A new Flickr contact turns out to be the author of love from leila, a personal and quirky take on life at the Baha’i World Centre. Some of leila’s recent entries mention a certain amount of banging, crashing, window rattling and clouds of acrid smoke in Haifa!

Go read! I’ve added love from leila to my blogroll

Monday 14 August, 2006 This piece by Stephen Morris in The Australian provides some essential clarity on the use of the term “Islamic fascism” and the history of the phenomenon the term is used to label. Well worth reading, in light of what’s happening in the world right now - a desperately sad corruption of one of the great divinely revealed religions.