Holland may probably be one of the more unlikely destinations that you would find Muslims travelling to these days; more commonly noted for weekend visits by rabble rousing university students to the Coffeeshops of Amsterdam. To be honest, some might describe my trip as odd. If I didn’t go to get stoned or at least savour the brazenly open red light districts, what did I do?

Even though, as a Muslim I don’t celebrate Christmas, I can appreciate how many people can enjoy Christmas, a time of the year where most people can relax. I have to admit I even found myself watching a few classics on TV, like “The snow man”, a cartoon I used to love as a [...]

Phone tapping, spying, kidnappings, interrogation, torture. Realities that my old history teacher completely dismissed. She was horrified that Muslim students should fabricate elaborate conspiracy theories, suspect governments of such crimes and was concerned that they failed to show the smallest amount of patriotism to “˜this great country.’ I can only hope she [...]

The bird flu has always interested me as a biochemical engineer and as a Muslim. Biochemical engineers are at the forefront of mass producing drugs as they design and run bioprocesses which manufacture drugs and vaccines. As a Muslim I simply marvel at the greatness of Allah who designed a small particle, the [...]

The Iraqis went to the polls to elect their new government yesterday and this has been hailed as a great success by the West. The elections, according to international observers, apparently met “global standards” and voters were not put off by the threat of violence.
Just last week a poll was released indicating that Iraqis had [...]

Salam all,
This is my first contribution to the blog, it may not seem political but if you think about it you’ll realise that it is.
I was watching one of David Attenborough’s programs last night about bugs and it was absolutely amazing. The most interesting part of it was about a beetle that lives in [...]