Archive for July 10, 2012
Republic of Qatif
The sign reads: “This is the republic of Al-Ahsa’ and Al-Qatif, and not the kingdom of Wahhabiyyah and House of Saud”.
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
UPI identifies An-Nahar (the right-wing sectarian Christian racist, and anti-Hizbullah paper) as "Hizbullah-affiliated"
“The Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese daily an-Nahar, which broke the story Monday denied the three worked for Hezbollah but said they were on good terms with Hezbollah members, al-Arabiya said.”"
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Saudi cleric, An-Nimr, criticizes Bashshar Al-Asad and calls his rule unjust
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Saudi cleric, An-Nimr, criticizes Bashshar Al-Asad and calls his rule unjust
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
There are praiseworthy Youtube videos that circulate around the world and there are other Youtube videos that never circulate around the world: this from Saudi Arabia
The scene of a funeral for a victim of Saudi security forces tonight in Qatif, Saudi Arabia.
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
There are praiseworthy Youtube videos that circulate around the world and there are other Youtube videos that never circulate around the world: this from Saudi Arabia
The scene of a funeral for a victim of Saudi security forces tonight in Qatif, Saudi Arabia.
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Saudi campaign against Ibadhis
From a source: ”There is an escalation in the Saudi religious establishment’s campaign against Ibadhis. The current debate seems to have started in 2009, when the Saudi mufti Bin Baz declared the Ibadhis to be مبدعين (inno…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Mahmud Jibril
The deck was stacked in Libya for the victory of Mahmud Jibril. His coalition comprised more than 60–yes, sixty–parties. 2) it is identified in the West as “liberal” and “secular” when Jibril himself–former mentor of Sayf Al-Islam Al-Qad…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli forgery
Thomas sent me this: ”Hello, I’m one of your french followers,Here is what I’ve found on Le Monde today: a beautiful example of cynism, and forgery about History.”
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Omani repression
A court in Oman sentenced four people to jail for insulting the “royal self” of the Sultan. Kid you not.
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
"Boutique Apartheid"
Khelil sent me this (with the title above): ”This is what Travel & Leisure had to say about a new hotel in Israel: “It’s hard to believe that two Ottoman-era mansions in Acre, a beach-lined port city in Israel’s northern Galilee, sat e…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Bashshar and Qatar
From Akram, the chief Angry Arab correspondent in Syria: ”Today, Al-Akbar English published a piece of Jean Aziz telling what seems to be the Syrian account on the meeting between the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad and the UN envoy Kofi Anna…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
How to cover Jordan
David sent me this: ”according to yahoo, the best interpretation of events in Jordan are from….the Times of Israel”.
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Lebanese star, Najwa Karam
Elias sent me this: ”Najwa Karam’s ideal man is a combination of Richard Gere, Al Pacino, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Adolf Hitler.”
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
The New York Times on the CIA’s fake vaccination in Pakistan
“In Pakistan, where polio has never been eliminated, the C.I.A.’s decision to send a vaccination team into the Bin Laden compound to gather information and DNA samples clearly hurt the national polio drive. The question is: How badly?After …
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
live from Qatif, Saudi Arabia: tonight
These are not sexy videos or pictures that would dazzle the Western media, or the Saudi- or Qatari-funded Arab media. This is your beloved Saudi kingdom, after all. An Angry Arab correspondent there sent me this: ”Tonight in central Qatif. …
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Judith Miller meets Hasan Turabi: or did she?
My friend Mumtaz, president of the International Islamic University in Islamabad, sent me this (I cite with his permission): ”Dear As’ad: I liked your comments on “Being quoted in the Western Press,” especially your encounter with Judith Miller…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Mercy in Belgium
Semir in Belgium sent me this: Maggie De Block, the state secretary for Migration and Asylum Policy in the Belgian government, who expelled Parwais to Afghanistan yesterday in the 19h news: “Afghanistan insecure? Indeed but what I want to sa…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Just compare the coverage of Saudi repression with Syrian repression
The headline: ”"Saudi officials arrest radical cleric”".The text: ”They said the loud volume of Ghamdi’s car radio prompted the confrontation.” (thanks Basim)
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad
Yes, both Israeli men and women are permitted, nay encouraged, to commit war crimes and massacres: how egalitarian
“”Though the Israeli military has a very macho image, the IDF is the most progressive in the world – when measured in terms of gender equality, at least.”" This is like saying that the Free Syrian Army is pro-children because it recruits chi…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by As'ad