Some of the anti-Blair imagery produced by the Stop the War Coalition can churn your stomach. The whole idea of stock images laced together with a bit of American Stadium Rock is presumably intended to both inspire and appall the viewer.
Truly appalling are the images from the Lebanon war from last month, which are not […]
Set up to counter the ‘moderates’ of the MCB (cue laughtrack), the Sufi Muslim Council (SMC) seems to have attracted tepid interest from the Muslim community. This limited interest in the new political outfit is already the subject of an HT-style dissembling campaign.
A SMC-watch type blog (The Sufi Muslim Council Exposed) has been set […]
Tony Blair’s speech at Los Angeles has been hailed by the media. But was it the closest public re-evaluation of his role on the pitiful state of events in the Middle East and Iraq as well as the US-led ‘War on Terror’? The Times opened with coverage on this unexpected speech.
Aides to Mr Blair described […]
Any study of the growth of Islamic politicisation in the Bangladeshi community in the East End of London since September 11 to the parlous state we find ourselves in now should reference Delwar Hossein’s unsentimental analysis. Its spot on.
An older generation of British Bangladeshis saw Islam as one aspect of a plural, many-layered identity; […]
I’m concious of how the Lebanon war has rendered me speechless. I’ve nothing to say, resigned in glum silence to endure sitting through this intractable and entrenched nationalist/ethnic tragedy play itself out.
Naturally the first word on the Lebanese POV goes to a Lebanese blogger at Lebanese Political Journal:
To Everyone Who Thinks Israel’s Campaign is Just […]
If you’re Hizbut and you know it, clap your hands.
Remember when Hizbut Tahrir changed its name-tag to Stop Islamophobia last October? They did so in order to continue their activities on the grounds of University of London (UCL), SOAS and Luton University, where previously they’d been banned.
It looks like they are doing the same […]
On Saturday 15 July, Delwar Hossein Sayeedi was, with the help of the Home Office, flown back to Bangladesh.
On the previous day an informed discussion on the issues touched on and about Martin Bright’s documentary Who Represents British Muslims was kicking off on Pickled Politics before it was aired on Channel 4 on Friday night.
One […]
The NewStatesman journalist Martin Bright will be on Channel 4’s 30 Minutes on Friday night (7.30pm). Be sure to watch it.
The programme will be about the government’s cozy relationship with Muslim organisations such as the MCB. A relationship which ultimately aids the protection and rehabilitation of Islamic extremists. The MCB, referred to as an “umbrella […]
Thanks for keeping the seat warm for me whilst I’ve been gone. I’ve been busy with the garden (but its still looking like an unkempt mess), hanging out with my daughter (age 2), listening to loads of excellent new music, reading loads of books and smoking lots of the “old holborn”. Generally being rather […]
The world assembly of civil society organisations, CIVICUS, got underway in Glasgow yesterday. However no Islamic non-government organisations are attending, as reported by IPS. This “invisible dividing line” has been picked up by attendees from a number of Muslim countries.
“The Islamic groups are also civil society, though the groups are not registered, and they […]