February 2006

Terror ‘R’ Us?

by Haitham Sabbah February 28, 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 [...]

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Update: Yahoo! unbans! Allah!

by Haitham Sabbah February 27, 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 – [...]

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War on blogs, fighting the wind!

by Haitham Sabbah February 27, 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 [...]

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Samarra Catastrophe

by Haitham Sabbah February 25, 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 [...]

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Cartoons, more devastating!

by Haitham Sabbah February 24, 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 [...]

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Hamas Beer!

by Haitham Sabbah February 24, 2006

A Palestinian Beermaker decides to develop non-alcoholic beer brandished with label that matches Hamas’s trademark color. Cheers!

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New Israeli War Crimes in Nablus and Balata Refugee Camp

by Haitham Sabbah February 24, 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 [...]

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A War of Religions? God Forbid!

by Haitham Sabbah February 22, 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: [...]

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The proposal to put hungry people on a diet!

by Haitham Sabbah February 21, 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 [...]

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Hillary Clinton says: Arab are Terrorist!

by Haitham Sabbah February 21, 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 [...]

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No “ALLAH” @ Yahoo!

by Haitham Sabbah February 20, 2006

Is Yahoo! Banning Allah? Hello, my name is Kallahar (well, it’s an alias, but Kallahar really is a family name of an 1800′s Irish family (Ancestry of William Kallahar, born 1830). I recently tried to create a user on Yahoo with my name. Unfortunately, Yahoo said it was unavailable. “That’s odd” I thought, “maybe I [...]

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World Press Photo of the Year 2005

by Haitham Sabbah February 19, 2006

The international jury of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest selected a color image of the Canadian photographer Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters as World Press Photo of the Year 2005. Finbarr O’Reilly, Canada, Reuters. Mother and child at emergency feeding center, Tahoua, Niger, 1 August

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Rumsfeld urges to invade the media and blogs: Occupy them, so no one can see or read except what we (U.S. Admin) blog!

by Haitham Sabbah February 18, 2006

Rumsfeld yesterday called for the military and other government agencies to mount a far more aggressive, swift and nontraditional information campaign to counter the messages of extremist and terrorist groups in the world media. Rumsfeld criticized the absence of a “strategic communications framework” for fighting terrorism. He also lashed out at the U.S. media, which [...]

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Middle East and Other Countries should have their OWN GUANTANAMO of Westerners by declaring enemy combatants to destabilize their nations

by Haitham Sabbah February 18, 2006

A reader email: The recent calls by the United Nations Human Rights Council and Secretary General Kofi Anan to immediately shutdown NAZI CAMP – GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON CAMP was a necessary step which should have been carried out against illegal invasion of IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN and now illegal invasion plans into other countries like IRAN, [...]

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Ras Al Khaimah Spaceport

by Haitham Sabbah February 17, 2006

Few days ago, the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah has announced the creation of RAK Airways, the UAE’s fourth national carrier which will start operations by the end of 2006. I thought, what the heck? Four carriers in UAE, what do they need all that for? And RAK… how many traveler do they actually have [...]

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