Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
A report from today’s Guardian, on how the Russian media, much of it owned by establishment figures who are trying to curry favour with Putin’s gang. The author of this report was the victim...
I don’t know how many of my readers regularly read Townhall.com, a site by the Heritage Foundation which contains an archive of articles by various right-wing columnists. Dennis Prager is one of them. The...
The BBC just reported that the Tories have announced a policy to scrap university tuition fees when (or if!) they next get to power – and they intend to replace it with loans on...
I’ve just been looking for info on Robert Spencer, the dishonest bigot behind the “Jihad Watch” blog, and found this post on the “Democratic Underground” forum: The threat of Robert Spencer and the danger...
An article on the eWeek website opines that Linux isn’t viable for the desktop – anyone who wants to get away from Windows to a decent desktop should get a Mac, says David Coursey....
I’m not one for reading books cover to cover; I hardly ever read novels, most of my reading matter is nowadays computer related (and most of my bookshelves are dominated by religious and travel...
The BBC reports that at least 200 people have died at the school in Russia which was occupied by suspected Chechen separatists earlier this week. This is, of course, the second time the Russian...
Note to Al-Muhajabah: the new trackback is because of the new blog. Al-Muhajabah, in her blog “veiled4allah” links to an article by anti-Bush blogger Juan Cole attacking Yusuf al-Qaradawi for endorsing attacks on Americans,...
The September/October 2004 edition of Mother Jones has hit the shelves of Borders here in the UK (I don’t know how many other outlets stock it), and on page 50 there’s a story by...
George Monbiot has an article in today’s Guardian (link is now to his site) about why there might be suspicion about the British government’s recent moves to get involved in the Darfur situation –...