God, but don't some people live in such a tiny time frame?

There've been times in history when the islamic parts of the world were the civilised and cuitured and tolerant ones, conmpared with their pretty rough barbaric and intolerant Christian neighbours. Most especially if you were Jewish. There were certainly plenty of Jewish refugees from Spain to the Islam at one time, fleeing persecution by Christians.

And there've been times when it works the other way round. Things change. Right now it looks as if the wheeel's in spin again, and the tolerance that was supposed to be absolutely basic to the biggest Christian nation is starting to unravel.

Once again, it's all going Bin Laden's way. Thousands of Muslims who were cheerfully concentrating on making lives in the new lands their families had settled in are being pushed and prodded into reidentifying themselves as unwanted aliens - in a very direct way they are being alienated.

Can it really just be chance that is producing a situation in which every move made by the people in power is guaranteed to further the presumed Bin Laden game plan?