New and exciting kinds of funny happened on Monday. Within one country, we can find two different legal systems. Laws that would lead to the violent and brutal killing of people. Shock! Horror! What is the world coming to?! Ahh… Now it makes sense. It is in [...]

I had become accustomed to believing that in general, governments just don’t give a damn about their populations, unless, of course, it was election time. If you had the luxury of being a dictator, even elections weren’t a concern. The now classic example is that despite literally millions of people protesting against the [...]

I’m being radicalized.  I’m slowly becoming an extremist, and it is because of the people around me.  Yes, I’m a young Muslim.
I regularly visit my local mosque, and I carry a copy of the Qur’an in my car.  I live in a community that surrounds me with people who were not born in Britain, and [...]

For too long, we have had an Islam which has its roots in a book that was written 1,400 years ago in a hot, violent place in the middle of nowhere with too many camels.  Seriously, most of us haven’t been there, don’t know anyone from there, and feel more at home in a “two [...]

In one month, Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games and the transformation of the Olympic site has been impressive.  I’ll be honest; I’ve hardly even noticed any run-up to the event until yesterday, when I saw the BBC special report into air quality in Beijing, based on standards from the World Health Organisation.
The BBC [...]

Do you remember back in the “good old days” when it was bad to be gay?  Bad to be an unwed mother?  Bad to have pre-marital sex?  Bad to divorce?  Bad to lie?
I can even recall when the WORD divorce was dirty.  It seems that not only can we now do these things in the [...]