Scratcher’s connections work again
I was rather sickened to read that Mark Thatcher got a suspended sentence and a fine (yes, a six-figure one, but all the same …) for involvement in trying to start off a military...
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Melanie Phillips on the “religious hatred” law
The British parliament is currently debating bringing in a law banning incitement to “religious hatred”, in order to plug a loophole in an existing law banning incitement to racial hatred. The latter law is...
Spencer complains over headscarf in Tennessee
Spencer has obviously forgotten the distinction between personal law and “sociopolitical law”, and indeed, the existence of “socio-personal law”, that is, law governing how people interact with each other and behave around each other....
Islamic articles on the Tsunami
Theological Lessons from the Sumatra Earthquake, by Abdul-Hakim Murad, at Mere Islam: Part of the brilliance of the Qur’an is that it makes no compromises over God’s transcendence, as it battles against pagan and...
Fasaad watch: Spencer on British 9/11 film article
She had gone to bed early claiming that she couldn’t stand the bulls**t. She was right, there was a lot of bulls**t, but Sandy’s wife would have detected bulls**t in a house brick, as...
Snouts in the trough in Aceh
It’s been reported that a Christian missionary organisation based in Virginia have relocated 300 Acehnese orphans to a Christian home in Jakarta: The appeal said WorldHelp was working with native-born Christians in Indonesia who...
The Harry’s Place gang on Qaradawi
Yet again it seems that Ken Livingstone is in trouble over his meeting with Shaikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Ken (as we all call him) has posted a defence (in PDF form) of his meeting on...
War opposition: unusual allies and their motives
One of the most interesting things about the recent invasion of Iraq is the different interests which have become united in both their support for, and their opposition to, the invasion. I’ve attended several...
So, there’s going to be a Mini Mac
Or rather, a Mac mini. I’d have used Mini Mac myself, because then you can write it miniMac and it sort of fits into Apple’s usual scheme – iMac, eMac, iBook (Mac laptop), iLife,...
Mama’s little help-desk
The BBC’s got this amusing feature on how parents so often rely on their children for support with the computers they presume their children know so much about (IT Support for your Parents). I’ve...
Neo-Muslims and Rand Robots
Al-Jazeera’s English site has published an article, Beware of Neo-Muslims and Rand Robots, warning Muslims to beware of people within the community who follow the Rand Corporation’s agenda: Their assignment is to trigger multiple...
Amazing pictures of Aceh mosques
There is a website of amazing pictures of mosques in Aceh which survived the recent tsunami disaster in Aceh. Aceh was the nearest land (except for the small islands off the west Sumatra coast)...
$50,000 PCs?!!
The Register reports that a company called Truvia in San Francisco (which specialises in luxury furniture) is offering “designer” PCs starting at “only” $50,000: Truvia will design the furniture you want around a high...
CIA man: Keep OBL out there
The Times reports that AB Krongard, until recently the executive director of the CIA, has stated that the world might be better off with OBL (or Bin Hidin’ as we call him) left uncaptured,...
Another driving fiasco
I was going to call this a disaster, until I realised that disaster implies a lot more than the minor inconvenience I suffered today. You can call your wedding party a disaster if a...
Naked streets? Bad idea …
They were discussing on Vanessa Feltz’s afternoon show the news that the Dutch “naked street” experiment is to be copied in London, appropriately enough in Exhibition Road, in west London. A naked street is...
Vera Drake: serial killer
There is a film being released this week, Vera Drake, about the career of a back-street abortionist in the slums of London in the 1930s. The film has won awards from film critics in...
News from Indonesia … and Blogistan
News from Indonesia today … that the government there turned down the British government’s offer to send a group of 120 Gurkha troops from Brunei to help with the Aceh rescue / clean-up operation....
Islamic chain-letters: an oxymoron?
Yet again I’ve received what amounts to an “Islamic” chain letter, this time asking people to add their names onto a list of people objecting to a forthcoming offensive film about Nabi ‘Isa (‘alaihi...
Banks dump pro-Palestinian groups’ accounts
Two British-based pro-Palestinian groups, the Friends of al-Aqsa and the Palestine Solidary Campaign, have had their bank accounts withdrawn by the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Alliance & Leicester bank respectively. This is...