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Tonight on Dispatches – Muslim fundamentalists claim that cleanliness is next to Godliness,

When I embraced Islam in 1998, one of the first pieces of advice I received from Muslim friends was to learn the names of three people and then stay away from them. They were Abu Hamza, Omar Bakri and Abdullah Faisal. A few months later I received an angry email from my father, demanding to [...]

Is it just me, or is the secret service not what it used to be?

Much ado about nothing, I say. Before we can draw our team brief to a close this morning at work we have to cover preparations for Christmas Dinner. It’s all going swimmingly until the organiser thinks she should inform us of a problem. Apparently a certain employee upstairs cannot attend because it has been booked [...]

“This country has gone over the top with political correctness. We as a society feel that Muslims have to have attention otherwise we are not being fair to them. Muslims have protested outsite churches making remarks about Jesus. Could a Christian abuse Muhammed outside a Mosque, without being arrested? NO” – Mr Holden, Northern Ireland [...]

“It’s now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury. Councillors’ expenses?” — Jo Moore, advisor to Transport, Local Government and Regions Secretary Stephen Byers, 11 September 2001. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I’m a realist. What’s the correlation between domestic political turmoil and populist scaremongering? I don’t know about [...]

To me, Ajax is that fresh smelling powder my grandmother used to sprinkle on the carpet before vacuuming her house in Swanland. Clearly times change. Apparently Ajax is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, and is used to create Internet applications that are wholly interactive. What joy. Wherever I turn these days, it’s there: ajax [...]

There is a section on the BBC News website called “The Editors”. Last Thursday Matt Morris published an interesting commentary entitled, “Too many Muslim stories?” Well, as you know I have an opinion on this, and so I submitted a polite, quite reasonable comment, questioning why the veil story occupied the headlines on BBC Online [...]

…which means it’s Muslim Anger Day on BBC Online. Today it’s an apparent storm over Jack Straw’s comments about the face veil worn by some Muslim women. Right now it’s the main article on the website, with two sub-articles immediately underneath, plus a video clip and photo, then a link to “Have your say” in [...]

As I was starting my four-day Project Management course today, I had to drive up to Winslow in north Buckinghamshire and thus caught more of BBC Radio 4′s Today Programme than I usually do. At 8.10am John Humpries interviewed an individual who was made famous by his intervention during Home Secretary, John Reid’s speech to [...]

Um, genuine question. In its article Pope apology fails to end anger, BBC Online reports today: “Influential Qatari Muslim scholar, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, called for a day of anger on Friday, saying the Pope had not apologised.” * I have a question. What on earth is a “day of anger”? The Messenger of Allah (peace and [...]

I have just glanced at BBC News Online as I often do when the digital clock in the corner of my screen reaches midday, the rustle of packets of crisps awaking me from my spreadsheet slumber. Wonderful, it’s another Muslim Anger day. The main item, spanning two columns and in prominent text, tells the whole [...]