What the study demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt is that Shariah and the doctrines of war articulated as the Law of Jihad are valid today as they were one thousand years ago.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shariah��s Black Box

It rankles a bit to hear such a marvellous explanation of the forces that created the mid-Atlantic rift that bisects Iceland on the Thingvellir plain near Reykjavik, but no hint that Europe's first parliament, the foundation of one of the most prosperous and democratic societies on earth, met just over a thousand years ago on that exact same spot.

ECONOMIST: Island life