Archive for October 9, 2011
Report from Cairo
Alison sent me this from Cairo (I cite with her permission): ”tonight is worth telling you about. i went down to abdel moneim riad with a bunch of egyptian friends after hearing the maspiro protest spreading and knowing full well the inflam…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Aljazeera joins the attacks on Qopts
It is rather expected from the network of the Arab counter-revolution: Aljazeera’s chief correspondent in Cairo is a mere propagandist for the Military Council. The headline of Aljazeera says: “confrontations by Qopts against Egyptian soldiers”. …
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Sectarian Agitation against Copts on Egyptian regime TV
The blatant and hateful sectarian agitation against Copts on Egyptian regime TV is quite disgusting. They are not even trying to be subtle about it. Wahhabi influence has reached the Military Council.
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Abu Mazen’s Adventure at the UN
For those who got excited about Abu Mazen’s bid at the UN.
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Happy Iraqis
““P.R. would fire off hundreds of frames of the same shot, of a smiling Joe handing a Transformer toy to a beaming Iraqi kid,” he writes. “If the photographers had zoomed out a bit they’d have seen the Iraqi faces grow more sullen the older the…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Safe Arabs
“Martin Luther King has inspired me the most because he sought change peacefully,” Ms. Karman said. ” Let me guess. She also read Gene Sharp and thought that he is the most widely read Arab alive, right?
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Western governments: their attention to human rights
“Sweden’s King Carl Gustav, the honorary president of the World Scout Fund, decorated Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah with the Bronze Wolf Award, the highest scouts award, in a meeting at the Janadriya Farm in Riyadh on Friday.” (than…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Zionists are outraged
Zionists in France are outraged because a program on Palestine was aired in France. (thanks Hadjar)
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Myth of Steve Jobs
“In one of many recent articles on the late Steve Jobs, Dean Baker wrote (comparing Jobs and Alan Greenspan): “One made us rich, with a vast array of new products and new possibilities. The other made us poor with a long lasting downturn that could p…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Thomas Friedman: on Steve Jobs, "the inventor"
“THE melancholy over Steve Jobs’s passing is not just about the loss of the inventor of so many products we enjoy.”
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Who rehabilitated Qadhdahfi?
The lousy Tony Blair: ”It was the U.S., actually, that took them off the state-sponsored terrorism list.”
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
A message from Shane Bauer: one of the three Americans arrested by Iranian government
Here is a message I received from Shane Bauer (my response follows below): ”Dear As’ad,I have to say that I am disappointed. Not only was you class one of my favorite’s at UCB, but I even talked up your blog to Josh in prison, and f…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
FLASH: There is yet another goal for US invasion of Iraq: to change Shi`ism
“One aim of the American invasion here was to establish a moderate center of Shiite Islam, democratically inclined and oriented to the West, that would be a counterbalance to Iran’s system of clerical rule.” Would you not love to read that memo…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Shaykh Al-`Ar`ur
This is a Facebook page for (if not by) Shaykh `Adnan Al-`Ar`ur: the kooky Syrian cleric based in Saudi Arabia who spews hate and sectarian sedition from his base in Saudi Arabia, and from Saudi financed propaganda outlets. Look at his sectarian …
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Mish`al Timmu
The Syrian regime TV is playing a most deceptive and blatantly dishonest game. They are showering praise on Timmu and labeling him as a “patriot”. If he was a patriot, why did the lousy regime put him in jail and harass him and persecute hi…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi-Qatari alliance
This Saudi-Qatari alliance is the worst alliance in the region since the Baghdad Pact. With its money, suddenly, the Islamist are now in the forefront of the Arab uprisings when they were in the very rear. Look at Tunisia today: this concoc…
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad
Bin Laden’s Picture in Tripoli
How convenient in the Saudi and Hariri media that they did not show the huge Bin Laden picture in the Salafite-Haririte rally in Tripoli on Friday.
Posted on October 9, 2011 by As'ad