New blogs and blogroll
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...
Indigo Jo Blogs Blog
White and disabled “privilege”
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...
Cabbie turned away Muslim disabled customer
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...
From Prince Charles to King George?
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",...
Immigration lunacy watch: father kicked out to South Africa
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...
Briton likely to end up in Guantanamo
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....
“Orthodoxy” on evolution
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...
Chechen mass illness psychological?
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
Blogistan: new post
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"...
Abu Eesa: memories of Ambrose
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...
No surrender to the busybodies: a rejoinder to Matt Seaton
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...
Microsoft kills off Mac Explorer
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...
Williams and Carey on Christmas
The Daily Telegraph reports on comments by Rowan Williams and George Carey (respectively, the current and previous archbishops of Canterbury) defending Christmas against these misguided "false accommodations" involving removing explicit mention of Christmas and...
Shaikh Nuh Keller on niqab (updated)
Shaikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller has issued a new lecture on the subject of niqab via the website Suhba.org. It is available to the public in the "lessons" section of the website. In the...
Press Complaints ruling for Dar al-Taqwa
Something I just got through the New Muslims' Project mailing list … Al-Hamdu lillah, the British Press Complaints Commission has ruled in favour of the Islamic bookshop Dar al-Taqwa against the London Evening Standard...
Review: Songbirds
Songbirds (Channel 4, 15th December 2005) is a musical drama in which a group of women prison inmates (at Downview prison, near Sutton in Surrey) sing songs composed by former probation officer and poet...
Spencer on mosque closures and “truth to power”
One of Robert Spencer's minions has come close to delivering the "wimp" taunt that politicians seem to fear these days, whether it is on the death penalty or on the so-called War on Terror....
UK school in league with Nike
When I first saw this story in the Guardian I thought it was one for the "world's gone mad" department so beloved of certain radio talk-show hosts. A school in Wigan (in Lancashire, northern...
Weblog awards 2005: who cares?
OK, so who's heard of the Weblog Awards, 2005? The first I heard of them, the finalists had been announced, and people were being asked to vote for which of the top 20 were...
Amir Butler on Sydney riots
Br Amir Butler has provided his own account of the recent riots in Sydney. To my knowledge, this is the first Muslim blog account of the incidents (surprisingly, Irfan Yusuf doesn't seem to have...