Obligatory post-election post
So, the votes have been cast and most of them have been counted, and we definitely have a hung Parliament, although disappointingly the Tories are the biggest single party and the Lib Dems have...
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Obligatory election post
I haven't written anything about this coming election so far. There are a variety of reasons for this: for one thing, I haven't had the inclination, despite having plenty of time on my hands,...
JPost editorial tells Europe how to deal with Muslim women
Jerusalem Post: Rejecting the burka As Muslims it's been our recent experience that many of the voices raised loudest against Muslims in the west have connections to Israel, particularly in the United States but...
To extradite a bed-ridden woman
Earlier today I read that a woman from mid-Wales who is bed-ridden with fibromyalgia and also suffers from Crohn’s disease, epilepsy and depression has been refused an appeal in the High Court against extradition...
Polygamy, “evolution” and mistreatment of women
The last week or so I’ve seen two articles about Muslim men who don’t respect women, one of them on Achelois’ blog, the other by Mariella Frostrup in last Sunday’s Observer, which Fareena Alam...
The two sick ladies and me
Recently I read two blog posts ([1], [2]) about dealing with old “friends” that pop up on Facebook, and it wasn’t the first time I’d heard of it being a problem. There seems to...
Me on the Late Show: transcript
Yesterday (Saturday) morning, I got to speak on the Late Show with Joanne Good on BBC London (94.9FM). She was doing a feature on bad comedy, specifically an incident in which Frankie Boyle, a...
Where conspiracy theories meet prejudice
Yesterday I got an old post at Muslim Matters, Muslims Need To Calm Down About Boycotts, tweeted to me while I was out in town, and I resolved to write a blog post about...
Why don’t people abandon support groups with bad policies?
Recently I read an article by Jodi Bassett, a campaigner on ME issues who suffers from the severe form of that illness, on the Planet Thrive website (it’s also posted on her own site)...
Taj Hargey defends Christians by attacking Muslims
What has Britain come to when it takes a Muslim like me to defend Christianity? | Mail Online This article appeared in today’s Daily Mail, and is meant to be in defence of Shirley...
Facebook name warning
Anyone out there who’s using Facebook using a name that doesn’t look like a name needs to be aware that their account will be suspended as soon as they get found out. Just the...
The old white lady and the goldfish
Some of today’s papers carried a “the world’s gone mad” kind of story about how a pet shop owner, a great-grandmother no less, was given a £1,000 fine and will be made to wear...
Who’s protesting the Pope?
Earlier today I read an opinion piece in the Guardian by Martin Kimani, “an associate fellow at the Conflict, Security and Development Group at King’s College London” currently writing a book about the role...
What’s up with these online services?
Has anyone else noticed that web services like YouTube and Facebook have become more and more flaky and unreliable the last few weeks? The problem has got worse with Facebook in the last couple...
Impressions of BBC4’s Women series
BBC4 recently broadcast a three-part series entitled Women, which was meant to give some kind of history of feminism from the radicals and “libbers” of the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the...
IJB fourth most influential “pro-Islamic” blog, says government report
Last night I got word that my blog had been named in a British government report as the fourth most influential “pro-Islamic” blog. The report, published by the Home Office as a PDF file,...
Bombs in breast implants?!
The Sun today put out a story alleging that female suicide bombers were being fitted with bombs disguised within breast implants so that they couldn’t be detected by airport screening devices, according to “terrorist...
What is the true meaning of halal?
The true meaning of halal | Catherine Fildes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Catherine Fildes has published a response to Nesrine Malik’s article from last week, on the Guardian’s website, which argued that...
Tip for Android owners who use Twitter
Ditch Peep. I went hunting for alternative Twitter clients the other day because I came to the conclusion that Peep wasn’t up to much. It’s terribly slow and unresponsive, selecting a web location in...
Further thoughts on Qadri fatwa
A couple of weeks ago I posted an entry about Dr Tahir ul-Qadri’s fatwa condemning suicide bombings. It seems to have provoked the biggest debate of pretty much any recent post on here since...