Archive for October 14, 2009
This is your captain speaking
“U.S. airlines and their unions have joined forces to push the Federal Aviation Administration to let pilots do what was once unthinkable: sleep on the job. Though the practice of nodding off midflight in the cockpit is now strictly forbidden by the F…
Posted by As'ad at 7:37 AM 10/14/09
Arrogant racism of Zionism
The history of Zionism is a history of arrogant (racist) refusal to see the obvious: that Palestinian Arab anger stems from an attachment to their homeland. I was looking at old issues of the Palestine Post (later the Jerusalem Post), and in one issue…
Posted by As'ad at 7:33 AM 10/14/09
Photo of Israeli ambassdor to UK with the Polish anti-semite
Did I not tell you? Zionsits heart anti-Semities if they support Israel. (thanks Asa)
Posted by As'ad at 7:07 AM 10/14/09
Crown Center
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis is a comedy center. You look at their conferences and events and you think that the Middle East comprises 300 million Israelis, and some 4 million Arabs–at most. Very funny indeed. And they also…
Posted by As'ad at 7:01 AM 10/14/09
Unsafe
“Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global survey.” (thanks Marc)
Posted by As'ad at 6:59 AM 10/14/09
The US-funded, collaborationist gangs
“The lack of progress toward that goal is starting to sap Palestinian public support for the forces and erode morale among troops, even as they win praise and fresh funding from Washington for their accomplishments. Meanwhile, the more the Palestini…
Posted by As'ad at 6:57 AM 10/14/09
Hotel Al-Qa`idah in Saudi Arabia (wins praise from US)
Sudarsan Raghavan is really funny: he only writes propaganda pieces from Saudi Arabia. Let me make a prediction: he will soon leave the post and takes over a mouthpiece of a Saudi prince, the way Hassan Fattah took over a mouthpiece for the House of N…
Posted by As'ad at 6:55 AM 10/14/09
Desecration–not in the Times
“Muslim graves in Manchester have been desecrated…” Notice that the New York Times never reports on desecration of Muslim graves.
Posted by As'ad at 6:51 AM 10/14/09
White Man’s Humor
“Two schoolgirls are to be expelled after setting a Muslim girl’s hijab headscarf on fire during a school trip.”
Posted by As'ad at 6:50 AM 10/14/09
Gaza suffering
“Hasan Shaban Zeyada, a senior psychologist at the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) is convinced that many of the psychological problems underlying the addiction are “the consequence of living in this situation: the siege, internal div…
Posted by As'ad at 6:48 AM 10/14/09
Al-Azhar kooky misogyny
“”The niqab should be worn under two circumstances,” a cleaning lady who works at Al-Azhar, told CNN recently. “A very beautiful woman should wear it to prevent men from fighting over her, and an ugly woman should wear it to hide her face.”" (thanks …
Posted by As'ad at 6:47 AM 10/14/09
If he were a Muslim, it would be all over and may have been treated as a terrorism case
“A man stabbed and bludgeoned his sister and her husband to death in El Cerrito in 2006 because he thought the couple were too liberal, were raising their children wrong and because they hadn’t invited him over for Christmas, a prosecutor told juror…
Posted by As'ad at 6:43 AM 10/14/09
How the New York Times is so unreliable
Look at this headline and this story in the Times: “Turkey and Syria Signal Improved Relations.” Improved relations? This is a story of improved relations? The writer and editor has to be so ill-informed to treat this important story as a case of “…
Posted by As'ad at 6:43 AM 10/14/09
Judith Miller
Is Judith Miller still searching for Iraqi WMDs? Just checking.
Posted by As'ad at 6:40 AM 10/14/09
Don’t forgive, don’t forget
“Several hundred people rallied in downtown Beirut on Monday in a show of solidarity with the displaced residents of Nahr el Bared, the Palestinian refugee camp that was destroyed in spring 2007 when fighting broke out between Fatah Al-Islam milita…
Posted by As'ad at 6:39 AM 10/14/09
Losing grip
The Yemeni government is increasingly showing signs of insecurity and is clearly losing its grip. Yesterday, it closed down one of the biggest hospitals in the capital, San`a’, because it is funded by Iran and because it accused it of spying on govern…
Posted by As'ad at 6:35 AM 10/14/09
