you know what the biggest difference between continental europe, and the english isles? mosquitos... on continental europe, you can be swarmed by them in the summer... on the english isles? something akin to spotting nessie (loch ness monster)... they're like the oasis mirage in a desert... i.e. hardly any! you'll sooner get a spider bite after a night's repose... oh **** me, my house is infested with spiders... but as the proverb states: a house filled with spiders, is a happy home... proverbs are always cryptic and never make any direct sense akin to an ikea manual for putting up a table... 1 more proverbs: better a sparrow in your hand, than a dove upon your roof (that might be persian in origin, but i'm not too sure)... i think that might mean: better to act with peace, than to live in peace... well... live... no one can attain a plateau of emotional tranquility to be the kind of consistency that grants you an apathetic shield of defence against life changes. still... mosquitos are ****** rare where i live... like i said: you're morely likely to be bitten by a spider when sleeping... and i have seen house-hold spiders, a third of a tarantula's size, scuttling around the place... well, it happened only twice... but you get the idea. in terms of phobias? how is "islamophobia" an irrational fear by the definition of phobia? which part is the irrational part of this so called "phobia"? perhaps from islam per se, being apprehensive of its own internal irrational belief system?