Archive for September 17, 2008
In the last week, the U.S. government did more nationalizations that Nasser and the Ba`th party combined.
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
“At the same time, the prosecutor speaks in ignorance of history: “AL BASHIR…promoted the idea of a polarization between tribes aligned with him, whom he labeled ‘Arabs’ and…the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa…derogatory [sic] referred to as ‘Zurgas’ or ‘Africans’.” The racialization of identities in Darfur has its roots in the British colonial period. As early [...]
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
“According to media reports, the game, “Muslim Massacre” (available on a website that appeared to be down Monday morning), allows players to be in control of an “American hero†on a mission to kill bearded Muslims and suicide bombers using a machine gun and a rocket launcher.” (thanks Nadya)
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
Syrian regime oppressors want to sue a comedy show for distorting the image of “the security people” of the regime. (thanks Zaki)
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
“Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure. But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable. The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in [...]
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
Look at the last name on the list: Mish`an Al-Jabburi initially worked for the American occupation. What gives? (thanks Kamal)
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
Saudi-Israeli conspiracy? What Saudi-Israeli conspiracy?
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
Do you notice that Saudi media are promoting Livni for prime minister?
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
The Jordanian government banned a book by Ghassan Kanafani, and the memoirs of Fathi Al-Biss. In other news, Rice praised Jordanian PlayStation King for his reforms.
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
So who are the religious fanatics who destroyed and desecrated the tombs of communist fighters (who founded the resistance movement against Israeli occupation of Lebanon) in the village of Kfar Rumman in South Lebanon?
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
As-Safir is reporting that Walid Jumblat sent an emissary to the Iranian embassy in Beirut to express his desire to open a new page in his relation with Iran. Is that why neo-conservatives no more cite Jumblat and praise him?
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
It is indeed sexist if you think that Sarah Palin is not competent or qualified but that George W. Bush is. I mean, there is nobody who is less qualified and more incompetent than Bush. There is a scene in Woodward’s book where Bush is asserting that Maliki needs to learn how to run a [...]
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad
LBC-TV’s Walid `Abbud was interviewing a Hariri leftist the other day. `Abbud asked him: so Lebanon is no more the top priority of the international community? I kid you not.
Posted on September 17, 2008 by As'ad