Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Why are the authorities refusing to fund France’s oldest Muslim school, now facing bankruptcy? | Education | The Guardian Today’s Guardian Education supplement on how bigots in a north Paris education authority are using...
I’m sure nobody reading this, even those in the United States, has not heard of the scandals involving British MPs’ expenses. The scandals involve members of Parliament claiming things on parliamentary expenses (i.e. out...
Brooke has finally posted her blog carnival on “White privilege and the Ummah”, with my contribution as well as posts from Safiyya of Shalom 2 Salaam, Safiya of Outlines, Ginny, Fairuza/Sabiwabi, Bin Gregory, Nzingha,...
Insha Allah, tonight I am appearing at a Radical Middle Way event at LSE in London, which also features Shelina Zahra Janmohammed of Spirit21, the sister behind iMuslim, Mr Moo and Omar from DeenPort;...
The Sun today featured the story of a former British soldier whose image was featured in a British Nazi Party election leaflet, in uniform next to the words, “we’re fed up with being sent...
To anyone who has tried to comment in the last three hours or so but couldn't because they hadn't entered the Captcha code which never appeared, I have de-activated the plugin which turned out...
In the recent discussion on White privilege and the Muslim community, it has been suggested that white converts to Islam who experience both discrimination and difficulty in integrating to their new community have the...
I’ve been using Movable Type to run this blog since 2004, except for the middle part of 2005 during which I used WordPress. I was hugely enthusiastic about WordPress when version 1.5 first came...
For anyone who’s surfed in and hasn’t noticed … IJB is now a WordPress blog (again). I intend to explain more about the move in the next day or so (and it’s taken less...
Sister Brooke has called for posts on the topic “White Privilege and the Ummah: what does it mean to you, them and us?” for a blog carnival. The subject of racial divisions within the...
This really quite shocking story appeared in the Guardian today: a ship chartered by a British firm, Trafigura, dumped toxic waste in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, in 2006, making some 100,000 people...
Mills and minarets (New Humanist) A highly interesting piece (and not just interesting in the sense that it’s in this magazine and isn’t full of sneering at religious people) in the New Humanist, published...
Harry’s Place » KFC and the BNP Edmund Standing at Harry’s Place on the Islamophobic reaction to the decision by KFC to offer halaal meat at eight of their outlets. The usual suspects have...
Recently, a video has been popping up on various Muslim blogs ([1], [2], [3]), attempting to raise fears among Westerners that Muslim birth rates are vastly outstripping non-Muslim ones, to the point that some...
The Quilliam Foundation recently put out a so-called “alert” about Islam Channel which drew attention to the “undesirable” elements which, they claim, account for “many of its speakers”. Those they name include Azad Ali...
Update (6th May): The Independent printed a letter from me in response. See here – it’s the third section down, under “Don’t blame Islam for these injustices”. ما شا الله Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Who’d be...
Guardian: Exhausted relief doctor gave patient fatal dose This is about how a doctor working for an NHS contractor gave a 70-year-old patient a fatal overdose of diamorphine (heroin), apparently due to lacking concentration...
Amad at Muslim Matters has posted a refutation of a "hit job" article issued by the so-called Quilliam Foundation against a number of Muslim figures and organisations including Inayat Bunglawala, Yasir al-Qadhi and the...
I'm sure we've all heard by now about the Egyptian government's move to slaughter all of the country's stock of pigs, kept by the Coptic Christian minority, supposedly in response to the outbreak of...
The astonishing history of a 200-year-old British-Gurkha friendship | UK news | The Guardian This is an article from yesterday’s Guardian about the issue of whether all of the older ex-Gurkhas should be allowed...