Jeans going out of fashion
The Guardian reports today on the declining popularity of jeans, which it attributes to their ubiquity and their escalating prices: The sight of Victoria, Coleen, Carly, Elen and the rest desperately trying to out-Wag...
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Who cancelled the Alton Muslim fun day?
It's been widely reported in the press, both yesterday and today that the Muslim day at Alton Towers has been cancelled (strangely, this hasn't appeared on the Muslim Leisure website which is entirely dedicated...
Little justice for race attack victims
SocietyGuardian.co.uk" "Don't you want to know why I'm bleeding?" An article from the Society supplement in today's Guardian on victims of racist attacks in the UK and how difficult it can be for them...
Interpal statement on Panorama programme
Interpal respond to the recent Panorama programme Faith, Hate and Charity which accuses it of giving money largely to Palestinian charities which are fronts for Hamas. Also, Osama Saeed gives his response.
Fake sheikh “ratted on his brother”
MediaGuardian.co.uk: "Private family chatter became a sensational story" Roy Greenslade of the Guardian (and formerly of the Sunday Times) reveals how Mazher Mahmood's record of broken confidences seems to stretch back further in his...
Ken proposes to sock cyclists
Last week Ken Livingstone (mayor of London) announced that he had become convinced of the need for bicycles, and their riders, to be registered and for the bikes to carry number plates in order...
More on Brick Lane saga
There’s been quite a bit of activity on the issue of the filming of Brick Lane, a film based on Monica Ali’s novel of the same name. Monica Ali belongs to a certain set...
Blogs and their relevance (or lack thereof)
Last weekend Janet Street-Porter wrote for the Independent rubbishing the entire medium of blogs, while Yasmin Alibhai-Brown last monday wrote for the same paper suggesting that bloggers must have no life (you can read...
BBC puts words in to Brotherhood rep’s mouth
The BBC is commonly accused of being biased against Israel and of being unwilling to call terrorists what they are, but an interview with a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood on yesterday's Today programme...
Bodi: racists “just jealous of Asian success”
Guardian Unlimited: The racists are driven by envy of Asian success Faisal Bodi (of Q-News and fairly regular contributor to the Guardian) on the social breakdowns which affect many of the mainly white estates...
The Fake Sheikh’s downfall?
BBC NEWS: Is this the end for 'fake sheikh'? An analysis of the attempt by Mazher Mahmood, a reporter on the Murdoch-owned News of the World who entraps people into dropping themselves in it...
LUGRadio Live 2006 report
Yesterday I went to the second LugRadio Live event in Wolverhampton, organised by the Wolverhampton Linux User Group who do a fornightly "podcast" in which they discuss the state of the scene and interview...
Netanyahu glorifies terrorism
From Thursday's Times, a report on a meeting by Israelis including former PM Binyamin Netanyahu to "commemorate" the bombing in July 1946 of the King David Hotel, in which 92 people died, unveiling a...
Monica Ali “just fanning communal rivalry”
Being at work and too tired to blog in the evening, I missed the whole story of the opposition in Brick Lane to the filming of Monica Ali's novel of the same name. The...
The hypocrisy of Fadela Amara
The Guardian today has an interview with French-Algerian "feminist" Fadela Amara. Here is described the second of two incidents which were influential in this woman's career, which took place in October 2002: French women...
Al-Ghurabaa and “Saved Sect” banned
The BBC reports that the Government has banned al-Ghurabaa and the "Saved Sect" (along with the Baluchistan Liberation Army and a number of Kurdish groups, including PKK fronts). It has not, however, banned Hizbut-Tahreer,...
Movable Type 3.3 is out
Six Apart have now released version 3.3 of Movable Type, complete with an enterprise version for organisations with thousands of users which, among other things, supports the Oracle database as well as the usual...
Martin Bright on 30 Minutes
Martin Bright’s documentary on British Foreign Office dealings with “radical Islam” finally aired on Channel 4’s 30 Minutes slot last night, and did not really contain any surprises for me. Martin Bright’s position is that the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), in its dealings with the Muslim community, has largely restricted itself to dealing with groups led by the Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-e-Islami, to the exclusion of ordinary, moderate “Sufi” Muslims.
FrontPage savages Norm and Nick Cohen
Via Islamophobia Watch, a hilarious exchange among Jamie Glazov of Front Page Magazine and Norman Geras and Nick Cohen, to which David Horowitz is later introduced. The "interview" was supposed to be about the...
Why Bombay is still Bombay here
While listening to the discussion of the dreadful bombings in Bombay yesterday, I could not help noticing the BBC falling over themselves to make sure they called the city by its "real name" of...