Shaikh Afifi on terrorism
Shaikh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti has published a long article fisking an article apparently written by Omar Bakri Muhammad, which calls actions like the Sept 11 hijackings “a viable option in Jihad” for Muslims who...
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The proposed destruction of British democracy
On Friday Tony Blair held a press conference in which he announced a clampdown on people with extreme opinions in response to last month’s terrorist attacks in London. He intends to prohibit the glorification...
I’ve not gone away
I’ve been delivering tiles all week, and this afternoon was taking my parents to Gatwick Airport to go to Portugal, whereafter I drove to the Bluewater mall where I bought the latest version of...
On the subject of responsibility
Zaki Badawi, the UK media’s second favourite Islamic scholar after Omar Bakri, has been quoted in the media as saying that perhaps Muslim ladies should remove their hijabs, given the present volatile situation. I...
Shock horror! Schools turning into madrassas!
Keeping up – or rather down – their usual record, the Evening Standard today published an article “exposing” the poor quality and aloofness from the wider community of the UK’s Muslim faith schools (not...
Patrick Sookhdeo on moderate Islam
I just received a letter from someone at the Evening Standard, asking me if I’d like to write a letter in response to two articles they printed on Friday, one by Patrick Sookhdeo and...
Amir Taheri follow-up
I’d just like to forward this link with regard to Amir Taheri’s anti-hijab lies. The article appeared in the Message magazine last year (hat tip: Dr Maxtor): Hijab and a Revelation that was not
Cherie Blair: an embarrassment?
Today the press have been making a big fuss about a speech Cherie Blair, in her capacity as Cherie Booth QC, made in Malaysia in which she warned against the erosion of human rights...
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...
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...