constantinople

is Turkey Europe or Asia?...what do you say?....have you been there?...

Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern...

Just Like old Times

Well, it looks as if Russia has dusted off some of the old hacks from TASS, and put them to work explaining the situation in Georgia.RUSSIANS were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened...

From Russia with Love

I visited Moscow last week, my second visit to the Russian capital in seven months, and it is always an overwhelming experience. Moscow is a Moloch of a city, an unimaginably vast metropolis where...

HAMAS clergyman warns about Rome's eventual islamization

Folks, this from the Catholic News Agency:CNA STAFF, Apr 14, 2008/ 09:17 pm (CNA).- A high profile Muslim cleric and Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament gave a sermon last Friday in which he...

Dodger Thoughts: Istanbul's Not Constantinople

And Dodger Stadium is not Chavez Ravine.

The Truth About Islam in Europe

This essay was inspired by Joan Acocella's review of David Levering Lewis' book God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215. Lewis is an American historian and two-time winner of the...

Comic Book Review: Northlanders #1 by Brian Wood & Davide Gianfelice

A new Vertigo Viking series delivers the violent goods with snap and plenty of visual pulp. "Sven the Returned," the title lead of the first eight issues of Brian Wood's (Demo, DMZ)...

Book Review: Gentlemen Of The Road by Michael Chabon

...a beautifully executed, highly enjoyable adventure story that is more fun than your standard swashbuckler because it refuses to take itself seriously. In the Dark Ages, when most of Europe was...

The Truth on Mormonism: Coming From a "Mormon"

I was recently asked what my religion was. Or more accurately, they asked which "cult" I belonged to. Since "Mormonism" has been labeled as a cult since the mobbings a hundred...

Russian Orthodox bishop questions dialogue with Catholic Church

I, in turn, respectfully question the bishop. Folks, this, according to Catholic World News:Vienna, Oct. 18, 2007 (CWNews.com) - A Russian Orthodox bishop said that talks between Catholic and...

On Turkish Reform...

Continuation of my paper that uses Turkey and Iran to show how Islam has a different role and place in different societies and cultures...and Islam is not what is the present day cause of everything...