The Times.

A depressing article from the times :

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5621482.ece

Has kicked me out of my slumber in respect of this Blog.

One particular sentence sprung out at me, "But while the biggest Christian population is among over-70s bracket, for Muslims it is the under-4s. "

Wait what?!!?

So the biggest population of Muslims is under four. I know I'll sound like I'm preaching from the gospel of Dawkins when I say this but here goes anyway. A child of four no more knows it is a muslim than it knows it's a member of the National Trust. It is an utterly ridiculous statement, and one that the particular newspaper should have at least poked at.

And - am I pleased or happy. On the one hand, the biggest group of muslims isn't able to know what it means to be a muslim. That's good - right? On the other hand, given that they are already labelled, then surely that means that in twelve or thirteen years, that group will be a very large group indeed of 18 year olds, who have been brainwashed their whole lives.

In other news, Geert Wilders has apparently been charged with some kind of hate crime for simply lifting quotes from the Koran and splicing them together into a film. Wow, and I thought the Netherlands was supposed to be quite a liberal and free place.

Very disappointing.

On the plus side, the ASA did make the right judgement call about the Atheist Bus campaigns - ruling them acceptable. Stephen (bird shit) Green responded in his typically childish and nasty way by drawing attention to the fact that Lord Chris Smith who is in charge there is a homosexual. Very mature Steve. Very mature. Never mind, it'll all be worthwhile when you die... (because then you will shut up and fuck off).

Happy new year!