The weather here is so summery, blue skies and 70 degrees, it is hard to believe it is so near to Christmas. I never have been one for white Christmases so I am quite happy with it.
Bill greeted me cheerily as I walked in the chaplaincy office, but my response didn't pass the perspicacious test. After a little gentle prodding I told him I was suffering from early onset Alzheimer's and he said something to the effect that wasn't a diagnosis a non professional should be making. I confessed that the purse I thought was stolen from my handbag last week - when I hid it under his desk - was in fact at home all the time. He said his mother was becoming forgetful and was I going to see a doctor, but I think I can manage for the time being, with lots of reminders around the place.
He had been told about my missing purse and said they had looked at the video from the camera outside his office, but there wasn't anyone suspicious about.
Anyway,I did my chaplaincy round this morning and we had lunch together which was very pleasant.
The rest of the day I was watching television, as WWIII between civilisation and barbarism seems to be drawing ever closer. 80% of Americans think another attack is imminent. And Mohammad Ali's daughter has weighed in, and said among other things, that Islam is a "peaceful" religion. A statement which always totally exasperates me whenever I hear it. I KNOW there are billions of good, decent Muslims all over the world, peacefully living their lives in civilised societies, but Islam is not - and never has been - a peaceful religion.
The Prophet told them - "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war" (Koran 9:5) and
"So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (non Muslims) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone" (Koran 8:39).
I don't know why Obama, and other political leaders, don't take a basic course in Islam. It would enable them to better understand what they are up against, I would have thought.
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