Islamic Prayer: OMG We Stole It from the Joooooooooooooooooooooooz!

Okay, all silly jokes aside, but this video is pretty fascinating. It shows a Jewish guy praying in a way I’ve never seen Jews pray in before. You see, I’m pretty much used to seeing you Jews do a lighter version of the “head banging” heavy metal fans like to do in rock concerts.
I’m talking […]

Eid Mubarak and Happy Rosh Hashanah

Enjoy your celebrations people. Don’t get too stuffed with delicious food!
Salam and Shalom.

Interesting Comment About Sudanese Jews

Some dude left a pretty interesting comment in the comments section of an older post I wrote, but I can’t clarify if it’s true or not.
Here’s the comment (posted by Asaru Nun Atun on August 22nd, 2008 8:05 am):
Shalom luk wa Barukuwth a’l Ent. I am student of Rabbi: Dr Malachi Zodok york El/also known […]

McCain Does Right Thing, Ditches Parsley

The other day I came across a disturbing article on the Huffington Post about John Hagee’s loony statements. I swear these American evangelical “leaders” really sound just like some of the crazy nuts we have here. I suggest we throw them both together for a nice little episode of… The Holy Room.
So, God sent Hitler […]

Jewish Family Builds Mosque In Cambodia

Now this is something you don’t come across everyday. Although they do seem to be secular Jews which still doesn’t change the aforementioned fact.

The Rise of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews

These two videos (part 1 and part 2) are as alarming as much as they are intriguing.
I wouldn’t want to be their neighbor because they remind me of my old Afghani one years ago who used to shout at me and my friends for strumming our oh, so very EVIL Devilish guitars at the nearby […]

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 […]

Breaking a Taboo: Mr Nur and his SLM Office in Israel

An excellent, insightful piece by a member of the Darfur rebel group, JEM, elaborating their stance on the whole issue. On a related note, let’s see what a Western aid worker in Darfur wrote about a week ago:
A few days ago a prominent rebel leader in Darfur, Abdel Wahid Al-Nur, the head of the Sudanese […]

Muslim Leaders Write ‘Harmony’ Letter To Jews

How dare they!
UPDATE:
The discussion has turned into one about Islamic reform, since it looks like Turkey is in the process of publishing a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam.

You Started It!

“No, the Eskimos did! No wait, you started it first! Aaarrgghhh!”
I almost died with laughter when I saw this cartoon. Hilarious and pure genius! Can’t we all just get along? Why not?
Come on Danes and Jews, we promise to stop but only if you do so first. Cool? Seriously, because if you don’t, I’m telling […]

Anti-Semitism = Islamophobia

I may be generalizing but I’ve come across discussions in the blogosphere in which some Muslims accuse their critics of being Islamophobic and on the other hand, some Jews accuse their critics of being anti-Semitic when in fact those specific critics (whose views I’m very familiar with) are neither the former nor latter.
In such cases, […]

When Israel Can’t Be Blamed

… the suffering of countless people usually continues unnoticed and uncared for.
We need Israelis to step into Darfur, because when they do the Arab media will blast the spotlight on the nastiness taking place there… and they’ll blame it on the Jews.
We need a few Zionists to walk around the slums at the outskirts of […]

Some Sandmonkey Wisdom

Yes, tell them. Please tell them. And when Egyptian soldiers shoot Darfurians trying to cross into Israel and beat them to death it’s just a blip on the radar.

My Search For Sudanese Jews

I spent a decent amount of time the past few months searching online for Sudanese Jews (and no in case you’re wondering, the guy in the picture is a Falasha). I thought writing a few collaborative posts on this blog would be a super cool thing to do and could potentially even count as a […]

An Open Letter To Arun Ghandi

Many of you by now must have read Arun Ghandi’s distasteful article in the Washington Post. I found it very shortsighted. Mideast Youth wrote a hilarious and genius response to it. Enjoy…

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