Archive for February 26, 2012
UAE political inhospitality
“Emirati authorities have cancelled the residencies of dozens of Syrians for taking part in a protest against their regime outside the consulate in Dubai, Syrian activists told AFP on Sunday. Two of them have already fled the Gulf country, arrivi…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Friends of Syria?
My latest blog post for Al-Akhbar English: “Friends of Syria”?
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Pacifists for Western military intervention in Syria
“”What support can the world give the nonviolent protestors? Perhaps paradoxically the answer is a buildup of a coercive strategy that threatens the apparatus of repression in Syria with violence used in ultimate instance if the regime doesn’t stop t…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
US concerns for a humanitarian Islam
We remember how hard the US government came on Saudi Arabia and other Muslim governments whenever any of their clerics spoke against Jews or ruled against occupation or called for Jihad in Palestine or Iraq or wherever else the US was liberating.  …
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Wahhabi fatwawawa
Saudi cleric, `A’id Al-Qarani issues a fatwawa for the killing of Bashshar. Yet, his statement is also sprinkled with anti-Semitism–characteristic of Wahhabi religious rhetoric.
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Hillary
So Hillary Clinton has called on Syrian “security forces” to overthrow the regime. So those who are killing the Syrian people should be in charge of democratic change, according to Hillary?
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Al-Arabiyyah News Channel
From the New York Times: ”according to Al Arabiya television, a private Saudi-owned news channel.” Private Saudi-owned news channel? Private? It is owned by King Fahd’s brother-in-law, and run by King Fahd’s son, `Abdul-`Aziz (who is the ne…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Ikhwan deals
“To judge from a recent scene in Cairo, that may take some time. The Ikhwan is far from smugly comfortable following their sweep of Egypt’s elections, even after decades of sporadic but often vicious persecution. During a huge demonstration in Tahrir…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
An earlier sexual revolution
“This rupture was far more dramatic than anything that happened in 1963 when, according to the poet Philip Larkin, “sexual intercourse began”. Less than 100 years after the execution for adultery of Mary Latham, a young woman in Puritan New England…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Americans don’t need licenses, damn it
“The 16 Americans and 27 others face criminal charges of working for unlicensed nonprofit groups and accepting foreign money to operate them.” I am sure that the US government would be very lenient and relaxed about Arabs and Arab groups operatin…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
I can’t believe that the Egyptian judiciary is no more taking orders from the US: the audacity
“American officials say they have tried to find Egyptian counterparts who might intercede, but Egyptian leaders say they cannot intervene in the judicial process.”
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Dore Gold converts to Sunni Islam–and speaks on its behalf
“Many Sunni Arab countries are in fact more worried by the threat coming from the Persian Shias of Iran than by Israel, reckons Dore Gold, a former official who posits an opportunity for pacts of mutual interest. “What pulled Europe together was not …
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
This bragging is accepted in the West
““We are the strongest power within a 1,500-km radius,” says Efraim Halevy, a former head of Mossad, a spy agency.” And yet, the liars of Mossad insist that Egypt (in the 1960s) or Iran or Iraq (under Saddam) is the strongest military in the …
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Meet the GCC-sponsored Syrian opposition
“But even with much coaxing from Western powers, products of the uprising such as the Syrian National Council (SNC) and a rival group, the National Co-ordination Body (NCB), have gained little diplomatic traction. Neither do they have much influence in…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
The new puppet president of Yemen
“Opposition to the deal is also strong in other regions. Southern Yemen, a separate country before unification with the more populous north in 1991, has been increasingly racked by separatist unrest. Despite being a southerner himself, Mr Hadi is disli…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Amman Royal Film Commission
A source in Amman sent me this: ”…the map on the globe they had in the office, so I took a picture with my phone: The images show occupied Palestine (captioned 22 on the map) labeled as “Israel.” If that wasn’t bad enough number 21 – also “Isra…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
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Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Why Israel is going down–one of the many reasons
“Many who used to call themselves Israeli Arabs now prefer the term “Palestinians with Israeli citizenship”. A growing number of Israeli-Arab lecturers and students are enrolling at West Bank universities. Many also go there to shop or dine, after …
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Syrian opposition media
Between the Syrian regime media and the Syrian opposition media one is bombarded with lies and fabrications. I treat both as utterly unreliable. Of course, Western media and Arab (read Saudi and Qatari) media treat Syrian opposition media a…
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad
Parvin Ahmadinejad
This is sister of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There is some resemblance, no?
Posted on February 26, 2012 by As'ad