Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
The new Muslim marriage contract will help empower women | Tehmina Kazi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk About three years ago, I wrote a response to a new "Islamic marriage contract" which had...
CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden’s family DNA | World news | The Guardian The Guardian today reported that an investigation by the paper had uncovered a fake vaccine programme...
It was with much satisfaction that I learned that the News of the World, the British Sunday tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, was going to publish its final edition today. This happened, for those...
An evil man in the community | Peace, Bruv The "evil man" in question is Dawud Adib, the African-American "salafi" preacher, who delivered a lecture some weeks ago at a "salafi" conference in New...
Recently Google launched their Google Plus social networking system, and as I write I haven’t been able to get into it, as I still need an invite, despite them having launched the Android client...
This post is also available at Where's the Benefit, and you can comment there or here. Ex-ballerina Elaine McDonald care ruling 'shameful' (with video) I wasn't aware of this case until I read earlier...
I recently got hold of two books by Simon Baron-Cohen which focus on the subject of empathy. The earlier, The Essential Difference, focusses on the difference in empathy and systemising between men and women;...
Pregnant? Wait till the boss hears | Life and style | The Guardian This article was about a woman (Danniella McClain, right) who worked for an upmarket estate agent's in west London, who informed...
This past week it was reported in the news that Ryan Cleary, who had been arrested and charged over an alleged role in cracking the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which...
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields – 4oD – Channel 4 Last week I saw a programme on Channel 4, broadcast late at night (no doubt because it contains footage of people being killed), which purports...
Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers — George Monbiot, The Guardian (the version with references is on Mobiot's website here.) This is about a tendency among the...
I don’t plan to watch the Terry Pratchett assisted suicide show that is on tonight, but I did watch the sequence of episodes in Emmerdale in which Jackson Walsh, who sustained a spinal-cord injury...
How the smartphone is killing the PC | Technology | The Guardian Charles Arthur is the Guardian’s tech correspondent (he used to edit the Thursday Technology supplement, but then they ditched it), and this...
This is a trailer for Voices from the Shadows, a film about severe ME by Natalie Boulton, who edited the book Lost Voices (reviewed by me here), and her son Josh Biggs (her daughter,...
Panorama last night broadcast an hour-long exposé of a locked ward for adults with learning disabilities and autism (although I did not notice anyone who seemed to have autism) on which the carers seemed...
I know, ME Awareness week was a couple of weeks ago and work took too much out of me back then. However, the month ends in just under two hours (British time) and I...
For many years, GNOME has been the default desktop for most Linux users — it’s developed a reputation for almost boring stability, and generally stayed out of the way and didn’t offer too much...
This article is an open letter by Emily Collingridge (right), who is best known as the author of Severe ME/CFS: A Guide to Living, a guide for patients and those involved in caring for...
I took delivery of a new phone yesterday — a Samsung Galaxy S. Not the dual-core S II, which was well beyond my price range, but the Galaxy S was pretty much the top...
Innocence Lost: What Happened to Girlhood? « Clutch Magazine The above article appears on a website mainly aimed at the African American community and I got the link from a Black American Muslim friend...