Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Jonathan Freedland had a piece in today's Guardian, The sickness bequeathed by the west to the Muslim world, in reaction to the recent comments of the president of Iran to the effect that "we"...
Madrassas have been getting a bad press lately, with this country's Dar al-Uloom schools getting savaged both on the papers and in the news by Andrew Gilligan. Ma sha Allah, nice to see that...
I just discovered a blog by three al-Jazeera workers (courtesy of Dunner) and an entry on it about a simple misunderstanding of language. Someone searched on the al-Jazeera site for stories on "honor killings",...
The BBC are interviewing Raheel Ashraf, an eyewitness to this morning's explosions at the Hemel Hempstead oil plant, who stated quite clearly that he smelled fumes before the place went up. In other words,...
Tonight’s event was billed as “The Big Debate”: MPACUK hosting a debate involving their own Asghar Bukhari, former ITV News and Panorama presenter Alan Hart, and Stephen Marks of Jews for Justice for Palestinians....
The BBC is reporting that Boris Johnson, the former editor of the Spectator who allowed the brazenly unbalanced analysis of the July bombings and French riots to appear on his watch has been given...
As Matthew Turner has noticed, Melanie Phillips is fast running out of friends. In just two days, she has decided that the Conservative party, the Metropolitan Police and the Daily Telegraph have somehow deserted...
The Evening Standard today (Tuesday) reported that the three British visitors killed in Iraq last week were in fact sent by officials of the Dawoodi Bohra sect to pray for its sick 93-year-old Indian...
Well, I have to say I'm guardedly optimistic about David Cameron winning the Conservative Party leadership election. When I saw David Davis' campaign page, I saw the complaint about foreigners taking up room in...
The Guardian reports today that someone managed to sneak a praise-poem for George W Bush into an English textbook which was being used on 16-year-olds in Pakistani schools: The leader Patient and steady with...
Muslims may not be on course for another set of gas chambers as some seem to think (see this entry), but Islamophobia in Europe is taking on yet another of the characteristics of traditional...
An example of the sort of "Ikhwanophobia" which might be bolstered by the recent "Project" revelations is the piece on page 14 of the current New Statesman, entitled "…and yet more leaks", apparently written...