*This weekend has seen protest by Muslims over the Pope's lecture concerning the relationship between violence and religion. Effigies of the Pope were burned putting me in mind of the old celebrations for Guy Fawkes night here in England.

* The Muslim Parliament of Great Britain (whoever they are, I certainly didn't get a vote) mouthed off some predictable complaint. The Primitive Baptist (2nd Convention) Parliament of Great Britain were strangely silent on this issue. The Pagan Parliament of Great Britain said the great huntress goddess would reap a dark harvest of any who opposed the natural religion of Albion.

* The great puzzle of course is why Muslims come to live in England at all. Its not as though there aren't perfectly good Islamic countries in the world. Why would a Muslim come to live in a notoriously secular country ( the English are not naturally religious and an individual would enter a church ,at most, twice in their lives, on their entrance and on their exit). In addition the English has an alcohol based society with little rivalry except perhaps the Russians. Alcohol being available 24 hrs a day. The English allow the same freedom's for both sexes and have admirable abortion, single mother, STD rates far above other western states. The media purveys large quantities of soft porn. One would imagine Muslims would avoid the country like a plague. Not only that but the English have little sympathy with honour killings and other cultural elements despite their much vaunted multiculturalism.

* The media of course critised the Pope. They don't want large crowds of people waving placards, shouting slogans and burning effigies outside their offices. On the principal when you daren't hit the first mate kick the ships cat they prefer to mount a surrogate attack on christians. At least you know they're not likely to do anything more threatening than write a letter of protest which the media can make a great show of ignoring. Most media people do an amazingly good impersonation of a cokehead believing the sun shines from their arse.