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...
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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...
On Will Cummins: This Way Lies Riots
It’s not unusual to find sections of the British press displaying Islamophobic or racist sentiments – we all know about the Daily Express and its long-standing vendetta against immigrants, and at the other end...
The Devil’s Deception of ‘Shaikh’ Abdullah Faisal
Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem For an explanation of the terms used, click here. I became aware of Shaikh Faisal over several months in 2000 and 2001, through hearing his tapes played in certain Islamic bookstores...
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The Devil’s Deception of Abdullah Faisal An Unhelpful Contribution – review of Vincenzo Oliveti’s book Terror’s Source Qadianis – answers to common doubts Les doutes fréquents sur le Secte Qadiyani (anonymous French translation of...
What’s going on at Aber?
I found (via Discarded Lies) an intriguing attack on my old university at Aberystwyth on Melanie Phillips’ website. For American readers, Melanie Phillips is a columnist who writes for the Daily Mail, but used...
The Hundred Greatest Kids’ TV Shows
I’m watching yet another of Channel 4’s epic Top 100 shows – in this case, 100 Greatest Kids’ TV Shows. This thing started at 8pm, when most kids go to bed given that tomorrow’s...
Attacked in Russell Square
After I posted my last entry, I headed for the Globe for their free open day. After that I went by tube to Russell Square, which is fairly near an organic food shop where...
Student wears ‘burka’ for a semester
I found a report on website of the Eastern Echo, the student magazine for Eastern Michigan University, about a female student who wore a “burka” for a semester as a kind of academic project....
The meaning of irony
I decided to come up to town this afternoon after hearing on the news that that a whole series of events have been laid on to celebrate St. George’s Day. For those of you...
An enterprising idiot
How’s this for dumb: a student in Ireland hears the name the new Pope has chosen, and sets up an email address: popebenedictxvi@hotmail.it. And tries to sell it to him! Hello, don’t you think...
Al-Muhajiroun back with a vengeance
I had prepared an article on yesterday’s fiasco at Central Mosque in London in which, it seems, former members of al-Muhajiroun disrupted a presentation by the Muslim Council of Britain and assaulted Iqbal Sacranie....
So, there’s a new Pope
So, they’ve finally chosen a new guy to be Pope – the 78-year-old Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was for more than 20 years the head of the “congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith”,...
“Defending Islam” by attacking hadeeth
Every so often Muslims run into people who believe Islam exists without the hadeeth literature – the record of what the Prophet (sall’ Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said or did. There are a couple...