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A Letter to friends worthy of keeping and others unlike them

My Dearest Friends
I have thus far come to rely on your friendship to deal with a great many things that would vex a man, and I have found your friendship genuine and unique. It is therefore quite unfortunate that this friendship was put to the test by those that don’t understand the fickleness of trust […]

Gems from The Screwtape letters

While listening to my favorite podcast, it was mentioned that an audio version of C.S.Lewis’s book, The Screwtape letters is narrated by John Cleese. I like John Cleese a lot as an actor, but even more so because of the accent, which is annoyingly snobbish and clearly superior. So I figured I should give this audio […]

There is scarce any human endeavor that requires perfection to conclude

An essay about Islam, Sharia, Public Policy, Government and the futile pursuit of perfection . Caution: Work in progress. Recently a friend of mine gave me a copy of a book that debates the future of Shari’a in a Secular State, and while I don’t flatter myself to be a critic of the author’s work, he […]

The attention game

It can be argued, that females in both their younger and older years always seek to assert their  powers by finding out how much they can get out of the opposite sex. It can also be argued, that by alternating phases of complete and undevided attention, with phases of complete indifference, they achieve a certain degree […]

Dual education System in Sudan

A friend of mine with a big heart, big ideas and other big things, has recently mentioned to me that in Sudan, there exists two educational systems and that it may be plausible to continue with this sordid arrangement and still hope for a united Sudan in the future. These two educational systems, one serving […]