More weird stuff

Today I heard about what happens to western literature when it gets translated into Arabic...Tom Sawyer converts to Islam, and Pollyanna praises Allah. The miniscule amount of conversions from Islam in the Middle East is making more sense to me now...not only are the people of that region coerced and threatened and intimidated until they're too scared to convert to anything else, but the options from the west must look limited when our children's literature is just like what they had in school. They must be thinking, "aha! they only pretend to be Christian!" Anyway, just thought I'd share that with you. And happy birthday to me! Tis the day...