Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
With the controversy over Nadia Eweida's cross having now led to British Airways reviewing their policy on staff uniforms and religious jewellery, a related controversy, over funding of student religious societies, continues to make...
The Guardian yesterday carried a major feature on the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists who dominate two small towns in the Utah/Arizona border area: Husband and Wives gives the whole historical background, the details of the...
Via Harry's Place, it appears that the Independent has abandoned its policy of charging people to read its comments pages online. Personally I wonder if this was because most of the columnists worth reading...
Naima Bouteldja, in today's Guardian, discusses the impending Dutch niqab ban and the pattern of governments stoking anti-Muslim hostility for political ends: Naima Azough, a Dutch Green MP, points out that the ban would...
Today a Coptic Christian woman, Nadia Eweida, lost her appeal against a decision by British Airways staff not to allow her back into a public-facing role while wearing her cross pendant. Today the Archbishop...
A study by Chatham House reveals that the Nigerian "419 scam", in which people are scammed out of "advance fees" when they respond to letters asking for help getting the scammers' wealth out of...
Via Islamophobia Watch, a rally to "defend freedom of religion, conscience and thought" and "end attacks on Muslims" is to be held tomorrow (Monday 20th) at Methodist Central Hall (in Westminster, across the road...
Neurocentric: Denial / Defamation In which the author refutes the common claim that the Muslims are silent in the face of Muslim extremism: the real culprits (this is my observation also) are the authorities,...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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”.
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...
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...