Islam
Blaming Iran, enabling war
(This has been cross-posted from Jonathan’s blog, Passing Nightmare.) If you’re a casual observer of the mainstream news agenda, you’ll likely know two things about Iran. Firstly, that they wish to acquire (or may have already acquired) nuclear… Read more
Filed under Politics and economics
Muslim peace conference ignored by the Mail and the Sun
Last November, three Muslim men caused a scene during the trial of Roshonara Choudhry, who was accused of stabbing Stephen Timms MP. After chanting “Allahu akbar” and “British go to hell” in the courtroom, the men were ejected and continued their… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Reading the Qur’an in a week
This is the first post in a week-long series in which Jon will read the entire Qur’an, cover-to-cover. You can read the rest of the series and engage in the discussion at his blog, Reading the Qur’an in a Week. I find myself with some time to… Read more
Filed under Religion
Has the Sun been taking lessons from Ann Coulter?
Yesterday’s horrific events in Norway received the following coverage on the front of today’s Sun: As far as I can glean, the text accompanying the Sun’s splash reads: UP to 20 people were feared dead last night after two terrorist… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Express gets angry about its own anti-Muslim lie
I’ve just noticed that Cyril Dixon’s lying article from yesterday’s Daily Express, which tried to claim that French Muslims were being given “our cash” to help fight the French Government over the burkha ban, was accompanied by an equally dishonest… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Daily Express lies about ‘our cash’ being spent on French Muslims
Today’s revelation from Desmond’s downmarket Daily Mail rip-off, the Daily Express, tells us that: Cyril Dixon, the hack responsible, explains: A FRENCH Muslim couple sparked fury yesterday by using a free legal service paid for by British… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
The Daily Star Sunday is a ship newspaper
Stop whatever you’re doing because: Or so the Daily Star Sunday would have us believe: According to the so-downmarket-it’s-not-even-funny newspaper, the Italians have given 20,000 Arabs “free pass to UK”. However, before you get… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism
Demonise the Muslims? Fine by us, says PCC
You may recall that, at the beginning of last month, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star reported on a story involved two councillors who refused to give a standing ovation to a Marine who’d just been presented with the George… Read more
Filed under Media and journalism