Day February 6, 2006

One tough kid

A six-year-old boy has been found alive after spending up to 36 hours in the Red Sea on his own following the sinking of a ferry. His uncle Haroun, who has visited the boy in hospital, said he was grateful…

Craig Murray on cartoons and religion

Excerpts follow, read the whole thing Muslims have every right to believe that nobody should caricature Mohammed, and presumably Muslims don’t do such things. However they have no right to stop anyone else from producing cartoons, commenting on the age…

Hypocrisy

Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons In 2003, “Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has…

Why am I here?

More from DJ Mitchell in Sri Lanka “If you’re wondering what I’m doing in Sri Lanka, you’re not alone. I wonder myself sometimes. I’m in the midst of an 18-day visit in support the latest Peace Initiative of the Sarvodaya…

Attacking Iran

They’re going to do it. Bomb Iran (probably via Israel.) The blowback will be enormous. I’m guessing Iran already has a counterattack planned (they’d be fools not to have one.) The Middle East will become even more destabilized, the US…