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 [...]

Note: We’ve been having on/off problems with the blog recently.  Wordpress has been a little unfriendly. Anyone know if Movable Type is more stable? This post is 2 days late. Please read this post by Craig Murrey for good Q&A on the conflict.

Beginnings of a new cold war? How about talk of a World War [...]

I know many of us have been caught flatfooted regarding the latest events in Georgia. For one thing, I’ve always had trouble spelling ‘Caucasus’ and Abkhazia sounds like it was a name made up for the next installment of Call of Duty. Whilst I am also sure there are many around who had originally thought [...]

When the Establishment coin a label to apply on a group of people, it becomes a stigma to be associated with until it becomes acceptable. So for example when the British authority in 1775, called the colonists in America “Continentals”, it declared them to be elements of the American colonies in a state of “open [...]