Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour.

As a scrupulous and faithful antiquary, Morales was accustomed to require evidence, and to investigate it; and for these he could find no other testimony than tradition and antiquity, which, as presumptive proofs, were strong corroborants of faith, but did not suffice of themselves.

No wind that blew was bitterer than he, […]

Insofar as Muslimity is a religion founded on the same god concept as is the Christian religion, and linked to those religions through the prophet Abraham, and insofar as Pope John Paul has just been beatified