Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
There is an interesting blog piece on the election in Ukraine here which gives some information on the criminal past of the so-called winner Victor Yanukovich: Yanukovych has always seemed perfectly fitted for this...
Jon Gaunt's show this morning demonstrated how much respect has gone out of our society and how anti-intellectualism has come into fasion – perhaps not to the same extent as in the USA, but...
The Register has linked this marvellous David Blunkett policy generator page – a site which can generate “draconian rhetoric, whenever you need it”. It may generate real Plonkett policy. (Hat tip: Roger Whittaker at...
Further to my earlier remarks about diet and behaviour at the bottom of this entry, the BBC has a piece about a report indicating that malnutrition leads to low intelligence, irritability and bad behaviour...
Am I the only person in London who gets thoroughly annoyed at the “Back the Bid” propaganda which is being displayed all over town? I was on the District Line today and saw these...
A new Apple Store has opened up in London’s Regent Street, which is the first to open in Europe. It’s been very eagerly awaited, and it’s said that some people decided to sleep outside...
There’s a report at the BBC’s site about a new virus which “comes back from the dead” if you don’t delete all of it. One thing struck me when reading this report: The infectious...
There is an article in today’s Guardian by the Lebanese-Australian novelist Nada Jarrar, about the phenomenon of horror stories about the life of Muslim women being published in the west, with particular focus on...
This morning on Jon Gaunt’s show they were talking about the recently announced government policy of moving “excluded” (expelled) children into the more popular schools, so that such kids don’t end up being concentrated...
The BBC is reporting that the Americans, having “secured” Falluja, are now working on taking out “insurgents” in Mosul. Ahem, what happened to those Kurdish insurgents which the Americans were supposedly supporting before this...
MPACUK (Muslim Public Affairs Council, UK) have three articles in response to the annual repeat of the “moon fitna” at the beginning and end of Ramadan: When Exactly Was Your Eid? Do the Saudis...
Reuters reports that Heathrow Airport, the biggest airport in the UK, has been doing a 4-month trial of an X-ray machine which produces an “atomically detailed” black-and-white picture of what someone’s like under his...
Gary Younge, in the Guardian today, has an opinion piece on the tendency of the liberal left to criticise religious people, as in America, while overlooking their own fundamentalism in opposition to religion. Towards...
I was listening to Radio 4’s Feedback programme this afternoon, and there was a feature on the response to a piece on the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent programme. The piece, Yasser Arafat’s unrelenting...
Jon Gaunt, BBC London‘s notorious morning talk show presenter, had a feature today about two issues affecting Muslims in the UK. One was about a shopping centre in Birmingham supposedly banning Santa Claus in...
Last Saturday a high-speed express train from London to Plymouth hit a car which had been driven, or become stuck, on a level crossing west of Reading (pronounced Redding) in Berkshire. The radio phone-in...
This is the first real opportunity I’ve had to blog about the outcome of the US elections. Everyone I know is gutted, and the best anyone could come up with as a “silver lining”...
I’m sure most of you have heard that an obscure Dutch film-maker, Theo Van Gogh, was murdered earlier this week. He was killed by a person of Dutch citizenship and Moroccan ancestry, who is...
I’ve just been watching the BBC’s Question Time and watched a British politician fudge an answer on whether the UK would support a US invasion of Iran. Jack Straw was quoted earlier by the...
The BBC reports that the Israelis have demolished the home of the teenage suicide bomber who blew himself up in a Tel Aviv market yesterday. The report makes it clear that he did not...