Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Comprehensive defends new school uniform costing nearly £100 | Education | The Guardian On the subject of Portsmouth, one imagines that you will not find much overlap between the riders on the new London-to-Portsmouth...
American Greyhound buses to ply UK roads from Portsmouth to London | UK news | guardian.co.uk (also here) This shouldn’t really be any surprise since the First group operates bus services around the UK...
A culture of fear — from Saturday’s Guardian Pankaj Mishra had a lengthy article published on the rise of Islamophobia across Europe in Saturday’s Guardian which covers the gamut of issues raised by Islamophobia...
I’d just like to give a huge mabrouk to sister (Cassiopia) Khadija Bradley who got married yesterday (Friday). I don’t know the identity of the lucky man but I am sure he is as...
Jim Fitzpatrick condemned for ‘hijacking’ Muslim wedding by bridegroom – Telegraph The details of this incident, in which a Labour government minister who represents the “safe” (not for long, insha Allah) east London seat...
BBC NEWS | Politics | NHS attack MEP rebuked by Cameron David Cameron is the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK, and much as I despise that institution and much as I...
Where Are the British Birthers? | TPM Calling on Stephen Hawking to provide his bona fides (hat tip: Ginny, via Twitter): Perhaps there will be some brave republican willing to spearhead an investigation of...
BBC Viewfinder: I'm a photographer… This is all about the problems some photographers have been having taking pictures in 'sensitive' locations, particularly in London; these places have also included shopping centres, many of them...
Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsDigital Linked via OSNews, Walt Mossberg explains that upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP will mean wiping your hard drive...
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Jackson friend claims paternity “Mark Lester, a former child star and long-time friend of Michael Jackson, says he could be the father of one of the late pop star’s...
Asylum seekers speak: 'Nothing can give us back the last seven years' — from today's Guardian This is the story of how a woman who had fled persecution, including rape, in Uganda after being...
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Debunking a YouTube hit The BBC’s radio programme More or Less, produced in collaboration with the Open University, debunk the notorious “Muslim Demographics” video which has been a big...
The Guardian today reported that Rupert Murdoch is planning to make the websites for his Times and Sun newspapers, and no doubt his foreign titles as well, a paid-for resource rather than a free...
Luke Mitchell is someone I didn't want to be guilty when I heard the case on the news at the time, but after the verdict and the sentence I had to concede. However, any...
The Guardian reports today that the British operation of Whole Foods Market, which took over the old Fresh and Wild organic chain and opened up a huge supermarket in a former department store in...
To engage the birther fantasists is futile; to dismiss them, reckless by Gary Younge in today’s Guardian They shouldn’t be engaged with, according to Gary Younge, because their claims are fantastic and have been...
The sister known as Digital Nomad has posted two interesting entries recently, the most recent on this nonsense of condemning mobile phones as a cause of fitna and fornication. This is not just within...
Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch on his ongoing debate with Edmund Standing, a contributor to Harry’s Place and author of a recent think tank report which plays up the BNP’s anti-Semitism and plays down...
Recently the papers and talk shows have been abuzz about a woman in her thirties who has had thirteen babies, all of whom have been taken away from her — most of them at...
BBC News: Families win birth defect battle This is about a group of families who sued the local council in Corby, an old steel town in the east Midlands, for birth defects caused by...