Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Sunday Telegraph article calls for Qur’an Ban, and a Danish organization wants Islam outlawed!
Let’s start with the Danish:
A new and even more radical organization has stepped up to demand that Islam is made illegal in Denmark.
Stop Islamiseringen Af Danmarks (Stop the Islamization of Denmark - siad.dk) organization says, “Muslims make out only 3 percent of [...]
Posted in Bleeding Edge, Failures, Islam, Media, Terrorism | 11 Comments »
Monday, February 27th, 2006
Following up on No “ALLAH” @ Yahoo!; The Register reports a small step in the direction of common sense:
Yahoo! has reversed its decision to stop people registering Yahoo! IDs which include the letters “allah”.
The Reg was contacted yesterday by a reader - Ed Callahan - who was having trouble registering his mum - Linda [...]
Posted in Good News, Internet 'n Computers, Islam, Religion | No Comments »
Monday, February 27th, 2006
66 percent of the Americans polled by Gallup said the never read the blogs, only 9 percent said they regularly read them.
Technorati today count of blogs reached 29 million, and thousands of new blogs are created daily. This article wonders why do you blog? It looks like the Washington Post discovered blogging just a few [...]
Posted in Blogging, Freedom of Speech, Internet 'n Computers, Media | 2 Comments »
Saturday, February 25th, 2006
The developing situation in Iraq is moving too fast and filling more column inches than a roundup can satisfy. Here is a summary of the blog events since Thursday. It is at times like this you can see that blogging comes into its own above other journalism. There is no other medium that can give [...]
Posted in Bleeding Edge, Iraq, Middle East, War | 4 Comments »
Friday, February 24th, 2006
Protest… Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Pakistan, Iran, just name it…. everywhere Muslims filled the streets defying their government, and decrying the evil in the West. They call it Denmark, or the American Satan, or whatever. The reason? The infamous Danish cartoon.
Was that the greatest affront to Islam in recent decades? What about the more [...]
Posted in Arab, Bleeding Edge, Failures, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Religion, War | 34 Comments »
Friday, February 24th, 2006
A Palestinian Beermaker decides to develop non-alcoholic beer brandished with label that matches Hamas’s trademark color. Cheers!
Posted in News You Can Do Without, Palestine | No Comments »
Friday, February 24th, 2006
Palestinians pray over bodies of Palestinian youths killed by Israeli troops during a funeral at Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
On Sunday over 30 Israeli vehicles, supported by encircling Apache helicopters, invaded the camp. They broke into several homes, turning them into military installations. Israeli soldiers also arrested the 25 year old Palestinian citizen Ahmed Al [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, War, War Crimes, West Bank | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
With all the religiophobia going around, specially when it comes to Palestinian issue, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, following article by Uri Avnery is a must read.
A War of Religions? God Forbid!
Uri Avnery, 19.2.06
ONE OF our former Chiefs-of-Staff, the late Rafael (”Raful”) Eytan, who was not the brightest, once asked a foreign guest: “Are you Jewish [...]
Posted in Christianity, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Peace, Politics, Religion, War, Zionism | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
As the Hamas team laughs
By Gideon Levy
The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the prime minister’s advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister [...]
Posted in Failures, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Peace, USA | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
First, here is a racist cartoon:
Decpite that the United Arab Emirates said it was a close ally of the US in its war on terrorism, the US senators, Hillary Clinton and Robert Menendez opposed a UAE firm’s takeover of a company that operates several American ports over security concerns. The two US Democratic senators have [...]
Posted in Arab, Bleeding Edge, Failures, Terrorism, UAE, USA | 55 Comments »