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 created a user [...]
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
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 he [...]
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, SYRIA, [...]
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 [...]
A reader email:
Dear Sabbah,
Your work is laudable. I appreciate your effort to show the reality. I would like to shed some light on the recent $85 Million Funding by BUSH Adminstration to PROMOTE IRAN into IRAQ. It is interesting to see NEOIMPERIALISM alias DEMOCRACY being charted out to liberate the people of the world. Why [...]
Less than a week ago extremist Jews defaced the Nabi Elias Mosque east of Qalqilia - Palestine, with graffiti insulting the Prophet Mohammad and Islam. Early Friday morning, extremists wrote nearly the same words on the mosque for the second time.
A Ma’an News correspondent reported that Palestinian worshippers were surprised in the morning when they [...]
Oxford University is this week holding an “Israeli Apartheid week.” Hosted by the Palestinian Society, flyers state it is to commemorate the “30th anniversary of the international convention on the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid.”
Ilan Pappe from Haifa University, an advocate of a one-state solution and boycott of Israeli institutions, will speak [...]
A disabled Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Palestinian security forces said Israeli soldiers shot and killed Mujahid Samadi, a retarded 15-year-old Palestinian boy who was carrying a toy gun, on Wednesday.
When did you last hear of the Palestinian extra-judicially executions?
Unfortunately, the last [...]
In an interesting move, the Israel News Agency has decided to post some Holocaust cartoons and launched an SEO - Internet search engine optimization marketing contest to prevent Iran and Islam terrorist groups news Websites (as they claim) from reaching top positions in Google. According to INA, this is the first time that a SEO [...]
Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza
Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population. In September 2007 - three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had ... A Monopoly of Incompetence, Corruption, Failure and Thuggery
Years of silence by Palestinian "Sheiks" and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a ... We are running out of time for a two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of "The People's Choice," a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told ... Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships ... Jaffa pool restricts entry of Arab residents
Omer Ori Jewish and Arab relations in the city of Jaffa have always been tense, and Jewish residents' committees of some of Jaffa's neighborhoods have decide to do something about it, at least where the city pool is concerned: They rent out the pool every two weeks – to Jews ...
