Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
This is an article by Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli dissident living in London. Here’s his website. (Thanks to J. Muhsin Kilby for the info.)
I just found this rather interesting article by George Monbiot about conflicts of interest in the debate over the safety of the MMR vaccine. Andrew Wakefield, who published a paper alleging links between the...
Note: the original post, which I deleted, was in response to Jews gloating on the BBC’s website about the murder by the Israeli army of Shaikh Ahmed Ya-sin. The post said that the Jews...
I’ve had my Mac nearly a week now (since Tuesday) and I have to say I’m generally pleased with it. We had it sitting on the dining table until Friday, but of course it...
Well I went to the rally yesterday, it was not as big as the huge anti-war rallies last year but it was big enough that people were still leaving the start (Hyde Park) as...
Saturday’s Stop the War march is intended to reinforce calls for political accountability and a withdrawal from Iraq, writes Andrew Burgin
I just got forwarded an exceptionally dumb 419 invitation through a mailing list I’m on, in which someone claiming to be Dr Mitchell Obi of some Nigerian financial organisation appeals for someone to do...
It’s very common to hear, whenever a terrorist incident happens that bears the hallmarks of Al-Qa’ida, calls for the Muslims to control extremist elements in their own community. I read an article on a...
It seems the Spanish – who, it must be remembered, did not want to get involved in Iraq to begin with – have had their fears confirmed by last week’s bombings in Madrid, and...
I ordered a Mac on Friday – a G4 eMac which is all I could reasonably afford, but I did order some extra memory for it – and I also bought a copy of...