Ramadhan Mubarak!!
Excellent weekend article by Naomi Wolf to be found in The Sydney Morning Herald (obviously an Aussie paper).
If anybody wishes to buy me something for ‘Eid, and wishes to see their brother childishly giggling with happiness, then yes, I would like one of Naomi Wolf’s books.
Ok, well, don’t all rush at once. Here is [...]

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 [...]