Round-up for yesterday
Having finally got some sleep after three long days at work, I decided to get round to posting a full blog entry. It’s going to be more of a round-up rather than one long...
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Independent on Mukhtaran Mai/Bibi
This is mostly for Izzy Mo’s readers, as I don’t want to post in her comments box as this is an Internet cafe and I don’t want to leave my address around: The Woman...
Automatic for the people?
So, Michael Jackson’s been acquitted. Looks like he’s going to hold a press conference and then go back to his bizarre lifestyle at Neverland. It seems the jury have been persuaded that Jackson, though...
The witch hunt on Warnock
The past few days appear to have been open season on Baroness Warnock, who in 1978 published a report advocating the integration of disabled children in mainstream schools. As you might expect, Melanie Phillips...
The anti-leftist leftists on “travel snobs”
I just had another look at the notorious Harry’s Place after at least a week of not having much computer time and there having been not too many political issues to write about (except...
Chicken cops
The Guardian today has a feature in its supplement about a mother who was shot dead by her estranged husband, who also murdered their son. The victim had told a number of people that...
The police state road-tax scheme
Since nobody in the blogosphere has got round to panning this stupid “road pricing” scheme all the papers are talking about today, I thought I would start the discussion. Alistair Darling, the British government...
London driving
Insha Allah I’m about to start my fourth week of proper work, something I have not had certainly since the middle of last year. Insha Allah this means I should be able to do...
CAIR’s Qur’an campaign – what’s the fuss?
CAIR recently launched a campaign to distribute copies of Yusuf Ali’s translation of the holy Qur’an to Americans for free in response to the Guantanamo desecration scandal. Their website reports that they have had...
Rangers shirts – hypocrisy?
A brother called Sohail just wrote to me and asked me to comment on a story about the Glasgow football (soccer) club Rangers producing a version of its shirt without the logo of its...
Muslim demo in London. No trouble.
Today was a Bank Holiday, and I decided to go up to London to see an art exhibition at the Barbican. I went via the Moroccan Tagine in Golborne Road, W10, a place I...
Women, voting and driving
So, last week the Kuwaiti parliament at last decided to grant women the vote. This is something the amir has been wanting to do for years, it seems, but those pesky parliamentarians kept stalling....
Lots more reasons not to bring in ID cards
I haven’t blogged since the 25th – that’s probably the longest I’ve been for a while without a single entry. The reason is, quite simply, long working hours. I just have not had the...
Not an average Muslim demo
Last week there was a demonstration outside the US embassy in London against the desecration of the Qur’an by American guards in the Guantánamo Bay concentration camp. The group was organised by Stop Political...
Zia Sardar weighs in on Wadud debate
It’s been a few months since I last contributed an entry to the “ZiaWatch” category, which lies sort-of orphaned with just three entries. Ziauddin Sardar’s writings are a topic which is dear to my...
Peter Tatchell on Malcolm X
There was a bizarre article in the Guardian yesterday in which Peter Tatchell (a London-based gay activist) attempts to make a homosexual and a gay icon out of a great Muslim hero, Malcolm X....
Less green, more safe?
Today’s Independent has an article in its Green Pages (its regular section on environmentally-friendly living) by someone who has decided to stop cycling in London and start driving instead (page 41, John Miller, Two...
Dissection of an Islamophobic hoax
Ginny yesterday linked to a plainly inauthentic story detailing the life of someone called “Ann” who made the mistake of marrying a rather nasty man from Syria. The story, Ann’s Story: My Life with...
Melanie Phillips attacks article she hasn’t read
I’m not sure how much my earlier blog entry on Aberystwyth has to do with this, but I’ve been getting a flurry of comments the last couple of days on my entry What’s Going...
Kamal Nawash’s alliance
For once, something worthwhile on MWU: an article by Hussain Ibish detailing the various organisations endorsing the “March Against Terror” Kamal Nawash‘s so-called Free Muslims Against Terrorism group is holding in Washington DC this...