Daily Archives: September 3, 2008

A while ago I wrote about a female friend who was considering becoming Muslim, and I expressed a concern over both the underlying motivations for such a decision, and the possible outcome. Some time later, the “second option” has come to pass — she has rejected her Islamic man and turned away from the religion. … Continue reading »

A female friend of mine is considering becoming Muslim i.e. following “Islam” (which can be translated as “submission”). This mostly makes me worried for her, as Islam doesn’t have the best track record concerning women’s rights and domestic abuse. The philosopher Ibn Kammuna said in 1280CE: “… we never see anyone converting to Islam unless … Continue reading »

Today we bought our aeroplane tickets back to Australia for December-January, after a weekend of research and planning (for both the cheapest tickets, and how we were actually best going to pay for ‘em). In the end, we had a good deal from Austravel which Dee printed took into Flightcenter to see if they could … Continue reading »