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Thanks for dropping by; it’s nice to see you. Unfortunately I have no time for writing at present and, indeed, nothing to say. However, I am well and happy, alhamdulilah, so don’t read any untowards meanings into by prolonged absence. I’m just incredibly busy. Peace.

This coming Monday, 22 June, is set to be our most important day in years. I seek your prayers.

The number of people in Somalia in need of emergency food aid is likely to rise to about 3.5m in the coming months, the United Nations has warned. Mark Bowden, the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator for the region, says the food crisis is dramatically worsening. Somalia faces a worse situation than Darfur, Mr Bowden says. Source: [...]

We never know, of course, when our chances will cease. I have just seen the CCTV footage showing the moment when a car driven by a drunken driver sped through red lights at a junction and ploughed into the car in which my brother-in-law was travelling the Sunday before last. The speeding car hit the [...]

Britain is on a dangerous drinking binge which is claiming lives and causing increasing damage to adults and children. Hospital admissions related to excessive drinking have more than doubled in the past 10 years and those involving under-16s have risen by a third. http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2714171.ece

“Two-thirds of UK surfers lose significant portions of their time to irrelevant net browsing, according to a study published this week. Workers confronted with the almost unlimited pool of online information become distracted and begin – according to the report’s authors – ‘wilfing’. This is short for ‘What Was I Looking For?’” PC-PRO, News, Wednesday [...]

Years ago a friend of my brother was subjected to racist harassment which led him to call the Police. When the Police arrived they pursued him. It seems like nothing has changed in the fifteen years since. This from The Guardian today… ‘Don’t you want to know why I’m bleeding?’ An assault by a white [...]

So frequently do I find myself throwing in alternative viewpoints whenever Global Warming is discussed in conversation that yesterday I thought I really had to find out what the current research indicates. And so I sent an email off to one of my former university lecturers, based at another college, seeking enlightenment… A curious email [...]

I found this article interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5012300.stm Much is being made these days about British Identity – or the erosion of it. Predicatably the finger is being pointed at “Multi-culturalism”, but I don’t believe this is correct. Much more pervasive is the influence of advertising, marketing, publishing and broadcasting. The times, they are a changing. Also [...]

This interesting article from the beginning of the month is worth reading. ‘Unknown Americans’ Are Provoking Civil War in Iraq by Robert Fisk The Independent: Monday, May 01, 2006 Also reproduced here (possibly in breach of copyright): http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles579.htm http://www.iimcr.org/index.cfm?pageID=2&articleID=4190

A revised version of my article “For God and Country?” was printed in last week’s edition of The Muslim Weekly. You can read it on line at http://www.themuslimweekly.com under Comments.

Article by Nimo Shire My leaving Kismaayo It has been nearly 14 years since I was last in Kismaayo, my hometown in Somalia. It was dawn when we fled. We fled first thing in the morning as militia groups rolled in to try and take control of the city. There was uncertainty up to the [...]