Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Imam Muda

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Barney Henderson, Telegraph Malaysia's got talent: imams take their chants at victory, 25 June 2010 "The Young Imam competitors ar...

"'Prince of Jihad' gets 5 years"

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straitstimes.com, 'Prince of Jihad' gets 5 years , 29 June 2010 An Indonesian publisher and Islamist blogger known as the 'Princ...

Shaikh Adel Al Kalbani's 'fatwa' on music

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Abdul Rahman Shaheen, , gulfnews.com, Scholars divided over imam's fatwa on music, 29 June 2010 "A fatwa (religious ruling) issued...

Research: "Virtual Caliphate"

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YAAKOV LAPPIN Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post, Analysis: Cyber jihadis circumvent borders, 29 June 2010 "Al-Qaida’s main point of acces...

aQ/Bangladesh

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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, srilankaguardian.org, Al Qaeda eyes on Bangladesh, 29 June 2010 "The next Jihadist generation's piety...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Iran 'prayer sellers'

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Reuters, In Islamic Iran prayer sellers' trade is booming, 28 June 2010 "In Islamic Iran where clerics rule, unofficial "pray...

SingleMuslim.com

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middle-east-online.com, Piety tops marriage criteria among Muslims, 24 June 2010 "SingleMuslim.com, an interactive community of more t...

Islamic Bank of Britain domain

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birminghampost.net, Islamic Bank of Britain wins rights to website domain name, 25 June 2010 "Islamic Bank of Britain’s website has be...

Pakistan net ban (cont/d)

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AFP, Pakistan to monitor websites for 'anti-Islam content', 25 June 2010 sounds like a full time job, which should provide employme...

Humour perspective on net bans

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Omar Bilal Akhtar, Tribune, I support the internet bans, 28 June 2010 "If we have started doing it now, it’s simply because of the ons...

Net 'radicalisation'

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AP, 7 Israeli Arabs charged in attacks, 28 June 2010 "The Shin Bet security service says the seven underwent a process of Islamic radi...

Pakistan appeal ongoing

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Reuters, Five Americans appeal terrorism convictions in Pakistan, 28 June 2010 "The five Americans, all students in their 20s, were se...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Facebook

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Ankita Rao, Huffington Post, Is Facebook A Sin? Some Muslims Think So, 24 June 2010

Khaled Said

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Additional materials on the Khaled Said case: البرادعى وزوجته يزوران أسرة خالد سعيد لتقديم العزاء ,لليوم السابع [youm7.com news coverage...

Gowalla

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I'm presently working on some new research, planning a further book and some lectures. So the occasional piece of material discovered wh...

Research on TV

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Two useful new pieces of research: Yasmin Moll, Arab Media & Society, Islamic Televangelism: Religion, Media and Visuality in Contempo...

#khaledsaid

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Twitter: #khaledsaid Zeinobia, Egyptian Chronicles, Follow : A Day of Anger in Alexandria, 25 June 2010 has been extensively updated wit...

d1g.com

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David George-Cosh, The National, Jordan portal to dig into Arabic social networking, 22 June 2010 "A Jordanian web portal is planning ...

World cup coverage in Palestine & Gaza

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AFP, Palestinian fans turn to Israeli TV for World Cup, 25 June 2010 "An official at Palestine TV, a network run by the Palestinian Au...

Nazril Irham charged

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Karishma Vaswani, BBC News, Sex tape charges for Indonesian star Nazril Irham, 25 June 2010 "One of Indonesia's top celebrities ha...