When my copy of The Spectator arrived earlier this week, my heart sank to see the now rather hackneyed image of a niqabi woman’s eyes staring out from the front cover. “Oh no,” I sighed. “It’s going to be an article against the veil. Again.”However, the piece by John Gray, described by The Spectator as...Read More
Mainstream media has recently covered the ‘burqini’ phenomenon, extolling its virtues and gushing over the lifesavers who are adopting its use in what is, unashamedly, a PR exercise to dim the Anglo face of beach culture. For those living under a rock, the burqini is a “Muslim-friendly” swimsuit for women, which apparently covers the body...Read More
Umar Lee has an interesting series of posts on the Rise and Fall of the Salafi da’wah in the US. He writes about the spread of Salafiism in the United States in the 1990s, the subsequent schism which occurred in 1996 and the eventual decline of the “movement”. Kashif, a British veteran of the Salafi...Read More
The Australian is running with the story today that a new $8 million dollar National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies is being established as part of a government attempt to confront ‘extremism’. From next year, university students at Melbourne, Griffith and Western Sydney will be offered accredited courses ranging from Muslim theology to art...Read More
