Taheri’s lying on hijab
Faraz Rabbani and Umm Zaid have linked to an opinion piece in the Times, written by Amir Taheri. It contains of a number of lies and deviant opinions about hijab, among them that it...
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Konfabulator released for free
For anyone out there who likes the idea of the Dashboard Widgets which come with the latest edition of Mac OS X (Tiger) who doesn’t want to buy a Mac or (like me) can’t...
London under siege?
So, it appears that this rather cynical post at Shot By Both Sides was correct, and the police messed up big-time in Stockwell yesterday. The guy they followed from a flat they’d been watching...
Blogosphere claims a scalp
A couple of weeks ago, the Guardian published an article by one of its trainee journalists, Dilpazier Aslam, on the reaction of Muslim youth in Yorkshire to the London bombings. David T at Harry’s...
What’s Niger for?
It’s time for a break from the London bombings and the bickering which has ensued. Famine has returned to Africa – this time to the mid-west African state of Niger, a desert and semi-desert...
Norman Geras’ false comparisons
Norman Geras, professor of government at the University of Manchester, author of Normblog, and friend of Harry’s gang, has an article published in yesterday’s Guardian regarding people saying “I told you so” with regard...
Explainers, not popes
The British right-wing press’s campaign of vilification against Islam continues today, with no less than three hostile articles by three of the usual suspects: Anne McElroy, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Amir Taheri. The last gets...
Omar Bakri shoots off his mouth again
Today I was off work. I went to Kingston, and the first place I headed was the Algerian cafe up near the mosque. On the way, I saw the Evening Standard’s headline boards saying...
Good riddance
Founder of the National Front and later head of the British National Party, Nazi scumbag and inciter of racial hatred, John Tyndall, has snuffed it at the age of 71 at his home in...
Political magazine misery
One of the things I like about going up town on Thursday, as I did for the rally this week, is that you get to read some of the magazines a day earlier than...
Thursday’s rally
Recently people have been talking on DeenPort about holding a Muslim march against terrorism so that we can show our distance from these actions and the people who carry them out. I’m not entirely...
Another hoo-hah over Tariq Ramadan
Less than a week after last week’s bombings in London, it appears that Tariq Ramadan is visiting the UK to address young Muslims at the Islamic Cultural Centre near Regent’s Park. The right-wing press...
We don’t need a Gandhi
The Daily Telegraph last Saturday published a piece by Charles Moore, Where is the Gandhi of Islam?, containing an awful lot of waffle and a few plainly false assertions. The article basically casts doubt...
Further thoughts on yesterday’s bombings
It’s the end of the day after London’s first experience of al-Qa’ida-style terrorism; the death toll continues to rise (although they do not believe it will reach 100), and the media is full of...
I am still here
Alhamdu lillah, I’m still around. Thanks to all the people who wrote to me and commented here to check whether I was safe after this morning’s bombings in London. I actually had a rather...
What does Islam really say about rape?
When I did the feature two days ago on the way various societies, including Muslim societies, oppress women, I had intended to include a section on what certain writers have been saying about the...
London 2013: Pay the Bill!
So, London has finally won the 2012 Olympic bid. I’m blogging in the London Apple Store, having come here from Trafalgar Square. The result was announced just before 12:50 London time, and I arrived...
In defence of English food
I write this on the eve of the day on which we Londoners find out whether we are to be saddled with a bill which will take generations to pay off, or to sit...
The media, women’s oppression and reality
This is going to be a long and rambling post, but it was inspired by a number of blog pieces I read, an article I read in the London Guardian newspaper, and a programme...
Shell skills for bloggers
Recently I helped someone with troubles they’d been having setting up WordPress using their blog host’s Control Panel tools. Of course, graphical user interface file transfer and management tools are always different, so for...