daviddablogger
Back after a brief break. Just a follow up to my last blog( I know everyone's interested) we had the palm tree removed- could say it's the revenge of the fish perhaps-no tree gonna comit fishacide.
Also the book I was refering to was of course about Samual Pepyes sorry about the previous spelling.
Moving right along I located the anti- muslim cartoons on a person called Tim Blair's blog. (Just google his name.) These are of course the ones that seem to have inflamed relations between some middle east countries and Denmark , then Norway and maybe the whole of Europe.
Make you own descisions about seeking them out but I don't find them particuarly controversial, not very clever nor witty, though the text is translated.
I am viewing them as a non muslim, a nonalmostanything, actually but it's a worry when such published cartoons from the other side of the world can inspire such terrible behaviour. Considering the claims made I'm guessing that none of the Iranian, Indonesian or wherever rioters have, or would want, or be allowed to see the cartoons to make up their own minds.
Such must be the underlying anti west feeling that such a minor? trigger can mean that masses of people are mobilized and attack embassies and organise boycots of a country's products.
Can't say I understand it but I guess it reinforces my opinion that by claiming to belong to one religion, means you can't belong to another, and if you believe your religion is right then all others are wrong.
Not a huge jump to let your religion polarise people to the extremes, where the more extreme version of a faith attracts the fanatics with the attendant god given rights and power.
It seems from here that separating church and state is a logical thing to doin the first instance but of course many countries dont do that and those countries range from Middle eastern kingdoms to Israel and dare I say the present government in North America.
