Custodian of the two holey socks
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2008
Dear Yusuf. You are a lovely man. Honestly, truly lovely. Whenever I see you on a screen or listen to your music, I just want to give you a nice (strictly halal) hug. I liked you as Cat Stevens, I like you as Yusuf Islam. I remember when you attended the trustee meetings of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2008
Images nicked from flickr, created using a lolcats generator. If you feel like doing your own, I will put them up here. Click on the images below to see them in detail. I could do more, but I am babysitting today. Yes, Mrs Moo put me in charge of baby Moo! I wonder how baby [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2008
Interrogating When asking your local council what money has been spent on Muslim organisations to Prevent Extremism, be very specific. Ask for which organisations were funded, how much each organisation got, what were the main outputs for the projects, and what are the means of verification on the side of the local authority. Also ask [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2008
IFEES have just launched issue 4 of their newsletter, Eco-Islam. EcoIslam Issue 4 Featuring articles on: * Reduce, Reuse, Recycle * Waste Not Want Not * Sacred Gifts of Saudi Arabia * A Sanctuary For All Life * Llewellyn of Arabia * IFEES News & Events There is an excellent picture of my hands on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2008
Helping: When helping an old lady on a chair next to the market at lunchtime, don’t grab her hand and lean back as if you were helping up your cousin faisal (who has rather a high body-mass index and maintains to this day it ‘is all muscle’) in traditional Bora style. When the lady grimaces [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2008
I like this promotional from Mustafa Davis. Click on the image below to see his documentary on hip-hop in the USA. It features Amir Sulaiman. I like the American Muslim scene. It is diverse, creative and gets on with things. Half the bloggers I read are from the US,and in a unexpected manner, a lot [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
I remember reading a while ago about a woman, who in Birmingham wanted to pray at a mosque. The imam refused entry to her, saying ‘women are not allowed in the mosque’. At the same mosque, sometime later, some non-Muslim university students (men and women) were seen in the mosque. As the writer said So, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2008
Every so often, one writes a draft post on the back of an envelope, and then in the same minute, someone has already said most of what was going to be said. Hurrah! This post on commentisfree by Asim Siddiqui is very interesting, not for announcing the launch of two new Muslim groups, but because [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2008
With the announcement today of the geeky language Nerdic, I am reminded once again never to trust technology. By defintion, it is a tool that is only as smart as its user. However, technology has its uses. For example, BT have a great facility where you can text to a landline and a strange robotic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2008
There is an advert that is on billboards, in the papers. Y’all have probably seen it. I don’t know who this Anisa is, but I am glad British Muslims are finally embracing transparency.