Archive for September 26, 2010
Islamophobia
“For what is occurring in Texas is not limited to Texas. The manufactured controversy about textbooks is part of a sad movement evident across this country: from numerous acts of anti-Muslim vandalism in California, Tennessee and Arizona to the sudd…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
American Zionists and hatred of Muslims
“Such hostility toward Muslims is unfortunately not marginal in the pro-Israel community — unless one is prepared to define the huge annual policy conference of one of Washington’s foremost lobbies as “marginal.†At an AIPAC conference in Ma…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
AlAhram newspaper publishes a picture of the first man on the moon
(thanks Khaled)
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Abu Mazen lies
“The Palestinian community in the US has denied that de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas had met with its members, affirming that he only met with a limited number of PA employees other than meeting the Jewish community. The Palestini…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Marty Peretz
Watch protesters follow Marty Peretz as he leaves Harvard through a back door. As I watched the small number of Harvard protesters, i thought to myself: how big would the crowd be if his words were directed against African-Americans and Jews and …
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Neil MacFarquhar: New York Times’ correction
I wrote yesterday about the lousy propaganda piece by Neir MacFarquhar about the speech by the Iranian president. The New York Times printed this the next day: ”A headline on Friday with an article about an incendiary speech in the United …
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Shi`ite politics in the Gulf
“Those gains look fragile amid a mood of rising sectarian tension across the region. In Bahrain, months of agitation by Shias campaigning for greater rights have led to growing government fears of worse to come in the event of trouble with Iran. Pre…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Now Western media would refer to this as signs of royal reforms
“”Just down the road in Saudi Arabia, men aren’t allowed to talk to women in public, but the phone at Khadija Mohammed’s Bahrain sex shop hardly stops ringing. One favorite item: fruit-flavored edible underwear.”" (thanks Re…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
The real Ed Miliband
“The reality is that Ed Miliband is not so much the ‘change’ candidate, but a politician who will deliver more of the same neo-liberal policies that both Conservative and Labour governments have followed over the past 30 years. Genuinely left-win…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
A degree in Mothering. Why not fathering?
“The University College for Mothering and Family Science, according to its founders, is the first university in the world to offer a bachelor’s degree in the “mothering professionâ€.” (thanks Hani)
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Saudi role in violence in Iraq
Finally, an Iraqi puppet official points a finger at Saudi Arabia in the smuggling of weapons. He even accused Saudi Arabia of assisting the “terrorists.” (thanks Hassan)
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Do you now understand why Arabs and Muslims (I am not talking about their lousy regimes) won’t rest until they develop nuclear weapons?
“The United Nations nuclear watchdog narrowly rejected an Arab-sponsored resolution Friday calling on Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency was a victory fo…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Carlos, the Jackal
The entry on Carlos in Wikipedia is hilariously false. It has him attending meetings of the leadership of the PFLP. It also does not know that Wadi` Haddad slapped him and kicked him out after the fiasco of Vienna.
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
For sophisticated and intelligent critiques of foreign policy, read the media of the House of Saud
This is the editor-in-chief of the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat. He writes this: ”Iran is weaker than a worm.” You can now deduce the criteria according to which people get hired in the media of the Hou…
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad
Muhammad Arkoun
There are so many tributes written in the Arabic press about Muhammad Arkoun. Of course, the US press does not notice matters relating to Arabic culture and thought. If the driver of the assistant of Anwar Sadat’s nephew died, the New York …
Posted on September 26, 2010 by As'ad