Chez Tim ¬(Horton)

Not everyone's idea of a good time is the same. Below is a page from the fist web server ever
which was housed on Time Werner Lee's personnal computer at CERN. The rubics are a little,
er, austere: Astrophysics and the King James Bible. Yet it was the birth of the Web and
the gamer community is forever thankful. Happy May Day!

Today the Web is an awesome element in our lives, enabling (me, at least), an easy access
to information and understanding.

On the subject of awesome, that is the meaning of Grozny, the Chechen capital, named
after Ivan the Terrible. Grozny is terrible, formidable i.e. - and it just occured to me
this morning - awesome. Interestingly, Ivan was the first Russian leader to wear the title
of Tsar, which means King, and he was crowned such at age three. Up to that time,
Russian leaders had been Grand Princes, indicating that the leader was yet one of many
princes. In Western countries, grand princes may be siblings of the King, but that is
a different uage. Below is a map of Russia, found on Wiki. I have indicated Moscow, Dagestan and
Chechnya.

Dido

Ummah

The abscence of an apparent reason for the terrorism of the Boston marathon may

only be an issue in America, and the developed world. Indeed, the ‘global South’

i.e. everybody else, might well be working from other definitions of what is going on.

Here is a passage from a 2005 anthropological work on Terrorism:

Tomorrow’s globalization (be it of commerce or violence) will not be American. 

On the example of the great empires of the past, the United States will at least have 

the dubious merit of having enabled larger forms of collective association, probably less around 

the idea of nation than that of a community of new believers in a global and technological

world. Western Democraties are yet too enamored of the concepts of nation and 

nationalism which have forged their history to understand the transnational unity of 

the Muslim world. The Ummah, that is, the community of believers ( over one billion

people in the world) transcends race and nation and Arabs are within it a minority.

From: Martin Kalulambi Pongo et Tristan Landry, Terrorisme international et marchés de

violence, Presses de l’université Laval, 2005.

Translation: doxa-louise

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/tom-parfitt/10024185/Boston-bombs-the-Canadian-boxer-and-the-terror-recruiter-who-led-Tsarnaev-on-path-to-jihad.html

D-Scene

Message

I cannot help but feel that Islam is being sadly - and ironically -

misrepresented in all this. For what is (was) the message of the Prophet.

Islam takes up the deistic message of surrounding religions and presents

its own version of submission. This involves a struggle within oneself, a life

hygiene of prayer, and a duty to others. I would expect that, at the time of its

inception, this was a salutary way of expressing the values of civilization in a portable

manner. Portable to whom: to the groups and tribes not on board.

Spread the message it did, all over the globe. 1300 years later, the work goes on

but not without an accumulation of ironies and reversals along the way.

Jihad indeed.

Caucase

European geography considers North and South Caucasus as forming the boundary
between Europe and Asia.

source: French language Wikipedia.

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