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Rushdie, Khomeini and Muslims here and there
I was a child, and a long way from becoming Muslim, when the Rushdie affair happened. My mother was in college going through teacher training, and one of her college friends had a sister who was...
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Marxism versus Zionism: is it even a competition?
Recently there was a debate among Muslims on Twitter whether Marxism was a bigger danger to Muslims, either in terms of their life and liberty or their faith, than Zionism. Abdullah al-Andalusi firmly...
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Muslims, parents and nursing homes
The last couple of days there has been a big row on “Muslim Twitter” about people putting their elderly parents in nursing homes and whether that makes them bad Muslims or ungrateful children or...
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Welcome to Islam. Now prepare for schnookdom.
Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) picking up his morning paper There’s a scene at the end of the mob film Goodfellas, the last few seconds after Henry Hill, the lead character who has had a ringside seat on the...
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It’s not just about cooking
I saw this post on Facebook this morning from someone who calls himself “Shaikh JJ”, a Canadian living in Istanbul. I should add at this point that although we know what he looks like, he uses no...
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Age like wine, age like milk?
This morning I was alerted to a video on Twitter by an Internet personality who calls himself “The Sunnah Guy”, a young man with no apparent qualifications dishing out advice to whomever might be...
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Khalid Mahmood should lose the Labour whip
Khalid Mahmood A clip has been circulating on Twitter of the Labour MP Khalid Mahmood addressing a webinar on the recent Prevent programme review by the Tory-aligned think tank Policy Exchange, a...
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On the Daniel Jou “virginity test” controversy
The other day I watched a YouTube video by a sister called Aisha Murray, who wears the niqaab, lives in Scotland and has made videos for BBC social media as well as her own YouTube channel, talking...
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Tories show their repressive side with ban on HT
A speaker at a Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstration in London, October 2023 Yesterday (Monday), out of nowhere as far as I could tell, the Tories announced that they were going to proscribe Hizb ut-Tahrir, a...
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Women need the mosque
The Namazgah mosque in Tirana, Albania The issue of women’s access to the mosque and the inadequate space for women in many mosques in the UK has been a thorny issue in the community for decades, way...
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