Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Daily Telegraph reports today that the elderly and vulnerable have been used as human guinea pigs in certain Israeli hospitals without the relevant permissions: Some children had their eardrums deliberately pierced so that...
The WordPress team have released version 1.5.1 of the PHP-based blogging application which is used to run this weblog. They have published a brief list of the major changes here; there are a few...
As expected, the blogosphere is up in arms about George Galloway’s winning the Bethnal Green & Bow seat. I’ve made it clear in the past that I don’t think he’s a good MP or...
I asked brother Abu Sofia to do a write-up of the recent Mawlid event in London, Uniting for the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). I intended that he submit it on his own...
It’s been a hectic couple of days; I voted on the way to a job which came up late; another job came up for today in the middle of that job which itself finished...
There’s a whole load of new reports about possible election fraud: In Bethnal Green and Bow, the Guardian reports that dozens of electors are registered at properties in Brick Lane which are in fact...
The Times reported today that Amina Ali Abduladif, whose impending execution prompted international outrage (and the usual condemnations of Islam and Muslims), has had her life spared – for now: Amina al-Abduladif’s lawyer was...
Stephen Vu has a report on the recent election hustings for my local constituency. Our seat (thankfully) is one where the defending candidate is a Lib Dem and the only other candidate with a...