Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
One of the fascinating things about some of the most vehemently anti-Islamic commentators in the blogosphere (they seldom make it into the mainstream press, at least not in the UK) is how concerned they...
I’m not a parent myself, but I’ve been following the coverage of the issue of the MMR vaccine in the UK especially as it has come up on a Muslim eGroup I subscribe to....
Israel’s assassination yesterday of yet another Hamas leader was shocking, but it should not surprise anyone that Israel, especially under the leadership of Ariel Sharon, would do such a thing. I haven’t bothered to...
I don’t honestly know if it’s nearly St. George’s day, but it must be because people have brought it up on the radio again: why don’t we English celebrate our “national day” like the...
A while ago I posted a picture here I got from CAIR about a Marine (or ex-Marine) standing with two Iraqi boys with a sign saying “Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad, then he knocked...
The New Statesman finally got round to printing replies to Ziauddin Sardar’s “open the gates of ijtihad” waffle two issues ago (I blogged on this about a week ago). They didn’t print mine, but...
I subscribe to a number of Yahoo groups on Islam and Bewleyupdates is one of them. The group was founded by Aisha Bewley, best known for her translation of the Qur’an, Qadi Iyaad’s Shifaa,...
Those of you who visit my website often will have noticed a link to an article about “Shaikh” Abdul-Hadi Palazzi, an impostor from Italy who is the leader, or one of the leaders, of...
George Monbiot has published a fascinating article on how being the victim of an atrocity (or the descendent of such a victim) appears to give people licence to commit fresh atrocities. The Germans, the...
The Age reports that senior British commanders are dissatisfied with American methods in Iraq, calling them heavy-handed, and have alleged ‘a growing sense of “unease and frustration” among the British high command’. They have...
A couple of useful articles on the dangerously authoritarian tendencies of our current Home Secretary, David Blunkett: Now Blunkett plans to jail friends of terrorist suspects – Blunkett plans to jail people for merely...
Townhall.com, a page run by the Heritage Foundation which publishes a collection of articles by various US right-wing columnists, has published one by Doug Giles, “a no-nonsense, God-fearing student of society with a special...
Last week in the New Statesman they had Ziauddin Sardar, a darling of the British liberal media, spouting some of his well-known ideas. I am quite interested in Sardar because it was one of...
Jon Gaunt, BBC Radio’s resident loud-mouth, was mouthing off about adoption on BBC’s London radio (94.9 FM, 9am-12pm Monday-Friday) this morning. The thing that got his goat today was that parents who gave their...
Anyone who has been on the anti-war demos in London and been irritated by all the Marxist banners should read the entry on Saraji’s blog – 5th April, “The Bloc Vote Mafia …”. With...
An entry in al-Muhajabah’s blog gives some news from Rwanda, where the number of Muslims has doubled since the genocide, in large part because Muslims stayed out of that atrocity and gave shelter to...
Comments on Al-Muhajabah’s Islamic Blogs reveal some under-reported aspects of the lynching at Fallujah last week (veiled4Allah, 2nd April, Even More Sick)
BBC Interview with Inayat Bunglawala, about the recent letter to the mosques encouraging people to help the security forces
I’m sure I’m not the only convert to Islam who has found it difficult to find a wife. I’m 27, and converted to Islam in 1998 when I was 21. For much of that...
The Rand Corporation, a non-profit political think-tank, has published a report entitled Civil Democratic Islam, a proposal for how the West can deal with the Muslim world in a way that suits its own...