February 2006

One Step Closer To Freedom

by Haitham Sabbah February 8, 2006

Gato of Roads to Iraq has an interesting-fresh interview with one of Hamas figures. Long, but very interesting.

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Abu Hamza jailed for terrorism

by Haitham Sabbah February 7, 2006

Remember the hook-handed captain and his infamous ‘Saturday Night’ Fatwa? Well, finally, Abu Hamza al-Masri (a.k.a. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa) has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty of 11 terrorism charges, including soliciting murder and threatening behavior. Personally, I think this is very little for him.

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Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons

by Haitham Sabbah February 7, 2006

Crazy world: Iran’s largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let’s see if they mean what they say [...]

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Do we hate Denmark?

by Haitham Sabbah February 7, 2006

Jan from Denmark asked: 1. Is there anything that can be said or done at this point about the story of the infamous cartoons, which might make the muslims of the works pause, think and perhaps have second thoughts about their personal reaction to the whole issue? 2. Why is it that the Muslims of [...]

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Burning Butter!

by Haitham Sabbah February 6, 2006

This article first appeared on Global Voices. The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. The selected posts reflect different deviations in opinions and reactions related to the infamous Danish Cartoons. Dalya Younis of Geraldine Kingdom blog writes: ????.. ?? ???? ??? ?? ????? ?? ???????.. ??? ????? ?????????? ???? ?? [...]

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Call to End World War – Final

by Haitham Sabbah February 5, 2006

First, let’s read the news in the last few days again: The drawings have touched a raw nerve in part because Islamic law is interpreted to forbid any depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over [...]

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Blogging, Aljazeera and the Media (1st round)

by Haitham Sabbah February 4, 2006

This is the first post of few I’m going to write about The 2nd Aljazeera Forum – 2006. Now that I’m back from Doha after attending The 2nd Aljazeera Forum, and after swallowing all the sweet and the bitter of such a huge gathering, I can share with you some of my views and conclusion. [...]

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Blogging glowing all over Aljazeera forum!

by Haitham Sabbah February 1, 2006

Day one of Aljazeera forum is coming to end. I want to apology for not blogging much about the event earlier. But it is really very interesting forum, and a lot of things to talk about. I promise to do that soon, however, Global Voices co-founder, Ethan is doing a great job and sort of [...]

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