For all of the biting rhetoric that is thrown against the US, it is seemingly a point of embarrassment, that nearly every nation in the world is forlorn by its tie to the US dollar. The dollar is the tell-tale mark left on confrontations and wars in every continent, it is the multiplier of force [...]

I apologise for not posting on the blog for so long. Truth be told, I’m just bogged down with work. Not in the normal sense of  ‘hey, big project deadline coming up’. No, I wish. More like ‘OMG, I’m going to lose my job, let me work my pants off’ type. About 6 weeks ago, [...]

  Last week BBC Panorama aired a documentary made by Richard Watson, the BBC appointed expert on terrorism and extremist groups. It was the prelude to what is to come in the strategy of dealing with difficult Muslims that are obstinate in not fully integrating with British Values. What was the stimulus for such a program? [...]

New and exciting kinds of funny happened on Monday. Within one country, we can find two different legal systems. Laws that would lead to the violent and brutal killing of people. Shock! Horror! What is the world coming to?! Ahh… Now it makes sense. It is in a place where people have more guns than [...]

“Uncontrolled population growth threatens to undermine efforts to save the planet,” writes Dr John Feeney who is an environmental writer based in Boulder, Colorado, US. He further goes on to say the environmental movement should stop running scared of the controversial topic of population growth. Similar outbursts have been made recently by a UK government [...]

Okay, so this is more than two months late. But better late than never There are many excellent books out there for Hajj. For starters check out Al-Rashad press, and make sure you buy the invaluable Performing Hajj DVD by Imam Tahir Anwar. Regardless of how much I prepared for Hajj,  when I was actually [...]