Ggahhh. So the new year brings an attack on a cartoonist who stupidly drew and published an image of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. I do not understand how this made the Muslim society feel. I cannot as I am not a Muslim. It just brings home to me the total lack of understanding of others that seems to be the fashion in today's world. When will we finally understand that when religion is concerned that no one is right and no one is wrong? It is an inner feeling, a joy felt by the believer. Unfortunately when you believe one thing there will always be another who believes whole heartedly the exact opposite. I like that. It makes us human. We can make the choice. Where I have a problem is where people are deliberately provocative. And no one can disagree that all sides are guilty of provocation. I hate to sound like a bloody hippy but we can just talk about it. We don't have to deliberately antagonise and goad people into an action they would not have taken if we had not said or done something deliberately provocative. That said taking an axe to someone is not the way to resolve spiritual issues. Prayer and meditation is accepted by every (i think) religion available to us. It is a powerful thing. I like to speak to people who believe almost the exact opposite of me when I go to the pub. Yes it can be fiery and most of the time you agree to disagree. But if we shout loudly for one side or another of an extreme we condone it. And then we have to defend a position we are not entirely comfortable with. Then we end up taking arms for something we feel it is probably, well the right thing really. There are young men and women really absolutely and forever dead out there. People who would have brought joy and happiness to many. Not there. Dead or not born as their parents have been killed before they were born. Anyone can try and justify this to me until the sun finally blows up. I will not get it. Belief should bring a sense of well-being. Not just to you but to everyone around you. Otherwise we should just all have our own individual selfish religion and fuck everyone else. Sadly this may well be the way we end up. Peace out man......