My view and thoughts on everything!

A belated Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all.  I hope that everyone had a great New Year celebration and didn’t overindulge in the amber nectar, or drank to extreme from the offerings available from Messrs Walker, Daniels and Beam! Here in Australia the family has been on a two week holiday to see the outlaws (ahem, my in-laws – as my wife hovers over me to see what I am typing!).   Anyway, the outlaws live in Northern NSW and also across the gun-toting border in Queensland.  So getting to see them involved a road trip of 11 hours, with food and restroom breaks, from the Big Smoke that is known as Sydney.  Things in the rural areas of NSW seem to move much slower than in the cities.  At times it feels like time has stood still as nothing really seems to change from one day to the next.  Part of this is due to the weather which is normally stinking hot this time of year, and also due to the “she’ll be right mate” attitude of the friendly locals.  The locals would rather “

When I heard that a friend of mine, Sabiha, was working on an hijab article/documentary I asked whether I could give a perspective from a westerners (my) point of view.   So, without further ado, here it is.   What is my view on women who wear hijab (headscarf) and dress moderately? Do I think they are treated as lesser beings for doing so? Or are they generally passionate about their role as Muslim women in respect to their faith? Read on and I will put forward my own unique western view on this rather, at times, over-debated topic. I suppose like most westerners, I didn’t really think a great deal about Muslim women who wore the veil prior to the events of 9/11.   Then Islam became front page news for all of the wrong type of reasons.   Sabiha herself was attacked on a bus as strangers kicked and punched her whilst trying to remove her veil.   Thankfully for her she survived this brutal attack with headscarf still intact. To hear about this more than 10 years later still