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- Another fine analysis piece on the BBC about the #Woolwich killing - this time from Mark Easton. bbc.in/10T0MA3 9 hours ago
- Attacks on Braintree mosque and Gillingham mosque attacked following #Woolwich killing. tinyurl.com/o9l7kmp tinyurl.com/npnsk54 15 hours ago
- RT @ggreenwald: You get 3 guesses as to the motive cited by the perpetrators of the horrendous machete attack in London http://t.co/IWQuRY2… 15 hours ago
- Most insightful piece yet into yesterday's savage killing of someone presumed to be a soldier. It is by @BBCDomC . bbc.co.uk/news/uk-226241… 15 hours ago
- UK wants Belhadj case in secret court - pulse.me/s/lQLix 2 days ago
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Ed Miliband trashes Blair’s Iraq legacy
You can understand why David Miliband did not look too pleased when his brother Ed said yesterday that ‘we were wrong to have gone to war against Iraq’. Ed’s denunciation of the Iraq war shows up the spinelessness of MPs like David Miliband who failed … Continue reading
Mail on Sunday to continue anti-Muslim incitement over Halal meat
It looks as if the Mail on Sunday will be running another anti-Muslim story tomorrow to follow on from the typically nasty scaremongering story (pictured above) they ran on their front page last week about the increasing availability of halal meat … Continue reading
Ahmadinejad and the 9/11 question
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks during his speech at the United Nations yesterday claiming that ‘the majority of the American people as well as other nations’ believe that some segments of the US government were behind the 9/11 attacks has … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, ahmadinejad, conspiracy theories, mossad, obama
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Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby
My post earlier today about Richard Desmond’s paper, the Daily Express, and its role in whipping up anti-Muslim prejudice in the UK served to remind me of one of the finest pieces of programming on UK television in recent years: Peter Oborne’s November 2009 … Continue reading
‘Muslim Plot to Kill Pope’: Express incites anti-Muslim bigotry again
I have written previously about how Richard Desmond’s Daily Express has consistently over the years carried highly inflammatory anti-Muslim headlines. Today’s front page story based on yesterday’s arrests of six men thought to be mainly of North African origin is no different. The six … Continue reading
Posted in islamophobia
Tagged bigotry, daily express, islamophobia, pope, richard desmond
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Con Coughlin on Iran’s ‘$25 million donation’ to Turkey’s ruling party
The Daily Telegraph’s Con Coughlin has written an interesting article about an alleged donation of $25 million by Iran’s government to Turkey’s ruling AK Party. The article is interesting because it tells you far more about the reporter, Con Coughlin, … Continue reading
Professor S. Misbah Deen’s response to Stephen Hawking
I received an article in my inbox this morning from S. Misbah Deen, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Keele University, in which he responds to Professor Stephen Hawking’s claim last week, that the Universe did not need a Creator. … Continue reading
General Petreaus issues warning about launch of ‘International burn the Qur’an day’ on 9/11 anniversary
A Christian evangelical group, the Dove World Outreach Center, based in Florida, USA, is to launch an ‘International burn the Koran Day’ on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this Saturday. The US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petreaus, has warned … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, islamophobia
Tagged burn a koran day, dove world outreach center, general petreaus
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Ramadan Reading – Part 2
Back in the mid 1990′s I purchased a copy of Revelations of the Unseen (Futuh al-Ghayb) by Shaykh ‘Abdal Qadir al-Jilani. The English translation of the book had been undertaken by Muhtar Holland who had also earlier translated Imam al-Ghazali’s … Continue reading
