Author Archives: Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri

“Voting is Shirk!”

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: April 25, 2010
Introducing the well-observed comedy of Mr Khan: Mr Khan (the Muslim Community Leader who made Bellamy’s People famous) gives his no-holds barred assessment of the political situation, with a harsh analysis of the Tory Party, Labour Party, and the other one. As the general election reaches fever pitch, Mr Khan brings it all into perspective – [...]
Posted in Islamism, UK Politics | 19 Comments

Support South Park

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: April 20, 2010
South Park is a popular cartoon well known for satirising almost every aspect of popular culture, religions, class, race. Most of ‘victims’ of the cartoon from Comedy Central have been sensible enough to see the funny side and shrugged off the piss-take. Not the Islamists, however. True to form, a New York based Islamist [...]
Posted in Freedom of Expression | 11 Comments

Big Buck Bunny: A Liberal Parable

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: March 26, 2010
An 8 minute, beautifully animated film for children which works as a liberal parable for white, middle-class Guardian reading luvvies bunnies. This comes from Big Buck Bunny. Have a nice weekend!
Posted in Misc | 1 Comment

Son of Hamas

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: March 4, 2010
Introducing Mosab Hassan Yousef, 30. Mosab’s father is Sheikh Hassan Yousef, senior Hamas figure in the West Bank, currently serving a 6-year prison sentence in an Israeli prison. Mosab helped Israel’s security forces kill and arrest members of the Islamic militant group, Hamas. He is probably marked for death and but he has published his story in [...]
Posted in Islamism, Israel/Palestine, Terrorism | 3 Comments

Galloway Pleads Ignorance

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: March 1, 2010
George Galloway claimed the IFE played a “decisive role” in his election victory to become MP for Bow and Bethnal Green. Yesterday the Sunday Telegraph reported Galloway had used IFE influence in the area to consolidate his victory: George Galloway, a London MP, admitted in recordings obtained by this newspaper that his surprise victory in the [...]
Posted in Islamism, UK Politics | 31 Comments

Race card Ali, your time is up

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: February 15, 2010
This is the story of how a bent copper in the Met managed to keep his detractors at bay by playing the Institutional Race card repeatedly. The only thing black about Commander Ali Dizaei is his hair dye. Yet this Iranian-born policeman, the most senior officer to be jailed for corruption in more than 30 years, [...]
Posted in Moral relativism, Racism | 3 Comments

Joan Smith on Begg

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: February 11, 2010
Joan Smith writes an interesting piece on Begg’s ride to Amnesty’s own human rights poster boy and “Human Rights Victim of 2009″. While all this was going on, Begg and his organisation Cageprisoners are busily fetishising anything to do with Anwar al-Awlaki and lionising any two-bit, violent Islamist radical who ever voiced a jihadi sentiment or [...]
Posted in Islamism | 2 Comments

Islamist Emails from Tower Hamlets Sent to UKIP

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: February 10, 2010
From the East London Advertiser: TOWER Hamlets council has launched a disciplinary enquiry over pro-Islamist emails sent to a London Euro-MP. Two e-mails, with a town hall address, attacked proposals by the UK Independence Party to ban Muslim face coverings, including burkas and hijabs, in public places and accused the party of trying to “stoke a religious [...]
Posted in Islamism | 3 Comments

Ambassador At Large

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: February 6, 2010
Some levity for a Saturday afternoon: Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and everything to do with his name — which, in Arabic, translates to “biggest dick” According to this Arabic-language article in [...]
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The Abuses of Religious Law

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: February 4, 2010
The National Secular Society has lodged a complaint against Cherie Booth, QC, (Tony Blair’s wife) for ruling to keep a violent man out of jail because he was “religious”. Shamso Miah, 25, of Redbridge, east London, broke a man’s jaw following a row in a bank queue. Sitting as a judge, Ms Booth – wife of former [...]
Posted in Crime, Secularism | 4 Comments