Even though, as a Muslim I don’t celebrate Christmas, I can appreciate how many people can enjoy Christmas, a time of the year where most people can relax. I have to admit I even found myself watching a few classics on TV, like “The snow man”, a cartoon I used to love as a [...]

Phone tapping, spying, kidnappings, interrogation, torture. Realities that my old history teacher completely dismissed. She was horrified that Muslim students should fabricate elaborate conspiracy theories, suspect governments of such crimes and was concerned that they failed to show the smallest amount of patriotism to “˜this great country.’ I can only hope she [...]

The bird flu has always interested me as a biochemical engineer and as a Muslim. Biochemical engineers are at the forefront of mass producing drugs as they design and run bioprocesses which manufacture drugs and vaccines. As a Muslim I simply marvel at the greatness of Allah who designed a small particle, the [...]

The Iraqis went to the polls to elect their new government yesterday and this has been hailed as a great success by the West. The elections, according to international observers, apparently met “global standards” and voters were not put off by the threat of violence.
Just last week a poll was released indicating that Iraqis had [...]

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to hear that Charles Clarke announced today that there will not be a formal public inquiry into the July 7 bombings. According to Blair, one of the largest mass murders to hit British soil since the last World War is of lesser importance than the Harold Shipman [...]

Last Friday, the Singaporean government decided to go ahead with the hanging of 25-year-old Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4490754.stm.
The Australian people and government were outraged by it. Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock described the punishment as being “barbaric”. Australian PM John Howard made five personal pleas to the Singaporean leadership. Such statements and actions are [...]