You're stuck in your mindset and your worldview, I think. Religion (even Western religion) does not comprise "going to church". AFAIK, Islam as it has existed since the 7C in the ME in… (View Post)

I think you are perhaps trying to apply Western European assumptions in a Middle Eastern culture, and perhaps imagining that Islam in the ME exists separately to polity / society; not so - it encompa… (View Post)

FPT: Yes - some slightly different Usonian definitions / usage, and it was a good test knowing what the *other* options meant in detail, and stopping before words were read to choose the word *I* wou… (View Post)

I think Clarkson's problem is that he thinks he should be a law unto Himself, and presented his programme as such. He is pursuing only his own interest, and if he was on the other end he would b… (View Post)

I think Greenbelt is overemphasised relative to other designations for preservation / conservation; it has too much head space so it is obsessed over. Large areas of the country have little or no Gre… (View Post)