Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....