Archive for July 26, 2011
Harry Potter in Saudi Arabia
Aboud sent me this: ”hope you are well. Someone should tell the Jerusalem Post that Saudi Arabia does not ban Harry Potter books or movies. I read all the books and watched all the DVDs while I was in Saudi Arabia from 2002 to 2008. The very morn…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
If not you, who??????
You would realize why I mock Saudi media if you read Arabic. Look at this main headline from the the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat: ”Servant of the Two Holy Sites to Muslim `Ulama’: If you don’t defend t…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi Arabia fights…sorcery
“”Saudi Arabia takes witchcraft so seriously that it has banned the Harry Potter series by British writer J.K. Rowling, rife with tales of sorcery and magic. It set up the Anti-Witchcraft Unit in May 2009 and placed it under the Committee for the Promo…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Lebanese president solves the mystery of terrorism
I wish I am making this up: ”"President Michel Sleiman said the (Oslo) attack was due to the weakening of family values and ties, which countries in the East, and Lebanon in particular, still hold in high regard.”" (thanks “Ibn Rushd”)
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Muhammad `Abdul-Wahab
I had written that Muhammad `Abdul-Wahab stopped singing at age 40. I heard singer Walid Tawfiq say that. But comrade Kamal sets me straight here: ”غير دقيق عزيزيمعظم ابداعاته كانت بعد 1940: الكرنك…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
On Saudi role in Pakistan and its coverage
Comrade Junaid responds to Jawad: ”If Jawad can demonstrate where in my posts I defended the “polygamous head-chopping zombies of the Saudi regime,” then I will give him the Angry Arab’s favourite prize, a blender. Otherwise, he should not …
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli grocery store keeps Arab baggers and Jewish cashiers apart
“In an effort to prevent fraternizing between the Palestinian packers and the female Jewish cashiers, baggers are no longer working at the checkout counters most of the week. An exception was made for the Wednesday and Thursday night shifts, when the c…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
criticisms of Saudi Arabia in Pakistan
Anther person in Pakistan who wishes to remain anonymous wrote me this: ”Dear As’adIf there is enough criticism of KSA in the press here, im the sexiest man alive despite my large bald spot and ever increasing girth…….Just a thought.”
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Gen. Tantawi is the first Google ambassador
“As part of Google’s commitment to empower the Middle East and North Africa’s academic community, Google has launched the Google Student Ambassador Program in MENA. The program invitesstudent enrolled in universities across MENA to repres…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Turkish government
Turkish government is clear: Israel can kill innocent civilians, including Turkish citizens, provided it provides an apology later to the Turkish government. I am vindicated by my refusal last year to join the pro-Turkish festivities in Lebanon a…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
very slowly
I love this headline: ”Envoy Says U.S. Will Start Afghan Pullout, Slowly”. How slowly? How about one soldier per year?
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
I dont get it.
One of the weirdest American rituals for me is the enactment of civil war battles.
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Syrian security funerals
The funerals of Syrian security and army men who were killed allegedly by anonymous “criminal gangs” in Syria are often attended by a suspiciously small number of people from footage I see on Syrian TV. And there is rarely any public emotions exp…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Tantawi’s propagandists
So a propagandist for the Tantawi regime appeared on Aljazeera Arabic a few days ago and claimed that the youth protesters in Cairo received terrorist training in Serbia and US. It was funny because weeks ago, the New York Times claimed that yout…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
civil war in Syria?
I don’t like the reference to civil war in Syria in this article by R. Jacoby. He implies that Syria is undergoing a civil war. That is untrue and may be what the Syrian regime would like others to believe. A civil war refers to a sit…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Legal defense of Strauss-Kahn
Do you know what the legal defense is for this Zionist serial accused rapist/harasser? It is that “sex” between him and the hotel housekeeper was “consensual”. You know what this narrative implies? That the house keeper entered the ho…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Zionist inspiration for terrorism
So the Norwegian terrorist’s writings clearly show that Zionism has inspired to perpetrate terrorism. So I should only ask (or wonder): Will the US Congress hold special hearings on Zionism? Will Zionists be brought in before police i…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Professionalism at Aljazeera
Of course, there are real professionals at Aljazeera (Arabic) who continue to adhere to professional standards at the network long after the network officially abandoned its professional standards. I am thinking of those who are not engaging in v…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Syrian exile opposition
I have criticized for years, and mocked, the Iraqi exile opposition. Charlatans like Ahmad Chalabi were born to be made fun off. (I hate now how, for sectarian reasons, some Shi`ite sectarian opponents of the US occupation now defend Chalab…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad
Hizbullah and banning alcohol in the South
As you know, Hizbullah AND Amal imposed a rigid social rule in South Lebanon back in the 1980s. They then realize that Lebanese (long fans of “sins”) would never put up with that, and Hizbullah was forced to confine its rigid social rule on its o…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by As'ad