Archive for September 13, 2012
Ajami speaking "as a Muslim"
The schtick that Ajami has been performing in the US for decades is well-known by now. He appears with his beard and accent and vomit Zionist cliches about Arabs and Muslims, but market them as authentic due to his upbringing. I saw a small…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Islamist kooks
So basically the real stance of the Salafites and the Muslim Brotherhood is this: they don’t give a damn about occupation, social injustices, foreign theft of our natural resources, Israeli occupation and aggression, GCC interferences in every election…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Islamist kooks
So basically the real stance of the Salafites and the Muslim Brotherhood is this: they don’t give a damn about occupation, social injustices, foreign theft of our natural resources, Israeli occupation and aggression, GCC interferences in every election…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
prediction
Let me predict this: within one year, several US embassies in the Middle East would be closed.
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Cease-fire in Syria?
Akram, the Angry Arab correspondent in Syria, sent me this:”Two weeks after its launch,”Proponents and opponents together for an instant ceasefire”, a Syrian group on Facebook, has announced it has finally presented, through a Syrian party that it h…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
What do you call "academics" (even if without degrees) who speak at a conference officiated by Bahrain ambassador?
“Opening remarks by H.E. Houda Ezra Nonoo, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain.” (thanks “Ibn Rushd”)
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
"Anti-Muslim Movie Maker a Meth Cooker"
“The man behind the incendiary film, Innocence of Muslims, has a criminal record that includes a narcotics conviction. According to a source close to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was arrested by the L…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
tricks of the Times
“On Wednesday, the New York Times published a provocative story bylined by David E. Sanger and Ashley Parker, leading with the news that Mitt Romney had personally approved the blistering Tuesday night statement on the attacks in Libya and Egypt tha…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Two languages for Muslim Brotherhood
“While Egyptian protesters battled security forces outside the US embassy on Thursday morning, another standoff was taking place — this time in cyberspace. The Muslim Brotherhood’s official English-language Twitter account @Ikwanweb reposted a message…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Libyan Interior Ministry
““Who’s going to control these people?” said Tarik Yousef, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who is also the son of Libya’s interim president, Mohammed Yousef Magarief. “Some of these Salafi groups claim to operate under the ban…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Turkish public opinion and Syria
“A clear majority of Turks are against a military intervention to put a halt to the violence in Syria, according to a recent poll by the German Marshall Fund. Some 57 percent of Turkish respondents in the Transatlantic Trends survey categori…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
All under control in Yemen
“The Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Washington, D.C. reiterates the Government of Yemen’s strong condemnation on the attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Sana’a, Yemen. Furthermore, the Government of Yemen condemns any and all acts of vi…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Muslims go crazy
“Televangelist Pat Robertson on Wednesday responded to this week’s attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya by explaining to his viewers that Muslims “go crazy” when Islam is insulted because they can’t defend the tenets of their rel…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
"Meet The Right-Wing Extremist Behind Anti-Muslim Film That Sparked Deadly Riots"
“It appears Klein (or someone who shares his name and views) is an enthusiastic commenter on Geller’s website, Atlas Shrugged, where he recently complained about Mitt Romney’s “support for a Muslim state in Israel’s Heartland.” In July 2011…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Afghan puppets of occupation preparet to flee
“Afghan buyers spent 220 million dirhams ($60.7 million) on property in Dubai in the first six months of this year, a 27 percent increase compared with the same period in 2011, according to Dubai government data obtained by Reuters. Some are spendi…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
"Fear, loathing and lies in Rakhine state"
“Official estimates put the overall death toll at 78, a gross underestimate in the opinion of several human rights groups. Thousands of Rohingya refugees tried to flee to Bangladesh, only to be blocked, and sometimes shot, by Bangladeshi security fo…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Kuwaiti salafi funding in Syria
CD sent me this: “Waleed Al-Tabatabaie, Salafi MP of Kuwait parliament claims they paid for Syrian rebels’ anti-aircraft weapons”.
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Free for all in Libya
“”Once again, the western powers have started a fire they cannot extinguish. A year after David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy jointly travelled to Libya to lay claim to a liberator’s bogus laurels, the Libyan revolution they fanned and fuelled is in d…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
For the record
Angry Arab has never ever refused to publish anything that I have written. Never. Thank you, Angry Arab.
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad
Economic exploitation of Palestinians
“But since then Abbas and Fayyad have been forced to co-habit unhappily. Fayyad, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official whose party was badly defeated in the 2006 election, remains in post at the insistence of Israel, the United States and…
Posted on September 13, 2012 by As'ad