Archive for December 31, 2010
Saudi Wahhabi architecture: destruction
“It is an architectural absurdity. Just south of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Muslim world’s holiest site, a kitsch rendition of London’s Big Ben is nearing completion. Called the Royal Mecca Clock Tower, it will be one of the tallest buildings i…
Posted on December 31, 2010 by As'ad
Israeli machismo
“Fewer than 20 percent of the women who contact Israel’s rape crisis centers file complaints, and of those cases that are filed, 64 percent end without an indictment, Ms. Schler said. “There is a culture of machismo here where men of pr…
Posted on December 31, 2010 by As'ad
Isabel Kershner comes to the rescue: how the conviction of an Israel president of rape is a good thing
The vulgarity of Zionist propaganda in the New York Times knows no bound: “in that it upheld the value of equality before the law.” The conviction of one person is an indication of equality before the law? What kind of logic is that? …
Posted on December 31, 2010 by As'ad
Al-Akhbar in the news again: or how to argue with ignorance (B.S. Cohen)
So this Ben S (or B.S.) Cohen has a piece on Al-Akhbar. The dude, it seems, did not like the article by Worth on Al-Akhbar: perhaps because Zionist hoodlums don’t like anti-Zionist success stories. But before I respond to this guy, I have …
Posted on December 31, 2010 by As'ad