Mary Kenny on east Europeans
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...
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WordPress and trackback spam
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...
Who are we not to judge?
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...
Yemeni state about to murder woman
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...
London anti-fascist gig today
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...
Man rams car, punches passenger, gets let off
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...
First thoughts on the new Safari
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...
Demo in London today
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...
Next big thing? Not MT
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...
“Muslim for Labour” distances himself
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...
Melanie Phillips’ misrepresentations
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...
Call for Muslim internment
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...
Daily Mail wants Muslim women …
I got a message through a new Muslims’ mailing list I’m on about the Daily Mail’s call for stories about western women converting to Islam. The catch, according to my source, is that they...
Les doutes fréquents sur le Secte Qadiyani
I found this French translation of my article, Qadianis: Common Doubts, on the Anti-Ahmadiyya site. The translation is not mine; I apologise if the French is not good. Un des sujets qui fait de...
Warning on the 419 Scam
Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem Governments and law enforcement agencies have for years been aware of a scam operating mainly out of West Africa, particularly Nigeria, known as Advance Fee Fraud. This has become known as...
Story of an ex-Hizbi
By a former member, Abu Uwais BismillahirRahmanirRahim wa salaat as-Salaam ala Rasulihil-Karim, wa ahla ahli hi wa as-Sahabihi l-karim. In my youthful, naive and over-zealous days, I was attracted to the group called “Hizbut-Tahrir”,...
An Unhelpful Contribution
Review of: “Source of Terror: The Wahhabi-Salafi Ideology and its Consequences” by Vincenzo Oliveti (Amadeus Press, 2001) There cannot be that many young Muslims, and this applies to converts especially, who have not had...
Qadianis: Common Doubts
One of the issues which makes the Islamic religion unpopular in some quarters is its treatment of a certain sect which originated in the Indian Subcontinent under the tutelage of the British colonial regime....
Iblis & Minions
Bismillahi Al-Rahmani Al-Rahim A Consumer Protection Report: Internet Recruiting Firm Iblis & Minions, Inc. by Sidi Musa Furber al-salamu `alaykum One of the sunan that Allah Most High has decreed is that predators prey...
Hizb-ut-Tahrir Drugs Seminars Exposed
This article was posted by Abu Zakarya to the Islamic forum Gawaher.com. A modified version was later published in Q-News. Bismillahir rahmanir raheem. On Sunday, 12th October after dhuhr salah, I attended the seminar...