UK sending refugees back to Somali war zone
The Guardian reports that the British government has been quietly sending refugees back to a known war zone – Mogadishu in Somalia, to an ex-Soviet air base controlled by clan militias. (This is after...
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Dickinson murder and other stuff in the news
Much column inches were taken up today by the verdict on Francisco Arce Montes, concerning the dreadful murder of Caroline Dickinson, a 13-year-old schoolgirl who was on a school trip to Brittany. It turns...
Decent article on Wahhabi threat
William Dalrymple (of White Mughals fame) has contributed a piece to today’s Guardian, “Saudi Arabia created the monster now devouring it”. It gives the usual account of the fitna caused by Wahhabi missionaries, and...
Reflections on Respect and the recent elections
I wasn’t able to blog the last few days, because of long work hours and being too tired yesterday (after a run to Milton Keynes on Friday evening, not getting back until after 11pm,...
Come on England! (Oh, all right then …)
I was thoroughly glad to find a piece in the Guardian which told us it was OK to be indifferent as to whether “our boys” win the European championship this month or not. ‘It’s...
New Muslim centre in East London
The East London Mosque (one of the few mosques in London which is able to give the adhan over the loudspeaker) has just opened its new extension, which can hold 10,000 worshippers and has...
The Secular Case for Home Schooling
A topic close to my heart even though I’m not (yet, insha Allah) a parent: The Secular Case for Home Schooling by Diana West (never heard of this journo before, my apologies if she...
I’m really annoyed tonight
I’ve just come back from a Respect rally at Friends’ House (a Quaker building) near Euston station in Central London. The speakers were George Galloway (of course), Yvonne Ridley, Anas Altikriti, Anjum Mirza of...
Fatwas on voting
In response to the allegations of “kufr akbar” against anyone voting in the coming elections, I found two pages containing the opinions of various Islamic scholars on voting at the IACN web site in...
More on the BNP danger
Black Information Link have published this article on tactics the BNP are using to up their share of the vote in the opinion polls in the run-up to this Thursday’s elections. They have also...
Inna lillah wa inna ilayhi raji’oon …
News has reached us that Shaikh Abdul-Rahman al-Shaghouri, a major shaikh of Damascus, has passed away. Besides being a shaikh of ‘aqida and fiqh, he was also a renowned Sufi shaikh and was the...
Greg Palast: good riddance
I wondered how long it would take before someone said that Ronnie Reagan wasn’t the great statesman some sections of the media have made him out to be since he finally snuffed it last...
Let’s hope Sally Clark stayed in today …
I’ve got a rather uncared-for Miscarriages of Justice page which I may have transferred to Blogistan but the link on my home page still points to my old Geocities site. It gives details of...
Another Respect-bashing article!
Another week, another Respect-bashing piece from a centre-left journo in the British press. The usual culprits are Nick Cohen and David Aaronovitch. (You can read the latest Aaronovitch piece here at the Guardian’s site.)...
No scam-baiting for me …
The fatwa I requested from Islam Online has been given … Dr Monzer Kahf, “a prominent economist and counselor”, wrote that it is permissible to lie in order to catch a criminal, but not...
Just back from the Lakes …
Last week I decided to go and join my parents briefly on their holiday in the Lake District. For those that don’t know, the Lake District is a part of north-west England, and it’s...
London Elects – 10th June
Recently we all got a pamphlet through our door entitled London’s Elections – The Candidates with the manifestos of all the people putting themselves forward to be our mayor on June 10th. The candidates...
Kingston Green Fair & Galloway speech
It’s 10 days to go until the election insha Allah, and today I went to two separate Respect engagements – a stall they were running in Kingston Green Fair which was here in Kingston...
So, Abu Hamza’s off the streets
So, Abu Hamza’s finally been taken off the streets, not because of David Blunkett’s efforts to take his citizenship away so they can bury him alive in Belmarsh, but because the US government has...
Back on the wagons
I’ve just done two more days of driving trucks around – yesterday it was in a sort of anticlockwise circular tour of Surrey county, from Croydon to Weybridge, Egham, Woking, Guildford, then down to...