Liberal England (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Many readers will remember Irfan Ahmed, the enfant terrible of Liberal Democrat blogging. He removed his blog from the LibDemBlogs aggregator a few months ago and little has been heard of him since. But it seems that his idiosyncratic views have landed him in trouble and that he has closed his blog down as a result. Full details on Political Scrapbook and in the Burnley Citizen . I hope...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Jonathan Calder last night broke the news (well to me, anyway) that Irfan Ahmed has had to pull his blog permanently following further outrageous comments. The final para of the Pendle local newspaper story is apposite: The comments are not the opinion of the LibDems and neither has anything on my blog ever had anything to do [...]
Political Scrapbook (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
A rambling post on lettergate: so far so Irfan Ahmed, who criticises the “petty attacks on Brown” over supposed spelling mistakes in his note to Jacqui Janes. Correct. But the Liberal Democrat blogger then goes on to make a shocking attack on families of dead soldiers, who he accuses of profiting financially from their demise: “The parents [...]
Operation Black Vote (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Lib Dem blogger Irfan Ahmed has closed his website down after provoking a storm of protest in the North with his comments that the families of soldiers killed Iraq and Afghanistan were “enjoying nice salaries” as a result.
Jahane Rumi (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
By Irfan Ahmed CHANDIGARH, India, Nov 18 (IPS) – Imagine writers, scholars and folk performers from eight South Asian countries coming together to share their common heritage and culture while promoting peace and harmony at the same time. That is precisely what 200 members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) did early this month, [...]
The Bureau Of Sabotage (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... one voice on the internet has been silenced; no more will we have to endure the fall-out from Irfan Ahmed's badly written and worse thought out pronunciamentos. About the best that could be said for his writing is that he unwittingly helped to show us what a sham Iain Dale's annual willy-waving contest is; how else do you think his blog scored so highly other than with votes from...
baithak (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... glorifying Hitler's ideology. SOUTH ASIA: The Ties that Bind: Artists, Writers Forge Peace By Irfan Ahmed - CHANDIGARH, India, Nov 18 (IPS) - Imagine writers, scholars and folk performers from eight South Asian countries coming together to share their common heritage and culture while promoting peace and harmony at the same time. MIDEAST: Palestinians Threaten Unilateral Independent...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The man claimed he had no other option. ( Pakistan ) A man in Pakistan's Punjab province killed his children, all aged under 10 years, after being angered by "unending quarrels" between his wife and mother. Irfan Ahmed, a driver hailing from Toba Tek Singh, located 120 km from Lahore, killed his two sons and two daughters yesterday. After the death of his first wife Zainab,...
Miss S B (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Chambers Dictionary Award for inabbilitti too youse the splel chequer - examples: Jane Watkinson, Irfan Ahmed The Total Bollocks award for most consistent stream of ill-informed drivel - examples: Richard Barnbrook, Nadine Dorries The BT Award for Blogger one would most like to disconnect from the internet on a permanent basis - examples: Nadine Dorries, Guido Fawkes (mainly for brazenly...
Money Making Online (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... Anderson Craig Spearman Peter Fulton Shanon Stewart Hong Kong: Najeeb Amar (Captain) Hussain Butt Irfan Ahmed Mark Wright Moner Dar NadeemAhmed Tanwir Afzal Pakistan: Faisal Iqbal (Captain) Abdur Rauf Ahmed Shahzad Anwar Ali Junaid Zia Sohail Khan Yasir Hameed Sri Lanka: Jeewatha Kulathunga (Captain) Kaushal Lokuarachchi ( Chinthaka Jayasinghe Dilhara Lokuhettige Hasantha...
