Lets take a trip around the world of Turnips

You might notice that some days this blog throws out what seems an endless stream of posts and then the next day. Zip. I do the usual tasks of monitoring and put suitable information into my to do list and then stare at the screen and do nothing. Well not nothing. I try and learn something new.

Yesterday I went and learned a bit more about the origins of the Koran. What a mess of easily disputed rubbish it is. No wonder the turnip academics seek to prevent the research or serious debate on it. It is a pack of cards waiting to tumble.

Well I knew all about the abrogation of the verses but I did not know until yesterday that the Koran was not in chronological order but arranged depending on the size of the chapters. Largest at the start. So it is all over the place and with abrogation being the rule it is a nightmare for even their experts to understand it.

One other thing that made me think was, if these are the divine words of Allah and Allah being omnipotent then he sure changed his mind quite a bit considering he is supposed to be God. Besides when did God write in the third person. The Koran switches from first person to third and back to first person all over the shop.

Anyhow lets take that trip around the world of Turnips, starting with Oldham. 53 of their families have asked Oldham Council to sell them the land to build 53 houses with four or more bedrooms in order to create their own neighbourhood. I prefer the word ghetto.

Over in "secular" Egypt, which is one of the few Islamic Countries where there is no death penalty for apostates, Mohammad Ahmad Higazi who converted to Christianity, has had his request for his new religion to be written on his identity card refused by their Law Courts with the following ruling

“Monotheistic religions were sent by God in chronological order . . . As a result, it is unusual to go from the latest religion to the one that preceded it,” the court said. “The person who has such an attitude is straying from the right path and threatening the principles, values and precepts of Islam and of Egyptian traditions,”

Meanwhile Mohammad has received numerous death threats that he should take seriously, because this is what one of their legal eagles had to say about it.

In leaving Islam you commit treason and become a spy against your own nation and so you deserve death. The Egyptian government for example views converts as ‘attacking national unity’.”

Over in Kashmir, the daleks of death, usually known as Moslem women have threatened the population not to celebrate Valentines Day as it promotes "immorality" and the shopkeepers who have been told not to sell cards are taken the crazies seriously. They have been attacked in the past by the Daughters of the Faith.

In their statement the ‘Daughters’ singled out young people, telling them not to fall into the devil’s trap that tries to “spread immorality.”

Finally we finish off in the Philippines where another Christian clergyman has been murdered by the followers of the Religion of Peace. The Rev Felomino Catambis aged 60 was shot dead. Brave men these priests in the lands of Islam. Wish our religious leaders had the same courage.

Well that's it for now. The next post will be the posting of the results in the Calne Town Council election later tonight.

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