This title must look funny on this website, as we all know that gender equality is a cry only monopolised by the capitalist states, who are the stalwart advocates for it. Though looking a bit of an oxymoron on this Islamic website there are a few tales about this idiom I would like to explore [...]

For too long, we have had an Islam which has its roots in a book that was written 1,400 years ago in a hot, violent place in the middle of nowhere with too many camels.  Seriously, most of us haven’t been there, don’t know anyone from there, and feel more at home in a “two [...]

Since I’m waiting for some of the other contributors of this blog to add something serious, I thought I might write about something lighter hearted. Anyways its darned hot now in London, and I can’t get to sleep.
So what did I just do? I went to the local 24hr Tesco’s to do some late night [...]

Do you remember back in the “good old days” when it was bad to be gay?  Bad to be an unwed mother?  Bad to have pre-marital sex?  Bad to divorce?  Bad to lie?
I can even recall when the WORD divorce was dirty.  It seems that not only can we now do these things in the [...]

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 [...]

Believe it or not for some people in Britain, life without alcohol would almost be like life without oxygen. The beverage has a fundamental role in peoples’ lives for socialising, the opportunity to unwind, celebrating and ultimately happiness. It’s a pillar by which people come together and enhance their lives and perpetuate the culture of [...]