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.
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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...
The Holocaust: deniers, exploiters and heroes
Mas'ud Cajee (contributor to Taking Back Islam) has written an article for AltMuslim on the much-exaggerated Muslim role in the Holocaust. Features a few things you might not know about the "Nazi mufti" and...
The Broken Mirror on the Muslim Boys
The Daily Mirror – AKA the Moron – today declared that a south London jail was "run by al-Qaeda", citing the vicious antics of the razor gang known as the Muslim Boys. This gang...
Guess what? ID cards aren’t much use
From the BBC: the Lib Dem peer in charge of reviewing anti-terror laws has changed his mind on ID cards: he says they would not be much use in preventing terrorist attacks: Liberal Democrat...
Ian Blair on racism in crime reporting
Ian Blair the other day found himself in hot water for suggesting that the media display racism in how they report crime. If it's a white victim, the story gets splashed all over the...
Muslim money talks
The BBC is reporting that a Danish firm has taken out advertisements in various Middle Eastern newspapers to disassociate itself from the cartoons of the Prophet (sall' Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam), fearing that the...
CAIR: Stranded-shaikh con man in court
CAIR reported this week that a con man who has been swindling money out of Islamic centres in the USA for several years has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury and extradited from...
Proscription plans unravelling
The New Statesman this week (30th Jan edition) has a feature by former Observer editor Martin Bright on how serious questions are being asked about the viability of banning Hizbut-Tahreer. The NS website has...
Birmingham Christian Union suspended
The Times today reported that the Birmingham Guild of Students (the student union at the University of Birmingham) has suspended the college's Christian Union because its constitution forbids non-Christians from joining. The people in...
If you tolerate this …
The big news story this morning was the release by a judge yesterday of a set of pictures showing a group of youths beating up a homeless man on the South Bank of the...
On the Texas Muslims film
Someone recently posted a copy of a Channel 4 documentary, Turning Muslim in Texas, onto Google's new video server, which is almost certainly illegal and, given that Channel 4 is a British company, probably...
It was going to end in tears
I'm sure everybody has heard of the bottlenose whale which swam up the river Thames as far as Battersea (south-west of the city centre) on Friday before being moved aboard a barge and taken...
Interpal: no case to answer
Osama Saeed asks that I draw attention to his post regarding the ongoing Interpal controversy. It appears that the charitable organisation is looking into taking legal action against Stephen Pollard (right-wing blogger and biographer...