New web browsers out
I just got the Apple OS X update for my Mac, among the many benefits of which is said to be a new version of Safari, Apple’s own web browser. Apparently Safari has had...
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Glenda’s five reasons to vote Labour
On my trip up to London yesterday, I picked up a copy of the Camden New Journal which is one of those papers you find in boxes free for anyone to take. It also...
Observer magazine on home education
There’s a lengthy article in this week’s Observer Magazine about home education, A class of their own. The article is balanced (noting that some kids don’t learn much from home schooling, according to some...
Bigots make hay over honour killing
The Independent reported a few days ago that a young woman was murdered in Gaza by members of Hamas, because she was seen walking in the streets with her husband. The story has been...
Jew blasts Howard over immigration
I found this report on the Independent’s website today – an Iranian Jewish immigrant had a go at Michael Howard on a BBC phone-in show for stoking hostility to immigrants. The man involved was...
Faith invaders!
Those of you in the UK should read the lead article in this week’s New Statesman, which is a largely Labour-supporting political weekly. It’s by Cristina Odone, a regular contributor who was formerly deputy...
Some old news about ‘Shaikh’ Faisal
Jihad Watch has just posted a story from the AKI website (based in Italy), about Abdullah Faisal, the Jamaican ultra-Wahhabi preacher currently serving time in the UK for incitement to murder, urging the poorer...
Crimebotch
I’m in the process of watching the BBC’s Crimewatch programme which appears every month. I couldn’t help noticing that the BBC’s presenters could not pronounce two Muslim names: Ahmadi and Ostadzadeh. The second, in...
The Tories’ election broadcast
I just saw the Tories’ party election broadcast for the first time, and I was unimpressed, to say the least. Actually, immigration didn’t play as much of a part in it as it did...
Humour: why school is good for you
I discovered the Bradford Muslim blog yesterday (that is, about two hours ago) through Deenport; brother Atif Imtiaz has an excellent bit of humour about Why School is Good For You. If you don’t...
MWU on the mock (as ever)
(Update 12th April: I posted this after seeing Ginny’s comment on it. I thought this was a recently posted article, but it actually dates from last October.) MWU has posted an article by one...
Why Muslims reject Nomani’s campaign
Yesterday a blog which was originally set up to defend Little Green Footballs from one of its critics reproduced an article from Reuters via Yahoo, American Muslim Author Wants to Shake Up Faith. The...
Times Lit: Behind the Veil of Freedom
The Times Literary Supplement has a review this week of two books about the treatment of Muslims in Russian-occupied Uzbekistan and, later, Bulgaria, and what happens when you try to force “freedom” on a...
London cycle routes
I’m a professional driver, but I don’t have my own car. My last car was an A-registered (that is, 1982-3) Nissan Cherry (produced just after Datsun was acquired, with the Datsun name still on...
Another British industry falls
So it appears that the receivers have been called in on the Rover car company, after it stopped production yesterday due to a “component shortage”. This time the reason is that negotiations with a...
Reflections on the passing of John Paul II
So, the Pope has passed away. It has to be said that this has been a long time in coming; speculation as to who would succeed him has been going on for years, and...
Some news you may have missed
A few months back you may have heard of that man from Venezuela with an unusual Muslim name who was arrested in the UK after getting off a plane from Caracas with a hand...
I’m back
I got back from the Lakes today, and have been sitting here reading the blogs and catching up on the news since, oh, Sunday when I last got access to a computer. Insha Allah...
I’m on holiday
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum everyone, I’m writing this from a public terminal in Keswick, which is in the English Lake District where I’m on holiday for a couple of days with my mum & dad. I...
And now some news from the UK …
I couldn’t resist posting a screenshot of the Times’ website, which has a news story which nobody else seems to have reported on: a Pope “nearing death” in Britain. I wonder which Pope that...