Sunday, 29 April 2012
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Building Books : Recommended
Always check for current versions.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Housebuilders-Bible-ninth-9th-Edition/dp/1905959443/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335260965&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Law-Encyclopaedia-David-Chappell/dp/1405187247/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335261094&sr=1-1-spell#_
http://www.constructionbooksdirect.com/Product.asp?PID=6081
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantity-Surveyors-Pocket-Duncan-Cartlidge/dp/0750687460
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sarah-Beenys-Price-Job-Beeny/dp/1843404214/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335262495&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spons-Architects-Builders-Price-Book/dp/0415690773/ref=sr_ob_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335262619&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Housebuilders-Bible-ninth-9th-Edition/dp/1905959443/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335260965&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Law-Encyclopaedia-David-Chappell/dp/1405187247/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335261094&sr=1-1-spell#_
http://www.constructionbooksdirect.com/Product.asp?PID=6081
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantity-Surveyors-Pocket-Duncan-Cartlidge/dp/0750687460
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sarah-Beenys-Price-Job-Beeny/dp/1843404214/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335262495&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spons-Architects-Builders-Price-Book/dp/0415690773/ref=sr_ob_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335262619&sr=1-1
Monday, 23 April 2012
Sunday, 22 April 2012
My List of Most Beautiful Women (Revised)
1. Aishwarya Rai (India)
2. Madhuri Dixit (India)
3. Claudia Lynx (Iran)
4. Debbie Harry (USA)
5. Alessandra Ambrosio (Brazil)
6. Penelope Cruz (Spain)
7. Shilpa Shetty (India)
8. Marisa Miller (USA)
9. Kim Kardashian (USA)
10.Riya Sen (India)
11.Priyanka Chopra (India)
12.Deepika Padukone (India)
13.Adriana Lima (Brazil)
14. Marilyn Monroe (USA)
15. Ramona Ramiri (Iran)
16. Gisele Bundchen (Brazil)
17. Jane Fonda (USA)
18. Catherine Deneuve (France)
19. Cyndi Crawford (USA)
20. Brigitte Bardot (France)
21. Kate Bush (UK)
22. Joanne Whalley (UK)
23. Naomi Campbell (UK)
24. Sharon Stone (USA)
25. Liz Hurley (UK)
26. Jeanette Worthington (UK)
27. Danica Thrall (UK)
28. Rachel Ward (UK)
29. Pamela Anderson (USA)
30. Beyonce (USA)
31. Bipasha Bashu (India)
32. Victoria Silvstedt (Sweden)
33. Kelly Brook (UK)
34. Tyra Banks (USA)
35. Charlize Theron (South African)
36. Raquel Welch (USA)
37. Sophia Loren (Italy)
38. Jessica Berry (UK)
39. Nicola Cowell (UK)
40. Patsy Kensit (UK)
2. Madhuri Dixit (India)
3. Claudia Lynx (Iran)
4. Debbie Harry (USA)
5. Alessandra Ambrosio (Brazil)
6. Penelope Cruz (Spain)
7. Shilpa Shetty (India)
8. Marisa Miller (USA)
9. Kim Kardashian (USA)
10.Riya Sen (India)
11.Priyanka Chopra (India)
12.Deepika Padukone (India)
13.Adriana Lima (Brazil)
14. Marilyn Monroe (USA)
15. Ramona Ramiri (Iran)
16. Gisele Bundchen (Brazil)
17. Jane Fonda (USA)
18. Catherine Deneuve (France)
19. Cyndi Crawford (USA)
20. Brigitte Bardot (France)
21. Kate Bush (UK)
22. Joanne Whalley (UK)
23. Naomi Campbell (UK)
24. Sharon Stone (USA)
25. Liz Hurley (UK)
26. Jeanette Worthington (UK)
27. Danica Thrall (UK)
28. Rachel Ward (UK)
29. Pamela Anderson (USA)
30. Beyonce (USA)
31. Bipasha Bashu (India)
32. Victoria Silvstedt (Sweden)
33. Kelly Brook (UK)
34. Tyra Banks (USA)
35. Charlize Theron (South African)
36. Raquel Welch (USA)
37. Sophia Loren (Italy)
38. Jessica Berry (UK)
39. Nicola Cowell (UK)
40. Patsy Kensit (UK)
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Favourite Songs (Top 10 as at April 2012)
1. Miserere mei, Deus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcWo1hKHu40
2. Khalij Fars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL8eQdeXD8U
3. Kajra Re http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSg4JuWIBA
4. Mystics & Fools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hgp4eg2slE
5. Eleanor Rigby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dsz4dB6DuM
6. Kashmir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc
7. Bohemian Rhapsody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&ob=av2e
8. Gimme Shelter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVor2Xm8qg0
9. You Really Got Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTV48ZUrfnI
10. Lay Lady Lay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ODMKSWzT4
Friday, 20 April 2012
The Bahraini Pro-Democracy Movement has my support
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain
The Grand Prix in Bahrain should be cancelled in protest against the oppression of its people. Support the Pro-democracy movement. Shia muslims in Bahrain are in the majority. The world must not ignore their plight.
The Grand Prix in Bahrain should be cancelled in protest against the oppression of its people. Support the Pro-democracy movement. Shia muslims in Bahrain are in the majority. The world must not ignore their plight.
Channel 4 Programme: Is It Better to Be Mixed Race?
Mixed-race is the fastest growing minority group in Britain. Are we "mongrels" superior ? In all seriousness, I think we are. I claim mixed-race supremacy. My bloodline comes from the 2 greatest empires in the history of mankind - the Empires of Britain and Persia.
Famous Mixed-Race People: President Obama, Tiger Woods, Bob Marley, Lewis Hamilton, Christiane Amanpour, Yasmin Le Bon & Keira Knightley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_(mixed_ancestry)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Iranians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups
BOB MARLEY:
"I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't deh pon nobody's side. Me don't deh pon the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me deh pon God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220343/Channel-4-controversy-documentary-claims-race-linked-intelligence.html
These type of controversial issues are always interesting (if not accurate). Of course, generalisations ignore the individual. What is interesting, though, is that white Europeans nor white Americans do not top the IQ list. It is likely that mixed race British-Asians have the highest IQ, especially English-Persians.
Persian Poetry
http://www.farsinet.com/poetry/
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it.s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.
He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.
He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.
He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.
He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.
Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.
Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Die Slowly - Poetry by Pablo Neruda Translated to Persian
By Ahmad Shamloo
پابلونرودا "به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی"
ترجمه: احمد شاملو
به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر سفر نكنی،
اگر كتابی نخوانی،
اگر به اصوات زندگی گوش ندهی،
اگر از خودت قدردانی نكنی.
به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
زمانی كه خودباوری را در خودت بكشی،
وقتی نگذاری دیگران به تو كمك كنند.
به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر برده عادات خود شوی،
اگر همیشه از یك راه تكراری بروی،
اگر روزمرّگی را تغییر ندهی،
اگر رنگهای متفاوت به تن نكنی،
یا اگر با افراد ناشناس صحبت نكنی.
تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر از شور و حرارت،
از احساسات سركش،
و از چیزهایی كه چشمانت را به درخشش وامیدارند،
و ضربان قلبت را تندتر میكنند،
دوری كنی.
تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر هنگامی كه با شغلت یا عشقت شاد نیستی، آن را عوض نكنی،
اگر برای مطمئن در نامطمئن خطر نكنی،
اگر ورای رویاها نروی،
اگر به خودت اجازه ندهی،
كه حداقل یك بار در تمام زندگیت
ورای مصلحتاندیشی بروی.
تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
امروز زندگی را آغاز كن!
امروز مخاطره كن!
امروز كاری كن!
نگذار كه به آرامی بمیری!
شادی را فراموش نكن!
Pablo Neruda - Die Slowly
He who becomes the slave of habit,who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it.s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.
He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.
He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.
He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.
He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.
Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.
Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
پابلونرودا "به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی"
ترجمه: احمد شاملو
به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر سفر نكنی،
اگر كتابی نخوانی،
اگر به اصوات زندگی گوش ندهی،
اگر از خودت قدردانی نكنی.
به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
زمانی كه خودباوری را در خودت بكشی،
وقتی نگذاری دیگران به تو كمك كنند.
به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر برده عادات خود شوی،
اگر همیشه از یك راه تكراری بروی،
اگر روزمرّگی را تغییر ندهی،
اگر رنگهای متفاوت به تن نكنی،
یا اگر با افراد ناشناس صحبت نكنی.
تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر از شور و حرارت،
از احساسات سركش،
و از چیزهایی كه چشمانت را به درخشش وامیدارند،
و ضربان قلبت را تندتر میكنند،
دوری كنی.
تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
اگر هنگامی كه با شغلت یا عشقت شاد نیستی، آن را عوض نكنی،
اگر برای مطمئن در نامطمئن خطر نكنی،
اگر ورای رویاها نروی،
اگر به خودت اجازه ندهی،
كه حداقل یك بار در تمام زندگیت
ورای مصلحتاندیشی بروی.
تو به آرامی آغاز به مردن میكنی
امروز زندگی را آغاز كن!
امروز مخاطره كن!
امروز كاری كن!
نگذار كه به آرامی بمیری!
شادی را فراموش نكن!
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Imam Khomeini Talking about TODAY situation - Persian sub ...
I am not a muslim but I admire Imam Khomeini's vision for his religion. A
strong uncompromising leader.
When the International Community must Intervene
Assad should have the self-awareness to not only stop the bloodshed in Syria but resign. He has been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of his own people. No leader has the right to remain in power after such a massacre. It is always difficult to know the exact figure of deaths before the international community intervenes to stop further bloodshed but Assad has well and truly surpassed that figure. In my view, although several hundred is really too many, the point of intervention is when any leader is responsible for the deaths of 1000 people.
Prince Charles: A Man of Our Times
My View on our Monarchy & Prince Charles:
I am a strong supporter of the British monarchy. The monarchy has served Britain well in modern times. Prince Charles has been criticised in some quarters (some of these criticisms have been justified, in particular, his responsibility for his first marital breakdown) however, in general, he has been forward looking and modern in his approach. He is a deep thinker who takes an active interest not only in what is happening in the UK but has a global outlook and defends and promotes multi-culturalism and religious tolerance in Britain. He understands the importance of the natural environment and how we need to balance tradition with modernism and change - a sensible approach. Prince Charles has been criticised heavily by the architectural profession but he has my full support as a building professional (MCIOB). It is essential that tradition and change are carefully managed; the correct balance (and equilibrium) is all important in all aspects of life. Britain will benefit if more people like Prince Charles took an active role in our way of life. In my view, if he does take the throne, he will make an excellent King.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales
I am a strong supporter of the British monarchy. The monarchy has served Britain well in modern times. Prince Charles has been criticised in some quarters (some of these criticisms have been justified, in particular, his responsibility for his first marital breakdown) however, in general, he has been forward looking and modern in his approach. He is a deep thinker who takes an active interest not only in what is happening in the UK but has a global outlook and defends and promotes multi-culturalism and religious tolerance in Britain. He understands the importance of the natural environment and how we need to balance tradition with modernism and change - a sensible approach. Prince Charles has been criticised heavily by the architectural profession but he has my full support as a building professional (MCIOB). It is essential that tradition and change are carefully managed; the correct balance (and equilibrium) is all important in all aspects of life. Britain will benefit if more people like Prince Charles took an active role in our way of life. In my view, if he does take the throne, he will make an excellent King.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales
The 'Iranian Schindler'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16190541
The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis
Sardari trained as a lawyer in Switzerland before becoming a diplomat Thousands of Iranian Jews and their descendants owe their lives to a Muslim diplomat in wartime Paris, according to a new book. In The Lion's Shadow tells how Abdol-Hossein Sardari risked everything to help fellow Iranians escape the Nazis.
Eliane Senahi Cohanim was seven years old when she fled France with her family.
She remembers clutching her favourite doll and lying as still as she could, pretending to be asleep, whenever their train came to a halt at a Nazi checkpoint.
"I remember everywhere, when we were running away, they would ask for our passports, and I remember my father would hand them the passports and they would look at them. And then they would look at us. It was scary. It was very, very scary."
Mrs Cohanim and her family were part of a small, close-knit community of Iranian Jews living in and around Paris.
Her father, George Senahi, was a prosperous textile merchant and the family lived in a large, comfortable house in Montmorency, about 25km (15.5 miles) north of the French capital.
'Trembling'
When the Nazis invaded, the Senahis attempted to escape to Tehran, hiding for a while in the French countryside, before being forced to return to Paris, now in the full grip of the Gestapo.
"I remember their attitude. The way they would walk with their black boots. Just looking at them at that time was scary for a child, I think," recalls Mrs Cohanim, speaking from her home in California.
Sardari shunned publicity after World War II Like others in the Iranian Jewish community, Mr Senahi turned for help to the young head of Iran's diplomatic mission in Paris.
Abdol-Hossein Sardari was able to provide the Senahi family with the passports and travel documents they needed for safe-passage through Nazi-occupied Europe, a month-long journey that was still fraught with danger.
"At the borders, my father was always really trembling," recalls Mrs Cohanim but, she adds, he was a "strong man" who had given the family "great confidence that everything would be OK."
Unlikely hero
The 78-year-old grandmother has lived for the past 30 years in California with her husband Nasser Cohanim, a successful banker. Mrs Cohanim has no doubt to whom she and her younger brother Claude owe their lives.
"I remember my father always telling that it was thanks to Mr Sardari that we could come out.
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Abdol-Hossein Sardari 1895 - 1981
- 1925: Qajar Royal Family, of which Sardari is a member, loses control of Iran
- 1936: Sardari gains law degree from Geneva university
- 1940: Takes over Iran's diplomatic mission in Paris from brother-in-law following Nazi invasion
- 1941: Saves thousands of Iranian Jews and others from persecution and death by gaining exemptions from Nazi race laws and helping them escape France
- 1948: Seeks permission to marry long-term lover Tchin-Tchin, a Chinese opera singer, but she disappears in her country's revolution
- 1952: Recalled to Tehran to face charges of misconduct and embezzlement relating to wartime issuing of passports
- 1955: Clears name and resumes diplomatic career, eventually retiring to London
- 1978: Loses pension and property in Iranian revolution
- 1981: Dies unrecognised in South London but is posthumously honoured by Jewish organisations
"My uncles and aunts and grandparents lived there in Paris. It was thanks to him they weren't hurt.
"The ones that didn't have him, they took them and you never heard about them again."
Of Mr Sardari, she says: "I think he was like Schindler, at that time, helping the Jews in Paris."
Like Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories, Sardari was an unlikely hero.
Nazi propaganda
In his book In the Lion's Shadow, author Fariborz Mokhtari paints a picture of a bachelor and bon viveur who suddenly found himself head of Iran's legation house, or diplomatic mission, at the start of World War II.
Although officially neutral, Iran was keen to maintain its strong trading relationship with Germany. This arrangement suited Hitler. The Nazi propaganda machine declared Iranians an Aryan nation and racially akin to the Germans.
Iranian Jews in Paris still faced harassment and persecution and were often identified to the authorities by informers.
In some cases, the Gestapo was alerted when newborn Jewish boys were circumcised at the hospital. Their terrified mothers were ordered to report to the Office of Jewish Affairs to be issued with the yellow patches Jews were forced to wear on their clothes and to have their documents stamped with their racial identity.
But Sardari used his influence and German contacts to gain exemptions from Nazi race laws for more than 2,000 Iranian Jews, and possibly others, arguing that they did not have blood ties to European Jewry.
Oskar Schindler's story was immortalised by Hollywood in 1993 He was also able to help many Iranians, including members of Jewish community, return to Tehran by issuing them with the new-style Iranian passports they needed to travel across Europe.
A change of regime in Iran, in 1925, had led to the introduction of a new passport and identity card. Many Iranians living in Europe did not have this document, while others, who had married non-Iranians, had not bothered to get Iranian passports for their spouses or children.
When Britain and Russia invaded Iran in September 1941, Sardari's humanitarian task become more perilous.
Iran signed a treaty with the Allies and Sardari was ordered by Tehran to return home as soon as possible.
Racial purity
But despite being stripped of his diplomatic immunity and status, Sardari resolved to remain in France and carry on helping the Iranian Jews, at considerable risk to his own safety, using money from his inheritance to keep his office going.
The story he spun to the Nazis, in a series of letters and reports, was that the Persian Emperor Cyrus had freed Jewish exiles in Babylon in 538 BC and they had returned to their homes.
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End Quote Fariborz Mokhtari Author, In The Lion's ShadowHere you have a Muslim Iranian who goes out of his way, risks his life, certainly risks his career and property and everything else, to save fellow Iranians”
However, he told the Nazis, at some later point a small number of Iranians began to find the teachings of the Prophet Moses attractive - and these Mousaique, or Iranian Followers of Moses, which he dubbed "Djuguten," were not part of the Jewish race.
Using all of his lawyer's skill, he exploited the internal contradictions and idiocies of the Nazis' ideology to gain special treatment for the "Djuguten", as the archive material published in Mr Mokhtari's new book shows.
High-level investigations were launched in Berlin, with "experts" on racial purity drafted in to give an opinion on whether this Iranian sect - which the book suggests may well have been Sardari's own invention - were Jewish or not.
The experts were non-committal and suggested that more funding was needed for research.
Lonely death
By December 1942, Sardari's pleas had reached Adolf Eichmann, the senior Nazi in charge of Jewish affairs, who dismissed them, in a letter published in Mr Mokhtari's book, as "the usual Jewish tricks and attempts at camouflage".
But Sardari somehow managed to carry on helping families escape from Paris, at a time when an estimated 100,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps.
The number of blank passports in Sardari's safe is estimated to have been between 500 and 1,000. In his book, Mr Mokhtari suggests that if each was issued for an average of two to three people "this could have saved over 2,000 individuals".
Sardari never sought recognition for his work during his lifetime, insisting he had only been doing his duty. He lived his final years in England in the early 1980s after losing his ambassador's pension and Tehran properties in the Iranian revolution.
He is believed to have died in Nottingham, where he moved to be close to a nephew, after living for a time in a bedsit in Croydon.
He was posthumously recognised for his humanitarian work in 2004 at a ceremony at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles.
Mr Mokhtari hopes that by telling his story, through the testimony of survivors, including Mrs Cohanim, he will bring it to a wider audience but also shatter "popular misconceptions" about Iran and the Iranians.
"Here you have a Muslim Iranian who goes out of his way, risks his life, certainly risks his career and property and everything else, to save fellow Iranians," he says.
"There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever."
He believes the story illustrates the "general cultural propensity of Iranians to be tolerant" which is often overlooked in the current political climate.
Monday, 16 April 2012
England: Defender of Faith
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100028341/of-course-england-should-be-a-catholic-country-again/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_England_and_Wales
There are those who believe that to be British you must be a follower of the Church of England and a Protestant. This is of course not the case. Catholicism is the original religion of our nation and if you take a traditional view (and most patriotic people do !) then you can only claim to be British if you are a Catholic:
`England adhered to the Catholic Church for almost a thousand years from the time of Augustine of Canterbury but, in 1534, during the reign of King Henry VIII, the greater part of the church, through a series of repressive legislative acts between 1533 and 1536[1][2] aligned itself to Henry's new official ecclesial entity, the Church of England, with Henry declaring himself Supreme Head'
I don't need to remind people that the originator of the Protestant faith was Martin Luther, a German. Not very British.
We are entering a new era in Britain which embraces different religions to reflect our multi-cultural society. But don't let it be said that to be British you must belong to the Church of England and be a Protestant. Traditionally, Catholics have as strong a claim and possibly a greater claim that the Catholic religion is the original, true and natural faith of the British. As far as christianity is concerned, Catholics deserve equal status to Protestants in Britain. The important point, however, is that we promote and defend religious belief and tolerance in a modern Britain with the different faiths being fairly represented.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/3454271/Prince-Charles-to-be-known-as-Defender-of-Faith.html
Prince Charles will make a great King if he is allowed to be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_England_and_Wales
There are those who believe that to be British you must be a follower of the Church of England and a Protestant. This is of course not the case. Catholicism is the original religion of our nation and if you take a traditional view (and most patriotic people do !) then you can only claim to be British if you are a Catholic:
`England adhered to the Catholic Church for almost a thousand years from the time of Augustine of Canterbury but, in 1534, during the reign of King Henry VIII, the greater part of the church, through a series of repressive legislative acts between 1533 and 1536[1][2] aligned itself to Henry's new official ecclesial entity, the Church of England, with Henry declaring himself Supreme Head'
I don't need to remind people that the originator of the Protestant faith was Martin Luther, a German. Not very British.
We are entering a new era in Britain which embraces different religions to reflect our multi-cultural society. But don't let it be said that to be British you must belong to the Church of England and be a Protestant. Traditionally, Catholics have as strong a claim and possibly a greater claim that the Catholic religion is the original, true and natural faith of the British. As far as christianity is concerned, Catholics deserve equal status to Protestants in Britain. The important point, however, is that we promote and defend religious belief and tolerance in a modern Britain with the different faiths being fairly represented.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/3454271/Prince-Charles-to-be-known-as-Defender-of-Faith.html
Prince Charles will make a great King if he is allowed to be.
Great Britain
Our best interests in the future will be for our nation to focus on the 3 nations of Great Britain, namely: England, Scotland & Wales. This will mean eventually giving full independence to Northern Ireland and any other sovereign British State. We need to be a leaner and more efficient nation. This process will require political persuasion through the democratic process. This does not mean giving independence against the wishes of the people.
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Top ten greatest countries in human history
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6752709.html
The above link : Top ten greatest countries in human history
1. Italy.
2. United Kingdom.
3. United States.
4. China.
5. Greece.
6. Egypt.
7. Iraq.
8. India.
9. Iran.
10. Chad.
My List
Top ten greatest countries in human history
1. Britain
2. Iran (Persia)
3. China
4. India
5. Italy
6. USA
7. Greece
8. France
9. Russia
10.Egypt
Top 10 Countries in Future
1. Russia (Natural Resources, Political, Economic, Cultural, Military Power)
2. China (Political, Cultural, Economic, Military Power)
3. Iran (Religious, Political & Cultural Power & Natural Resources)
4. USA (Political, Economic, Cultural & Military Power)
5. India (Economic & Cultural Power)
6. Saudi Arabia (Religious Influence & Natural Resources)
7. Britain (Political & Cultural Power)
8. France (Political & Cultural Power)
9. Italy / Vatican (Religious & Cultural Influence)
10. South Africa (Political & Cultural Influence)
The above link : Top ten greatest countries in human history
1. Italy.
2. United Kingdom.
3. United States.
4. China.
5. Greece.
6. Egypt.
7. Iraq.
8. India.
9. Iran.
10. Chad.
My List
Top ten greatest countries in human history
1. Britain
2. Iran (Persia)
3. China
4. India
5. Italy
6. USA
7. Greece
8. France
9. Russia
10.Egypt
Top 10 Countries in Future
1. Russia (Natural Resources, Political, Economic, Cultural, Military Power)
2. China (Political, Cultural, Economic, Military Power)
3. Iran (Religious, Political & Cultural Power & Natural Resources)
4. USA (Political, Economic, Cultural & Military Power)
5. India (Economic & Cultural Power)
6. Saudi Arabia (Religious Influence & Natural Resources)
7. Britain (Political & Cultural Power)
8. France (Political & Cultural Power)
9. Italy / Vatican (Religious & Cultural Influence)
10. South Africa (Political & Cultural Influence)
Sunday, 15 April 2012
Pope John Paul 2 & Khomeini
What did the great Pope John Paul 2 & Khomeini have in common ?
Both were great religious leaders who refused to compromise on their religious values and beliefs. They opposed liberals who wanted to weaken their religions. This is why they were extremely popular to their followers. As a Roman Catholic, the Pope is my religious leader, however, I respect Khomeini as a great leader of another great religion - Islam.
Both were great religious leaders who refused to compromise on their religious values and beliefs. They opposed liberals who wanted to weaken their religions. This is why they were extremely popular to their followers. As a Roman Catholic, the Pope is my religious leader, however, I respect Khomeini as a great leader of another great religion - Islam.
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