Firefox 1.5 warning
Mozilla FireFox 1.5 has just been released, with a whole list of new features. Using it on my Mac it doesn't look any different, and they don't seem earth-shattering although they do include a...
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Bomber’s sister a nasty piece of work, apparently
An update on my earlier entry on the brother and sister of Omar Sharif who attempted to blow up a pizza parlour in Tel Aviv; I suspected that people would find them guilty even...
Top cop does NOT want to ban water pistols
… but what he is saying actually doesn't make much sense either way. Yesterday, Michael Todd, Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police called on people not to buy toy guns for children this...
Zahid and Parveen Sharif acquitted
The BBC reported this afternoon that Zahid and Parveen Sharif, who were accused of knowing about their brother Omar's involvement in the Tel Aviv pizza-parlour bombings in 2003 and not saying anything, were acquitted...
The joys and hazards of the London truck driver
A couple of weeks ago I posted on a Jewish blog called Adloyada that I lose a lot of posts because they come to me while I’m working, and by the time I get...
Juan Cole on al-Jazira bombing plan
Juan Cole here comments on GW Bush's imbecilic idea of bombing al-Jazeera, which we are led to believe Saint Anthony Blair talked him out of. (Hat tip: Ginny. Update: Spectator editor Boris Johnson is...
Reply to Sookhdeo in the Spectator
The Spectator has finally published a reply to Patrick Sookhdeo's diatribe in the "Eurabia" issue two weeks ago. Headed "Eirenic Islam", it's not in the online edition, so here's an extract: I imagine many...
Director: Tamburlaine not censored
I'm not sure how many people saw the play or even heard about it (I didn't), but this past week there's been a big controversy over the "censorship" of the Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine....
Shock news: Arabs don’t wear poppies. Cabbie talks out of his backside.
Melanie Phillips today linked this tragi-comic piece of Front Page drivel, The First Step to Britishness Is Your Poppy. In it, Carol Gould describes how she was accosted by some idiot of Arab origin...
BBC caves in to complaints
The BBC reports that its governors have caved in to pressure from hundreds of "listeners" and found that a From Our Own Correspondent report on the final departure of Yasir Arafat from Ramallah breached...
Observer on niqab
The Observer had a story on the front page of its review section last Sunday on niqab, the face veil worn by some Muslim women. The Big Cover-Up fails to ask the obvious question...
Blognoramus!
I've decided to coin a new term: blognoramus. A blognoramus is not, of course, an ignoramus with a weblog. There are plenty of those around and nobody has seen fit to coin a special...
More hogwash from the Daily Spew
Further to my earlier entry about the Daily Express's contribution to the "Christmas is being banned" meme, Peter Gasston at Perfect.co.uk notes that the Halifax bank has written to Australian Mediawatch flatly denying the...
Shaikh Riyadh on Melanie Phillips
Shaikh Riyadh Nadwi has written a reply to Melanie Phillips' ignorant suggestion on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze, among them that the standard Muslim practice of removing body hair is to...
Juan Cole replies to Dennis Prager
Not that I want to make this a digest of Juan Cole's blog, but he's posted a rather long reply to Dennis Prager's "same old difficult questions" editorial in the LA Times (it'll probably...
Juan Cole on Mustafa Akkad
There's been much discussion on the terrorist attacks in Amman on Sunni Sister ([1], [2], [3]) and Izzy Mo's blog ([1], [2]). The director of the famous "da'wah film" The Message, Mustafa Akkad, was...
Why David Davis disappoints
The Conservative Party here in the UK is in the final stages of its leadership election: of five candidates available to the party's relatively small group of MPs, the membership have until early December...
Minette Marrin parrots the SookhDevil
In the Sunday Times today, there's a very weird article by Minette Marrin entitled Muslim apartheid burns bright in France, in which the author describes how she once lived in a beautiful village in...
New website for Imam Zaid Shakir
Thanks to Qadeeb al-Ban at Mere Islam, I've found a new website "dedicated to disseminating the work of Imam Zaid Shakir through print and audio formats". The site is called New Islamic Directions, and...
Boris Johnson wheels out the Sookhdevil
On the way to an early job on Friday, I always look forward to what’s going to be on the front of the political magazines, the New Statesman and the Spectator, associated with the...