I was just reading something a few days ago and a part if it was describing a type of person. Half way through, I thought "wait a minute... is that me?"

It was a description of problem people, who seem to be able to cause problems in organisations, decision making and more:

...Think about the man who…

ok, this is something that for some reasom irritates me.

It shouldn't because it is extremely minor, but it does.

So when someone accepts Islam, do they revert or convert?

The arguments are as follows:

Argument for using "revert"

Unlike Christians, Muslims do not accept "Original Sin" and that all humans are born in a sinful state. We believe that people are born pure.

Since Islam is accepting God and returning to a purer state, people say that someone has reverted to islam

Argument for using "convert"

Well, this one is simple - people have chosen to accept Islam. Unless they were previously Muslims who had converted to something other than islam and then back, they are simply converting to Islam.

Many people are crucifying Ed Balls and the Labour government for this, but I think it is a good move:

MPs pass Ed Balls's controversial change to the sex education bill, allowing faith schools to opt out of rules on teaching homosexuality and contraception

What this *should* mean is that while the subjects still have to be taught, they do not have to tow the government line on such things and pretend it is all happy families.

Even on the issue of contraception it would give the schools the right to put forward a stronger message than they maybe were previously allowed.

I have mentioned this a few times, but then I also go back to how things are.

The issue is that us Muslims seem to almost excusively focus on the plight of the Palestinians.

Why? because it is easy and it is well know.

Yet there are other places in the world where Muslims live and where humans are also suffering - some times at the hands of other Muslims.

This is nothing new and I am sure we can all name drop a few different places where things are happening - Nigeria in the Nigerian Delta, Sudan in southern Sudan and the Darfour region, Somalia, Chechnya, Assam in India, the Uyghurs in china.

The political situation and its repercussions of Turkey are also of huige interest. Will it take its place as a leader of the Muslim world or will it commit suicide before it gets there?

Recently A founder of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in Dubai - a hit deemed to have been ordered/organised by the Israeli security service, Mossad.

A major sub-plot of this hit was the use of faked passports of European nations - eight of them being faked passports of UK citizens.

This is a concern because having a British passport is a privilege and works as a safety net for British citizens should something go wrong when abroad. If the British Passport loses its credibility, that same security and privilege given to holders of the British passport is reduced.