Archive for October 22, 2008
The Saudi ambassador in Lebanon met with the representative of Grand Ayatullah Sistani in Lebanon. They mostly discussed gender, human rights and sexual liberties.
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
Comrade Hicham on Canadian foreign policy
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
`Awn’s movement, At-Tayyar, published pictures of flooding in Lebanon under the heading: “This is not Bangladesh”. (thanks Raed)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“”I get my funding from many countries in the Gulf, but this money, I use to spread the ideology, not to buy weapons. We are not a militia,” Shahal said. Many of Shahal’s supporters were arrested in 2000 following clashes with the Lebanese army in the Dinnieh area, where the Salafis had set up a [...]
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
The lies and distortions of MEMRI. Today, MEMRI (the Israeli propaganda arm with bad and unrepresentative translations) came out with a bullet about “Arab columnists” blaming the financial crisis on an “international Jewish conspiracy.” What MEMRI did not tell you is that two of the three columnists selected are Saudi propagandists and the third is [...]
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“A crowd of angry protesters threw shoes and plastic bottles at the Thai prime minister’s entourage after cornering him in an underground parking lot Wednesday.” Why did the report not give credit to Arab culture from which Thia crowds derived the notion of shoe-as-insult? (thanks Band.)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“Israel, whose armed forces killed a Palestinian journalist this year for the first time since 2003, was 149th on the list for press freedoms beyond its frontiers, compared with 103rd place in RSF’s 2007 rankings.” Notice how the article tries to bring the US in order to imply that this low ranking is due to [...]
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“A man who fellow committee members said has served well for nearly four years is drawing intense criticism for suggesting world governments recognize and negotiate with the Palestinian group Hamas.” (thanks Toufic)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric criticized Tuesday a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact, saying the Baghdad government has no right to “legitimize” the presence of foreign troops.” In other news, Sistani spoke on the more important issues of the day: he banned chess and orgies.
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“Christie Murphey said she was upset when she shot herself in the thigh at a McDonald’s drive-through Wednesday, not because of the wound, but because she didn’t get her large chicken McNuggets meal.” (thanks Bert)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
Finally: “An Egyptian man has been jailed for three years with hard labour for sexual harassment of a woman in the street.”
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“The kingdom on Tuesday injected up to $3bn into local banks to meet a shortfall of dollar funding in the domestic banking sector, as demand for loans from the private sector to finance lined up projects increased, bankers said.”
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“The top brass in Tel Aviv are right to be worried. “Israel’s brand image does not serve its interests right now,” warns Ido Aharoni, head of brand management at the Foreign Ministry.” (The brand image was fine among whites in Apartheid South Africa).
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“The State Department suddenly canceled a contract for eight private investigators to assist U.S. officials in Iraq in “extremely complex and sensitive investigations,” after a senator raised questions about whether the department had outsourced oversight of security contractors.”
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence Tuesday for a journalism student accused of blasphemy for asking questions in class about women’s rights under Islam. But the judges still sentenced him to 20 years in prison.” (thanks Jamal)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
It is trendy that Lebanese fascists refer to themselves nowadays as “human rights activists”. (thanks Olivia)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
“Karl Marx is back in fashion, says one German publisher, who attributes his new popularity to the economic crisis.”
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
This is the darling regime of the US/EU: “Jordanian law bans publication of any material seen as harmful to Islam.”
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
Hobsbowm speaks (thanks Nabeel)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad
Read the last paragraph of page 2. (thanks Laleh)
Posted on October 22, 2008 by As'ad