Disappointed with “Fallout” drama
Last Thursday, Channel 4 broadcast Fallout, a feature-length drama about a stabbing in London and its aftermath. Its star is Lennie James, who wrote an article for the Observer a couple of weeks ago...
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Jill Saward: wrong then, wrong now
Among the people who have entered the forthcoming Haltemprice and Howden by-election, triggered by the resignation of David Davis to fight on a civil liberties platform is Jill Saward (campaign site here), who is...
One strike and you’re out: the case of Majid Ahmed
This morning, one of the topics on the Vanessa Feltz show was a young man named Majid Ahmed from Bradford, who had been offered a place at Imperial College, London, to study medicine. Three...
Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion exposed
Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion Osama Saeed, who recently helped to establish the Scottish-Islamic Foundation, replies to accusations from the likes of the "Centre for Social Cohesion" that they are some sort of...
The Spectator prints my letter, with more twaddle from Roddle
The Spectator (with my letter!) The Spectator (a right-of-centre British political magazine, formerly edited by Boris Johnson) has printed a letter from me in the current edition, written in reply to Rod Liddle who...
Examining Hassan Butt
From Comment is Free, Inayat Bunglawala examines the case of Hassan Butt, the self-proclaimed ex-jihadist who tells Islam-bashers what they want to hear. He notes that, on his return from Pakistan, Butt attempted to...
Brief London driving moans
Why is it that the BBC London traffic news people cannot find any better ways of identifying the location of delays on the roads than a reference to a junction nobody who does not...
Return to openSUSE
Last week, I replaced the Linux distribution on my laptop’s hard drive; I had been using Fedora 9, and I replaced it with openSUSE version 11. SUSE was the first Linux distro I tried...
Confusion over handshake issue at Irish awards
On Sunday, the Sunday Times reported that a Somali Muslim man lost an award he had been due to receive at a ceremony last Thursday at the Africa Centre in Dublin, Ireland, because he...
Round-up: cheap labour for cheap clothes, Hassidic Jews in London
OK, so people are up in arms over some of Primark’s suppliers being found to use child labour in India. While I suppose Primark cancelling its orders from them shows that they care about...
Interview with ‘Shaikh’ Faisal
BBC NEWS | UK | Hate preacher ‘knew 7/7 bomber’ An interesting headline for an interview with “Shaikh” Abdullah Faisal, the extremist Wahhabi preacher who was jailed in the UK in 2003 for incitement...
Akinola barred from Jordan
Various newspapers, including today’s Guardian, have reported that Peter Akinola, an Anglican bishop in Nigeria who is a well-known “conservative” figure in the worldwide Anglican church, has been denied access (from Israel) to Jordan,...
Sister wins £4,000 for hijab-related job refusal
MPACUK – Bushra Wins! The BBC have reported that a sister named Bushra Noah, who was refused a job as a hair stylist because the potential employer regarded her headscarf as being incompatible with...
Shaykh Pirzada condemns 42-day detention
The Official Website of Shaykh Pirzada | News | Shaykh Pirzada condemns 42-day detention Further to the controversy over whether the British Muslim Forum's shaikhs have supported or opposed the position of Khurshid Ahmed,...
Man who blinded imam detained
Via London Assembly member Murad Qureshi, the man who attacked one of the imams at Regent's Park mosque in London last year, leaving him blind for life, has been detained indefinitely under the Mental...
A nation of traffic wardens
We're a nation of interfering traffic wardens | Camilla Cavendish – Times Online An excellent article (ma sha Allah) in the Times on Thursday (yes, I sometimes read papers other than the Guardian, although...
Muslimahs Speak Up blog carnival posted
Sister Umm Layth has posted the results of the latest Muslimahs Speak Up! blog carnival, which I was a bit remiss in advertising even though I got an email asking me to, but here...
Britain’s top Muslim? Hardly
The Sun reported today that "Britain's top Muslim" had given his support for the government's plan to increase the time police can hold someone on terrorist charges to 42 days, from the current 28....
Niqaabs for Afghanistan?
Having just watched a More 4 documentary of Malalai Joya, the woman who was elected to the Afghani parliament after getting thrown out of the Loya Jirga for standing up to condemn warlords, it...
Men, women and autism
Yesterday, the Guardian published an article on the special challenges facing girls and women with autism (It's not just boys who are autistic), in a special women's page guest-edited by Bridget Orr, who has...