The new, improved Bloggies
The BBC reports that the results are in for this year’s Bloggies - and guess what? There are NO well-known hate blogs in the entire listing! This really is something for Muslims, and indeed...
Indigo Jo Blogs Blog
Monster mice!
There’s a piece in today’s Guardian, Are you a man or a mouse?, about some scientists at Stanford University who have been attempting to cross human beings with … mice. They do this by...
Small CSS change
I’ve just made a small alteration to the CSS template for this weblog: on browsers which have access to the Luxi font family rather than Trebuchet or Verdana (this means most Linux systems), the...
Muslims comment on Rod Liddle
Alhamdu lillah, two Muslims have written articles debunking the scarmongering nonsense emitted by Rod Liddle over the past week: Anger by Levantine Historian and Liddle’s muddle by Thabet at Under Progress. Possibly Related Posts:...
Zionist Tesco’s insecure web service
Tesco is the biggest of the UK’s supermarket chains by a long way, and besides its big superstores both in town centres and outside, it also runs stores at Esso petrol stations and has...
Questions, questions …
Umm Zaid has asked me five of her own questions, which she promised to do even before I saw LH’s set. So let’s see: Possibly Related Posts: Racism, not fascism Encouraging obesity? Anti-Semitism and...
The Cantona kung-fu incident, 10 years on
The Croydon Advertiser today reported that, when all the Manchester United fans came to my old home town to see their team play Crystal Palace, they did so on the 10th anniversary of the...
Ustadh Abdullah replies to Amina Wadud
Ustadh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali, who studied under some of the great ‘ulama of Morocco at the Qayrawiyeen in Fez, has issued a reply to Amina Wadud’s claim that women should “reclaim” their right...
Pakistani court suspends rape ruling
Given all the interest among the bloggers in the Mukhtar Mai/Bibi case, I thought you might all like to see this: Rape ruling in Pakistan suspended An Islamic court in Pakistan has suspended a...
Levantine’s interview
OK, the interview meme has finally caught up with me … Ahmed Weir has picked me at random to answer five questions of his choosing. So here’s my answers: Possibly Related Posts: Why the...
Dell fires 30 workers for … praying
Not often that I repost CAIR press releases, but since this covers both Muslim community issues and tech issues, I thought this would interest any Muslim interested in buying Dell’s overpriced, overrated computers with...
My letter’s in the Telegraph
Further to the recent couple of articles on special schools, my letter was printed in this morning’s Telegraph: We must get a grip on special school closures They’ve edited out bits of it, though....
New blog for Ginny appeal
Alhamdu lillah, a new blog has been set up to hold information about the ongoing appeal for Ginny: http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ginny/ Possibly Related Posts: New message from Ginny Ginny’s house fire
WordPress bug, and SUSE release
Yesterday I discovered that WordPress’s latest release isn’t displaying my categories properly. It should be displaying them in alphabetical order, and there is a published way of changing the order of displaying the categories,...
Discipline, Tories and special schools
This morning they were talking on the Jon Gaunt show about the issue of black boys and the problems they face, and present, in British schools. The whole thing was touched off by Trevor...
IHRC action alert
The Islamic Human Rights Commission have issued the following alert, about a brother (who is a British citizen) who is facing extradition to Algeria from Italy (hat tip: MPAC UK). Emphases are mine. 23...
Ginny appeal info
Note: all future info on Ginny will appear at Ginny’s Appeal. Background: On Sunday 6th March 2005, our friend Ginny Quick, along with her brother and sister-in-law, lost nearly all her possessions in a...
New message from Ginny
I got this in my Yahoo mail this morning: Assalamu alaikum, my brother mentioned this about paypal, Inshallah someone could email him and help him with this? que666999: if people use credit cards we...
Ginny’s house fire
Yesterday our friend Ginny Quick, along with her brother and sister-in-law, lost nearly all her possessions in a house fire. She is left with the clothes she was wearing when she fled: a pair...
Abu Hamza attacked by criminal
The Sun, a low-class tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, today led with the story that Abu Hamza, the preacher on remand for incitement to murder and also wanted for extradition to the USA on...