Why do Westerners lie to their children so?

Or, NO THE TOOTH FAIRY DOESN’T EXIST! GO GET A DAMN JOB IF YOU WANT MONEY!

A few years ago, I spent the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Adha in Bangladesh in my dad’s boyhood home of Barahipur in the province of Feni. There I witnessed a cow being slaughtered in the old fashion. That is, [...]

London – What’s the stone for?

Eid mubarak.  There’s a mosque about a block away from my flat here in north London so I decided to go there for Eid prayers this morning.  It’s a nice place, one big prayer room, expansive and ornately decorated, divided in half down the middle by a semi-opaque white barrier.  The kiblah is towards a [...]