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Queen's University Drops "Speech Police" Idea after Investigation
2009-02-19 06:53:00
Tim Waggoner writes from KINGSTON, Ontario, February 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - 'Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, has ditched its controversial "dialogue facilitator" program after protests from Queen's alumni spurred a three-member panel investigation.In the fall of 2008, Queens hired six graduate students from diverse backgrounds to encourage campus discussions on race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and other social issues. The students were advised to step-in whenever they heard conversations that could be deemed "offensive," or that involved "hate speech."The program barely lasted a semester, however, before the press and Queen's alumni became privy to the "speech police" initiative and, following a public outcry, a panel was hired to investigate.The panel sided with critics of the program, finding that, "The proposed method of intervention has the potential of making students feel unsafe or under surveillance because of their opinions."It is incompatible wi...
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The Muslims of Bombay deserve to be congratulated
2009-02-18 15:38:00
The New York Times'Thomas L. Friedman writes'There are nine bodies ? all of them young men ? that have been lying in a Mumbai hospital morgue since Nov. 29. They may be stranded there for a while because no local Muslim charity is willing to bury them in its cemetery. This is good news.The nine are the Pakistani Muslim terrorists who went on an utterly senseless killing rampage in Mumbai on 26/11 ? India ?s 9/11 ? gunning down more than 170 people, including 33 Muslims , scores of Hindus, as well as Christians and Jews. It was killing for killing?s sake. They didn?t even bother to leave a note.All nine are still in the morgue because the leadership of India?s Muslim community has called them by their real name ? ?murderers? not ?martyrs? ? and is refusing to allow them to be buried in the main Muslim cemetery of Mumbai, the 7.5-acre Bada Kabrastan graveyard, run by the Muslim Jama Masjid Trust. ?People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim,? Hanif Nalkhande, a spo...
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A blogging milestone
2009-02-17 07:30:00
Yesterday was I think my first day with 100 hits. They were from 15 countries. Do say hello folks by sending your comments on my various ramblings.
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Visiting my local mosque
2009-02-17 07:26:00
I was among the first to enter the Islam exhibition in the halls of the mosque in West Ealing. It is a very professional exhibition as I expected from the URL but it was not staffed by professionals but locals. I walked round than asked the man on the desk why, though they had lots on the prophet Jesus, they had not displayed his greatest titles in the Koran, titles given to no other prophet, theirs not excepted. Jesus is the Word of God, the Spirit of God. he said all prophets have different titles. i replied no-one has these titles. Eventually others joined in the conversation, Muslims form India, Pakistan and Somalia. We had a full and frank exchange of views in a very good spirit. We discussed Wilders and freedom of speech, just about everything except I never got onto taqiyya. This was because these guys were so friendly I did not want to say I could not trust them according to their religion. Taqiyya means the end justifies the means and you can deceive non-Muslims to promote ...
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The Natural History Museum
2009-02-16 20:40:00
A family party of nine went round today. See Facebook for photos. It is excellent apart from one thing. All the datings from pre-history do not come with a knowledge warning. There should be a large warning on entering the museum to say their position is one of uniformitarian evolutionism. All dates there are dependent on one presuppostion. The uniformity of natural causes in a closed system. If the universe is an open system where God may intervene, all the dating could be wrong.
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Government accused of anti-Christian discrimination
2009-02-15 22:49:00
'The British Government was today accused by a shadow minister of failing to prevent "systematic discrimination" against Christian s in Britain. Shadow communities minister Stewart Jackson told MPs of a school receptionist who was "on the verge" of suspension for defending her Christian beliefs.Jennie Cain, 38, from Devon, faces the sack for asking a church for prayer support after her five-year-old daughter was told off for talking about God and heaven during a lesson.The incident comes days after nurse Caroline Petrie, from Weston-super-Mare, was suspended for offering to pray for a patient.Speaking from the back benches during exchanges on Commons business, Mr Jackson (Peterborough) called for a debate on "systematic and institutional discrimination towards Christians".He said: "We saw last week the case of Mrs Petrie who was suspended by North Somerset Primary Care Trust and only reinstated after a media furore."This week we see anti-Christian zealots in Devon who are on the ver...
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UK married families taxed more
2009-02-15 22:04:00
The Christian Institute says.Married families where one parent stays at home are under a heavier tax burden in the UK than in other countries, new research shows.The study into marriage tax follows separate research estimating that the fall-out from family breakdown is costing the British economy £37 billion annually.Launched in time for National Marriage Week, the new figures will pile pressure on politicians to reform the system to support couples who get married, rather than penalising them.Researchers at the think-tank Christian Action, Research and Education (CARE) compared the UK?s tax system with that of other developed countries.They say that while other countries find some way of recognising marriage in the tax system, Britain is failing to adjust the amount of tax paid by earners with dependent spouses.A married UK family with one earner and two children pays 20.6 per cent in tax if they are on an average wage.This is almost double the burden on families overseas. In Ameri...
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Rushdie and Wilders. Why the different treatment?
2009-02-14 07:05:00
BBC says,'It is 20 years since Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses.The novel's launch led to widespread protest by Muslims who regarded it as blasphemous, including public burning of the book.Rushdie had to live in hiding and under special protection for several years.And while he is now able to live a more public life, he says the affair remains "an albatross around his neck".Last year, he told BBC's Newsnight that he was considering writing a book about the experience.Nine days after The Satanic Verses was published in Britain in September 1988, it was banned in India.Muslims who wanted the book withdrawn in Britain burned a copy at a demonstration in Bradford's main square.Protests gathered pace in various countries, and on 14 February 1989, the Iranian revolutionary leader issued the fatwa.There were attacks on people involved in translating or publishing the book.Although Iran said this week...
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Books read in February 2009
2009-02-13 06:05:00
1. Praise!This is the second time our church's hymnbook has appeared here. I read a coule of pages a day as part of my early morning devotions as a springboard to praise and thankgiving. I continue to like the balance f old and new, psalms and hymns. Usually the revisiond do help. Sometimes they lose the plot. 'My chains fell off, my heart was free,I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.'Loses its force when it becomes.'My chains fell off, my heart was new,I rose, went forth, and followed you.'But this book does get top marks from me on the whole.
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Christian critique of Fitna
2009-02-12 21:50:00
Click the title to hear what expert Jay Smith has to say.
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Dutch politician Geert Wilders lands at Heathrow despite ban over anti-Isla
2009-02-12 16:44:00
Torygraph says,'Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the right-wing Dutch politician banned from entering the UK over his anti-Islam views, has landed at Heathrow .Mr Wilders was told he could not come to Britain on public order grounds Photo: EPAHe was invited to Westminster to show his 17-minute film Fitna, which criticises the Koran as a "fascist book", by a member of the House of Lords.But on Tuesday he received a letter from the Home Office refusing him entry because his opinions "would threaten community security and therefore public security" in the UK.Mr Wilders, a member of Holland's Freedom Party, condemned the British Government as "weak and cowardly" and vowed he would make the trip anyway.He left Amsterdam on a BMI flight at lunchtime, a party spokesman said.The aircraft touched down at London's Heathrow Airport at about 2pm.BMI refused to confirm that Mr Wilders had booked a flight with the airline, citing data protection laws.A spokesman said only: "We are obliged to obs...
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The British Authorities Surrendering to Extremism
2009-02-12 12:26:00
The Brusells Journal reports 'From the desk of A. Millar on Wed, 2009-02-11 09:41The British government is currently preparing to accept Guantanamo Bay detainees from the US authorities. It has consistently failed to deport known terrorists and promoters of jihad against the West, and against Britain. And Britain?s intelligence service has identified 2,000 terrorist suspects inside the country. However, such men apparently pose a far lower security risk than that of the cultured, mild-mannered, coiffed, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who has been informed that he will likely be refused entry to the UK should he try. A letter signed Irving N. Jones, on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, declares that the Dutch politician?s ?[?] presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society.? It is of course what Jones calls Wilders? ?statements about Muslims and their beliefs? in Fitna and else...
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Is it a sin to be a Christian now?
2009-02-12 09:32:00
Click on the title for this discussion on our local Ealing ForumSome would call me a fundamentalist Bible basher. it's all water off this duck's back. We live in a de jure constitutionally Christian country. De facto we are a secular state. Our liberties come from our Christian Reformation heritage and a bloody civil war, not the Enlightenment which gave us the French Revolution. Starting with Cromwell welcoming back the Jews, we have been home to other people of faith and grown in religious liberty. Then Christians were confident about their faith, confident enough to fight one another over it. Now most people influenced by a postmodernism they could not formulate, have succumbed to multiculturalism which sees truth in all religions and none. The multiculturalist establishment has this way failed to spot the threat that a minority of the followers of the religion of jihad could be to our society. They are ashamed of our Christian heritage for they have no personal commitment to i...
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Whole world Needs A Leader Like This!
2009-02-11 10:30:00
'Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - Australia Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks..Separately, Rudd angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote:'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. ''This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom''We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!''Most Australians believe in God...
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I'm not a dhimmi. Get me out of here!
2009-02-11 07:20:00
Brusells Journal reports 'From the desk of Thomas Landen on Tue, 2009-02-10 17:57This morning Lord Malcolm Pearson, a member of the British House of Lords, announced that he has invited Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament, to show the movie Fitna (see it here) in a committee room of the House of Lords next Thursday (12 February). Mr. Wilders has been asked to address a private meeting with members of the British Parliament, explaining to the Peers and MPs why he made Fitna and to engage in an open and frank discussion with them.This afternoon Mr. Wilders received a letter from the British Embassy in The Hague [see below] saying that he is a ?persona non grata? in the United Kingdom. The ambassador told Mr. Wilders that he is a threat to public security and public harmony because of the controversy created by Fitna. Mr. Wilders intends to go to London anyway. ?Let them arrest me in Heathrow,? he says.If Mr. Wilders is denied entry to the United Kingdom, it will be the fi...

The Decline of the English-Speaking World
2009-02-10 08:31:00
From the desk of Fjordman on Mon, 2009-02-09 08:26I will defend all Western countries but I feel especially close to Britain, which makes it all the more sad to see how humiliated this once-great nation currently is. The English language once conquered the world. Now the rest of the world is conquering the English-speaking countries. If current trends continue, people in Singapore will know English while the nation that created the English language will cease to exist.At the same time as sharia law has gained official recognition as a part of the British legal system and Muslims proudly talk about conquering the Western world, a British woman was arrested because of a supposedly "racist" doll she kept in her window. In al-Britannia a Muslim man can claim benefits for children with multiple wives and brag about subduing the country and reducing its traditional inhabitants to second-rate citizens or worse, but you cannot have a "racially insensitive" doll in your own home, at least no...
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Brand kettle called Golly Pot Thatcher black?
2009-02-09 06:56:00
In Brusells Journal, '.. it was reported on the 2nd February 2009 that the comedian and Labour Party supporter Jo Brand was being investigated by the police for allegedly inciting criminal acts against her political opponents. While presenting a BBC television programme on the 16th January 2009, she rejoiced that the membership list of the British National Party had been stolen and published on the Internet. Her exact words were: "Hurrah! Now we know who to send the poo to". The natural meaning of her words was that it would be a fine idea to look up members of this party and send excrement to them through the post. The British National Party put in an immediate complaint, using the hate speech laws made during the past generation. According to a BBC spokesman, "We do not comment on police matters. However, we believe the audience would have understood the satirical nature of the remarks". It is relevant to note that Mrs Brand was present when Carol Thatcher ....."So the ugly mug d...
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THE government is building a secret database to track and hold the internat
2009-02-08 11:03:00
From The Sunday Times February 8, 2009 'The intelligence centre will store names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details for all 250m passenger movements in and out of the UK each year.The computerised pattern of every individual?s travel history will be stored for up to 10 years, the Home Office admits.The government says the new database, to be housed in an industrial estate in Wythenshawe, near Manchester, is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism. However, opposition MPs, privacy campaigners and some government officials fear it is a significant step towards a total surveillance society.Chris Grayling, shadow home secretary, said: ?The government seems to be building databases to track more and more of our lives.?The justification is always about security or personal protection. But the truth is that we have a government that just can?t be trusted over these highly sensitive issues. We must no...
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Europe?s War on Free Speech
2009-02-08 09:43:00
From the desk of Soeren Kern published by Pajama?s Media on January 30, 2009Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies GroupThe Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ordered the criminal prosecution of a Dutch Member of Parliament for criticizing Islam. The court?s ruling overturns a previous decision by Dutch public prosecutors, who had determined that there was not enough evidence to charge Geert Wilders, leader of the conservative Free dom Party, for hate crimes after he produced a hard-hitting film that says Islam promotes violence. In a written judgment, the appeals court said that ?by attacking the symbols of the Muslim religion, [Wilders] also insulted Muslim believers.?The ruling will please the Dutch Muslim immigrant groups who asked the appeals court to force the justice department to prosecute Wilders for expressing his opinions. But many others say the prosecution is an alarming attack on free ...
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A Letter to Mankind
2009-02-07 14:07:00
'Dear Friend,Madness has overtaken a portion of humanity and what they do is nothing short of insanity.We are losing the fight against terrorism. That is because we are missing the target.We must reach to the world and let everyone know that terrorism is the symptom and the real problem is the ideology behind it.We need your help. Please read the following short ?Letter to Mankind ? and if you agree please forward it to all the people in your address book and request them to do the same.Send a copy to your newspaper and politician too. Everyone must hear this message.Sincerely yoursAli Sina A Letter to MankindDear fellow human, Today humanity is being challenged. Unthinkable atrocities take place on daily basis. There is an evil force at work that aims to destroy us. The agents of this evil respect nothing; not even the lives of children. Every day there are bombings, every day innocent people are targeted and murdered. It seems as if we are helpless. But we are not! The ancient ...
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Mind of the Musulman
2009-02-07 12:07:00
'Chapter 12The Muslim community is theocratic ? Religious law, inflexible and immutable, regulates its institutions as well as individual conduct ? Legislation-Education-Government ? The position of women ? Commerce ? Property ? No originality in Muslim institutions ? The Arab has imitated and distorted ? In his manifestations of intellectual activity he appears to be paralytic, and since he has impregnated Islam with his inertia, the nations who have adopted this religion are stricken with the same sterility ? All Muslims, whatever their ethnic origin, think and act like a Bedouin barbarian of the time of Mohammed.HAVING studied the history of the Arab Empire and penetrated the causes of its decline and fall, we are in a better position to understand the psychology of the Muslim or rather that deformation that has come about through Arab influence, with Islam as its instrument, in every individual who has adopted this religion.The Muslim community is theocratic; everything in it i...
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Lord Ahmed's attempts to silence debate on the true nature of Islam fail
2009-02-07 06:58:00
CCFOC published: 4th February 2009, 'Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament since 1998 and the founder of the Party for Freedom, has been re-invited to screen his latest film, Fitna, in the House of Lord s later this month after the original event was cancelled in the face of threats by Lord Ahmed to mobilise Muslims to stop Mr Wilders entering Parliament. Fitna is a short film made by Mr Wilders in 2008 that explores the Koran?s position on terrorism, Islam ic universalism, and Islam in the Netherlands and Europe. The film?s title comes from the Arabic word ?fitna? which is used to describe ?disagreement and division among people?, or a ?test of faith in times of trial?. Mr Wilders was initially invited to screen his film Fitna in the House of Lords on 29th January 2009. However, various representatives of the British Muslim community objected to this invitation. Lord Ahmed, was created a life peer in 1998 by the Labour Government and was the first Muslim peer. He threatene...
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Stewardship- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-02-07 06:49:00
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbours. - John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian ReligionI promised to deal with the reason why none of the New Testament writers ever made the tithe the basis for Christian giving. The fact is quite conspicuous and quite startling, especially in the case of Paul. The relief fund for Jerusalem would have given him ample opportunity and reason to insist upon the tithe if he had wanted to make it normative for the Church. Why did Jesus, Paul, and all the Apostles refrain from making use of that well-established biblical tradition?After having read through the New Testament witness to simplicity, and specifically its statements on wealth, the answer to that question is probably obvious to you. The tithe is simply in not a sufficiently radical concept to embody the carefree unconcern for possessions that marks life in the Ki...

Are you a racist?
2009-02-06 06:24:00
Click on the title to take the Harvard test. I am pleased to confirm my result says, 'You have completed the African American - European American IAT.Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American.' From their statistics i am in a minority and I do feel proud.
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NHS staff face sack if they discuss religion
2009-02-06 05:10:00
Daily Telegraph says,'All National Health Service employees risk losing their job if they discuss their religious beliefs with colleagues or patients, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. Following overwhelming public support for Caroline Petrie, the Christian nurse who was suspended after she offered to pray for an elderly patient, her employers have caved said she could return to her job.The row over her treatment has reached the House of Commons, with Sir Patrick Cormack, the Tory MP for South Staff ordshire, claiming that her case had highlighted the ?utter absurdities? of political correctness.Although Mrs Petrie was relieved her ordeal was over, fears have been raised that new rules could lead to the dismissal of any health care worker who tries to talk about their faith to others.A little-noticed document published by the Department of Health last month gives warning that attempts by doctors or nurses to preach to other staff or patients will be treated as harassment or intimidati...
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The Mom Song
2009-02-06 03:34:00
Click the title for the song all parents want and all kids need.
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Statistics- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-02-06 03:30:00
Statisticians probably do it.Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.Half of the people in the world are below average.On the average, everybody has one testicle.79.84% of all statistics are made up on the spot. The other 42% are made up later on. A report by the think-tank Demos reveals that in spite of the view that Britain is becoming a secular society, the majority in the country still proclaim themselves to be Christian, with only 4% claiming to be atheist. The most startling finding is that not only do 71% of British people believe in God but 68% profess themselves to be Christians, with over 50% believing in heaven, the resurrection and life after death. 53% pray. Christian Institute[The War Office kept three sets of figures:] one to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself. Herbert Henry Asquith (09/12/1852 &endash; 02/15/1928Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.-Albert ...
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Islam's Shariah cited in 7 of 10 worst nations worldwide
2009-02-05 19:27:00
Bob Unruh of WorldNetDaily says,'Reports that at least 10 Christians were abducted and killed for their faith ? sometimes by beheading ? during 2008 has pushed Somalia into the Top 10 among nation's that aggressively persecute Christians, according to a new report from Open Doors USA.The organization today released its 2009 World Watch List, which cited North Korea ? for the seventh straight year ? as the nation that persecutes Christians more intensely than any other around the globe.But Somalia rose from 12th in 2008 to 5th this year because of the growing level of attacks there, according to the report which noted two of the worst three nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are nations governed by Islamic Shariah law, and seven of the Top 10 nations fall into that category.Paul Estabrooks, the organization's minister-at-large, told WND that those Islamic nations "certainly are impacted significantly by Shariah."According to reports from Compass Direct News, it was only about 12 week...
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Austrian Islam
2009-02-05 19:16:00
Austrian Times says,'Islam ic instruction in Austria will change in the wake of a new study concluding it is in need of a shake-up to bring it up to modern standards.The Education Ministry and the Austrian Islamic Denomination have agreed on a package of changes providing for new contracts for Islamic instructors and new lesson plans for the teaching of Islam in Austrian public schools.Lower Austrian school council president Hermann Helm called yesterday (Tues) for strict control of all Islamic instruction and lesson materials. One illustration in a textbook used for Islamic instruction reportedly shows a dead Muslim fighter described as a martyr.Helm also called for all Islamic instruction to be conducted in the German language. He added new contracts had to oblige Islamic instructors to respect the values of democracy. Those who refused to, Helm said, should be fired on the spot.Mouhanad Khorchide is a professor of the sociology of religion at the Islamic Religion and Pedagogical ...
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The Cart before the Horse - Terrorism and Violence in Islam
2009-02-05 18:32:00
Sam Solomon is the executive director of FFM (Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims) which is a prayer fellowship that seeks to encourage Christians to pray for the Muslim world and so to this end publishes a regular prayer bulletin. He writes, 'Baquba... Abu-Ghraib... Takrit... Al-Qaeda... Bint-Jubail... Fallaujah... Hamidi ... Samarra... Hamed Al-Suaidi... Al-Zarqawi... Bin Ladin... Ahmadinejad!During the half-decade since 9/11 in New York City, this generation of reporters has quickly mastered the pronunciation of such previously unfamiliar place names and surnames as the above. And many of these have practically become household words - words which now roll off the tongues of reporters as smoothly as if they were born to it.It's all a part of what is termed the "new normal'. In essence, we have a new reality and a new vocabulary - a vocabulary of terror.We have mastered this new vocabulary as well as the necessary related geography of their lands, lands about which we never dre...
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