, which was...
One Friday for British Muslims
From the Guardian: One Friday This is an article, which lasted several pages in the print edition with photos, about a number of British Muslims and what they did the Friday before last. They...
Aftab Malik on Schwartz’s defamations
Over at www.Mas'ud Khan's blog, Aftab Ahmad Malik (of Amal Press tears apart a recent article by the infamous Stephen Schwartz in which he once again airs his vendetta against Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, accusing...
Ugly modernist plan for Olympic mosque
Could Britain's mosques ever compete with the east's great places of worship? This article featured in yesterday's Guardian's G2 supplement, and unlike the online version it had a picture of the new proposed mosque...
I know my rights!
Duncan Mac-Vicar P.: LISTEN I HAVE MY RIGHTS!!!! This is a blog entry I pulled off one of the tech sites I read, which tells the story of what happened when a man in...
Impressions of Women Only Jihad
I had been eagerly anticipating Channel 4’s Dispatches programme Women Only Jihad, which follows a group of female activists from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee as they fight to get admission to various mosques. One of these is in Ilford, Essex, and the other in Blackburn, Lancashire. The issue of women’s access to mosques is a major issue throughout the Muslim communities in both the UK and USA, with the filthy conditions of some women’s areas leading some sisters to support women’s admission to the main prayer area. In a number of mosques, however, there simply is no facility and women are simply not allowed entry, which is something the girls from MPACUK were seeking to remedy.