http://angryarab.net A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and Art Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:54:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/the-fire-of-nahr-al-barid/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/the-fire-of-nahr-al-barid/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:54:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-5839153451520790413 Heroism"*

*The original title I gave was" ...when the Lebanese Army searches for heroism."

]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/the-fire-of-nahr-al-barid/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/for-the-new-york-times-anti-islam-bigotry-is-called-anxiety/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/for-the-new-york-times-anti-islam-bigotry-is-called-anxiety/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:12:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-3853376372790600634 Nearly nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks ignited a wave of anxiety about Muslims, many in the country’s biggest and arguably most cosmopolitan city still have an uneasy relationship with Islam. One-fifth of New Yorkers acknowledged animosity toward Muslims. Thirty-three percent said that compared with other American citizens, Muslims were more sympathetic to terrorists. And nearly 60 percent said people they know had negative feelings toward Muslims because of 9/11."

]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/for-the-new-york-times-anti-islam-bigotry-is-called-anxiety/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/i-trust-ibrahim-like-i-trust-walid-jumblat/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/i-trust-ibrahim-like-i-trust-walid-jumblat/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:42:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-4057987918749163386 Egyptian political activists are furious at fellow democracy and human rights campaigner Saad Eddin Ibrahim after the sociologist signed a petition urging President Hosni Mubarak's son, Gamal, to run in the 2011 elections."

]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/i-trust-ibrahim-like-i-trust-walid-jumblat/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/hitchens-explains-his-motives/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/hitchens-explains-his-motives/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:24:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-115719848184322125 Did you write the book for money? 
Of course, I do everything for money. Dr. Johnson is correct when he says that only a fool writes for anything but money. It would be useful to keep a diary, but I don’t like writing unpaid. I don’t like writing checks without getting paid."

]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/hitchens-explains-his-motives/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/if-this-was-said-about-jews-and-judaism-it-would-be-an-international-affair/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/if-this-was-said-about-jews-and-judaism-it-would-be-an-international-affair/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:17:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-6376734740585220209 “As a mother and a grandmother, I worry,” Ms. Serafin said. “I learned that in 20 years with the rate of the birth population, we will be overtaken by Islam, and their goal is to get people in Congress and the Supreme Court to see that Shariah is implemented. My children and grandchildren will have to live under that.”  “I do believe everybody has a right to freedom of religion,” she said. “But Islam is not about a religion. It’s a political government, and it’s 100 percent against our Constitution.”"

]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/if-this-was-said-about-jews-and-judaism-it-would-be-an-international-affair/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/is-making-up-interviews-trendy-these-days-i-mean-he-was-summoned-by-the-intelligence-service-but-refused-to-go/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/is-making-up-interviews-trendy-these-days-i-mean-he-was-summoned-by-the-intelligence-service-but-refused-to-go/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:13:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-8630281813407471736 arrested."

]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/is-making-up-interviews-trendy-these-days-i-mean-he-was-summoned-by-the-intelligence-service-but-refused-to-go/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/a-90-year-old-saudi-man-will-be-lashed-100-times/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/a-90-year-old-saudi-man-will-be-lashed-100-times/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:09:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-6637019034207171195

"A 90-year-old Saudi man will be lashed 100 times with the whip after he was convicted of smashing the windscreen of a judge’s car to retaliate against a previous verdict against him, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday."

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]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/pressures/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/happy-new-war/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/happy-new-war/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:04:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-2138617359467650197 we must cross this galaxy of barbed wires
and keep on repeating
HAPPY NEW WAR!" (thanks Olivia)

]]> http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/happy-new-war/feed/ 0 http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/they-called-his-grandfather-a-traitor/ http://angryarab.net/2010/09/03/they-called-his-grandfather-a-traitor/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:01:00 +0000 As'ad tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785362.post-7962897464937010952 Even kids in Palestine know what he is up to: his grandson came to him crying and explained that children at his school had called his grandfather a "traitor"." (thanks Hicham)

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