Arab Muslim Troops Assisting Against Taliban In Afghanistan

It looks like the Emiratis have been helping the coalition in Afghanistan for the past 5 years now. Good stuff.
I’m glad the story is getting coverage over at Red State. Not surprisingly, some Muslims are fuming over what they view as treasonous.
Sure, let’s bring back the wonderful Taliban please. They’re so much better than the […]

Open Letter to ‘Fitna’ Maker

Hey Geert Wilders,
I’m disappointed. Hype… so much of it, and all we got was some boring so-called film that did the usual de-contextualized cherry-picking from the Koran and showed video portions of the very Muslim lunatics who do the same shit for the sake of preaching their politically-motivated heinous garbage.
Is that all you’ve got? The […]

Today’s Random Thought

I hate haters, therefore I hate myself.

Volunteers for Darfur-Awareness

Dear readers familiar with Darfur,
anybody interested in posting once in a while over at Darfur-Awareness? A reader emailed me in today expressing disappoint over the lack of updates there. She’s right and I take full responsibility for that. I’ve gotten awfully busy lately and the frequency of posts is far from enough. I can hardly […]

Jewish-Arab Relations Survey

Interesting statistics:
Fifty percent of Jews polled do not want Arabs living in their neighborhoods, even though 69% would welcome a friendship with an Arab. Conversely, 56% of the Arab public supports living in Jewish neighborhoods and 85% would welcome having Jewish friends.
I admit that my focus initially was on how more Jews didn’t like the […]

Sudanese Christians Celebrate Easter

A lot has indeed greatly improved since the signing of the peace agreement but more clearly needs to be done.

Loving the Creations of Those You Hate

I was out with a Sudanese friend yesterday when the subject of racism towards people with African ethnicities popped up. Well, actually that wasn’t the core subject. We were talking about the contradictory attitude of retarded people who are racist towards blacks but yet still love, and I mean love hip-hop and reggae. I’ve personally […]

Blog Was Down For Maintenance

Yup, sorry about that. Don’t worry in case you were wondering. We weren’t hacked or anything.
Salam, Shalom and Peace.

Fundamentalism and Curious Minds…

… according to the one and only Seth Godin, in my humble opinion, the world’s finest marketing expert and someone whose ideas have influenced my thinking considerably.
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and […]

In Support of Tibet

And why not. Like I said, the upcoming Beijing Olympics are already tainted and this latest unrest is just going to stain things more.
The reactions in the Chinese blogosphere are here.

Obama’s Speech and Pastor

The former was really good. The latter is just plain nasty.
I thought Obama made a great speech in which he explicitly rejected and opposed the inflammatory and victimhood-infested statements made by his former Pastor. However he should have distanced himself away from Rev. Wright further than he already did.
At first, I thought the whole event […]

Yaay to These Saudi Women

RESPECT! Thumbs up for them.

brb

Sorry, busy with academics and my IEEE conference paper on blogging as a means of organizational knowledge sharing. The former is a pain I can’t wait to get done with in two months, the latter something I’m enjoying.
Give me like a day or two and I’ll be right back.
Meanwhile, the trend of lovely […]

Tehran Police Chief Caught With 6 Prostitutes

What an effing hypocrite:
Tehran’s police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, the Farda news website reported Wednesday.
… Over the past year Zarei was in charge of enforcing the Islamic dress code on Iranian women with the purpose of “moralizing of the city.”
It […]

Mona Eltahawy: Our Own Worst Enemy

Dear Mona, thank you for saying it so eloquently and telling it like it is. I salute you!
… With a prayer for all those souls murdered in the name of my religion, I confess I am not so concerned about Europe. And I don’t care about cartoons in Denmark. Newspapers there have every right to […]

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