Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
A warm welcome to anyone who surfed on in after seeing my link on Channel 4’s Origination page. The Times (a paper I don’t read often) published an article by Mary Kenny today (The...
Most people who read blogs regularly will have noticed that trackback is on the decline. An increasing number of MT sites which used trackback have shut the facility off. Blog House, which hosts one...
Muslim WakeUp recently published an article, Let God Be the Judge, in which the author recalls the emotional act she put on when asked to sign a declaration that the Qadiani sect are not...
There have been reports that a young woman is facing imminent execution by firing squad in Yemen for the murder of her husband, which witnesses say was in fact carried out by her cousin...
I came up town today without having planned to, because my family went out for a meal to a venue which I wasn’t willing to go to. I was passing by Trafalgar Square and...
There’s an opinion piece in today’s Sunday Telegraph about how police officers in Ashford, Kent, dealt with an incident in which a man drove into the back of a car with a mother and...
When I got onto this computer at London’s Apple store, I noticed a blog entry apparently written by someone apparently using this very computer. Yesterday I was one of the people who queued halfway...
Today I came up London to attend a demo against oppressive anti-terrorist laws organised by, among others, Stop Political Terror and the Free Babar Ahmad campaign. The demo started in Marble Arch and finished...
The Guardian had a feature yesterday in its Online section entitled The next big thing, in which it seems to suggest that blogs are suddenly gaining visibility. Up until now, they have been “associated...
Brother Atif Imtiaz at Bradford Muslim reported a few days ago that one of the elders in Birmingham whose name appeared at the bottom of a letter in the Guardian on 12th April telling...
Every so often I get suggestions that I attempt to refute bloggers and columnists who peddle an unbalanced view of Islam in their writings, and the name of Jamie Glazov has come up twice...
You never know what a Google news search may bring you up against. I went looking for news reports on the conviction of Ali al-Timimi on charges of encouraging Muslims in the USA to...