Archive for August 11, 2012
Who shelled the village? It seems the Syrian regime shelled it but that is my opinion
From Akram in Syria: “Al-Dmeyinah Al-Sharkyia is under a severe shock after a shell hit a house killing ten people of one family. Today, the victims were buried amid questions about what happened. According to the news published on its Face…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Who shelled the village? It seems the Syrian regime shelled it but that is my opinion
From Akram in Syria: “Al-Dmeyinah Al-Sharkyia is under a severe shock after a shell hit a house killing ten people of one family. Today, the victims were buried amid questions about what happened. According to the news published on its Face…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Who shelled the village? It seems the Syrian regime shelled it but that is my opinion
From Akram in Syria: “Al-Dmeyinah Al-Sharkyia is under a severe shock after a shell hit a house killing ten people of one family. Today, the victims were buried amid questions about what happened. According to the news published on its Face…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
If the temple was a mosque
“Yet the mistaken-identity narrative carries with it an unspoken, even unexamined premise. It implies that somehow the public would have — even should have — reacted differently had Mr. Page turned his gun on Muslims attending a mosque. It sugge…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
he loves his Jesus
“Only one opponent of the mosque came to voice his concerns at the opening. Dan J. Qualls, 50, a former auto plant worker, wearing an “I Love Jesus” hat and a Ten Commandments shirt, said he understood that the First Amendment protected the righ…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
stupid generalizations in the Times
“Many Lebanese support the uprising against Mr. Assad and his ruling Alawite minority”. Yes, and many Lebanese support the Syrian regime, and hence the political crisis in Lebanon.
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Where is the beef?
““There’s not a lot of meat in it,” Augustus Richard Norton, a professor of international relations at Boston University, said of the Treasury sanction.”
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Good Jihadis and bad Jihadis in Syria
“Thomas Pierret, an expert in Syrian Islam at the University of Edinburgh, says that a distinction has to be made between Syrian Salafi groups and radicals with a global jihadi agenda. “The political identity Ahrar al-Sham display is nationalist S…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Should we thank NATO for this?
From Jamestown Terrorism Monitor:”Though incidents of urban violence continue in a number of Libyan cities, it is the former rebel capital of Benghazi where such attacks have been most intense. Bombings are common, with the central intelligence head…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
It is his "spring"
If only Arabs know that this guy is being perceived and promoted as their inspiration when they don’t even know who he is. (thanks Electronic Ali)
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
itensified
“Senior Democratic foreign policy figures, along with diplomats who have worked for Democratic administrations, are saying the administration needs to do more to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and preserve U.S. influence in a key Mideast state.&n…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
He maybe an illiterate autocrat, but he can eat fries. Barry Obama hails this reform gesture
”le roi d’Arabie Saoudite, amateur des frites de Macdo”. (thanks “Ibn Rushd”)
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
German foreign policy toward Syria
“Since July 2011, Berlin has redoubled its efforts to win influence with the Syrian opposition. July 5, 2011, an exiled Syrian delegation, led by Radwan Ziadeh, came to the German Foreign Ministry for talks.[1] “It was a good meeting,” recalled the …
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Bombing of terrorists in…EGYPT
A comrade who does not want to be identified sent me this: “Have you noticed that no one is horrified that Egypt is bombing people using the air force because of their alleged involvement in terrorism while when Syria does it against actual ter…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Guest list of the Iftar at the White House
“His Excellency Michael Scott Oren, PhD, State of Israel”. I am not making this up. (thanks A.B).
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Nepal women banned from Middle East over exploitation
“Common complaints include physical and sexual abuse, poor conditions and non-payment of salaries. The move comes 18 months after the government ended a 12-year ban on women working in Gulf countries. It was imposed after a young woman, who had been…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
Palestinian salad
Houari sent me this:”hello just to let you know that even an israeli recognise they are stealing another thing from palestinians10.10.08 Stefan Gates In the divide between Palestinians and Israelis even simple humous has become political because both s…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
a sign of Saudi money
You know that an Arab government has received a fresh amount of cash from the House of Saud when it announces a nefarious conspiracy to Shi`itize the Sunni population in the country. Algeria announced that it will be monitoring Syrian refugees to…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
The new Libya: Muhammad Al-Muqrif
So the Libyan Constituent Assembly “elected” Muhammad Al-Muqrif as its leader. He is described as a moderate Islamist (all Islamists who follow Washington orders are moderate, by Western standards, even Bin Laden when he was in Afghanistan). …
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad
a new massacre in Syria
Akram sent me this:”Yesterday evening, ten people of one family, Razzouk, were killed when a shell fell on their house in Al-Dmayina Al-Sharqyia in what the state-run Syrian TV called a “terrorist offense”.Al-Dmayina Al-Sharqyia is a Syrian village o…
Posted on August 11, 2012 by As'ad