Original Blog Header

This was the blog header I had for many years, as I was trying to understand the aggressive world of Islam as it made headways into our culture.

The newer ideas behind "Saving Our Landscape" are still about keeping our culture and civilization from usurpation by foreign elements, since Islam wouldn't have been so bold if our cultural elements had been stronger and more confident.

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Shot of the Toronto Skyline, with the CN Tower and the Rogers Centre Dome, which is a baseball arena, resembling a mosque. I was actually not the one to realzie this association, but an Arabic television in Toronto, which uses it as its opening logo. I write about that here.

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Logo from the television series (now discontinued) Little Mosque on the Prairie, which is a take on that original story Little House on the Prairie. Here is my post on this.


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Halal KFC, more here.

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Isna Halal Certification:
(ISNA = Islamic Society of North America)

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Muslim Girl Magazine, the Canada-published monthly magazine is now discontinued.

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Muslim architecture in downtown Toronto, which I've written about here.

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New Header

Perhaps I'm a little too apocalyptic, but I believe our era warrants my strong reaction.

I designed the web header graphics based on these images.

The image on the left is from New York city's Cloisters, where I have been numerous times, and about which I've written here.

In the middle graphic, I've turned the Cloisters image counterclockwise 90°, and did a "heat map" filter through Photoshop. It looks like there is a flame projecting from the Cloisters to the image on the right.

The graphic on the right is the the Absolute Condo Towers, in Mississauga, with the aptly named designers Burka Architects and MAD Architects. I changed the image with Photoshop by making it look like an ashy result of the flames projected from the middle image, and the burned landscape still retaining hot and orange ashes.

We, acting as harbingers of what is to come, and as keepers of art, civilization and our Western culture, can gain our strength and fighting spirit from our institutions, using their still potent power to help us destroy the impostors that have invaded our landscape.

It is no longer a matter of reclamation, but of actual saving, as I further elucidate in my website: Reclaiming Beauty: Saving our Western Civilization.

About

New Outlook, Same Issues

This blog focused for a few years on Islam and Muslims in the West. I started it as a corollary to Camera Lucida, to exclusively write about these issues. I then stopped writing here, and focused all my work on Reclaiming Beauty. Now, I feel we need to revisit this site, to show the slow, progressive, change in our landscape, and of course our society.Please read on to observe .

All my posts on Islam are still filed by topic.

About

Our Changing Landscape is an offshoot from another blog, Camera Lucida. At Camera Lucida, I have been documenting social and cultural news and events, emphasizing some of the arts such architecture, film and painting, as well as design, which is my professional background.

Over the few years that I have maintained Camera Lucida, I began to realize that several factors were eroding, if not outright destroying, the culture and society I was writing about. Liberalism is one, multiculturalism (and its twin, immigration) is another, but one final one is Islam.

Islam has a force of its own. It is not a policy or political behavior like liberalism or multiculturalism (and immigration), but something that uses parts of these ideologies and systems to carve out its own place in the society where it is present. It abuses loopholes in the society's laws and rules, takes advantage of multiculturalism, and relentlessly uses immigration to literally orchestrate a take-over of a society.

Many times, this process is so subtle and discreet that it is hardly discernable, unless you’re someone like me who takes the time and interest (thanks to Camera Lucida) to follow changes in society and culture.
Our Changing Landscape covers, amongst many other topics: Muslim TV programs which have adapted Canadian and American stories (such as Little Mosque on the Prairie); Muslim women who are dismantling decades-long Jewish and Catholic family arbitrations for fear of misogynistic Sharia laws; Arabic script which is openly being used in public places; and mosques, which used to be nondescript buildings and which are now being built with full-fledged Islamic architectural design.

Disclosing these stealthy Islamic inroads into our culture and society, and what to do about them, is what Our Changing Landscape is attempting to do.


Kidist Paulos Asrat