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 [...]

This title must look funny on this website, as we all know that gender equality is a cry only monopolised by the capitalist states, who are the stalwart advocates for it. Though looking a bit of an oxymoron on this Islamic website there are a few tales about this idiom I would like to explore [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]