For the UK, Vis-a-Vis Creeping Sharia, 2014 Was a Very Good Year

But only for those on the side of the sharia-creep (which, viz the rot in Rotherham, is as creepy as it gets). For those who aren't into such "vibrant" cultural practices as "honour" killings and the predatory sexual enslavement of young infidel girls, it was a very bad year indeed.

As an antidote to the ugly reality, might I recommend this--Mark Steyn's analysis of a Sinatra standard, a wistful and semi-morose backward glance at life from the vantage point of late middle age.