Movements in the World and in the Mind
You don't need the end of a year to review the past and perhaps make resolutions for the future, but it does help. The Dark Fairy year started a couple of months ago and the dawn of a new year according to the Gregorian calendar is just another point in time to take stock. For... Continue Reading →
After a highly exciting Arab Spring in which the West came to the conclusion that Arabs are just like 'normal' people wishing to live in a free and democratic system, things have turned rather sour. Syria has fallen into an abyss of severe violence and Egypt's freely elected president Morsi, in first instants given the... Continue Reading →
After the Dark Fairy Fury comes the distress felt by christian and friend Helen - think my trip to Durham, trip to Siwa back in the days at the Med- after the outpour of criticism on the rejection of the ordination of female bishops as she feels her family is in crisis. I am what’s... Continue Reading →
I am a person of faith and I am very interested in the way people practice faith in whichever shape or form. I don't call myself a religious person as I have no faith in belief systems. I can be in awe of buildings established in the name of god, however, the rituals that go... Continue Reading →
As if there is not enough volatility, violence, death and destruction going on in the region, as if there wasn't an intensely brutal conflict gripping Syria spilling over into constitutionally fragile Lebanon and the politically tense Golan Heights. As if the Bedouins of the Sinai are not giving expression to their frustration as the marginalised... Continue Reading →
31 October has many names; some call it All Souls Day or the Day of the Dead. Some call it Samhain (say saveen or sowwen). My dear friend Rick from Lowlands country calls it his birthday and popular Anglo-Saxon culture calls it Halloween. For the Dark Fairy it's a time to reflect on the results... Continue Reading →
So after being haunted for four weeks by a story that just wouldn't go away, the Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell decided to resign over plebgate. Politicians are only too human and therefore fallible, just like us lesser mortals. However, one of the issues with democracy is that the electorate expect their leaders to lead... Continue Reading →
Muslim wrath has reared it's rather ugly head yet again on a global scale this week due to a short film made in California demeaning the prophet Mohammed and the religion of Islam. US embassies across the globe have been attacked costing the lives of a US ambassador and other staff. The wave of anger... Continue Reading →
It seems the Muslim is easily insulted. He- the Public Muslim tends to be male- objects to art unless strictly Islamic and music is also Haraam. The Muslim wrath sure reared its ugly head when writer Salman Rushdie got fatwa-ed by the Ayatollah of Iran for alleged blasphemy in his novel the Satanic Verses back... Continue Reading →
As Usain Bolt set a new Olympic record in the final of the 100m sprint while his friend and main rival Yohan Blake came a respectable second, Jamaica got themselves some gift to celebrate 50 years of independence. It was on 6 August 1962 that Jamaica became and independent state with its own constitution and... Continue Reading →
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