Sick as a cat

I have been feeling very sick for the last few days (you would say "sick as a dog" but as Muslim I dont like using this idiom. No offence intended against the purity of the english idiom but to be likened to a dog is to me not appropriate) Anyway, I had a very bad case of food poisoning.   I had to go to the A&E two days in a row where they had to put me on water drips as I was losing a lot of body fluid. I also had a huge dosage of antibiotics directly injected through the water tube as well as a good amount of anti-gastric medication as usually antibiotics would give me a very bad acid reflux. Although I am feeling much better now, the stomach cramps are still stubbornly there every odd hour or so. This is probably the longest case of food poisoning I have had.  One was in Bali and the other one was in London.  In Bali it was a bad big mac and London a bad indian chicken tikka. The doctor gave me 2 days medical leave. I took that opportunity to stay in bed doing my reading. I have these few books that I bought during my previous traveling as a globetrotting international lawyer that I havent quite finished reading yet, A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson, the clash of civilization by samuel huntington and a non-fiction The Afghan by Frederick forsyth just to name a few. The clash of civilisation is actually an old thesis written in 1993 by a Harvard professor but however after 9/11 it somehow generated a lot more debate. It is a scary thought that conflicts between civilizations would dominate the future of world politics and world order.  Are we returning to period of the crusades? I certainly hope not but some of the prognosis of this Harvard professor has already some tell tale signs.  Islamiphobia in Europe and the USA suddenly on the increase.  Islam suddenly became seen as a third world religion. Although I do not wish to defend the actions of the muslims who kill in the name of religion but I do raise my hope that the world order should also be on the dictate of inter-faith understandings.