QUANGO - GEORGE GALLOWAY’S HIGH INFIDELITY At around 3AM last Friday morning, George Galloway emerged from a Bradford leisure centre to a crowd of hundreds of baying supporters. They bore him aloft through the streets. Then they plonked him down inside a Hummer, and drove him to his campaign HQ in Grattan Road. Here, he was given a megaphone. He duly gave that megaphone a piece of his mind. “All praise to Allah!” began Gorgeous George, a Roman Catholic, not a Muslim. “Allah!” returned the crowd, “Allah!” These people were fundamentally Muslims, not Roman Catholics pretending to be Muslims, like George. Read the rest of this article here.

QUANGO - GEORGE GALLOWAY’S HIGH INFIDELITY

At around 3AM last Friday morning, George Galloway emerged from a Bradford leisure centre to a crowd of hundreds of baying supporters. They bore him aloft through the streets. Then they plonked him down inside a Hummer, and drove him to his campaign HQ in Grattan Road. Here, he was given a megaphone. He duly gave that megaphone a piece of his mind.

“All praise to Allah!” began Gorgeous George, a Roman Catholic, not a Muslim.

“Allah!” returned the crowd, “Allah!” These people were fundamentally Muslims, not Roman Catholics pretending to be Muslims, like George.

Read the rest of this article here.

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NINETY-MINUTE BIGOTS Glasgow’s confusing football rivalry is perhaps best personified in a guy named Abdul Rafiq. He’s a Rangers fan who’s been banned from all football grounds for five years for singing anti-Catholic songs. He also happens to be the only Muslim member of right-wing nationalist group the English Defence League. We’re pretty much BFFs now, so I called him up for a chat. Read our interview with Abdul, and watch the trailer for our documentary about Glasgow’s football rivalry here.

NINETY-MINUTE BIGOTS

Glasgow’s confusing football rivalry is perhaps best personified in a guy named Abdul Rafiq. He’s a Rangers fan who’s been banned from all football grounds for five years for singing anti-Catholic songs. He also happens to be the only Muslim member of right-wing nationalist group the English Defence League. We’re pretty much BFFs now, so I called him up for a chat.

Read our interview with Abdul, and watch the trailer for our documentary about Glasgow’s football rivalry here.

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THE VICE GUIDE TO TRAVEL: THE WARIAS - PART 2 Hannah spends the day busking with a few of the street singers from the Senin-Kamis school. At night, Hannah meets up with two other girls who work as prostitutes. Although the school has helped to create a supportive community for the women, many still have to contend with busking and prostitution as a means of survival Watch the film here

THE VICE GUIDE TO TRAVEL: THE WARIAS - PART 2

Hannah spends the day busking with a few of the street singers from the Senin-Kamis school. At night, Hannah meets up with two other girls who work as prostitutes. Although the school has helped to create a supportive community for the women, many still have to contend with busking and prostitution as a means of survival

Watch the film here

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VICE GUIDE TO TRAVEL: THE WARIAS VICE heads to Indonesia to visit the Senin-Kamis School, an Islamic school for Javanese transvestites. Our host, Hannah Brooks, meets the school’s founder, Maryani, and the rest of the ladies who call this place home. Then Hannah is taken to a local funeral, where Maryani speaks about the difficulties of living as a transvestite and a practicing Muslim. Watch the film here

VICE GUIDE TO TRAVEL: THE WARIAS

VICE heads to Indonesia to visit the Senin-Kamis School, an Islamic school for Javanese transvestites. Our host, Hannah Brooks, meets the school’s founder, Maryani, and the rest of the ladies who call this place home. Then Hannah is taken to a local funeral, where Maryani speaks about the difficulties of living as a transvestite and a practicing Muslim.

Watch the film here

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AN OBLIGATORY DEBATE ABOUT RADICAL ISLAM Guys, relax. Islam is a religion which means ‘peace’. It does not mean ‘pieces of commuter ankle flying through the Aldgate air’. It’s a subtle yet important distinction you guys need to get with, and the first step in you guys overcoming your lamentable Islamophobia. Honestly, the way things are going in this country, these days a guy like me can’t even walk into a crowded shopping mall with a full beard, backpack and white religious dress, shout “Allahu akbar!” and strike a match, without some ex-squaddie have-a-go-hero leaping onto me and pinning me to the ground. Don’t these people know I’m joking? That I’m just celebrating our differences in the only way I know how? Read the full article here

AN OBLIGATORY DEBATE ABOUT RADICAL ISLAM

Guys, relax. Islam is a religion which means ‘peace’. It does not mean ‘pieces of commuter ankle flying through the Aldgate air’. It’s a subtle yet important distinction you guys need to get with, and the first step in you guys overcoming your lamentable Islamophobia.

Honestly, the way things are going in this country, these days a guy like me can’t even walk into a crowded shopping mall with a full beard, backpack and white religious dress, shout “Allahu akbar!” and strike a match, without some ex-squaddie have-a-go-hero leaping onto me and pinning me to the ground. Don’t these people know I’m joking? That I’m just celebrating our differences in the only way I know how?

Read the full article here

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WARIAS, COME OUT AND PLAAAYAYAY Islamic law forbids men to dress and adopt the mannerisms of women, and vice versa. Unsurprisingly, the image of a bunch of transsexuals facing Mecca with their dicks dangling underneath their jilbāb gives some parts of Islamic society the heebie-jeebies

WARIAS, COME OUT AND PLAAAYAYAY

Islamic law forbids men to dress and adopt the mannerisms of women, and vice versa. Unsurprisingly, the image of a bunch of transsexuals facing Mecca with their dicks dangling underneath their jilbāb gives some parts of Islamic society the heebie-jeebies

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