1. A town in Spain celebrates its victory over invading Muslims in the 8th century by Count Aznar aided by the women of Jacaon on May 2nd every year.
Let us hope all nations get to have such a victory celebration soon. My guess is though, using the law of irony, Egypt will be the first nation to form such a national day.
2. Meanwhile, in the land where savagery is elevated to high art, (No I don’t mean MTV but I easily could) Afghans play some kind of sport using the carcass or carcass parts of an animal instead of a ball.
“Riders use whips filled with lead on both horses and other players”
(It does make one wonder if the Boston Bruins recruit from these teams though)
H/T M
Afghans lile many of the Saudi tribes, could survive only by raiding the crops and other produce of farmers. A sheep’s head used the sport of Bushkazi is a symbol of the contempt that raiding tribes have of the farmer or the producer of goods.
Essentially, the war for civilisation is still ongoing in Afghanistan and Somalia.
2/ They haven’t evolved at all, have they?