Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
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...
The last few weeks have seen an upsurge in attacks on shaikhs on various blogs, particularly on Umar Lee’s site and Salafi Burnout. It all started with Umar’s post about so-called Rand Institute Muslims...
Rachel from North London has posted her reaction to the verdicts in the terrorism trial at Kingston Crown Court today: So there will never be justice, but there can be the other thing so...
Editor-At-Large: Our bitching and bullying is a form of class warfare – Janet Street-Porter, Commentators – The Independent Yesterday, this article by Janet Street-Porter on the depressing saga of the boy who represented the...
BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Twin Sisters, Two Faiths Anna Scott-Brown about their choices to follow two very different faiths – Islam and Christianity. They discuss their strongly-held but separate beliefs, and...
The Washington Independent » Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere Or how the alliance between Little Green Footballs and its numerous offspring of mostly Christian (and sometimes Jewish), right-wing, anti-Muslim blogs have fallen out...
I have not had anything to say about the Draper/McBride smear story, mainly because the government actually had nothing to do with it, and it was all about suggestions being passed around by staff...
Since the G20 protests three weeks ago, there has been a rising tide of protest against the thuggish behaviour of the police which was witnessed, and recorded, by demonstrators and some bystanders, particularly at...
Taj Hargey had a lengthy whinge printed in The Times last Friday, in which he complained of having been “victimised, like other forward-looking Muslims, by a campaign of classic McCarthyism”: Just as Senator Joseph...
There is an article published on the London Times website yesterday, by a woman commenting on the opinion of the dressmaker to Gordon Brown’s wife, a woman whose day job is at a hedge...
OK, so hands up who’s watched Waterloo Road? It’s a BBC drama series set in a northern English urban school. It’s run for a number of series, but this one has gone all out...
Taj Hargey has won a five-figure sum (also reported here and here) from the Muslim Weekly, a slim tabloid published in London, for their claim that he was a Qadiani. This claim was inaccurate,...
Today there was a substantial impromptu demonstration in London by Sri Lankan Tamils, who first occupied Westminster Bridge before being forced by riot police into the centre of Parliament Square, where they still were...
Following my rant about Kate Melville's letter in last Saturday's Guardian, two women (one Muslim, one probably not) respond in today's paper: Kate Melville weeps for the hijab- and niqab-wearing Muslim women who have...
Fareena Alam (on Facebook) linked this page at BoingBoing, sending up the recent paranoia-inducing "if you suspect it, report it" posters put out by the British Transport Police with dozens of "remixes" submitted by...
Last Monday, there was an article by a sister called Jana Kossaibati on finding suitable clothes to go with hijab, complete with a picture feature on various items that the author thought fit the...