Archive for October 13, 2009
Ayatullah executions
“Amnesty International has condemned the execution of Behnoud Shojaee, a 21-year-old Iranian, at Tehran’s Evin Prison at dawn on Sunday, for a murder he was accused of having committed when he was 17.”
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
English Zionist defends Polish anti-semite
“”As the row has grown, the Conservatives managed – in what they believed to be a decisive counter-strike – to enlist the support of Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, who leaped to Kaminski’s defence, saying there was nothing to s…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Arabs not as sensitive, I guess
“Reem Yahya and a team from the University of Haifa studied Arabs and Jews while showing them images of hands and feet in painful situations. The two cultures perceived pain differently. The Arabs perceived higher levels of pain over all while the J…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
They leave out that son of Fahd was criticized
““We think it’s from a mistaken interpretation of what happened on the [live] show, since it was a Saudi journalist who actually made the comments,†Mr Sarkis said.The show in question was a mid-September broadcast of Line Six, a weekly live c…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
“There are Muslims where I work and I love them”
A Lebanese Forces reporter at LBC-TV says: “There are Muslim employees and I love them.” (thanks Ahmad)
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Using racism “correctly”
Using racism “correctly”"Sider was interviewed in November at the 105th annual business meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose. The meeting was abuzz over a year-old New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh, alleging that a 1973 boo…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Bible thumping
“The human rights group has revealed a Texas man faces execution after jurors at his trial consulted the Bible when deliberating his fate.”
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
The real Israel
“Fascinating/depressing story on NPR about a group of Jewish “vigilantes” trying to stop interracial dating in Israel – and their shockingly inept approach: There is, apparently, an epidemic of possible miscegenation at work: Jewish girls are datin…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
More Obama wars
“Heavily armed Ethiopian troops crossed over into some villages in Somalia’s central border town of Beledweyne and arrested some villagers they suspected of being Islamist sympathizers, witnesses said on Sunday.”
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Cover up
“The British military’s chain of command has instructed the country’s top investigators not to examine hundreds of incidents involving Iraqi deaths and serious injury, a former British military police officer told the BBC Sunday.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Obama rules
“The oppressed of Egypt and the young of Saudi Arabia are angry and restless. They listened to Obama’s June speech in Cairo, and many were disappointed by the lack of criticism of their nations’ regimes, which often ignore American principles of dem…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
An-Nahar: the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people)
““[At] our newspaper, we had two martyrs to defend democracy in Lebanon and then they treat us in this very nasty way,†says Elias Khoury, a respected author, editor of the cultural supplement and one of those being made redundant.” So Elias Khu…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Yasir `Abd Rabbu now wants armed struggle against Israel
“Abed Rabbo also criticized Hamas for preventing Palestinian military groups from launching shells at Israeli targets bordering the Gaza Strip. He said Mash’al “wants to be nothing more than a border guard for Israel.— If Muhammad Dahlan is t…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Straight line, or zig zag line: it does not matter
“Kramer appeared quietly incensed. He said, “I thought to myself, well, certainly the early Zionist leaders knew that there was a tremendous demographic disadvantage. They were very much tilting against reality on the ground, and yet they didn’t des…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Leila is dead
I never met Leila, but she often communicated with me on Facebook and on email. She even brought me books from the Middle East. She once participated in a “fly a kite for peace” affair in Oakland, and I wrote some smart ass comments and mocked it. S…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Overthrow of the Oslo regime
Comrade Suhayr calls for the overthrow of the Oslo regime. (thanks Suhayr)
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
The Kook of Al-Azhar
The senile kook of Al-Azhar is at it again. He now says that he changed his mind: that women can wear the niqab, regardless whether “she is pretty or ugly.”
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
I knew that this was coming: Yemeni conspiracy scenarios
After accusing the Hawth movement of links with Iran, the Yemeni government today accused them of links with Al-Qa`idah. Today, a Yemeni government propagandist was hosted on Al-Arabiyya TV (the private TV station of King Fahd’s borther-in-law). He…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad
Liberal arts…my potato
This is what I call academic freedoms, Zionist-style: “Shalem College, I can assure you, will not become yet another home to scholars who have made their reputations by negating the Zionist and Israeli narrative.” I wonder: will scholars who have ma…
Posted on October 13, 2009 by As'ad