Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This just in from the BBC: Turkey can ban Islamic headscarves in universities, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The court rejected an appeal by a Turkish woman who argued that the...
Anyone see the front page of the Scum newspaper yesterday, the one with the face of a burned 7th July bomb victim on it and an appeal for everyone to write to Tory Bliar...
Good news today, which certainly justifies an update: Tory Bliar's proposal to lock suspected terrorists up for up to 90 days got defeated in the Commons, with 322 against and 291 in favour. 49...
For the year and a half I've been a Mac owner, my Mac's monitor has had niggling monitor problems – bits of colour in places they shouldn't be. This usually means a "halo" effect,...
I've long lost any respect for George Galloway, but the contempt with which he apparently regards his followers was displayed in his behaviour during the Commons vote on the Government's terrorist legislation this week....
Two of the directors of Engage, Jane Ashworth and David Hirsh, have written a defence of Zionism and a critique of leftist anti-Zionism on the website of Progress, “the independent organisation for Labour party...
I'm not a good graphic manipulator and never bothered to follow Linux Format's GIMP course, but if I were, there would be a graphic on the right showing a French flag with the stripes...
Nobody who heard the local news in London yesterday morning could have failed to hear the latest bizarre story about a local council bending over backwards to "accommodate" people who never asked to be...
Fifteen years ago, when most people had never heard of the Internet and only people at universities and in various government departments had access to it, nobody had heard of PHP forums (or PHP...
Umm Zaid ([1], [2], [3]) and Izzy Mo have had some correspondence with Ray Hanania, one of the advisory board for the so-called Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism despite being a Christian (albeit an...
A while ago there was a controversy in which British TV showed a documentary about the murder of a Saudi princess for some infraction of honour, and the Saudi government attempted to put pressure...
Another civil disturbance, another Nick Cohen comment (duplicated on his blog), and you can bet he'll use it to drum for his pet causes – among them his opposition to sectional politics of any...