Who speaks for Muslims?
muslimmatters.org » Tarek Fatah (and…) Does NOT Represent Me: Muslims 101 for Media Muslim Matters (in this case Amad) on the media’s insistence on relying on fringe figures for details of what is wrong...
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Why Rochester is not a no-go area for Michael Nazir-Ali
Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester (previously: [1], [2], [3]), has been given another bit of space in the Sunday Telegraph to write an Islamophobic article (also see front-page feature here). This time, he's alleging...
‘Get them Polish out of your house or I’ll burn it down’
Ed Jones on being driven from his Salford home by vandalism, racist abuse and violence – Guardian Unlimited This was a really shocking story which was in the Guardian yesterday. The author, who had...
Not at all funny
BBC NEWS: Cycling fury at beheading ‘joke’ Matthew Parris, Times columnist and former Tory MP, has apologised in his column for making a joke about decapitating cyclists. Among those it offended were the Rhyl...
Bhutto said OBL murdered
This is a link to a YouTube video of Benazir Bhutto alleging that Osama bin Laden was murdered by one Omar Shaikh – presumed to be Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was implicated in...
The straw men of Herouxville
In early 2007, a one-horse town in Quebec passed a code of conduct for new immigrants, particularly Muslims it seems, which in its intial drafting (PDF; some of this is said to have been...
Bhutto: get over it!
This afternoon during my lunch hour, I had an MSN conversation with someone in Sindh, the home region and power base of the late Benazir Bhutto. Naturally, since I knew where she lived (not...
Emel interviews Carmen Callil
Emel Magazine, a British Muslim lifestyle magazine (Emel is a woman's name meaning hope, and ML stands for Muslim Lifestyle), has an interview with Virago Press founder Carmen Callil. The website has not yet...
Benazir Bhutto and democracy
I’m not the most knowledgeable person about Pakistani politics, and I really have no opinion as to who is behind the murder of Benazir Bhutto, given that fingers are pointing in each direction right...
The obsession with foreign prisoners returns
Last week, the popular obsession with kicking out foreign prisoners returned, when a prison service memo stating that officials have no interest in deporting foreigners jailed for less than a year came to light,...
Recruiting Muslim spies
BBC – Radio 4 – News and Current Affairs – Recruiting Muslim Spies This is a BBC Radio 4 programme about attempts by the British security services to recruit Muslims as informants, supposedly to...
Suspicious Muslim minds
Regular readers will know that I rarely use this site to preach, preferring to use it as a column in which to defend both Muslims' rights and also other causes I support. However, the...
Hunt down the Sufis?
David T today posted an alert at Harry's Place about an article at MPACUK calling on Muslims to expose 8 so-called Sufis who did the "research" on which the recent Policy Exchange report relied....
Anas el-Banna: New Statesman Person of 2007
New Statesman – Person of 2007 Anas el-Banna, the son of the Guantanamo detainee Jamil el-Banna, has won the New Statesman's Person of the Year Humanity Award for 2007 (the competition included anti-arms trade...
Policy Exchange report questioned
Rolled-up Trousers: Newsnight rips apart mosque extremism report A few questions were asked about the Policy Exchange report (which moaned about books saying things non-Muslims don’t like being sold in some mosque bookshops) on...
Ingrid Mattson on Woman’s Hour
BBC – Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – Ingrid Mattson This is an interview I heard today while out driving; Ingrid Mattson (president of the Islamic Society of North America and the first female, first...
Gary Younge: Europe wasn’t all fine until the Muslims came along
Guardian Unlimited: To believe in a European utopia before Muslims arrived is delusional Gary Younge (regular Guardian columnist on race issues) on the tendency of the European chattering classes to ascribe all sorts of...
In denial about our speed habit?
We motorists are in denial about our terrible speed habit (The Observer) This is an article about speeding and speed cameras. The author got a speeding ticket and was given a place on a...
Missing canoeist charged with deception
Canoeist charged with fraud and deception (The Observer) I kind of got the impression that this disappearing act was a scam, if not from the moment he turned up, then not long after. The...
A case for agency workers’ rights
BBC NEWS: EU stalemate on workers’ rights I heard this being discussed on the radio this morning, with a discussion on the Today programme between representatives of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and...