Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As anyone who looks down a bit and to the right might notice … I've added a new section to my blogroll, consisting of "A-list and activist" Muslim blogs. These belong to what I...
Following on from Umm Zaid's post on "white privilege" and how it affects white Muslims, Ginny posted one on that topic and one on how it specifically affects her as a blind person who...
A sister posted this to the New Muslim Project email forum. It is about how she and her husband was refused a cab to take them from a recent conference in London to the...
The Times and the BBC report that Prince Charles is considering taking the name George when (or rather if) he becomes king. The Times' headline is the rather amusing "Call me George, says Charles",...
BBC NEWS: Young father deported to S Africa What with all the young (mostly white) South African workers you might find working in various industries in this country, you’d think they’d let a black...
BBC News: Briton 'facing Guantanamo spell' The BBC reports that a British Muslim is likely to be sent to the Guantánamo concentration camp if an extradition request is honoured, according to a US attorney....
Guardian Unlimited: The question Tim Radford presents the "orthodox" view on why there really is no doubt about how we came to be here – namely that primitive life forms became vertebrates which became...
Perhaps it is as they say. But are they sure it's nothing to do with that radiation being released from a Grozny nuclear power plant? BBC NEWS: "Psychology" clue to Chechen ill
I decided to reproduce a post off IslamiBlog on the other blog, Blogistan, about the now closed Islamic Society University in Manchester known as "Ambrose". This is because it seemed symptomatic of the "squeeze"...
This is a post I reproduced, with the author's permission, from IslamiBlog; I thought it relevant as it seems symptomatic of the "squeeze" being put on Muslims in some places even here in the...
Matt Seaton, a long-time writer on motoring matters in the British press, has a column in today's Guardian in which he advocates a licensing scheme for cyclists. This would be a compulsory licence before...
BBC NEWS | Technology | End nears for Mac version of IE And a good thing too in my opinion – it's easily the worst browser for the Mac and cannot even display Hotmail...