It’s not about her virginity
The author of this article at Comment is Free drew this outrageous conclusion to her story about growing up in a Pakistani family which wasn’t that religious but was very strongly “traditional” with regard...
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Why the women were sent home in 1945
Carol Sarler, in today's Daily Mail, suggests that the BBC Radio 4 staple Woman's Hour has no real purpose now that women's issues, such as the weight one sometimes puts on after a pregnancy...
Stupid dog owners, stupid drivers
Over the last couple of weeks, two separate news stories have emerged, both related to people owning toys which, frankly, are too big and grown up for them: dogs and cars. Last weekend a...
Advertisers targeting Ramadan
BBC News Video: Advertisers targeting Ramadan A BBC news report on how Ramadan keeps Muslim families at home together – which often, in practice, means in front of the TV, which advertisers see as...
New Statesman on “spycams”
New Statesman – Watching you watching me Brendan O'Neill (of Spiked fame) on the huge popularity of CCTV cameras in the UK, including a visit to a hidden "spy bunker" beneath London's Trocadero centre,...
Regarding Abu Izzadeen and his many wives
Did anyone read the article in yesterday's Evening Standard about how Abu Izzadeen (Omar Brookes), the ex-Muhajiroun activist who heckled John Reid at his Leyton speech last week, is "looking for a second, third...
Love miles (and corporate lobbying)
Guardian Unlimited: Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them A follow-up to George Monbiot's three articles in the Guardian's G2 supplement last week on global warming, all edited extracts...
Answer to Rod Liddle on home schooling
Last Sunday I blogged an article from the Spectator by James Bartholomew (now back behind the Spectator’s paywall, but you can find an unedited draft at his own blog) in which he announced that...
One interview, two extremists
We've all heard by now about how the Home Secretary, John Reid, was heckled by Omar Brookes (Abu Izzaddeen) ([1], [2]) when he went to address Muslims in Leyton, east London, yesterday (he also...
Why Muslims weren’t out in force on Sunday
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown wrote an opinion piece in the Independent yesterday (available here if you care to pay the fee) demanding to know why Muslims did not join demonstrations like the Day for Darfur last...
The sponsored denial industry
Guardian Unlimited: George Monbiot on climate change and oil giant ExxonMobil This is a lengthy article, which appeared in today's G2 supplement in the Guardian, by George Monbiot. It is about the "global warming...
Pope criticises, Anjem embarrasses
It's depressing to see Muslims once again resorting to violence in response, no doubt, to rumours about what the Pope may or may not have said in his speech at Regensburg last week (extracts...
In a class of her own
In A Class of Her Own from this week's Spectator (free registration required; goes PPV when next edition is out). The author, James Bartholomew, explains why he is taking his daughter out of school...
Oriana Fallaci dead
Via Islamophobia Watch, the Italian journalist notorious for her outbursts on Islam, Oriana Fallaci, has died. You can read obituaries on her here and here. The latter, in the Times surprisingly enough, highlights the...
9/11: the anniversary and the conspiracy theories
This week is the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, if anyone hasn't been listening to the news or watching the calendar. It's fair to say that the day was a watershed; it...
9/11 film made by religious right activist
Guardian Unlimited: BBC did not know of 9/11 film’s link to religious right Anyone see that “path to 9/11” film that was on BBC1 earlier this week? It turns out that the director was...
Marcel Berlins: Muslims let down by spokesmen’s poor English
The Guardian's legal writer Marcel Berlins has a column in today's paper about how certain causes – in particular, Palestine and Muslims – are continually let down by the poor English displayed by the...
The Divine Right of Politicians
Rachel from North London and Kitty Killer have recently posted on the Blair-Brown "succession" controversy. My position on this has long been very simple: Brown is not fit for the job, because he considers...
Ambulance attack “was no hoax”
The Guardian's readers' editor responds to speculation on various websites and blogs that a report, accompanied by photographs, of an attack on a Red Cross ambulance (which prompted Melanie Phillips to write this entry...
How we have, and haven’t, moved on
Ben Macintyre wrote yesterday in the Times that, despite the occasional talk of a Muslim “fifth column” in Britain, there has been no scare remotely comparable to those surrounding German spies in the early...