Win for Hamas

Hamas has won a surprising number of seats in the Palestinian elections, yet it really is not that surprising. With Israel moving out of areas and the illness of Sharon they see a possible weakness in the armour of Israel. They could possible be right. I see the situation going down hill and all the way.
I was surprised to read that in Sri Lanka militant Buddhists were attacking Christians. Considering that Buddihist pridded themselves on not harming others (totally against human nature) this is surprising. Bolaththa, Ganemulla is the place. So do not go there for your holidays unless of course you're a Buddhiist.
They the Buddihists are lucky they are not in Malaysia. That Islamic country does not like people to be buried other than under Muslim law.
I read this on a news site, I think it was Al Jazeera its stated that a Malaysian Court allowed a non-Muslim burial and that Muslim lawyers in Malaysia said an Islamic court's landmark verdict allowing a Buddhist burial for a woman who had renounced Islam should relieve fears among Malaysia's religious minorities about their rights. It went on to say that an advocacy group for religious minorities, said that this precedent-setting verdict showed the Islamic court was inconsistent in its protection of religious minorities. The Shariah High Court ruled that the body of one Nyonya Tahir, an 89-year-old ethnic Malay, should be handed over to her Buddhist children. She was a Muslim by birth but was was raised as a Chinese by her Malay grandmother who had married a Chinese convert to Islam and that she Nyuonya continued to live as a Chinese and practised Buddhism after marrying Chiang Meng in 1936. All their children were registered and lived as Chinese. When she died the state religious affairs department obtained an order to postpone her burial until the case was heard. Nyuonya was buried according to Buddhist rites hours after Monday's verdict.
Imagine if authorities in the UK said you could only be buried according to the rites of the Church of England, think of the outcry there would be.