Okay, so Brown still faces a rough ride with the Lords, but political expediency and naked Machiavellian practices is the form of common order in the UK, so don’t hold your breath.  Having a 42 day pre-detention (internment) charge won’t look that bad when, in a year or so, they start discussing 90 days. We [...]

How many times have I sat on a dinner table listening to my Dad debating with an Uncle about the problems in Bangladesh? Loads! And nobody seems to have an answer. My dad ends up with the same question every time: Why don’t Bengalis just follow the law in Bangladesh?

When I was at school, there was a group of ostracised kids that no one would dare approach for one reason or another. Let me introduce you to a few…

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 [...]

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 [...]