The news that the Muslim Ladies College in Perth has been closed down by the government and its acting director charged with fraud is not as shocking as it should be to me. Continue reading
Year: 2007
Interactive restaurant. A testimonial.
If you already know what an interactive restaurant is then you are way ahead of me. What I do know, however, is that when I go to a restaurant, I would like someone else to prepare my food. Call me old-fashioned but going to a restaurant means I don’t wanna cook. Continue reading
Fifteen minutes of fame is too long.
When Andy Warhol said in the Sixties “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” I didn’t get it then and I still don’t get it. It was a throw-away line by an overrated “artist” who enjoyed saying and doing stupid things. There was one thing, however, that he wasn’t stupid at Continue reading
Why climate change is not a crisis.
In our everyday life we have to handle situations that are mundane but frustrating. Yes, we can discuss world peace and famine with friends, but in reality our daily life revolves around the ordinary. Continue reading
Gillian Gibbons, anarchist.
Looks like my vacation in the Sudan is on again. For a few days I was apprehensive about visiting the place but when Gillian Gibbons assured the world that the Sudan was truly a lovely spot after all, then I said, why not? Continue reading
The Name Game
When feminism came on the scene in the Nineteen Sixties (I am intentionally not referring to the suffragette movement of the preceding century) women began to question their role in marriage, society, work situations etc. A society can only benefit from people questioning certain aspects of it. Nothing is written in stone, after all, in the non-Muslim world, that is. Continue reading
Say no to fruit juice!
Whenever I visit a mall in Australia I despair at the long queues in front of the fruit juice vendors. I feel like going up to the teenagers in the queues and shaking them. Continue reading
Tattoos, piercings, brandings etc.
My education is an ongoing thing but this latest bit of information has almost, but not quite, left me speechless. Continue reading
“America Alone” by Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn can be described as the Paul Revere of the modern age. While the West sleeps, Islamic nations have been slowly infiltrating the U.S, Europe, Australia and Canada.
Steyn regards Europe as a lost cause which did not notice that Muslims were multiplying much faster than Europeans so that the most popular name for newborn babes in Europe is Mohammad. He regards this change in demography, the aging population of Europe and its low birth rate as being extremely dangerous to the future of our Western culture.
He encourages us all to change that demography by having more children.
He also warns us that Muslim fundamentalists mean business when they declare they hate the West and want to destroy it.
What is going on France right now with the Muslim youth riots, must be terrifying to the French population. This is the second round of riots since 2005 and it was Sarkozy’s tough stance against the first round of riots that brought him to power.
Most European countries are becoming more right wing because of the threat caused by the changing demographics. Steyn has conceded defeat in Europe but I hope that the youths will embrace education and work and then perhaps they won’t feel so angry.
If truth be told, however, a higher education is no guarantee that the youths will be happy to assimilate. The 9/11 bombers were educated, after all. The latest would-be bombers in England were doctors.
if the Muslim youths continue their vendetta, then they will not win friends in France or anywhere else in Europe. You can’t force people to like you if you are bashing them up and burning their property, can you?
“America Alone” is similar in theme to Melanie Phillips’ “Londonistan” but is much more pertinent and interesting to read.
Steyn has a brilliantly effective and humorous style that belies the seriousness of his topic.
In one sentence his message is “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
The ugly face of competitions.
Anyone who thinks that beauty pageants have anything to do with beauty are seriously kidding themselves. It’s all about competition and what should be a celebration of beauty brings out the basest in human nature. Continue reading