IQ & Bush support
Dr Maxtor has posted an amusing report which indicates that there is a correlation between low IQ and support for Bush. Among people of IQs above 140, there is 80% support for Kerry, among...
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USAid funding forced sterilisation in India
The Guardian reports today that a sterilisation policy is underway in northern India, in which gun licences are being issued in return for men receiving vasectomies – in the case of a revolver licence,...
Anti-Bush article in The Times
There was an article in yesterday’s Times (a Murdoch-owned London broadsheet) urging Americans to reject “this failed statesman” GW Bush. You can find it here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-1334479,00.html (Hat tip: Bushflash who reproduced the article in...
William Dalrymple on Sufism
There is an article by William Dalrymple (of White Mughals fame) in today’s Guardian, entitled Gateway of the heart, about Sufism being under attack in India from so-called Tablighis. While there is no doubt...
New Ecologist out
The new edition of the Ecologist magazine is out – this month the main feature is called “Do You Work for a Psycho?”, a feature on the recent film (and book) The Corporation, a...
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon
From Khalil Abu Asmaa’: The great, noble, and pious Shaykh Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki passed away today in Makkah, Friday, Ramadan 15, 1425 / October 29, 2004… After a night of calling on the Lord,...
Mail to GWB site mistakenly sent to opponents
Shaula Evans at Tzuredzuregusa reports that the George W Bush campaign parody site had been gathering emails which were being mistakenly sent to them instead of to the legitimate campaign site. One of these...
Turner Prize nominees
This afternoon I went to the Tate Britain gallery in London to see the nominees for this year’s Turner Prize. The Turner Prize is supposedly the UK’s most prestigious art award, awarded annually to...
Boy convicted of girl’s murder
The British news agencies are reporting that a man of 18 has been convicted of the murder of a young girl at a Christmas party late last year. The man, and his family, are...
Second part of “The Power of Nightmares”
Yesterday the BBC aired the second part of its drama The Power of Nightmares, in which they followed the history of the Islamist movements and the neo-Conservatives during the period of their collaboration in...
Against government casino plans
Those of you in the UK may be aware of government plans to reform the gambling laws, and among the plans include plans for so-called “Las Vegas-style casinos”. I’m sure all Muslims disapprove of...
What value is this petition?
There have been calls on various Muslim forums and blogs to sign an online petition against an anti-Islamic book written by one Craig Winn. I’d never heard of this guy until I found a...
Blogging the Linux expo
I started writing this entry at the Sun Microsystems stand at the [London Linux World Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/), on a pretty much state-of-the-art Sun workstation powered by two fast AMD Opteron processors. I hadn’t got far...
Does this sound like sexual harrassment to you?
Yesterday Jon Gaunt was discussing the subject of a six-year-old girl who was pulled out of school by her mother because a teacher dragged her half-naked into assembly in front of a mixed audience...
The oppressors’ rally
Well, I managed to get to the rally organised by “Global Justice UK 2004” which I got the leaflet for yesterday. As I had suspected, there was really no place for Muslims at this...
Nicholas Kristof on gang rape in Pakistan
Ginny blogged an op-ed piece from one Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, on a lady he met in Pakistan while in some way helping to find Osama bin Laden. The lady in...
Spencer on the ‘Cat Stevens affair’
Robert Spencer has written yet another piece for Front Page, this time in response to what he calls the "Cat Stevens affair". The biggest problem is that "if he is indeed telling the truth,...
Why did the UK really participate in Iraq?
Some people are wondering why it was that the UK really got involved in the US's invasion of Iraq. After all, we have here what passes for a centre-left government, and the last time...
Mandrake’s crippleware
I don’t think I’ve ever been as disappointed by a Linux distribution as I was by the download version of Mandrake’s latest version of its Linux package (10.1, Community version). The impression I’ve got...
Imams from UK negotiating with terrorists
The BBC has a profile of the two representatives of the British Muslim community who have gone to Iraq to negotiate with the terrorists holding Ken Bigley hostage. It has been asked whether their...