Register of American Muslims?! (from Al-Muhajabah)
This should, perhaps, be a lesson to those who asked us to declare our religion in the 2001 UK census, just so that an accurate figure for the numbers of British Muslims could be...
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Here’s a surprise about Feltham …
Those of you who’ve been following the British news might have heard of Zahid Mubarak, a young Asian man who was beaten to death by his cellmate in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution, near London...
Got MT going again
Properly, this time, I hope (insha Allah). I ended up having to take the whole lot down and start again, reinstalling the whole Movable Type package from scratch. So far, I haven’t had the...
Question for any website owners
I’m seriously looking into changing either my hosting provider, or my weblogging software, or both. I need some advice. I chose Fasthosts because they seemed to be the best value – a full gigabyte...
570 miles with no food or water
There are reports tonight that a stroke victim endured a 570-mile journey, from south London to Inverness (the last major city before the north coast of Scotland), without any food or water – while...
How much more slack for Plonkett?
I am just about getting sick to the back teeth of our moronic Home Secretary David Blunkett (Plonkett) and the liberties people allow him to take just because he’s blind (and let’s face it,...
Just bought my first PDA
Well, my Nan gave me £150 as Christmas money, and I decided to buy myself a Palm PDA (a Tungsten E). I got a penny change.
University departments closing due to lack of funding
A number of major British universities are closing important departments including chemistry, physics, architecture and music, the BBC reports. This is leading to a number of their luminaries returning honorary degrees in disgust: Two...
Using Islam to suppress Islam
Here’s a report from Reuters about what sounds like an attempt by a secular government to use “Shari’ah” in order to suppress Islam (linked off Ginny’s blog): On 6 November, Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov...
Ordering over Amazon
I just ordered a book on computer programming, Practical Qt, from Amazon. The thing is, I had to order it from Amazon in Germany (amazon.de), making as best use I could of my very...
Latest BBC scare story …
The BBC has been much criticised in recent months for airing a series of scare stories about “what might happen” in a number of given situations. There was a gridlock story, I think, and...
Back to Ecto
I’ve finally registered my copy of Ecto, a desktop blogging package from Japan. It only cost me about 12 quid, so it’s cheap, although it only lets you submit and manage entries – the...
The Ecologist’s boycott advice
The Ecologist is probably the best environmental magazine here in the UK – it’s got hard-hitting and relevant news about the environmental situation without too much of the quasi-spiritual stuff you find in certain...
First Ahlus-Sunnah tafseer book published in UK
A brother on BewleyUpdates has posted details of what he says is the first Ahlus-Sunnah tafseer book published in the UK, in English and Urdu, written by Shaikh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada, the principal...
Muslim woman attacked (with picture)
The BBC has published a report about a Muslim woman of Iraqi origin who was attacked in the street in Kilburn, London, on Sunday (5th Dec). They also have a picture of a man...
Why spammers hit blogs
This piece appeared in the Independent today, explaining why spammers post their ads on blogs – merely to push their ratings up on Google and other search engines which list sites according to people...
A Dutch Muslim on Dutch Muslims
The topic of the recent events in Holland has recently come up on a New Muslims’ group I belong to, and this piece was posted to the forum by Rahma Bavelaar (you can read...
Who’s trying to ban humour?
I’m sure a lot of you have heard that the UK may be about to pass a law intended to ban “incitement to religious hatred”, which plugs a loophole in the existing law on...
Finally found a use for my Sun
No, I’m not talking about the newspaper mentioned below … I’m talking about the computer I blogged about finally getting running the other day. (There isn’t much use for the newspaper.)