Spectator refuse my “poem”
A week or so ago, in response to Stephen Schwartz's screed in the Spectator, I wrote the magazine a letter as well as the article I posted here. The editor decided to print two...
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Review of Gita Saghal’s Hecklers appearance
Last Saturday Gita Saghal of Awaaz South Asia Watch and “Women Against Fundamentalisms”, an organisation which monitors and opposes religious fundamentalism in south Asia, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s programme Hecklers, so-called because one...
Second proggie group hit by mass resignations
Via Dr Maxtor, another representative-only-of-themselves "Progressive Muslim" group, the so-called Muslim Canadian Congress, has been hit by the resignation of several of its board. Readers might remember that a similar group, the Progressive Muslim...
No apartheid in Norbury
In this week's New Stateman, Darcus Howe responds to the persistent talk of "segregation" by presenting the situation in his home suburb of Norbury, south London, widely perceived (at least locally) as some sort...
Inside the real Tablighi Jama’at
In reply to last week's Guardian article purporting to give a glimpse "behind the scenes" at the supposedly secretive Tablighi Jama'at, Emdad Rahman posts his observations: Paul Lewis’ article contained a number of factual...
“people here in the US don’t understand these things about constitutional rights”
Raed in the Middle: back from the mideast Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi-American blogger, on his trip to Lebanon, Syria and Jordan and what happened when he tried getting on a plane from New York...
One for the textbooks?
BBC NEWS | UK | 'Porn-link' safety advert banned This is a story about how an anti-child-porn website, ThinkUKnow, was advertised on the radio, leading one lady to type what she heard – think*you*know...
John Ware interviewed in Media Guardian
John Ware, the guy behind the anti-MCB documentary last year and a more recent one attacking charity support for Hamas-run schools, was interviewed for yesterday's Guardian Media supplement (free registration required): He says he...
Shaikh Muhammad Pirzada launches website
[The website of Shaikh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada](http://www.mihpirzada.com/home.html), the founder of Jamia al-Karam in Retford, Notts (England) and one of this country’s most renowned *ulama*, has been launched on the [Night of Isra &...
Britain’s “unique problem” according to Schwartz
While one Uncle Tom denounces us for not tolerating Qadianis in the New Statesman, another denounces much of the Islamic scholarly community in the Spectator, the main political magazine of the British right. Stephen...
Zia tells us to embrace Qadianis
It looks like Ziauddin Sardar has finally overstepped the mark … in his latest column in the New Statesman, he insists that we Muslims "respect differences among ourselves – particularly when they appear to...
“Sufi Muslim Council” exposed
Sufi Muslim Council Exposed: The 'Neoconservative' Sufi Muslim Council An anonymously written, but lengthy and detailed, article showing the links the so-called Sufi Muslim Council, a body which has been promoted in recent weeks...
“Japanese” loo habits catching on …
Guardian Unlimited: 'Bidet toilets, they're the future – I've sat on one' Helen Pidd in today's Guardian about the toilets which allow for what we call istinja – washing yourself after you relieve yourself....
Scare raised over “terrorist training camps”
The Guardian today printed a story raising the urban legend of the “jihad training camp”, which in this case was supposedly based in British national parks. As you might expect when a scare story...
Terrorist suspects “did not have passports”
NBC: Disagreement over timing of arrests – Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit – MSNBC.com A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance...
Inconveniencing the disabled
My work as a delivery driver often requires me to lift heavy items up several flights of steps, repetitively. It’s a huge inconvenience and annoyance, and the buildings involved are often quite new, leading...
Pipes makes terrorist out of drifter
Daniel Pipes, in a comment on the recent Seattle shootings in the New York Sun (on his web site), makes some really absurd leaps of the imagination in order to portray the incident as...
Why Thatcher doesn’t deserve a state funeral
To be honest, I actually thought there would be a state funeral for Maggie given how long she was in power and the fact that her central policies really still hold sway today, a...
It’s hideous … and brainless
Apologies to anyone who's lost their lunch at the sight of this … I've seen many pictures of this dreadful "sculpture" and it's one of the most hideous human models I've seen anywhere. Here's...
Who’s photocopying who?
OSNews: Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers? OSNews regular Thom Holwerda on how Apple, who used the title above as a slogan when launching the current version of Mac OS X (Tiger) in 2005, has done...