It’s never easy bringing a new religion into a secular society based upon an opposing religion.
Despite our limited religious activity here the Christian faith underpins society and if push came to shove we’d be picking their churches as the basis of our beliefs.
So Ashraf Choudhary must feel continually under fire as a Muslim politician.
Trademe is our local equivalent of eBay. There are a few pretenders but Trademe has the profile. It was one of the dotcoms started up by school kids, supported by their parents, that actually flew (Maxnet being another).
So I was amused to find that a Jeremy Matthews had purchased a mispelt domain tardme.co.nz and put up a mischievous front page.
Sudoku is an insidious little game
So says an accused rapist in Mount Maunganui this week.
The statement leads one to wonder “who has HAD to rape a woman”.
The ICC disgraced themselves in January be threatening to penalise the Sri Lankan cricket team if they returned home early from their NZ tour – despite the fact that many players were from areas devastated by the Tsunami.
Now, they are threatening our team if they don’t continue with the tour to Zimbabwe.