An albino buffalo nicknamed “Donald Trump” because it has flowing golden hair is to be sacrificed in Bangladesh within days.
The 1,500lb bull, with a blond comb-over has become a star and receives a constant stream of curious visitors, but will be slaughtered, alongside about 12 million livestock, as Bangladesh prepares for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha later this month.
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The Saudi colloquial ابلع رجلي (swallow my leg) honestly feels so much more offensive than telling someone to “suck my dick”, if only because how are you even supposed to
Does Islam have an equivalent for what Rodney Stark is to Christianity? A scholar/historian who isn't a believer but admires the religion and can dunk on its haters very effectively since he isn't actually a part of it. I've enjoyed many of his books. Does anyone come to mind?
Post-UDI, and in the midst of demographic panic, Rhodesia would actively encourage Southern European (and Armenian) migration. Ian Smith told a group of Southern Italian arrivals around 1970 that they needed to have many children.
Rhodesia only allowed 1 non-British immigrant for every 6 British immigrants. One Rhodesian official noted that there was an unlimited supply of Italians & Greeks ready to emigrate to Rhodesia, but they were considered undesirable
@policy_uk@peter_sarris They still moan about the University “bullying” them to hand over Canal House to St Peter’s in the 60s.
The former Nuffield bursar did tell me that he half-seriously proposed the endowment of “Worcester St. Car Park scholars”
The biggest Anglophile I ever met—more English than the English, Wodehousian, straw hat—was an old Parsi banker in Dubai (by way of Pakistan).
Whenever I read a Minoo Dinshaw tweet, I can’t help but remember him.
Consider what foreigners find uncontroversially attractive and definitive about Britain. Juries. Private schools. The ancient universities. The aristocracy and monarchy…
A core thesis of the European 19th century was that the world's "civilizations" are in a competition for superiority, and Europe is the "winner" in this race.
All important Arab ideologies since then -Arab Nationalism, Islamism, Leftism- run on the wish to "prove the opposite".
@ahimlaneshek1 גם בלי החרדים הצבא כבר בדרך להיות ארגון דתי הלכתי, למה צריך לגייס אותם? שביום פקודה יהפכו את המדינה למדינת שריעה? יש דרכים אחרות לשפר ולייעל את הצבא ואת החברה בכלל (משירות לאומי חובה ��עד ביטול קצבאות וכל מה שבינהם), באמת שאני לא מבינה את המלחמה על גיוס בכח
The best hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East will be when its current secular-religious battle for the nation’s soul ends in the expected final victory of the conservatives.
A liberal West will be out of sympathy with the Smotrich and Ben-Gvir types, let alone Haredis.