If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is a cross-posting. It was initially published at Global Voices in my (semi)-weekly translation post.
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere.
This week, johacom [...]

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Everyday, I come across a new news article, TV show or even a comment left here or there that accuses Muslims of being followers of a religion which encourage violence, killing and intolerance. Most of the time I don’t blame the writers of these articles because it shows how ignorant they are about Islam. It [...]

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“You have to admit Germany its clear right to rid itself of its Jews. But one must insist that it happens in a decent manner.”
– From an editorial in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, on the events of Kristallnacht (Imperial Crystal Night), 9 Nov 1938. (Cite)
Don’t be offended, it’s just — “freedom of speech.”

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Roger Thomas looks at the commotion in Davos stirred up by the publication of an article entitled �Boycott Israel� in the World Economic Forum�s official organ, Global Agenda.
What do you call a man, effectively the proprietor of a magazine called Global Agenda in one of his roles, who attempts to censor an article in his [...]

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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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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 cartoons that [...]

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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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Let’s start with a short story:
A guy has a dog that only barks, a lot. So he got sick of it and decided to take it to a Pet Doctor.
After the doctor checked the dog, he told the owner; listen, this dog is deaf, blind and can’t sniff!
The dog owner asked; then why is it [...]

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Yes!
This is another good news from the team of supporters (56 members signed the pledge so far. More are welcome) to the Palestinian blogsphere community.
Blogger.com responded today to our requests with the following:
Hello,
Thanks for your feedback in this matter. We are currently in the process of improving this aspect of Blogger Profiles to reach more [...]

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Update 1: Blog.com responded back to the amazing team request to add ‘Palestine’. Thank you all, and thanks to Scott from Blog.com Support.
Update 2 (Thu, 9 Mar 2006): Finally, “Palestinian Territory”
is now listed in the “Country/Territory” dropdown in Blogger’s (blogger.com) Profile
editor.
I’m not asking anyone ‘not to use‘ these blog services. All what is been asked [...]

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Norwegian magazine has published the Prophet cartoons:
A Norwegian Christian magazine has published a set of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed after months of uproar in the Muslim world over a Danish paper’s decision to print the same cartoons. Repeating a move by conservative Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last September, Magazinet published the controversial drawings in [...]

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Just what we need:
The Islamic militant group Hamas has launched a TV station in the Gaza Strip as part of its expansion into Palestinian politics, Hamas officials and analysts said Monday. The Al Aqsa Television station could help Hamas in its campaign in the run-up to the Palestinians’ January 25 parliamentary elections if it is [...]

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In the spirit of the “constructive and hot discussion” in the last two day regarding anonymity and blogging, and as a compliment to that, I’m please to share with you BlogSafer press release.
It is a wiki based project, which means that anyone and everyone is welcome to share and edit the content (until it is [...]

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The security forces have captured a Jordanian - 24 years old - last Sept in Zarqa city while he was in a cyber cafe visiting a website for making fireworks. He was admitted to a State Security Court yesterday for the charge of possessing and manufacturing explosives. His charge sheet states that since 1998 he [...]

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Here comes another great news. I was contacted by Open Source Radio, and they are searching for you. As an editor at Global Voices, they asked my advice and suggestions as to what bloggers in the Middle East/North Africa use skype and would be interested for interviews.
Since I know (I hope I’m wrong) that [...]

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Background:
The UK government has been quick to deny that they practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So it is perhaps not suprising that they are determined that you should not see the following documents:
http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf
http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/npaper.jpg
BlairWatch is asking bloggers to publish the memos from Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, detailing how the Uzbek Secret [...]

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