Guantanamo: the truth is coming out
Jamal al-Harith, one of the five British detainees released from Guantanamo, has told (not to mention sold) his story to the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid. You can read the full story by clicking...
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Shukr Clothing Australian launch
An Australian website for the Syrian-based Islamic clothing company Shukr has been launched. The company is run by an American convert and the clothing is all made by religious Muslims. (I’d call it special...
Mandrake Linux v10.0
A funny thing to put just above the post on the Madrid disaster, but this is a tech blog as well as a war blog – it’s a general personal blog. So here goes....
About the Madrid bombings
At the moment it is not certain that the bombings in Madrid, which has killed nearly 200 people at the time of this writing, was the work of Al-Qa’ida. It has been said that...
Guantanamo Brits innocent after all
Al-Hamdu lillah, the five British detainees who were flown home from Guantanamo Bay yesterday have been released without charge. They have been held for two years and now it appears that not only have...
Vote Nazi, read the Mail
Searchlight Magazine, a British anti-fascist and anti-racist monthly, has picked up on the anti-immigrant vendetta in the tabloid press. It seems the BNP appreciate the support, as one of their goons held up a...
LGF’s latest horror story
Little Green Footballs, for reasons (ahem) best known to themselves as this has nothing to do with the Middle East or with anything political, have posted an article about a five-year-old girl who was...
The Morons Have Landed
An individual calling himself “Flanstein”, who has been pestering at least one other Muslim blogger by posting inhumanity-of-Islam ravings on her comments page, has started on my blog too. I think he found my...
QT Learning blues
A few weeks ago (with birthday money from my mum & dad) I bought Matthias Kalle Dalheimer’s book, “Programming with Qt” (published by O’Reilly) – Qt is a graphical user interface toolkit mostly used...
Daily Express puts its foot in it again
The flow of garbage from the Daily Express continues unabated. Last Thursday it published yet another multi-page feature on immigration, claiming that just as we are getting loads of immigrants coming in, Brits are...
More bigotry from the LGF donkeys
The morons over at Little Green Footballs are getting hot under the collar over the decision in the state of Alabama to permit people to wear religiously-mandated head scarves and turbans in their driving...
Bush Buddy Watch
Here’s a piece from British IT site The Register about how a California judge has given the green light to Diebold – the company that’s committed to delivering Ohio’s votes to the President! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35664.html...
BSD developments …
I’ve decided to take BSD off my machine. The CD downloads are basically a demo, to get the full OS you’re supposed to get the 4-CD pack from FreeBSD Mall or some other company....
Religious education and “teaching atheism”
Today the Observer reveals that kids in schools are to be taught atheism, which, they say, should be welcomed, “for the move accepts a simple fact of modern life: that ours has become a...
Abu Hamza makes the front pages again
The Scum, Britain’s leading red-top gutter rag, put Abu Hamza on its front two pages again for what must be the third week running. The paper has made a date of it each week,...
The MS Desperation Tour
While it’s still the 11th, I thought I should say something about the MS “100% Inspiration” tour which I mentioned earlier in the blog. They did a lecture followed by a lab session, but...
Just before I go …
A rather amusing entry in the blog Web Pages that Suck which pretty much tallies with my attitude to drink (except for the fact that Islam forbids it, although I stopped drinking before I...
Institutional Racism
Yet another British institution is found to be institutionally racist – and this time it’s the mental health system, which really shouldn’t surprise anyone. See BBC report but it’s all over the national British...
Daily Express – same old garbage
As might be expected from a newspaper owned by porn baron Richard Desmond, the Daily Express once again went for the lowest common denominator in its coverage of the EU expansion issue. It was...
Microsoft’s “Inspirational Tour”
At my University (Kingston, in Surrey) Microsoft is going to be stopping on its “Inspirational Tour” next week – 11th Feb 2004! That’s next Wednesday! That means we can all go along and ask...