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...
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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...
Hassan Butt’s deception exposed
Channel 4 News has exposed the deception perpetrated by Hassan Butt, a one-time loudmouth with al-Muhajiroun, who has supposedly turned tail and written a book with Shiv Malik about his “exploits” as a militant...
Blaming knives for stabbings
This year, sixteen teenagers have been murdered in London, on top of however many dozen victims there were in 2006. Not surprisingly, this has caused a panic over the carrying of knives in public,...
Round-up: drinks on the Tube, Blair uniting religions, Mary Whitehouse, high fuel costs
As you can see, I have not blogged much this week, mainly out of being tired after getting up in the morning to do various driving jobs. However, it's Sunday and I'm well and...
Finger-jabbing? Us?
Technorati Tags: michael burleigh Britain’s phoney war on terror – Times Online Via Islamophobia Watch. Michael Burleigh on the alleged weakness of the European response to "terror" compared with the tough talk coming from...
An example of ignorant pseudo-feminist Islamophobia
Islamophobia Watch pointed up this stupid article which appeared on the Irish Independent's website yesterday, by one Martina Devlin. I'm not all that familiar with Irish newspaper columnists as I rarely read the papers,...
In defence of silent letters
Marcel Berlins on changes in language (from the Guardian) Recently the Portuguese government approved a reform of the country’s spelling, bringing much of it into line with the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, most significantly...
The ugly face of the British evangelical lobby
Channel 4’s Dispatches programme tonight, In God’s Name, featured David Modell following some Christian evangelists as they went looking for “souls” on various run-down council estates, lobbied against the proposed changes to the British...
Round-up: Irshad Manji, moons in mosques, the OLPC fiasco, Pauline Campbell, Obama versus Agar, Undercover Mosque
Top Muslim blog piece this week, in my opinion, was brother Marc Manley's piece, The Trouble With Muslim Pundits today. While the establishment are busy fêting the likes of Ed and Maajid here in...