Restoration 10:10

If the Dudley Mosque was built on the derelict ground in Hall Street, it would rob the town of prime building land. After all there’s only 27 acres of development space left in the borough. However, if the Mosque was built it would generate jobs as well as providing training and development opportunities for the whole community. This is what we are told about the public inquiry taking place over the Dudley mosque. But the town is not being true to itself with this debate. Do we really think that angry words are being exchanged in the public gallery and twenty police officers and extra security are present because everyone’s falling out over a few jobs and a bit of land? I don’t think so. Much of the public unrest involves a faith issue. Not a race issue. But there is definitely a religious concern. A mosque is a place of public worship. But we are debating the whole thing in a secular sense as though planners propose to build an air field or a supermarket on the site. Personally I wish Donald Trump would come to Dudley and build his £1 billion golf course. Not to forget the one thousand holiday homes and five hundred private houses he’s planning to go around the 1,400 acre site. Dudley would become a golfer’s paradise and reap £100 million a year. But it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for Donald to build his golf course here in the West Midlands. In fact, Donald can’t even get his plans through a small committee. Scottish councillors have rejected his flamboyant proposal to keep their unspoilt coastline. That’s what it’s all about isn’t it? We don’t like people spoiling things for us. According to the Muslim Association the mosque is ‘an ideal employment site’. They don’t want anyone to stand in the way and spoil this great service and vision for the community. On the other hand it’s been argued that a huge mosque would be out of character with the town of Dudley and spoil its skyline. I think it would also spoil some people’s Christian views. Unlike the Muslims Christians believe Jesus is more than just a prophet. They believe Christ is the unique Son of God. That’s why some people are opposed to the building of the Mosque. But I can’t say this, can I? Otherwise I might spoil the wonderful image of religious tolerance we have in our nation.

According to a spokesman the attacker is just a vulnerable bloke that’s been radicalised and taken advantage of by Muslim extremists. The would-be bomber naively transported some explosive device to the Giraffe café in Exeter England. The viable nail bomb was designed to explode, maim and kill innocent men, women and children. But it’s the assailant who is apparently weak and vulnerable. The suspect is described as being brain washed and having a low I Q. If he’s so pathetic why didn’t they send in a social worker or counsellor to raid an adress associated with the bomber? Why did they use a bunch of armed police officers to do the search? Just because you have a low IQ or can be taken advantage of does not make you innocent. Nobody these days takes the blame for the things they do wrong. Ask the young teenagers why they carry knives. It’s not to kill anyone it’s only to protect themselves. It’s the other gang’s fault. And whatever you do don’t upset the youf. Police officers should not stop and search any young suspects for these deadly weapons. You might antagonise them. Then they’ll have another excuse to riot against the establishment. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a goody two shoes or a golden angel. I’ve done my fair share of misdeeds. But I do believe in good old fashioned confession. Its God’s way of making us be honest about our sin.

He’s got a bloated face, puffed belly and a beard. It could be a fat Jesus. But it’s not. It’s a recent photograph of pop legend Robbie Williams. Robby like some of us has piled on the pounds lately. And he’s decided to keep a low profile. “You won’t be seeing a lot of me for a while. The more I’m away from public life, the more I like it,” he said. Robbie now spends his time investigating Aliens and UFO’s. He’s convinced that they exist. But those aliens are as elusive as Robbie himself. I’ve not been contacted by an alien have you? If you say you have, I don’t believe you. I’m not calling you a liar. I’m just saying that there is a reasonable explanation as to why people should have close encounters of the third kind. According to the ministry of defence they are not right in the head. No I’m not saying that they’re insane. But a UK government dossier says that,

"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person. Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced."

So there you have it. Aliens don’t exist; those who see them are only hallucinating. It all depends on what we carry in our minds. Congregation members of a church say they can see a likeness of Jesus in the burl wood patterns on one of their church doors. Ah, how convenient. The iconographic face in the church door couldn’t possibly be the image of Moses, reminding everyone to obey God’s 10 commandments. It couldn’t possibly be an omen of Judas Iscariot warning all traitors and conspirators that they will come to a sticky end. It couldn’t possibly be an evil apparition of Osama bin Laden reminding us that we live in a world of terror. Considering this to be the case let’s create a new Murphy’s Law. The Murphy’s Law of religion states, ‘if an iconic image sighted on any object, appears to resemble a figure with long hair and a beard, it’s got to be Jesus’.

This explains why a young expectant mother, saw Jesus in a shroud in her baby scan. A gardener has photographed the face of Jesus in an asparagus plant. According to a news report the features of Jesus can also be seen in a hawthorn tree in Essex. Another woman believes she found Jesus in a family picture. ‘Some people see it and some people don’t’ she said. Perhaps these people too have had their minds adversely affected by plasma forces?