Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
The BBC has an interview with the Lord Chancellor (head of the House of Lords and the Judiciary) in which he says what opponents of ID cards have always believed: that they will end...
A new blog called Watching Jihad Watch (hat tip: UZ, who has links there to a number of hate-watch sites) has a long article on Spencer & co's "coverage" of the Armanious murders (note:...
Amal Press has just brought out a new book, The State We Are In: Identity, Terror and the Law of Jihad in which Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, Shaikh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti, Aftab A Malik, David...
Melanie Phillips once again turns her fire on the BBC, complaining that in a recent feature for Today on the recent violence in the French ghetto suburbs, the presenters "simply excised all references to...
The British train drivers' union Aslef was recently sued for libel by a member of the British National Party after a Virgin train driver was called a racist in Aslef's magazine, the Loco Journal....
This week’s New Statesman contains an article by Zoe Williams (note: the site has is a “read once then pay” system), contending that “across a whole range of issues, including even abortion and rape,...
The Sunday Telegraph is reporting that the governments of the US and Israel are yet again demanding that Interpal, a British charity for Palestine which has been investigated *twice* by the Charity Commission and...
Brother Habib Abbasi asked me to comment on a post made recently at Dhimmi Watch about converts, in which a series of ulterior motives are given for why westerners of various categories accept Islam....
Rather late in the day I know, but I found this on MPACUK's website and I'm not sure if I will be in attendance, but perhaps there are people in and around London who...
Yesterday I found in the Guardian's letters section a letter from Derek Lennard, disassociating gay humanists from the much-reported opinions of Andy Armitage, the former editor of the Lesbian & Gay Humanist magazine ([1],...
The Sharpener: Quaking under the jackboot of political correctness. Or not Recently a hawkish hack writer in the Times and Spectator, among other places, published a pamphlet through Civitas, entitled The Retreat of Reason...
A rather sensational study which was trumpeted all over the news yesterday, claiming that ten million girls had been lost over the last 20 years due to abortion and plain murder by families who...
BBC NEWS Magazine – Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis? This is for anyone wondering about why the man who could become the leader of the third biggest party in the UK has such an...
This is Theodore Dalrymple I’m talking about, not our old friend William (of White Mughals fame), in a piece written in the New York City Journal last Autumn which Marcus at Harry’s Place noticed...
This morning on the BBC London morning talk show, the main topic of conversation is a report that the habit of professional footballers to spit on the pitch is being copied by young people...
The BBC is reporting that there are severe food shortages in Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti, with corpses of animals lying everywhere in Kenya and 2 million people in Somalia alone needing urgent food aid....
Not much to add to this particular story myself, but brother Abu Sinan has been working on exposing the deception behind the so-called Religious Policeman, who purports to be a Saudi exile in London...
If anyone out there still has time for George Galloway, he's just taken more time out of representing the East Londoners who voted for him last May by entering the Big Brother house, along...
An interesting story I found on the BBC's website: the king of Saudi Arabia offering to do much-needed repairs to the Jama Mosque in Delhi. The imam has advised the Saudis to approach the...