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  • 02:27:31 am on August 27, 2008 | 1 | # |

    Post I did last week on lol-qats has been been picked up by metafilter [oh hai].  Interesting comments on Qat chewing there

     
  • 05:15:24 am on July 10, 2008 | 0 | # |
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    ex-jihadis get ping-pong, pepsi and video games (though no wrestling pandas).

    In return for the more relaxed environment, prisoners have to attend religious education classes where Islamic scholars challenge their views.

    The thinking behind the new initiative is to fight al-Qaeda’s ideology by convincing militant Islamists they have a distorted view of Islam

     
  • 08:05:47 am on July 9, 2008 | 0 | # |
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    Mark Steel in the Independent on the made-up-stories-about-Muslims

    Maybe Muslim newspapers should retaliate by publishing their own made-up stories. So it will be reported that “Barmy PC teachers in Leicester have banned children from playing Noughts and Crosses, claiming the cross reminds Church of England kiddies of the suffering undertaken by Lord Jesus. A spokesman for the Board of Education said, ‘We have to be sensitive. Which is why we’ve replaced the game with ‘Noughts and Hexagons’. We did look into calling it ‘Noughts and Crowns of Thorns’ but decided Hexagons was more appropriate.

     
  • 05:48:43 am on July 8, 2008 | 3 | # |
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    This is a really important programme to watch. It can be watched it on Channel 4’s website if one has missed it. [Link]
    There is an associated webpage and pamphlet

    The classic scene is the journalist showing headlines that have appeared in newspapers here in the UK, with the words ‘Jew’ or ‘Black’ substituted for ‘Muslim’, and seeing the double standards.

     
  • 08:24:04 am on May 6, 2008 | 0 | # |
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    The Guardian has a lovely story on nurturing new British Muslim playwrights.