Gotcha! Radio 4 phone-in’s a spoof
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...
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Response to biased article on fathers’ rights
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...
Why I will probably continue to buy Macs
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.
Gambian crank healer murdered in Luton
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...
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...
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...