Which side were the Nazis on?
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...
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MPACUK on Tooting murders
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...
Jane Campbell on Lord Joffe and euthanasia
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...
Documentary on women in Iraq tonight
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...
Al-Qa’ida’s trojan elephant
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: communalism and the BNP
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-immigrant leader hires Polish builders
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 …...
No victory for civilisation
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...
BBC Programme on Muslim prisoners
BBC Radio 4 (92-95FM and 198LW) has a programme on at 8pm tonight (30 mins) about who has influence over Muslim prisoners, in light of recent concerns that prisoners may be exposed to “radical...
Russian racism “out of control”
The BBC reports on a spate of attacks by racist thugs on non-whites of all types in Russia, including local Roma and foreign students and other visitors, which included the stabbing to death of...
Not a good career for a Muslima
The BBC is reporting on a Muslim woman who wears hijab and whose aunt is an actress in Iran and wants to make it on the stage or screen here. I don’t see how...
How the BNP tried to butter up Evangelicals
Guardian Unlimited: God is the God of all Dr Giles Fraser (vicar of Putney and Oxford philosophy lecturer) on how the BNP tried to build up an alliance with evangelical Christians, but balked at...
Yvonne Ridley on Sami Yusuf
Pop Culture in the Name of Islam – MuslimsWeekly Yvonne Ridley has a go at Sami Yusuf and his over-enthusiastic female fans who acted like teenage boy-band fans even though some of them were...
The unacknowledged controversy over Bernard Lewis
Comment is free: Bush's historian Brian Whitaker on how Bernard Lewis, whose 90th birthday celebrations were attended by none other than Dick Cheney (full guest list here), is being talked up in the media...
Monbiot on junk food and crime
Guardian Unlimited: Tough on crime, to hell with the causes of crime if they make money George Monbiot on the evidence of the links between a “junk food and TV” diet and crime, and...
First Qibla Cola, now al-Quds jeans (updated)
Last September the British Muslim run company which produced Qibla Cola, a Coke substitute which donated 10% of its profits to various good causes and was intended to relieve Muslims’ apparent dependence on the...
The vast left-wing conspiracy
Something I'd been meaning to blog on as part of my "Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week" series, now that she's started blogging again, but Stuart Jeffries in today's Guardian has pretty much beaten...
Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs (or: Don’t Give That Girl a Pen)
OK, who hasn't heard the single by Pink (or P!nk as it appears on the album covers, but for the benefit of anyone listening to this with Jaws or similar software rather than reading...
Why the foreign prisoner scandal is worrying
This week the Government – and particularly the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke – became involved in a scandal involving the release of more than 1,000 “foreign criminals” without it being considered that they might...
American idiots
The BBC is reporting that an Egyptian student, applying at the US embassy in London for a visa to work at Camp America, was told that he would have to undergo additional security tests...