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Is this something which can be dealt with by just doing nothing, on the premis that, with Muslims being a minority in the West, overtime, the influence of Islam will be reduced and it becomes more 'westernised', losing its more oppressive aspects? Liberal democracies can no more ban religions than they can ban different ethnic groups, without seriously compromising their claim to liberality and 'democracy.'  At the same  time, it would be suicidal of them not to take effective steps to protect their survival.  Especially when, arguably, the liberal democracies of the west, are more advanced than much of their counterparts in Islamic societies.  So, no, it is not about banning Islam in the West.  It is about how to make 'Western Islam' more compatible with the liberal democratic spirit which is, some would say, the 'life-blood' of western life-style.  It is about how do western societies and governments, can better integrate the different

Even after President Macron had expressed France's readiness to join America in making war on the Syrian government?  Is this an acknowledgement by the Americans that they really had no information that the Syrian government was planning a chemical attack, and that good sense should prevail? So as to avoid America and Russia fighting each other in Syria? After all, how can the Syrian government 'proves' that it had not been planning a chemical attack? How do you disprove something of which you have been wrongly accused?  Is it not the responsibility of the accuser to 'prove' that you are guilty of what they alleged you have done or are doing?  And, not being able to do so, the Americans and the French can still easily get out of the dilemma they have created for themselves. By simply stating that the Syrian government has now pulled back from planning an attack.  That is not 'proof' that it was doing so. But, just as how the Americans and Fr

Please have a look at this rather 'shaky' video of these duck families taking their young ones out for a trial run on a lovely summer's day. And, of course, if you are inclined to do so, please enjoy.

And, also, irrespective of the Americans unsubstantiated claim, would it not beggars belief that the Syrian government should ever, contemplate using chemical weapons again; either against its own people or its enemies.  After all, to what purpose and at what cost to itself and the people against whom it would use such weapons?  If it wants to kill people, it is quite able to emulate the Americans and their anti-Syrian coalition of Arabs and Europeans, by using high explosive.  If it wants to kill people this method of killing is able to kill more people. So, what would be the logic of resorting to using chemical weapons?  When doing so would risk the government embarrassing its Russians, Iranians and Lebanese allies, and incurring the certain revenge of the Americans, British and French? For the Syrian government to use chemical weapons again, would suggest that President Assad is either a suicidal idiot, of which there is little substantiating evidence, or that

Like any other responsible parent, this squirrel is making sure that she has enough food to feed her young. Even if doing so means depriving the birds of what was intended to be theirs. Still, in this case, it so happens that their is enough for all, so no harm done! Please take a look and see what naturally follows on from doing so.

But only if he is doing so responsibly, and not attempting to score political points, from a revered 'religious' position.  He should not be, if as have been reported to have been the case, mocking the President and giving comfort to his detractors.  Such attacks, coming from the country's top spiritual leader, can result in the undermining of the government and the frustration of the 'will of the Iranian people.'  As unequivocally expressed in them voting President Rouhani back into power. Thereby according him greater legitimacy to speak on behalf of and represents the 'will' of the Iranians.  Than their 'Spiritual Leader', who has only the 'legitimisation' of the religious elite, and probably the blessing of the believers, Iran's best interests, arguably, if you like, are better served by the governance of Rouhani's government and leadership.  Than by the dogma premised decrees and utterings of the religious elit

Threats such as poverty, the fear of adopting different ways of thinking and of perceiving oneself and the world.  Fear of being able to question what you are told to believe and why you might have been told to believe it.  Fear of evolving into something, somebody better than what had gone on before you.  Although there are still countries in which, Christianity, or 'Christian values', still plays an unhealthy role in the social and political life of the people.  Such as in Ireland, some South American countries and some states in the United States of America, where abortion is illegal.  And in Israel, where the political and social life of the country is, arguably, too weighted in favour of Judaism.  It is in the countries which practise Islam, especially those which have become Islamic States. Where religion has become, or been used, primarily to oppress the people.  Instead of as a means of deliverance from many of the threats which they face daily. Threa

Confronting the challenges of being there with probably less support and more concerns of others about my safety, my welfare.  Than being here, in this nursing home, confronting the challenges of making it 'my home', and how to cope with being deprived of my freedom.  My liberty and my independence, however precariously I might have managed, had I been allowed to remain in 'my own home.' And so does my world, and the external world in which I live, become more contracted and smaller.  Which does not really help and provide me with the opportunities to increase and prolong my level of cognitive and social functioning. It does not help that I am a woman of a certain age, who, in my retirement, has not worked for a wage for many years, and have long become accustomed to the quiet life I like.  With friend having been lost through the consequences of the changes they and I have had to make in our lives, as the years rapidly come and go.  Changes which hav

'There are times when, not having the whole picture of what is being planned, people lend their support to what would later transpired to have been only aspects of a larger plan. Only to find later, that they have been trapped into a situation which does not serve their interests. And which they would not have become a party, if only they had know what the plan really was.' France's President Emmanuel Macron has not been in power a hundred days yet, but that has not prevented him conspiring with President Donald Trump, of America, to attack the Syrian government of President Assad.  Macron is eager for his first war! Using a sinister Machiavellian plot to create the pretext to attack the Syrian government and its armed forces, France and America have resorted use 'fake news', or, rather, 'fake information' to dupe the public.  The American and French governments are doing this by reporting that "the Syrian government are planning a ch