Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
An amusing article from Julie Bindel (very rare indeed for me to agree with anything she writes) on [why she’s glad the Gunners lost](http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_bindel/2006/05/i_am_glad_aresnal_lost.html) in the match with Barça last night. Particularly interesting is...
With Ayaan Hirsi Magan’s resignation after the exposure of her asylum grounds as largely false and her Dutch citizenship now in serious doubt, the hypocritical crocodile tears are beginning to flow in large numbers. Robert Spencer calls it “persecution”, the immigration minister Rita Verdonk “lamentable” and the politicians involved “despicable, black-hearted Dutch dhimmis” who “evidently want to take the greatest stateman they have produced in this age and send her back to Somalia and certain death”. Melanie Phillips talks of the Dutch being “in the throes of a pathological moral convulsion” and her downfall “a development that shames the Dutch people and should strike a chill throughout the rest of dhimmi Europe”.
BBC NEWS: The word in contemporary Islamic art The British Museum is putting on an exhibition of modern “Islamic art”, that is to say, Middle Eastern art since the 1980s, which the Museum has...
From A Fistful of Euros, a report on how Austria's interior minister used media reports and an academic study whose author has yet to draw his conclusions as the basis for accusing Austria's Muslim...
From today's Guardian, Simon Tisdall on how Hosni Mubarak's thugs sexually molest female demonstrators both in police custody and in the street: "They drove me to Sayyida Zeinab police station. I screamed and resisted...
Last week Umar Lee blogged a piece about “child terrorists” who rampage in the streets of New York every day of the school year. The young thugs get out of school and terrorise the...
Belfast Telegraph: MP may be deported over claims she lied to win asylum (also here) A Dutch TV documentary has alleged that Ayaan Hirsi Ali told a number of lies in order to gain...
From Comment is Free, Salma Yaqoob's rebuttal to Nick Cohen's assessment of why she was elected as Birmingham's only Muslim woman councillor (here, with my rebuttal here). She accuses the local Labour and Lib...
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Gotcha! On how the Radio 4 team duped its audience into thinking it was going downmarket and hiring an unknown presenter who’d supposedly only been on the airwaves in Canada to do a...
Guardian Unlimited: Children should not be the victims of gender wars This is a response to an atrocious article by Decca Aitkenhead on the scandal of children being forced to see their abusive fathers...
OSNews recently published a really poorly argued piece by a former Mac enthusiast who subsequently became a Windows and then a Linux fan (Why I will probably never buy another Mac). It lasts for five pages, and in the first page he goes from becoming a Mac enthusiast while other office workers were being lumbered with PCs, through the whole history up to OS 8 and 9 and Windows 98: after that, he says, the quality of Mac hardware went down, the price stayed more or less the same, the operating system became vastly less reliable and fell behind Windows, and the community did not want to be told that their hardware was a poor choice compared to a PC running Windows.
Here's a report from the Guardian about the murder of a so-called faith healer from the Gambia in Luton, England. The police have named the victim as "Alfusaine Jabbi, also known as Abdula and...
Harry's Place: Which side were the Nazis on? In which Gene notes that the Nazi leadership sought to support the Palestinian resistance to a Jewish state being established there because they believed it was...
MPACUK – Two Murdered in Tooting A guest article on the gang situation in Tooting, south London, which led to the murder of two (Muslim) brothers a few weeks ago: The Pakistani gangs in...
Guardian Unlimited: Stop trying to kill us off In today's Guardian, Jane Campbell, who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, uses a wheelchair and uses help from personal assistants provided by the local authority, attacks Lord...
There is a documentary on Channel 4 tonight (Dispatches, 8pm) on women in Iraq and how they have fared since the "liberation" of their country (not very well, is the message). You can read...
Pickled Politics � Al Qaeda in Trojan elephant shocker A humorous write-up of this weekend's London attraction: a huge mechanical elephant which paraded down various London streets, squirting spectators with water (at least I...
Nick Cohen has an article in today's Observer (which can also be found at his blog and at Comment is Free; the Observer's website is inaccessible to me at the moment) attempting to explain...
Anti-migrant party leader hires Poles – Sunday Times Via Conservative Home, how Roger Knapman of the UK Independence Party, which campaigned against increased immigration in 2005, referring to the "Labour government’s untenable excuse …...
Earlier this week Zacarias Moussaoui, as we all know, was given a life jail term for his role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks: having prepared to participate and failed to alert the authorities while...