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Category Archives: Chris
Brass Crescent 2008
The brass crescent award nominees have been announced, and this blog has three nominations! Best blog, best humour blog, and best post or series! Baby Moo would be so proud, if he could understand what a blog is, or what … Continue reading
Linkorama
From Deenport, Facebook, Digg and other ‘research’ sites. Indonesian cleric ‘to marry seven-year-old girl’: The only good thing about this story is that most Indonesians are as aghast as I am. Perv. Kick A Migrant : This little game is … Continue reading
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You do not have to be a football to appreciate this
Inspired by my good friend Chris, I have drafted a training session on kicking racism out using football (soccer to you overseas). “Look at this ball, it is a round ball like the planet, but if you look, it is … Continue reading
[09/32] Shouting it from the rooftops
One of the benefits of growing up in central Leicester was the local park. Luckily, the mosque overlooked the park, though not enough for us parkdwelling children to be visible to the folk in the mosque. The fact that both … Continue reading
Posted in 32 Scenes, Chris, personal, writing
Tagged adhan, Islam, Leicester, Magdalene College, muezzin, Muslim, Oxford, Spinney Hill Park
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A warning against Salam Cafe
I received the following email below… From: Angry Al-Abama Sent: 08 May 2008 13:17 To: ‘Mr Moo’ Subject: Salaam Cafe will destroy your hard drive Akhee, brother, brother, akhee. I know about you and your type of liberal -neo -traditional … Continue reading
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Upcoming Islamophobia symposium
There is a big Islamophobia knees-up, sorry, symposium happening tomorrow at Leeds University, entitled “Thinking Thru’ Islamophobia” The aim of this workshop is to explore the analytical value of Islamophobia and its limitations. To this end, we will address a … Continue reading
Posted in British Mooslims, Chris, muslimbashing
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Islamistophobes
Every so often, one writes a draft post on the back of an envelope, and then in the same minute, someone has already said most of what was going to be said. Hurrah! This post on commentisfree by Asim Siddiqui … Continue reading
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[03/32] It IS a Muslim name…
[Scene] Outside a talk, 2006, Birmingham Musab and Chris say salaams to a smiling brother. Musab: Salaams. Smiling Brother: Salaams. You look familiar, where are you from? Musab: My name is Musab, and I am from England Smiling Brother: [eyes … Continue reading
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From Chris: The custard skin stabbing incident
There are two people who I talk about an awful lot, my cousin Faisal, and my best friend Chris Allen. Chris has recently started an autobiographical blog alongside his regular website. Now read this post, it is the funniest thing … Continue reading
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