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And what would Allah say about, this slaughtering, this destruction and this great injustice?  This lack of humanity, this inhumanity? Would Allah not have said, not in my name, your should be ashamed of yourself.  Would Allah not have enquired of the government of Saudi Arabia: To what end do you bring about this great destruction in the innocent lives  and the property of the Yemenis?  Pitting yourself against your weaker neighbour because of your military might.   In order to establish and maintain your hegemony over them.  Had it not been for the indubitable tenacity of the Yemenis, you would have rolled them over by now.  No, do not expect me to confer onto you my blessings or my help.  Because, in truth, oh self declared guardian and protector of the holy Kabaa, if I were to bless or assist your murderous and destructive actions towards a sovereign people.   Would that not make me out to be like the god to whom Daesh hold their allegiance; which I am not? Are

The real issue is not the nature of the challenges, as they are largely common to all those who are facing them.  What is of crucial importance, is the mindset and perspectives of the governments and political, social, and community leaders and activists.  Who are required to lead their people into appropriately and effectively addressing these challenges. It is the difference between taking a myopic, nationalistic perspective, and pursuing a policy of 'let us pull up the draw-bridges, and strengthening the border walls and 'keep them out.'  And of taking a more holistic, compassionate and, in the longer term, insightful approach of, 'let us take a more globalist approach, as this is not a challenge which is going to 'go away, if we ignore it', or one which can be properly addressed by 'a go it alone strategy.' In the end, it probably is really our fear, which presents us with our biggest challenge.  As it is fear which can, and so often

If ever there was a time when humans might be considered as being in need of the assistance and protection of god, or the gods.  Then, yes, now might be considered to be such a time. When all over the world, on every continent on the planet, there has been and are what has been categorised as 'natural disasters' occurring.  Landslides and floodings in Africa, floodings in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other regions of the sub-continent, flooding in China, the United States, and hurricanes in the Caribbean and the Americas. Earthquakes in Mexico.  Flooding in Italy, following on from what has become the incidence of at least one annual earthquake. With all this misery being meted out, annually, to tens, if not hundreds of millions of people, many of whom are losing much or all of their earthly possession, might we not also ask ourselves, if not others this question.  Does all of this have some relevance for how us humans are treating our environment? 

Germans, like the electorate in any of the other liberal democracies, will be having mixed feelings as they approach their national elections this month, to decide who is to be their new Chancellor.  With the two front runners being the incumbent Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the aspiring contender, Martin Schultz, some, or probably many Germans might not be given to losing any sleep over deciding who to support. There is this saying, probably which might appeal more to ordinary electorate who have other things to occupy their daily lives, that, if it is not broken, why bother changing it.  Angela Merkel is not like some Middle Eastern or Asian despotic potentate, or some corrupt semi-benevolent ruler of a former European colony.  She is a pragmatic and, arguably, prudent and compassionate leader of the German State.  It might even be argued that, the challenge of addressing the refugee and migration crisis.   Which has impacted on European countries, including Germa

As sentient humans, probably the majority of us have a strong tendency displays of compassion towards our fellow humans.  But our compassion, as does our sense of shock, can wear thin, and is not given to effectively removing the causes which have given rise to our shock and our compassion. An example of this being so is the plight of the people of Yemen, who continue to die and suffer the depredation of a vicious war being waged by Saudi Arabia's government and its American, European and Arab allies.  many organisations and some governments have been strenuous in their efforts to highlight the atrocities being committed against the Yemenis.  Including indiscriminate bombing of civilians, the destruction of much of the country's infrastructure, the starvation of millions of Yemenis and the displacement of millions of others.  And still, the brutal war still grinds on. With a certain amount of 'normality' still prevailing in countries not afflicted with

'Like the great fertility and awe-inspiring presence which is to be found where two great rivers converge.  So,  also, is the crucial importance of 'borderlands' where people of different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds are contiguous to one another.  What happens here, can have great influence on, and implications for the relationships between these citizens, in the wider society.' In probably every multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society, there are those privileged and pioneering humans who are living at the edge, or in the diverse cultural borderlands.  Those geographical locations where the interaction between the society's different ethnic and culturally discrete groups, is at its most extensive and intensive display. These areas of heighten inter-ethnic and cultural activities, can be likened to the different overlapping circles of a socio-gram.  With the activities occurring mostly in the shaded areas where each compon

Supposed, for example, Hitler and his Nazi had won the merciless conflagration that was World War Two, can we really imagine what the history' books and the monuments to the 'heroes of the Fatherland would now be asserting?  You know what, I do not want to imagine what the history books, the demon books of the Third Reich would have been saying.  After all, why torture myself and any hapless reader who would then have the misfortune to lay their eyes and contemplate their thoughts on such perversity? No, let me return to the issue of America's misery about her 'heroes', the now long dead people to whom Americans, in the manner of people all over the world, have built monuments to honour.  It is, of course, not a bad thing for Americans to question the historical character of their dead heroes whom they have monumentised.  Examine them in a more holistic manner, to see if, notwithstanding the fact that they had apparently passed muster for the gen