Blogging on
The Guardian has a feature on blogging, particularly in response to the recent controversy over the forged documents at CBS: CBS was doubly at fault. It failed to appreciate the force of the thousands...
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Look, they’re not Sunnis!
Last night, I heard someone on a British news channel refer to the terrorists who take people hostage in Iraq as "Sunni Muslims". This seems to be an "academic" definition of Sunni, which puts...
Yusuf Islam banned from US
I'm sure I'm not the only person wondering why the US has banned Yusuf Islam from entering their country. He is apparently on one of their "watch lists" and was denied entry on unspecified...
Robert Spencer: Hatemonger
(This was one of the last items I posted before the old blog went down. It was originally posted on the 4th of September.) As the fallout from the horrific Beslan massacre continues, the...
Sunday Torygraph didn’t print my letter
I wrote a letter to the Sunday Telegraph after they printed a reply to Randhir Singh Bains’ letter about the privileges we supposedly enjoy. The letter they printed was about the “animal cruelty” (i.e....
Brazil held up enforcing law … on US demand
A Brazilian journalist called Carlos Chagas reports here that the Brazilian government held up implementing the "shoot-down law", enabling the shooting-down of planes which are being used to smuggle drugs, was held up for...
Debate about Welsh house buying policies
The BBC is reporting that a couple, of Iraqi origin, have been blocked from buying a house in north-west Wales because they are not from the area. The current owner is talking of suing...
So, that’s it for the fox hunters
I didn’t know that the vote on fox hunting was about to be taken yesterday until yesterday morning – it’s been debated for years, particularly since the Blair government took power in 1997. (Under...
‘Resistance’ in Kathmandu
In reaction to the murder of Nepalese workers by terrorists in Iraq, mobs attack the Muslim community and property, and Muslim foreign embassies, in Kathmandu until the army puts a stop to their spree....
New Firefox release out
Mozilla has just released the latest version of its Firefox web browser. Firefox is a bit like Mozilla, but without the mail and news bit which has been hived off to the Thunderbird project....
Moore: Jews most oppressed people on Earth
A lot of Muslims are glad of Michael Moore’s “exposé” of George W Bush’s government, Fahrenheit 9/11, even though everyone knows the film is full of half-truths, distortions and cheap shots, as even people...
Hmmm. Not gonna pay for OmniWeb, then
Just discovered that OmniWeb, a Mac-only browser with roots which go back to the NeXT days (Steve Jobs’ 1980s futuristic computer project, the operating system for which became Mac OS X) doesn’t display my...
Tories win east London seat
It seems the election for the vacant council seat in Millwall, east London, is over, and the Tory candidate has won! The winner is a guy called Simon Rouse, and it seems that this...
The Islamophobe’s favourite Muslims
Following on from Saraji’s exposé of “Muslims for Bush” and the Hasan clan behind it a few weeks back, has anyone seen the grovelling “apology” for 9/11 posted on the “Free Muslim Coalition Against...
Gordon Brown’s ambitions
Listening to the recent speculation about Tony Blair’s recent “cabinet reshuffle” (i.e. hiring, firing and moving of politicians in his cabinet), one hears a lot about the tension between Gordon Brown and his supporters,...
Don’t appease Putin
Simon Heffer of the London Daily Mail has written a piece in this week’s Spectator, in which he calls for western politicians not to play into the hands of the Putin régime, which besides...
The train service here stinks
The title says it all. I just hate the train “service” to New Malden. Especially in the evening. When I lived in Croydon the nearest station was East Croydon, and there were fast trains...
Zia’s fallen into the “change” trap
In this week’s New Statesman, there’s an article by Ziauddin Sardar, entitled Can Islam Change, which approvingly documents how Muslims everywhere are abandoning traditional Islamic law in favour of various kinds of “modernity”. The...
Students use lectures to sleep, eat and text
The Guardian today reveals that more than one in four students admit to sleeping during lecture times, 63% have sent text messages, and 25% were dissatisfied with the standard of teaching, according to an...
London buses!
Last month I blogged a bit about the ridiculous situation of the local buses here in New Malden – the K1 bus which goes off just before the people off the train from London...