Archive for July, 2009
Publicity for Lubna Hussein
A Sudanese woman, Lubna Hussein, has printed 500 invitation cards and sent out emails, saying she wanted as many people as possible to attend her court hearing on in Khartoum today.
“It is important that people know what is happening,” she says.
According to the BBC, the UN worker is facing a sentence of 40 lashes and [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under Human Rights.
Two years is a long time in (pickled) politics
Back in April 2007, the BBC was preparing to invite Jade Goody to appear on a program called “You can’t fire me – I’m famous!” a few months after her eviction from the Celebrity Big Brother house. (I can barely believe I’m typing these words. Anyway…)
Sunny was not best pleased:
What kind of a message is [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Independent Letters
Two letters published in the Independent - yesterday and today – demonstrate, in different ways, that the socialism of fools is apparently quite at home there.
Here’s the first one in full:
Is it illegal to boycott Israeli goods that purport to be from Jordan? Last week, in a London store, I bought a carton of dates labelled in large red [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under Israel/Palestine, Media, antisemitism.
Interesting discoveries…
Lee Barnes, BNP spokesman and head of the BNP legal team, brings exciting news to us all:
I have been doing some research into a new hobby of mine which is an analysis of the cosmology and theology of Ancient Egypt.
I have made some interesting discoveries which I think some people may be interested in.
The origin [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under Anti Fascism, Moonbattery.
Mehdi Hasan Part III: A New Direction for the New Statesman?
This is the third and concluding part of Channel 4 Insider’s article on Mehdi Hasan
There are some who people who would dismiss the views of religious people merely because they believe in God. I am not one of them. What is needed, now more than ever, is open-minded liberal journalism that is infused with the compassion, [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under Your View.
Sam Harris, Francis Collins and God
Guest post by Andrew Murphy
What seems to be a brilliant choice as the new director for the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, has hit a roadblock with scientific skeptic Sam Harris. Harris’s books End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation have been best sellers.
In an Op-Ed for The New York Times, [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under Science, Secularism.
Pickled Polibollocks
I have, for very much the most part, stayed out of the recent quarrels between certain authors and frequenters of this blog and Sunny Hundal’s ‘Pickled Politics’, but things have now reach a stage where I have neither the desire nor inclination to keep my counsel. It seems that no misrepresentation of the political orientation [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
The Root Cause of Suicide Bombing
Here’s how you do it.
Hat tip: Norm
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Terrorism.
Ron Paul’s bizarre website
Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul– who, let us recall, is still a member of Congress representing the 14th District of Texas– is the founder and honorary chairman of a political organization called Campaign for Liberty.
Adam Holland has taken the trouble to slog through the C4L’s website, and reports that it’s full of such things [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Moonbattery, The Right.
Mehdi Hasan Part II – Muslims and non Muslims
This is the second part of a three-part article on Medhi Hasan, senior editor (politics) of the New Statesman, by Harry’s Place guest writer Channel 4 Insider.
One of Mehdi Hasan’s favourite themes is “the Muslim World”: a concept that he strongly defends. Look, for example, at this attack on the Quilliam Foundation. Hasan is writing about [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Your View.
