This blog, a host of other blogs, forums, message boards, internet sites where I post and my website that has been on the internet for the last six years, 2001-2008—are each and all part of a tapestry of poetry and prose that I have created across the internet. This literary creation by this self-employed individual, this retired teacher and lecturer who is now 64, attempts to endow various themes and a wide range of social science and humanities subjects with many layers of meaning. In these six years on the internet I have evoked a complex range of responses in readers who come upon my work, responses which range from lavish enthusiasm to utter indifference and quite intense criticism.

The Islamic Jihad has murdered Iraqi children simply because they belonged to Christian believing parents. The Islamic Jihad told all Christians to leave their churches and to stop practicing their religion or their families would be killed. They stated that only the Islamic religion would be the country’s religion.

Iraq,