Once upon a time, the King invited the infidels to Madrid-but he only invited a handful of Jews who are all, rightly or wrongly, perceived as more critical of Israel and of Judaism than of Islam. The King did not invite any influential, religious women. This did not stop any man of faith from attending.
I am talking about Saudi King Abdullah’s interfaith conference in Madrid which was attended by nearly 300 delegates representing Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other faiths from over 50 countries. King Abdullah opened the conference on July 16, 2008 in the presence of Spain’s King Juan Carlos…Continue reading on the Chesler Chronicles >>
The Boston Globe on Sunday 20 July 2008 ran a story about just how Barrack Obama’s campaign is being run. Barack has bought his campaign the largest paid staff in political history. Where are the true investigative reporters when we really need them, digging into his finances, contributions and circumstances of birth? (Oh, that’s right they are giggling over his basketball prowess and his vacuous oratory skills.) Continue Reading »
“It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody.
“The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river”. Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad.
Dear sports, this is a non-Prophet organisation! “…now when I was a little chap, I had a passion for maps”. Yep, I’ve been re-reading the two great Joseph Conrad books, ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Secret Agent’. They are, sporty chums, two of the best and most prescient books of the Western Canon. The striking thing about Joe’s Heart of Darkness’, is that it describes like a multi-layered relief map, as it naturally would, the difficult, revealing and shockingly surprising journey many of us have taken regards the illumination of the truth of Islamism, Left radicalism and the evil of macrame wall hangings.
All of us who are hip to the crazy scene of Mohammad the super loon, have in some way, penetrated and traversed something ineffably cruel, terrible, blackly awesome and inhuman with as Conrad said, a heart of darkness…Continue reading on Colonel Robert Neville always Dresses for Dinner >>