‘A hodgepodge of hash, yoga and LSD’
John O’Mahony, Guardian
If Ravi Shankar has one abiding memory of the Monterey pop festival – which took place in the heady summer of 1967, at the height of his notoriety as the sitar-playing guru to the stars – it is of unfortunate scheduling. Slated to appear before him were Jefferson Airplane, a band whose blues-inflected barrage of pulsating sound couldn’t have clashed more with his own karmic composure. And right after him was one Jimi Hendrix, then still a relative unknown…
It’s not just boys who are autistic
Joanna Moorhead, The Guardian
Ten years ago, when she was 11, Robyn Steward was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism that made that already challenging time particularly difficult. While other girls were forming tight friendships, hanging out with each other for hours after school, Steward had trouble fitting in with her contemporaries – more so, she suspects, than if she had been a teenage boy with the syndrome. “At that age,” she says, “boys aren’t connecting with one another so much, but for girls it’s so cliquey…”
Refugees from Eritrea, a young state riven with conflict and divided by faith
Catherine Philp, Times
Recent religious repression has meant Eritrea is wrongly portrayed as a Muslim state that persecutes Christians. In reality, it is the Orthodox Church’s antipathy towards new evangelical groups that has inspired much of the persecution. When the Government introduced legislation in 2002, forcing all religious organisations to register, it seized the opportunity to shut down the growing number of Pentecostal churches, citing such groups as a threat to national security, along with extremist Islamist groups.
Bardot fined over racial hatred (Islamophobia Watch)
British government says it favours stepping into Islamic finance (Associated Press/ HT)
Muslim Friendly Flats Opened (Bristol Evening Post)
Soundbites but no solutions in French “virginity lie” case (Tom Heneghan, FaithWorld)
So al-Qa’ida’s defeated, eh? Go tell it to the marines (Tabsir)
Germany: Neo-Nazi violence becomes the norm (Islam in Europe)
James Slack and the truth (5cc)
Lahore nights (Koonj The Crane)
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