Welcome to Indigo Jo's website

This website belongs to Yusuf Smith, also known as Matthew J Smith. The space for this site is provided free, and the adverts are not my idea. Mozilla (v1.5 and Firebird) have built-in pop-up blockers.

This website has moved to http://www.blogistan.co.uk/yusuf/". This page will remain available, but will not be updated unless Blogistan closes.

Contents

• My Blog (at BlogSpot, with links to other Muslim bloggers)
• Islamic religious links
• Sites for Converts to Islam
• Articles published on this site
• Muslim Marriage Links
• Computing-related links - mostly open-source software stuff
• Friends, Journalists and other Interesting Links
• Contact details

Religious links

Please note: a link from this site absolutely does not constitute an endorsement of everything on it, unless indicated.

• Sunni Path - Promising to be a valuable new resource containing authentic Islamic knowledge.
• Mas'ud Khan's website - The foremost resource on traditional Islam.
• Iqra (Toronto) - Excellent information on Sufism and the famous Sufis of Yemen
• Q-News - Britain's leading Muslim magazine.
• Dar al-Mustafa - The renowned Muslim religious college in Tareem, Hadramaut, Yemen. Also contains contact details for the women's college, Dar al-Zahra.
• European Institute for Human Sciences - a college for imams in Llanybydder, SW Wales.
• Guidance Media - from Khalil of the Haba'ib forum, page dedicated to the Haba'ib.
• LightStudy - Questions and Answers with Shaikh Muhammad al-Ya'qoubi, and light study programmes in the UK
• Latin American Da'wah Association - working for da'wah in the US and Latin America
• Amal Press - Ahlus-Sunnah publishers, the people behind The Broken Chain and Shattered Illusions.
• The Zawiya in Cape Town, home of Shaikh Siraj Hendricks
• Modern Muslima - Articles by Sara Umm Zaid and her blog (and more articles here, but I don't recommend the rest of the site)
• Islam - the Modern Religion - Fareena Alam's islamic page
• Yahoo! groups, providing answers according to all four Sunni schools of thought: Hanafi ... Maliki ... Shafi'i
• Articles by Musa Furber on Hanbali fiqh, taken from Hanbali Yahoo forum which has closed
• Hanbali Text Society - promoting true Hanbalism, dissociating it from sects like the Wahhabis
• Alan (Abdul-Haqq) Godlas's site - a general page of links to various Sufi (and some quasi-Sufi) organisations. Also links to articles on the 9/11 incidents.
• Web site about Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghudda, the famous Syrian scholar of Islam
• The Shariah: An Introduction, by Faraz Rabbani, on the BBC's homepage!
• Huma's MamaList of Islamic Links
• Ever wondered who this "Shaikh" Abdul-Hadi Palazzi is? Here's the answer!
• And while we're on the subject of impostors, here's the Anti-Ahmadiyya Movement.
• Islamic Awareness - page of refutations of Christian polemics against Islam
• Karimia Institute - an institution of Islamic learning in Nottingham, England.

• New Muslim Project - based at the Islamic Foundation centre in Markfield, Leics
• Converting to Islam
• Converts to Islam - a general page of links and articles
• Leeds New Muslim Project
• New Muslims Network - in Wales

• The truth about Abdullah el-Faisal, by me.
• An Unhelpful Contribution: A review of Vincenzo Oliveti's book "Source of Terror", by me.
• Qadianis: answers to common doubts
• Why I left Hizb-ut-Tahrir, by Abu Uwais.
• HT Drugs Seminars Exposed by Abu Zakarya
• Iblis and Minions - an article by Sidi Musa Furber, about Shi'a propaganda on the internet. Now relocated to this site after shutdown of Hanbali Yahoo! forum.

The 419 Scam - Don't fall for the "Help a Fellow Muslim" line!! A warning to Muslims. (With information on other scams.)

The War On Iraq, and related issues

• The articles on the War in Iraq can be found on Mas'ud Khan's website. The link from here never worked.
• Stop The War Coalition - this is the group that organised the mass demos in London.
• Respect - Unity Coalition - challenging New Labour at this year's Euro elections
• Article by Media Workers Against War regarding the 20th March Day of Action - and website

• MuslimMatch - UK, free ad, free chat, charges for mail, notifies when your ad is viewed
• Muslim Marriage Consultants - Canada, free ads, free mail exc. for contact details
• 1st Place Muslim Matrimonials - no location given, free ad, free indication of interest, charges for mail
• Muslim Marriage Link - US or Canada (not sure), free ad, charges for mail
• MuslimIntro - UK, free ad, free email exc. for contact details
• Islam.tc Matrimonials - South Africa, completely free, displays email addresses (so vulnerable to spammers and scammers), four madhhabs only, no photos
• PureNikah - UK, free, no photos; formerly KismatLinx, now Unix compatible, no longer displays email addresses
• Muslim Marriage Junction - US, free ads, charges for any contact
• Zawaj.com Matrimonials - US, free ads, charges for contact

Miscarriages of Justice - a vital issue in the UK and the US

• SuSE, who make Europe's leading (GNU/) Linux distribution. (I'm using this one myself.)
• MandrakeSoft - another leading European Linux distro. (Don't get 9.2 - it's got lots of bugs.)
• Fedora Project - the new name for Red Hat Linux.
• Fedora.us - original Fedora homepage; packages for Red Hat Linux and Fedora.
• Libranet - an important industrial-strength Debian-based distro from Canada. (My current desktop distro)
• Slackware - one of the oldest and most stable Linux distros.
• Vector Linux - a rather more user-friendly Slackware derivative.
• DistroWatch - General website about GNU/Linux distributions.
• FreeBSD - an important alternative Free OS to Linux.
• GNU, the campaign for Free Software and authors of Emacs, BASH and other Unix cornerstones.
• usr local bin - A better GNOME for SuSE. (Don't even look at Ximian if you've got SuSE 9.)
• Sylpheed - this is a GTK-based mail reader from Japan. This is the best mailer I've used and it's about time I gave it a plug. (Note: if you use SuSE, download it from their site. Don't use the version with the OS - it's the unstable 'Claws' version.)
• OSNews - news and discussion about OS issues.
• NewsForge - discussion forum about open source (ie. 'free') software.
• Slashdot - ditto.
• Window Managers for Unix and Linux
• Linux Format - the UK's leading magazine on Linux
• Linux User & Developer - another major UK Linux magazine
• Groklaw - IT law site, with particular focus on the SCO lawsuit issue
• SCO Lawsuit resources by Eric S. Raymond
• Mindlube which does a great OSX build of Emacs (real Aqua! not X11!)

• Ginny Quick from Indiana (USA). She also has a LiveJournal blog
• Vicky Andrada, from Michigan, who used to run the "No Sanctions" site
• Kamal Southall
• George Monbiot
• Greg Palast
• MoonPudding - a one-woman operation in Texas making beautiful patchwork skirts and dresses for "any size Mama" (currently closed, not sure if or when they'll reopen)

Contacting me:

If you can't see that, my email address is indigojo underscore uk at yahoo dot co dot uk.

This website was built mostly on a Pentium 3 PC running various distributions of Linux. The editor used was GNU Emacs, usually the version supplied by SuSE. More recent updates were done on Mindlube's and Fink's GNU Emacs, on an eMac running OSX 10.3.