Ramadan in Second Life

Mohammad Yahia, IOL Staff
IslamOnline
CAIRO — After the success of the first experience in the virtual world of Second Life, IslamOnline.net is launching its second Ramadan tent for the holy fasting month with a variety of activities for both Muslims and non-Muslims.
“Last year the tent had an oriental theme to it,” says Ahmed Fawzy, the new [...]

Judee Sill: The lost child

Barney Hoskyns
Sunday December 12, 2004
The Observer
‘Out of the mud a lotus grows …’ Judee Sill liked to talk in flowery metaphors, often with a veiled religious tinge to them. Visiting England in the spring of 1972, she offered the mud/lotus image to a New Musical Express reporter as a way of [...]

A note from Greenpeace

Hi there,
On Monday, six brave Greenpeace souls will be appearing at Maidstone Crown Court for the start of a trial centring around Kingsnorth power station, coal and climate change.
In October last year, a group of Greenpeace supporters took a personal stand to protect the environment by climbing 1,000 rungs of a ladder to the top [...]

On Orientalism-Edward Said

A single piece, divided into four on YouTube.

Strange Fruit

Post-addicition, emotionally, has been the equivalent of my mother telling me she’s transexual. She’s not, by the way. It’s just, one day, I feel like I could fuck for England, the next I’m just fantastic, the next a piece of shit in a wig, the next the messiah, the next scared of [...]

Long weekend at the Terror

Revealed: Britain’s secret propaganda war against al-Qaida
Alan Travis, Guardian
A Whitehall counter-terrorism unit is targeting the BBC and other media organisations as part of a new global propaganda push designed to “taint the al-Qaida brand”, according to a secret Home Office paper seen by the Guardian. The document also shows that Whitehall counter-terrorism experts intend to [...]

Inside Mecca

A black South African discovers the Hajj is home to South African Asian racists, a Malaysian fails to question his middle class lifestyle and an Irish-American gets used to Muslims constantly interrogating her Islamic identity based on the colour of her skin. Plus, close-ups of an animal getting its throat cut. Thankfully, we don’t get [...]