Are we truly the best community to serve God and mankind? No one alive today can truthfully and honestly say Muslims are the “best community” given the current tumultuous conditions in the Muslim world where there is little true faith, little peace, little health of mind and body; but much poverty, illiteracy, hostility, antagonism, disunity, corruption, violence, civil wars, and terrorism where Muslims are killing fellow Muslims.
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Muslims By Birth, Not By Faith (Part II) – by Mohamed Khodr
O! Muslim Militants, by what stretch of the imagination do you find any justification for your suicide bombings, slaughter and kidnapping of civilians, destruction of mosques, churches and synagogues, expelling Muslims and Non-Muslims from their homes and villages, and massacring fellow Muslims.
Muslims By Birth, Not By Faith (Part I) – by Mohamed Khodr
One must ask the Muslim militants this most important and basic of all questions. What Revelation or Book and Prophet or Messenger do you follow to commit such crimes against Islam and humanity? It most certainly is not the Holy Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad given that all your crimes against humanity directly violate and contradict God’s Book and His Prophet Muhammad.
Will Santa Claus Visit Gaza This Christmas
Israel has already violated the ceasefire – at any time the missiles and rockets could start raining down once more. Year round, that is what it means to live in Gaza. I decided not to bring up the Santa Claus question.
Palestinian woman beaten to death by Israel terrorist
A Palestinian woman in her 60s was beaten to death during a raid by the Israeli terrorist army near Occupied Jerusalem. The director of the clinic where Mariam Ayyad was taken says she arrived dead, with a broken skull and possible internal bleeding. Relatives say the woman tried to block Israeli terrorist as they stormed [...]
2-yr old Palestinian released from Israeli prison!
The attached is from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. A story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.” Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, [...]
Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See
Israeli army embarrassed by video broadcast (Mar 2002) The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died. When CBC News spoke with Ismail Hawarjeh at Bethlehem’s hospital earlier this month, there was [...]
Spinsters World & Women Rights in Arab Land
It’s women again! A report published by Khaleej Times said that a survey conducted by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Planning reveals a shocking number of “spinsters” across Saudi Arabia. To be precise, the exact number of the unmarried females has been recorded at 1,529,418. Now from the last census I could find, Saudi population has [...]
IOF Kills more than 14 Citizens in Gaza in Less than 24 Hours
A new chapter in the Israeli Terrorist Forces and their state, full of blood of innocents, and we will never forget: GAZA, June 9, 2006 (WAFA) – The Gaza Strip (GS) is witnessing a black Friday as Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed at least ten citizens in navy and air bombardment. Witnesses said that Israeli [...]
Prostitution is now official and religiously condoned in Arab land
Warning: For adults only! Well, it’s only turning bad news from Saudi. And unfortunately, it is about woman, again. But this time it’s on a larger scale. It is called; “destruction of all family values.” I was not shocked when I heard that Misyar marriage is now officially blessed by the highest rank Mullah’s of [...]
Pakistani woman, jailed for being raped in Saudi Arabia, deported
[Source] Sixteen-year-old Isma Mahmood was deported to Pakistan last month after serving six months in shackles and handcuffs in a prison in Saudi Arabia. Her crime: being raped by a Saudi man. “It’s difficult for me to talk about what happened to me, from rape to prison and from prison to deportation,” Isma said in [...]
Miss Iraq quits ‘cuz of death threats
What is the second hardest to find after a “prime minister” in Iraq? It is to find a “Beauty Queen”. Tamar Goregian, 23, stepped down after four days as “Iraqi Queen of Beauty” following threats. On April 9, Tamar Goregian, a Christian woman, made history as the first Armenian Iraqi to be crowned Miss Iraq. [...]
Replacing Burqa with Surgical Mask
If the Netherlands becomes the first European country to ban the burqa and other Muslim face veils this month, Hope says she’ll resort to wearing a surgical mask to dress in accordance with her religious beliefs. “I’ll wear one of those things they wore during the SARS epidemic if I have to,” said the Dutch-born [...]
Weird news of today
Nasa team sees explosion on Moon and two-headed snake ‘up for auction’ then Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality TV on the Internet and finally a British woman marries Dolphin.
Tunisian Official Criticizes Muslim Attire
وزير الشؤون الدينية التونسي: Øجاب المرأة دخيل ونشاز Ùˆ”لباس طائÙÙŠ”. اعتبر وزير الشؤون الدينية التونسي المرأة التي ترتدي الØجاب بأنها “نشاز”ØŒ بØسبانه مظهرا “غير مألؤ إلى جانب أنه “زي طائÙÙŠ”. وقال الوزير أبو بكر الأخزوري ÙÙŠ Øوار أجرته صØÙŠÙØ© “الصباؔ التونسية الثلاثاء 27-12-2005 ÙÙŠ رد على سؤال Øول العودة النسبية لظاهرة الØجاب ÙÙŠ تونس، إن [...]
Saudi woman’s bearing to stars
Thumps up for the Saudi ladies. A female engineer, Nadia Bakhourji, was the only woman who ran for a seat in the engineers’ board; and she won (Link in Arabic). Yet more, Alia Hayel Aboutaiyh Al-Howaite has taken the reins as the first female Saudi jockey to compete at the international level, becoimg a World-Class [...]
One in three blames women for being raped
One in three people believes that women who behave flirtatiously are at least partially responsible if they are raped, Amnesty International report published in UK today reveals. A similar number think that women are partially or wholly responsible for being raped if they are drunk, and more than a quarter believe women are responsible if [...]
Microwave your bra to stay warm this winter
For the woman who wants to stay both warm and environmentally conscious this winter � and isn’t bothered by extra bulk under her shirt � a lingerie maker unveiled a thick bra that can be heated in a microwave.
Mr. Bush, This Is Pro-Life?
If only President Bush could see the results of withholding funds from the U.N. Population Fund. Somewhere in the world, a pregnant woman dies like that about once a minute, often leaving a handful of orphans behind. Call me na�ve, but I think that if Mr. Bush came here and saw women dying as a [...]
Gender-Based Violence in Egypt
A couple of days ago, I quoted this newspaper which said that UN report states that 94 per cent of Egyptian women are victims of domestic violence, but I could not verify this from original sources. Well, hat tip to Lali Sandiumenge who send me the link to the report, which you can find it [...]
Honor Killing Pass
A Jordanian man who murdered his sister for being a prostitute got a reduced jail sentence because he killed her in a “fit of rage”, the Jordan Times reported on Wednesday. The Criminal Court has sentenced a 26-year-old shepherd to six months in prison for the murder of his older sister in April 2005. When [...]
Women from Arab Countries Learn How to Run for Office
Good news for Arab woman. It seems that the Kuwaiti women activists, who demonstrated outside parliament to grant women political rights until they got it are moving in the right direct: Women politicians from 15 Arab countries are in Kuwait learning how to campaign for elected office. A special campaign school opened (in Kuwait) Sunday, [...]
Tourist Marriage in Yemen, another form of Prostitution in the Gulf!
The latest victims of the prostitution club in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen!! Tourist marriage in Yemen By Nabil Al-Osaidi For Yemen Times Rua’a, a seventeen-year-old secondary school student in Ibb, used to be dodged by a new comer from one of the neighboring countries, until he succeeded to convince her to marry him. Then she [...]
Mesyaf (Summer Holiday) Marriage, New form of Prostitution in Saudi Arabia!
No, I’m not kidding. Alarabiya reported this… marriage (in Arabic) and here is my translation to part of the article, followed by my comments: After Almesyar marriage, blood, cassette, secret, on home, and the pleasure marriage, lately in Saudi Arabia a new form of weird ways of marriage is spreading called “Almesyaf Marriage” (Summer Holiday [...]
Saudi women rated least free in Arab world
Saudi Arabia received the lowest rating on women’s freedom in a new survey released at the World Economic Forum 2005 – Jordan. The survey, conducted by the Freedom House, is the first comparative assessment of women’s rights in 17 nations in the Middle East and North Africa. It found a “substantial deficit of women’s rights [...]
Egypt ‘Not Achieving Gender Equality’
Nordic women are the closest to reaching socioeconomic parity with men while their Egyptian sisters are the furthest, according to a 58-nation survey published by Swiss-based World Economic Forum think-tank in its 58-nation survey.
Jailed Briton ‘given banned painkiller’
A British woman who spent nearly eight weeks in a Dubai jail for having a banned painkiller in her system was given it by a United Arab Emirates police doctor. “They first gave her medication, then they tested her for it, then they flung her in jail. This is what was proven in court.”
Miss Iraq
Update: Miss Iraq 2006, quits �cuz of death threats. More Here! Iraqi-American filmmaker and actress Yasmine Hannaney will represent Iraq in the Miss Asia USA Pageant to counter common misconceptions about Iraqis.
I Want My ‘She’ TV
BEIRUT, LEBANON: Television talk-show host Matilda Farjallah shifts forward in her chair and looks the white-bearded Sunni sheikh sitting across the table directly in the eyes. “Tahzeeb al-mara [“instructing the woman”] is discussed in the Koran. Does it allow instructing a woman by beating her?” she asks. Men, the sheikh responds, can instruct women – [...]
Muslim Schoolgirl Wins Right to Wear “Jilbab” (gown)
“British girl wins battle over Muslim clothing: “I’m happy that I did this. I feel that I have given hope and strength to other Muslim women,” by Dilpazier Aslam, The Globe and Mail, 3 March 2005. Yes, this is not “Hijab” battle in French schools; this time it is “Jilbab” battle in UK. And the [...]
Sentenced to Be Raped
In June 2002, the police say, members of a high-status tribe sexually abused one of Ms. Mukhtaran’s brothers and then covered up their crime by falsely accusing him of having an affair with a high-status woman. The village’s tribal council determined that the suitable punishment for the supposed affair was for high-status men to rape [...]
SUPERWOMAN
Women & Men – Different but Equal? Commentary to Eman’s post titled ‘Superwoman’! Contemporary society is just beginning to delve into the true distinctions between men and women. Besides the obvious physiological differences, there are also differences in the way men and women think, speak, and behave. In order to understand the essential nature of [...]
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