Posted in Misc on Nov 10th, 2007
I am wondering if I purchased things from the recently convicted lyrical terrorist, a young lady who worked in a newsagents shop in Heathrow airport that I patronized every time I returned to the UK in recent years.
Today we are advised not to demonise Muslims, because Islam is really a religion of peace and because [...]
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Posted in Misc on Nov 1st, 2007
Here are some travel proverbs. I’ve just discovered “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled” (Mohammed). I like it, though I might have said “tell me of your experiences of the kindness of strangers.” Some of the kindest of all I have met in my travels were in some sense displaced people themselves, and this tradition of hospitality to strangers, so prevalent in the Islamic world, is surely one of the most humbling of experiences.
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