Archive for September 17, 2006
Paul Klee, Refuge.
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
“The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned an Associated Press photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing.”
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
Those who perpetrated the massacre in Haditha are such nice people after all, argues Time magazine. (thanks Jamal)
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
“Deadly harvest: The Lebanese fields sown with cluster bombs: Lebanese villagers must risk death in fields ‘flooded’ with more than a million Israeli cluster bombs – or leave crops to rot”
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
“Revealed: the tough interrogation techniques the CIA wants to use“
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
“In the 12th century, Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, initiated a dialogue with the Islamic world. “I approach you not with arms, but with words,” he wrote to the Muslims whom he imagined reading his book, “not with force, but with reason, not with hatred, but with love.” Yet his treatise was entitled Summary [...]
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
He can’t help himself: “Having just stirred up a global storm by quoting from a text fiercely critical of Islam, it might have been expected that Pope Benedict would steer well away from anything alluding to another religion that could be open to misinterpretation. Yet only minutes after saying that he was “deeply sorry” about [...]
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
Don’t you like it when clerics of different religions bond?
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
Should not Muslims be insisting (also at least) that their rulers apologize to them for their offensive words AND deeds?
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
As a letter to the editor in AnNahar, I read a letter by Lebanese playwright Faysal Farhat. I knew Faysal (a former hardcore Salinist Lebanese communist party member) very well. So what are you trying to do Faysal? Hope that mini-Hariri reads your piece and showers you with gifts? Have some lentils soup Faysal.
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
Dumb media. The matter is now settled. So An-Nahar newspaper (the dying sectarian Christian, right-wing newspaper in Lebanon) interviewed an “expert” on Christian matters in Beirut and he decreed that the Pope did not offend Muslims. As evidence, the newspaper reports that he had the text on his computer.
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
I had posted a letter from Ziyad Rahbani to mini-Hariri. Today, Rahbani issued a statement to Hariri rag (of all places) denying that he had authored that letter.
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
Angry Arab East Canada Tour. My speaking schedule in Canada next week: Monday 25 McGill; Tuesday 26 McMaster; Wednesday 27 Queens U; Thursday 28 York U; Friday 29 Ottawa U, Marion Hall 8:30PM. For further information you may contact laith.marouf@gmail.com
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
“Pope Gets it Wrong on Islam”
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
Hummus in the streets. An American correspondent in Lebanon wrote me this: “i was driving back from…and when we got to naameh just before beirut there was some sort of huge clash on the street, a few hundred young men, some holding rocks or belts, a couple of guys were bloody, i couldnt see where [...]
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
“Filkins, who will begin a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University this month and start work on a book, said that 98% of Iraq, and even most of Baghdad, has now become “off-limits” for Western journalists. Filkins, one of the longest-lasting and most-honored reporters in Iraq, said that many situations lately have become even too dangerous [...]
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
I hope that this is not true: “Pro-Israeli editors seek to influence Al-Jazeera International English Satellite TV”
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad
I was amused that the New York Times has asked that the Pope apologizes to Muslims. That newspaper has a long record of sensitivity to Muslims and Arabs.
Posted on September 17, 2006 by As'ad