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Gosh Dream was so much easier to type than Waggindraggin ... Good to see you're still around. Thomas ..... yaaaaaay

Many things really, I liked the order (uniforms, rules, sameness) and loved the feeling of being one big family. I liked keeping the image of the British army in check. I liked helping people, abused wives, accident victims, locals who were abused by our soldiers, etc. I liked knowing that if...

Yes I do, in the form of St Nicholas and like Wil it's the spirit of charity and joy he has left with us that touches my heart every year.

Hope life is treating you all well

Oh I've been pounced, I love a good pouncing by kitties. Great to see you again Phyllis xx Glad you're back Earl, look forward to discussing with you. Nick I've just spent a year in Saudi but am back in Egypt now. Hi Steve good to meet you and look forward to getting to know you.

Military policewoman in the British army. I spent a lot of my time doing red carpet duties and designing recruitment literature and training videos ... loved it and shouldn't have left.

MashAllah, it's good to 'meet' you brother. Hopefully we can help each other and learn from each other as we go For some reason the forum doesn't like working on my iPad so my sentences keep cutting off. Will try to check things before I post in future.

Wil my friend it's great to see you're still about, hope life is treating you well. I shall do a post later tonight about my travels and yes I agree, the column is much needed at the moment.

Salam Maitreya As you believe in truth, pure love and prosperity for all perhaps dropping the snarky "calling yourselves" and "just as IS do" comments, it may help discussion. The age of Aisha at the time of marriage is highly debatable and we have no completely reliable source to state her...

I'm a convert too (gosh almost 11 years now). I know there are Hadith speaking about women not walking in the middle of the road, so they aren't bustling around with men but that's far removed from walking behind your mahram. I live in Egypt at the moment but spent the last year living in Saudi...

Salams to one and all. So who is still around from the old crowd, who's left, who's joined, who bites the heads off jelly babies and who smells? I've been away so long but during a Google search today the forum came up and I remembered how much I loved our discussions here, so I'm back ...

Wil my friend, take heart. Forums are what the members make it and what they allow other members to make it, time to circle the wagons perhaps. Anyone was free to read or ignore posts by Thomas, free to agree or disagree but this forum was certainly never a place for people to ridicule or...

May I also point out that here in the Middle East Saturday isn't a weekend day, it's a normal working day. People here tend to work 6 days a week, with Friday off.

Salam alaikum brother Could you please provide the passages you believe say this's owe may discuss or edit your post to say there are no passages to say this, as anyone without knowledge reading this thread will be led to believe there are passages of Quran stating women should walk behind men...

If I can get these kitties to stop pouncing on me for a moment ..... wa alaikum salam.

And sadly she was arrested again trying to leave the country :( wa alaikum salam Amica. I'm not sure international pressure had very much to do with it. Since introducing the death penalty for apostacy they haven't killed anyone despite numerous sentences and the international community never...

"...to follow a voice that tells you to kill your innocent son is tantamount to flying an airplane into a building because you think it's what God wants." That would be true if you were some random dude who had a dream telling him to kill his son. However, here we are talking about a Prophet...

Thank you Brian and for the welcome, it's good to be back

I would agree that other than Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz (called by classical scholars the 5th Rightly Guided Caliph) they were all political positions taken by people who desired wealth and power. If you haven't read the biography of Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz I would urge you to do so. He only ruled for...

I believe it was Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz