What a dumb question to ask! This question and similar ones are usually thrown into the political and media circles to re-visit the exhausted subject of integration. Ever since 9/11 and more particularly after 7/7, the debate about being British and its ramifications have started to become more imposing and trying to shape a dominant  public [...]

  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 [...]

When Foreign Secretary David Miliband had visited India, little did he know his views on the Mumbai attacks would cause a media furore. His comments on the issue of Kashmir sparked a scathing attack on the foreign secretary from the Indian media as well as the India’s foreign ministry reacting strongly, saying India did not [...]

I’m being radicalized.  I’m slowly becoming an extremist, and it is because of the people around me.  Yes, I’m a young Muslim. I regularly visit my local mosque, and I carry a copy of the Qur’an in my car.  I live in a community that surrounds me with people who were not born in Britain, [...]

Note: We’ve been having on/off problems with the blog recently.  WordPress has been a little unfriendly. Anyone know if Movable Type is more stable? This post is 2 days late. Please read this post by Craig Murrey for good Q&A on the conflict. Beginnings of a new cold war? How about talk of a World [...]