Yesterday brother Graham and I drove up to Maida Vale where Joan’s cousin Kingsley and his wife Margaret live. Kingsley had previously contacted me offering a nice printer which didn’t want to work properly on his computer. Bonus; it works beautifully on mine! I rang Kingsley and offered to return it to him, but he had already bought another and graciously told me to keep it.
Their property was originally 10 acres, but has been reduced to 3 acres with a nice large house and lots of trees, both fruit and natives. Lovely semi-rural area! Graham and I got the tour and a bag of oranges and passionfruit.
The local Muslims are rioting in Sydney town over the backyard movie which supposedly mocks Islam. I cannot understand how the looney who made the movie didn’t think that it would not cause death and destruction throughout the world?
It is only that we, in the Western world, generally live in democracies which cherish free speech which allows even the most controversial stuff to go to air. The protesters, even the moderates, want the U.S. government to do all sorts of things to the film maker and I guess a few family members of the murdered embassy staff would also like their government to stomp on him.
I must say that the rioting thugs in Sydney look like a pretty evil bunch themselves. I wouldn’t want some of them living in my street.
1 comment:
Kev, I find the whole event as very disturbing, Some of those people who were smashing people.s heads in are never going to fit into our way of life.They see us as infidels who should be killed. Is it O.k. for them to refer to us as infidels? They are not going to change in any way. What about our grandchildren? Are they going to be ina democratic country or one constantly under pressure from some of these radical groups? We should be thinking about what sort of country weare leaving for our kids. Marg, We are far Too soft,.....
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