Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Inayat Bunglawala (one of the leaders of the Muslim Council of Britain) writes at Comment is Free that Sudanese politician Hasan al-Turabi has made a speech supporting some rather old "Islamic" liberal positions: Turabi...
Guardian CIF has a blog piece by AlterNet contributor Deanna Zandt about how geek culture is still very male-centred – notably how a woman who made it onto the tech discussion website Slashdot found...
DD Guttenplan, on the Guardian's Comments blog, takes apart the recently-published Euston Manifesto, exposing the alliance behind it – liberal advocates for Israel including the Engage mob and what he calls the "laptop bombardiers"...
British Labour politician Roy Hattersley on why "political correctness" is actually essential to a civilised society, however much the media hate it: Justified though the rebuke was, political correctness is more than the need...
This article was written by Fariduddien Rice, an Australian brother who was for a long time present on the Usenet group soc.religion.islam and had an interest in the Turkish Naqshbandi shaikh Mahmud Es'ad Cosan...
Basically I’ve been in bed most of this week, with a nasty case of diarrhoea which suddenly appeared on Saturday evening as I was about to go to bed. I’m almost finished a post...
[The Guardian reports](http://politics.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1749555,00.html) on today’s front page that the decision to choose an “ethnic” – a supposed descendent of an Armenian refugee with the unlikely name of Sharif Abdul-Gawad – has caused outrage among...
This Tuesday I found [an interview](http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1746131,00.html) in the Guardian with the American “feminist” Phyllis Chesler, whose recent output – much of it on [Front Page Magazine](http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1947) – seems to consist of attacks on Muslims...
The last few days have seen me travel what must be the best part of a thousand miles: from Surrey up to Cheshire and back in a day, and out to west Wales, around...
Last week Joe Kaufman posted to FrontPageMag.com an article regarding a resolution passed by the Student Government at the University of South Florida which supported the dismissal of Sami al-Arian, recently acquitted on terrorist...
When I was a kid growing up in Croydon, there were two types of buses: red ones and green ones. Red ones were run by London Transport, green ones (including the green and white...
Guardian Unlimited – Gold teeth: a sure sign of a media sting I've not normally got much time for George Galloway and his party nowadays, but my attention was drawn to this story about...
I was going to blog this clanger in Mad Mel's latest diary entry, but PhobeWatch and Saracen beat me to it. This is Mel excoriating "Britain's man of straw", the man MPACUK wanted to...
In today’s Guardian, Marcel Berlins approves of Jacques Chirac’s walk-out from the opening session of the EU spring summit last week, prompted by a speech in English by the French leader of the EU...
Comment is free: Enlighten me Madeleine Bunting on how the "hard liberals" misuse the Enlightenment, and how many of their its key thinkers were in fact religious believers: Something didn't seem to be adding...
Following my entry on dumb cycle lanes in which I linked to some pictures at the BBC news site of cycle lanes through phone boxes and the like, I've posted a few pictures of...
Yesterday there was another rally in London’s Trafalgar Square: this time at the end of a so-called “March for Free Expression” at which a gaggle of people assembled to hear speeches defending people’s right...
On Thursday you probably all heard that Norman Kember, a British peace activist who had been held hostage in Iraq by some rebel group or other, was freed by soldiers of various countries including...
Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch notes that the organiser of the upcoming "March for Free Expression" has backtracked on his earlier enthusiasm for his followers to bring placards bearing copies of the Danish cartoons...
Today the House of Lords, effectively the UK’s supreme court, allowed an appeal by a school which had excluded a Muslim female pupil, Shabina Begum, because she insisted on wearing an Arabic-style jilbab, which...