Al-Aqsa Demo in London on Sunday
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...
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Houzan the Communist pretends to defend freedom
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],...
Another retort to Anthony Browne’s pamphlet
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...
Sensational Indian gender study disputed
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...
Menzies or Minghis?
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...
Dalrymple: Asian youths and “white sluts”
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...
Footballers, spitting and machismo
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...
Another famine in East Africa
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....
The defrocking of “The Religious Policeman”
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...
George Galloway takes some more time out
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...
Saudis offer funds to repair Delhi Jami’a mosque
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...
Daily Mail reporter on the burqa
The Q-News homepage reprinted an article on which I intended to comment a couple of months ago when I saw it in print, about how one of the Daily Mail's reporters spent a week...
Juan Cole on Abramoff and the settlers
Juan Cole has a lengthy article on the disgraced American lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his links to, in JC's words, "what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory". Among his...
Guide to “security fence”
The BBC has published a brief illustrated guide to the Israeli "security barrier". Notice on the tab labelled structure, the "fence section" shows that the barrier consists of two fences, one being 3m high...
Malicious bloggers stop Muslim meeting in Florida
I got this bit of news from the CAIR email circular: an article from the St Petersburg Times about how a malicious "blogger" named Joe Kaufman, a regular at Front Page and chairman of...
I agree with the Cardinal
A week ago an Italian cardinal [gave a warning](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4559990.stm) to Italian women that they should not marry Muslim men, what with the country’s Muslim minority gaining in numbers and 20,000 mixed marriages taking place...
Hijab not Tunisian enough?
Via Islamophobia Watch, the Boston Globe reports that the Tunisian "religious affairs minister", Aboubaker Akhzouri, has claimed that the hijab worn by religious Muslim women does not "fit in with the North African country's...
The Insufficient Bias Award
A pro-Israeli media monitoring outfit calling itself Honest Reporting recently issued one of its email circulars with a set of awards for what it calls "dishonest reporting". HR's website announces that it is dedicated...
Brass Crescent Awards 2005
Nominations have been opened for the second annual Brass Crescent awards, for the best blogs either by, or of interest to, Muslims. Categories are: Best Mid-Eastern or Asian blogger, Best Group Blog, Most Deserving...
A downright dangerous job
Umm Zaid recently posted about her history of terrible jobs, and I posted on her comments section about my nightmare Saturday job when I was 16 and how certain companies pretend to serve their...