This is what the world needs more of....

Dr. Tawfik Hamid, is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization JI with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri who became later on the second in command of Al-Qaeda. Some twenty-five years ago, he recognized the threat of Radical Islam and the need for a reformation based upon modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts.

"I am a Muslim by faith.... a Christian by spirit....a Jew by heart....and above all I am a human being."

Dr. Tawfik Hamid.

I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam

After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of  the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations. I  have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.  We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques. What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys".. Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate? I have been into churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time we curse them, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to hate them. We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammad when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years old. I am sad to say that many,  if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.   Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause.  Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam. Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the Hejab (Head Scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders. It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts.  We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East . We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel , women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights.  I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel . It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel , its 'enemy'. If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening. We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind.  Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other  religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on  non-Muslims to spread Islam. Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We Muslims have to Change'.   Tawfik Hamid   It can be done with more people like Dr. Hamid. Good, isn't it....

Marvellous things from the world around us..... some actual headlines.

This is what he thinks of the world to-day..... he's right. Complete Hysteria.

Poison caterpillars invade estate. Now there's something for us to contemplate. Were they given the poison by some foreign power intent on causing mayhem, or is it inside their furry little bodies? How did they know which estate to invade? They must be controlled by some outer space alien telling them to go and invade. There could be a film made about this: The Crawl of the Killer Caterpillars. Death eases up to an unsuspecting family's home in the midst of night. Millions of Caterpillars are given their marching orders to poison and kill! Beware they might be out to get you too! Children must be well behaved ( too right they should) and locked up in their home ( a lot of them should be) to thwart the killer Caterpillars! Thwart.. that's a nice word, I always wanted to use it somewhere. Parents should be warned, be good or DIE!! IS there no stopping the caterpillars on the march? No. And if you're not careful, they'll send out via bush telephone calls to their friends the Fire Ants to come and get you!! And that's worse than a fate facing death. Does that make sense? It sounds good, so I'll leave it in.

Cheryl gets pranked... Balls of Steel!   OH MY!! Superman's at it again! First we had David Beckham with his Golden Balls, now along comes old Supie with his Balls of Steel! The mind boggles! What does he do? Cheryl has been pranked with Steel Balls!! What have they been up to, or down, whichever... Crushed or squeezed, it sounds very uncomfortable....or maybe shaken and not stirred? My mind's reeling with all the possibilities...

7,500 waiting for miracle cream. For what? I know, but do you? It's to ease the wrinkles out of ones face. A large chain of shops had it on sale, it was sold out in about 3/5ths of a nano second and there's this huge waiting list for it. Will one by recognizable any more after using it? Faces have wrinkles to make sure you don't look like the next person, some have them, some don't. And it's like getting old, it happens to us all. Death and taxes are the other 2 things one can't escape either, come to think of it!

Good, isn't it....

A look at some of the worlds headlines....

What shall I ponder about now? Rodin's done his thing already...

Thousands of scantily clad women to march in London as SLUTWALK  protest spreads to UK.... now there's something to look forward to! Or is it? If it shows the obese lot which are now in the UK, Samantha Cameron and Victoria Beckham ( before the baby bump) apart, I don't know if I shall be watching. Having seen some of the photos, I think this is a miss. On the other hand, it could be a good thing to keep radicals off the streets as they shouldn't be looking at this, but I'm sure they all will, with telescopes and goggles all the better to see with!

Justin Bieber brands Marge Helgenberger ( a lovely woman)  "kinda lame" after she complains abut his bratty antics on set. Way to go Marge! Give him a quick boot where it hurts for me please. This is one spoilt brat who has absolutely nothing going for him except an awful hairstyle if you could call it that, and hordes of screaming kids. At least when I screamed at rock stars, they were good...this one is a joke. And he's not a star. Thats' reserved for those that have earned it.

Pakistan grants the USA access to Bin Ladens wives ... what on earth for? Will they want to learn how to cook whilst on the run? I suppose there could be a tv programme called: In Pursuit of Happyness. Life on the run with OBL. How to wear camouflage make-up.  Then there will be follow up books entitled: How to cope with secrecy, and stress of changing clothes without being seen by a man. Useful sort of thing, isn't it. I can see it becoming a best seller immediately. Or you could have cookbooks: My life with a goat. How to kill, clean and eat...

An instant cure for baldness, if you don't mind being injected with  pigs bladders.  ??? Now how do they see this?Apparently ones own blood is mixed with a powder derived from pigs. I am wondering what side effects could be. Oinking instead of sneezing, maybe? Eating  from troughs? IQ's going up? As we all know pigs are intelligent, probaby a lot more than we are to expect this sort of thing to actually work. I can't wait to see the results...

Man tries to walk on water. Apparently he tried to emulate Jesus by wearing oversized paddles on his feet. He didn't get too far though. A wave came up and bowled him over and he drowned. 

This reminds me of the simply dreadful joke about walking on water.

St Peter was at the pearly gates when 3 long haired men came up to him. All 3 were wearing long white robes and looked serious. St. Peter asked them who they were and all 3 replied: Jesus. He then was in a dilemma. How was he to find out which was Jesus?

Very simple. He asked each one to walk across a lake he conjoured up. The first one did and didn't go down. The second one did and also he too didn't go down.  The 3rd one did and promptly went under. St Peter hauled him out, called him Jesus and granted him access to heaven. Do you know why? He had holes in his feet.

Good, isn't it.....

That was a crazy weekend.............

Watch out little one! It was like this at the weekend!

Donald Trump was well and truly trumped by President Obama at the White House Correspondants dinner last week. The Pres. took him to bits, poked fun at him and also at himself and the First Lady plus other various people and managed to get The Donald sitting with a lot of egg on his face and a murderous expression. It serves him right. Anyone with such a dreadful hairstyle simply cannot be taken seriously. It also applies to people who have bizarre names: Newt Gingrich??? Reince Priebus,??? Saxby Chambliss??? Chaka Fattah??? Where do their parents get them from? They sound like something out of Star Wars! They are all American politicians. Forsooth! They make Miliband and co. look positively bland.... which they are, come to think of it.

Then up goes the Pres. once more and blasts the radical death machine called OBL to death. Nice strike guys. He should not have been left alive and burying him at sea so there's no shrine, was a clever move. We all know there will be some idiot who will jump up and vow to avenge his death, but I think they authorities do know this. It's put a lot of peoples minds at ease and given many, closure. I do wish the majority of the Arab world, and Muslims in general, I'm not talking about radicals, would say more about all this. I'm sure they're quite glad that this madman has been put to rest, but one hears barely a whisper from them. It would do your image with the Western World a lot of good if you did join in the condemnations as well. We are far too nice to you all, it's your turn to be nice back. Try it.

I went to see the movie THOR yesterday as it was such stupid weather. It was super! Great fun and a treat on the eyes. I'm going to see it again. I love films where one can lose oneself in the inanities, although this wasn't an inane film. To the contrary. MEET DAVE, with Eddy Murphy, was, and I roared with laughter through it. It was so bad that it was good.

As I sit here pondering the foibles of mankind, of which there are far too many, I am reminded of the words my friends Confucius says: Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of the desert. I haven't a clue why this has struck me as being a profound thought for the day, but it did.

Good, isn't it....