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Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Brass Crescent 2008

The brass crescent award nominees have  been announced, and this blog has three nominations! Best blog, best humour blog, and best post or series!  Baby Moo would be so proud, if he could understand what a blog is, or what pride is, or what brass is, or what a crescent is. Brasscrescent.org

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My latest on the Guardian belief blog, on the yoga fatwa in Malaysia. =============================================== Yoga going underground When clerics issued an edict against the practice, Malaysians held their breath … then released it whilst counting to 10 Last week, the national council issued an edict stating Muslims in Malaysia should not practise yoga, as its [...]

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Muslim Umbrella Groups (MUGS) has once again dusted off its ‘Michael Jackson is a Muslim: Welcome to the Tent of Islam’ banner regarding Michael Jackson. MUGS has a special ‘we-heart-MJ’ shelf with banner, white glove and small monkey. The draft of the latest statement is below.. “Once again, we welcome Michael Jackson to the Tent [...]

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In brief: BNP list leaked

BNP memberlist: http://www.bnpmemberslist.co.uk/ Wikileaks link: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/British_National_Party_membership_and_contacts_list,_2007-2008 These links have the full list.  There isn’t a single Muslim name on there. Further evidence of their Islamophobia. For those who are unaware, these chaps are a far-right racist pary.  The BNP have run a vicious anti-Muslim campaign over the last 10 years or so, and continue to [...]

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Following the recent defeat of  Olympic medallist Amir Khan (the boxer, not the Bollywood Actor), Muslim Umbrella Groups (MUGS) calls for a resurgence of young men from a Muslim background to step up and box our way out of the recession. Spokes-parson Mullah Charles Balasubramaniamnarasimharao says “From Mohammed Ali, to Naseem Hameed, to Amir-Khan-the boxer-not-the-bollywood-actor, [...]

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Now that the election in the USA is over and some of us are still in the glow, while others are still not impressed, the question is posed:  What now for Muslims in the UK? Of course, if we were sensible, we would look at the points made by Aaminah Hernandez in her blog post [...]

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Allah Ditta

On Sunday, it being Rememberance Sunday, there was an item on the news about the fallen of World War I.  A reporter was interviewing from somewhere in Belgium (I am sorry I can’t recall the exact details, baby-Moo was a little distracting). I noticed above the interviewers head, in large letters, ALLAH wow, i thought.  [...]

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The context…

There is a quote about Sarah Palin not knowing who is in NAFTA (Everyone knows is Nepal, Afghanistan, Fetuccinia, Tiramasu and Azhar-bhaijaan).  There are also reports of her referring to Africa as one country.  Now, she doesn’t deny the quotes, she just says she was taken out of context. Here is a hypothetical situation where [...]

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Jay-Z yesterday. “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.” (topi tip to “Susu”)

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