1. 'Stories teach us not that dragons exist, but that dragons can be slain' - paraphrased Chesterton quote [Retweet]

2. There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. - Scott Adams

3. Some preachers justify their idiocy with destiny. As Ali said: Destiny is a deep sea; don't sail on it! It's a stony path; don't walk on it!

4. Muslims Must Stand Up Against the Horrific Attacks Against Christians in Nigeria [Huffington Post] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/imam-mohamed-magid/muslims-stand-up-against-nigeria-anti-christian-violence_b_1171584.html

5. Fiery friends! Since you choose your enemies, why pick the intelligent? Why crave the most intelligent enemies while refusing to learn more?

6. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

7. Cheaters & con-artists are the loudest in preaching & activism. Sincerity is no excuse for falling for them when we stay dumb and ignorant.

8. Begun reading Peter H Wilson's "Europe's Tragedy" dealing with the 30 years war: over 900 pages; hope I get to the end in less than 3 years!

9. A Bradford Fb friend posted that even saying "Merry Christmas" by mistake is worse than murder. No wonder life is cheap to such extremists!

10. Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) said, "You will not commit adultery as long as you avert your eyes." [Islamic sacred text]

11. Jesus (peace be upon him) said, "As you sleep, so shall you die; and as you awake, so shall you be resurrected." [Islamic sacred text]

12. Jesus said: It's of no use to you to come to know what you did not know, so long as you don't act in accordance with what you already know.

13. God revealed to Jesus, "O Jesus, your refuge is with me, under the shadow of my throne and in the abode of my mercy." [Islamic sacred text]

14. Jesus Christ (peace be on him) said, "The world is a bridge. Cross this bridge but do not build upon it." [Islamic sacred text]

15. Jesus (peace on him) said: Multiply what fire cannot consume. "And what is this?" they asked. He replied: Good works. [Islamic sacred text]

16. Jesus said to a pig: Pass in peace. They said: Spirit of God, how can you say this to a pig? He said: I hate to accustom my tongue to evil.

17. Still drowsy after spending all night at the Holy Trinity Church with our homeless guests. God bless all needy people & those who help them.

18. Jesus (peace be upon him) said, "Blessed is he who sees with his heart but whose heart is not in what he sees." [Islamic sacred text]

19. The day that Jesus (peace be upon him) was raised to heaven, he left behind nothing but a woollen garment, a slingshot and two sandals.

20. Jesus (peace be upon him) said, "Place your treasure in heaven, for the heart of man is where his treasures are." [Islamic sacred text]

21. Jesus said to those who tore their clothes lamenting, "What sin have your clothes committed? Turn instead to your hearts and reprove them." They said, "What is the best of worship, spirit of God?"

22. Jesus (peace be upon him) said, "Humility before God." [Islamic sacred text]

23. Jesus (peace on him) said: Slaves of this world, instead of giving alms be merciful to those whom you treat unjustly. [Islamic sacred text]

24. Jesus (peace be upon him) said, "The merciful in this world is the one who will be shown mercy in the next world." [Islamic sacred text]

25. Christ said, "You will not commit adultery as long as you avert your eyes." [Islamic sacred text]

26. We know not when he was born but it's good to remember Jesus (peace on him) was the sweetest, gentlest, purest & humblest to walk the earth.

27. Even if you are the biggest elephant in the jungle, the jungle is still bigger than you. -- African proverb

28. Quite humbling to discover how Xenophanes (d. 470 BC) discovered and explained quite a sophisticated idea of monotheism...

29. So happy to have at last completed reading vol.1 of Anthony Kenny's 'A New History of Western Philosophy' dealing with Ancient Philosophy!

30. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar Wilde

31. I do not know what I can call my own if the will by which I want or reject is not my own. -- St. Augustine

32. How can a book developed specifically to promote extremist ideology & mass marketed be the same as making a classical work handy for study?

33. My country allows this fascist preacher on YouTube to say he will destroy Britain with his religion. Do such devils think we'll allow that?

34. X-ray was discovered today but know that, "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

35. These unrepresentative, power & recognition hungry people, vying to advocate for Muslims & Islam are conceited because they are just losers.

36. Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. -- Benjamin Disraeli

37. A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. -- Benjamin Disraeli

38. Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. - Benjamin Disraeli [Born 21/12/1804]

39. How weird to see Voltaire vindicated by the Saudi preacher I know in the UK. "It isn't love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love"

40. On what principle do these preachers who talk loudest about the ills of the "corrupt" West advocate big for Freedom of Speech in my country?

41. Dressing up the abuse of women in religious verses to justify it is like dressing up a pig in a designer night gown. Its still a pig! [Retweet]

42. Misogyny and violence against women result from vile diseases of the heart. Every man is responsible to uproot them in himself. [Retweet]

43. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln

44. Call no man happy till he is dead. -- Aeschylus

45. This ceaseless praise of heroes of religion has become the deluded escape for speakers who have little practical action or advice to offer.

46. I should sooner decide to live in contemplative soothing solitude than continue to allow myself being drugged with endless praise of heroes.

47. Scrooge: But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me! [A Xmas Carol, Dickens 17/12/1843]

48. Finished reading "The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda" by F. A. Gerges. A must read for anyone who seriously and honestly wants to know Jihadists.

49. Lesson this morning: The most brilliant light comes from uniting the light of the heart; INTELLECT; with that of divine guidance; REVELATION

50. Visited the Community Resource Centre yesterday. So self-cleansing to meet people suffering real deprivation yet humble, polite, & grateful.

51. Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. -Robert Runcie Archbishop

52. The first reaction to truth is hatred. -- Tertullian

53. Tonight was my last lecture this year; no. 78; in my risky bid to discuss the whole life of the Prophet Muhammad: back next year Deo volente

54. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T. S. Eliot

55. Stop! You can't impress me about some of our Muslim 'scholars' who neither play an active role in society nor try to influence our destiny!

56. Halfway through mid-December already: better pull my finger out! "Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go." -- Henry A. Dobson

57. Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. -- Voltaire

58. Global terrorists draw on Western models in practice, as well as in ideology. [The Missing Martyrs by Charles Kurzman]

59. Finished reading 'The Missing Martyrs - Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists' by Charles Kurzman (OUP).

60. A good book for better awareness. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. -- Socrates

61. The best in life can be propelled by simple questions. "Who are you?" "What do you REALLY want?" Not quantum physics but the stuff of life. [Retweet]

62. FAT TUESDAY: A fantastic group of performers & such a superb show! Proud for Suffolk New College to have students of such high standards.

63. At last finished reading "A Sketch of English Legal History" by Maitland & Montague. It's quite nontechnical yet it took me so long to read!

64. Rational people always seek relief through independence when trapped by injustice but few do so with fairness. The heart knows why; ask it.

65. Just became a granddad this morning (alhumdulillah). Children teach what one needs to know in life - may my son take good lessons!

66. If Jesus' grandfather's grandfather had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awestruck before his soul: K Gibran

67. What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead: Jewish say

68. To unlearn what is untrue, to discover what we know in a different way, to reclaim the past & be alive to the future; that is real teaching.

69. Off to Leicester: Please God, let me have the courage to fashion my speech with thought and decency to let my talk fall short of my actions.

70. I believe I delivered a good sermon today. As Ronald Knox preferred; short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials

71. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -- Rumi

72. Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. -- John Ruskin

73. Are there any scholars alive today that will inspire interest and passion in 1000 years? [Retweet]

74. It's a tragedy in our time that while the Shi'a are randomly butchered in many places the Sunni 'scholars' are generally appallingly silent.

75. Who do too many of our religious 'scholars' tell us about our polluted thinking instead of teaching us how to think in a sound, postive way?

76. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. -- Plato

77. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

78. The Washington Post: Occupy the Bible: Why Jesus is not a 'free marketer' by By Susan Brooks http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/occupy-the-bible-why-jesus-is-not-a-free-marketer/2011/12/06/gIQAGDnMaO_blog.html

79. Great team mtg today! "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible & suddenly you're doing the impossible." St Francis (Assisi)

80. The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. -- Blaise Pascal

81. When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. -- Seneca

82. ... our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. -- T. S. Eliot

83. Articulate & intelligent parrying do not become tiresomely evasive & unproductive only due to the focus & competence of the interviewers.

84. Confronted with the simple reality of a kind person, even the most brain-washed among us are able to at least question our stereotypes. [Retweet]

85. Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. - George Bernard Shaw

86. Being nominated for the Stars of Suffolk award gave me the honor to shake Ken Scott's hand & the opportunity to say a heartfelt "Thank you".

87. Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. -- Bertrand Russell

88. No point blaming the Police for leaking anything to the Press when anyone walking by the 'crime' site could see the graffiti left for ages!

89. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein