Civilised Muslim demo in London
Another weekend, another Muslim demonstration in London regarding those wretched cartoons. What with rioting in Libya and now Nigeria and a KFC getting burned out in Pakistan, some people might not have expected a...
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Spectator: Render Unto Dubya
The Spectator, a right-leaning political weekly magazine, has an article by Tom Walker (diplomatic correspondent for the Sunday Times) on how he attempted to investigate the "extraordinary renditions" of Muslim terrorist suspects to Morocco...
Lotfi Raissi update
The BBC reports that an Algerian-born pilot accused of links to terrorism, jailed for five months in Belmarsh, slandered in the popular press, and then released when a judge ruled there was no evidence...
Windoze Vista to encrypt hard drives
The BBC reports about the UK government's concern that Windows Vista, the upcoming new version of Windows, will make it more difficult for the police to search people's computers for illegal materials. Guess why...
John Simpson: how Gitmo came to be
John Simpson, in a BBC commentary on the recently-released footage of British soldiers beating the daylights out of some Iraqi teenagers (probably in 2003) and why nobody is surprised, explains how many, and probably...
Time to complain about Express slanders
Osama Saeed has reprinted an article from yesterday's Sunday Express (via PhobeWatch) which trots out a number of tired canards regarding the Muslim community's response to terrorism, claiming that Labour are getting tired of...
The end of the Jenkins affair?
One of the biggest news stories of the past week was the acquittal of Siôn Jenkins ([1], [2]) during his third trial for the murder of his foster-daughter, Billie-Jo Jenkins (from an unrelated Jenkins...
Bin Bayyah fatwa a fake
Much discussion ensued on Deenport when someone posted a synopsis of a supposed fatwa from Abdullah bin Bayyah to the effect that the fake jumu'ah prayers held with Amina Wadud as the "imam" were...
From Imam Zaid Shakir
In the absence of a proper post since Wednesday (work!), here’s a link to Imam Zaid Shakir’s as-ever (*ma sha Allah*) measured response to the cartoon affair: [Clash of the Uncivilized: Insights on the...
A proper rally this Saturday
A peaceful protest is to be held this Saturday, regarding the cartoon affair, to counteract the yobbish antics of last Friday (hat tip: [Osama](http://www.osamasaeed.org/osama/2006/02/proper_rally_af.html)): Rally against incitement & Islamophobia, Saturday 11th February 2006 Date:...
Is this such dreadful misogyny?
Joan Smith had an article in this Tuesday's Evening Standard in which she claimed that the "real face of the militant fathers' rights movement", best known for its Superman stunts up cranes and the...
Jerk sent back to jail
Ma sha Allah, it seems that one of the idiots who gave us all a bad name over the weekend has turned out to be a drug dealer who was out on licence at...
JP wouldn’t lampoon another prophet …
It appears that Jyllands-Posten were selective about whose taboos they’d risk offending; not that we want to see another of our prophets (‘alaihim as-salaam) defamed, but the hypocrisy is obvious.
They weren’t all extremists, then
This is an email I got from the New Muslims' Project email list, regarding the demo on Saturday: assalaamu alaykum, i was at saturday's demostration, yes the stewards were HT [Hizb-ut-Tahreer], almost all the...
Unix, Windows and security
A guy called Thom Holwerda, who posts many of the entries at the tech blog OSNews, today posted a piece about the security merits of Unix-type operating systems (like Mac OS X and Linux)...
Fitz disses the brothas
Hugh Fitzgerald, Robert Spencer’s deputy and second windbag in command at Jihad/Dhimmi Watch, has a bit of a cob-on about converts at the moment, with one article after another puzzling over why anyone would...
Extremists crash the party again (updated)
This afternoon, after jumu'ah, there was a demonstration outside the Danish embassy in Sloane Street, London, which was supposed to follow a march from the "Central Mosque" near Regent's Park. I got to the...
Feltz gets in on the cartoon affair
Twice this evening I’ve received text messages telling me to vote “no” in a text vote for BBC Radio 5 Live regarding whether the Danish cartoons should be published here. This vote actually finished...
Cartoon controversy
Speaking of orchestrated demonstrations and the like (see next entry down), did anyone get that impression of the demonstrations against the Danish cartoons that were shown on the TV last night? I was planning...
Who brought this lot out?
There is an interesting "sketch" piece on the BBC's website about this afternoon's rally outside Parliament against the proposed "religious hatred" law. (To be honest, I was considering going as I finished work around...