First thing first -Happy New Year to everyone who stops by to read this! 2007 is dead, long live 2008! Well, at least until 2009.
Tomorrow is the Muslim New Year so we may as well celebrate together though not everyone will partake in our jolly pissup (but I'm told goat's milk is as good as Guiness).So let's celebrate, and don't bother taking down your Christmas decorations - they may come handy at Ramadan.
And I can already hear the bells of Oxford cathedrals intermigling with the broadcasts of Muslim calls to prayer coming from neigbouring mosques. If we include a few Hari Krishna rattles we will end up with quite some symphonic arrangement in poor old Oxford - or a cacophany. They may synchronise or clash, but whichever way it goes, the local inhabitants will undoubtedly be all treated for a split personality disorder.
By the way, has anyone yet put a fatwa on that Anglican bishop who dared to proclaim English identity to be rooted in Christianity? I say, stone that heretic, and we will all be martyrs, just like that Muslim cleric who declared (whoops, a pun!) that church bells disturbed good folks of Oxfords when they went off in the morning. To that, I say, give them bells an ASBO.
When I listen to those religious leaders carrying on with their barter like flea market stall keepers, I would like to bring their attention to the fact that Europe's roots are not in any Middle Eastern import (be it Christianity founded on Judaism or Islam) but on our very own disorganised paganism. Yes, we adopted Christianity but we made it our own. And we will somehow deal with Islam, but for God's sake, stop that noise!
