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In-Depth Follow up on “A Nightmare Called Ramadan”
Hlehel: “I was pushed to resign” The article written two weeks ago by colleague Alaa Hlehel in Fasl al-Maqal provoked a sharp debate within the Balad party and extended further, to the point that the Islamic Movement demanded his resignation. How did the affair begin? How was the decision to put a “clarification” [to the [...]
Jalame is Open, but with Restrictions
Israel has opened Jalame crossing to Palestinian citizens of Israel for the first time since 2000. Jalame is located in the far northern tip of the West Bank. Since the wall has been completed in this area, the residents of West Bank villages, as well as of the Arab villages inside of Israel who are [...]
Pointers President Bush Missed
Yesterday, President Bush spoke to Arab and Muslim leaders, businessmen, and others at the World Economic Forum in Egypt. President Bush’s sure-to-be-ignored laundry list of reforms the Arab states should undergo missed a few really important pointers: 1) Arab states must close all legally dubious island prisons in other countries that hold individuals as “enemy [...]
Saudi Finally Releases Fouad
Reporters Without Borders reported the release last week of blogger Fouad al Farhan. He was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since December, 2007 for posting an article on his blog discussing the “advantages” and “disadvantages” of being a Muslim. Fouad al Farhan, 32, was one of the first Saudi bloggers to dispense with a pseudonym on [...]
Please be moral… Dubai needs you.
Here in the wonderful Emirate of Dubai where, if I so pleased, I could order greezy-ass Burger King for delivery, ski down a fake mountain in the middle of the desert, sip coffee in a cafe fully made of ice, take a boat ride through “Venice” and then drink my liver to mush in any [...]
Free Sami Al-Arian (film)
Starplex Cinemas may have tried to halt the screening of the film this past weekend in Irvine, California, but thanks to LinkTV, the whole world can watch the previously banned documentary on the Sami Al-Arian case online for free! I finished watching the hour-long documentary last night and was moved to tears. And check out [...]
Israel doesn’t like culture
Not content with stealing many aspects of Palestinian and Arab culture, from food to clothing to music, and then relabeling it as ‘Israeli’, the Zionut entity also has problems with Palestinians expressing said heritage. What if people found out falafel was actually NOT commissioned by King Soloman two thousand years ago?! The very fabric upon [...]
Have We Entered 2008 or 1984?
Not only can you banned from entering the US for donating money to a Muslim charity a la the Muslim Martin Luther King Tariq Ramadan, but now you can be charged for “ideologically-based violence” in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The stuff of the fictionally-based Orwell political doomsday novel [...]
The War on Blogging
The Christian Science Monitor ran a good article on Fouad al-Farhan, the Saudi blogger detained and charged by Saudi Arabia for non-security-related charges (okay?). They are seeking “an apology” from the blogger for his criticism of Saudi’s arrest of Jeddah-based civil rights activists, who were charged with supporting terror. Al-Farhan, a visible blogger who blogged [...]
RSF: Saudi Arabia Detains Blogger
ALERT – SAUDI ARABIA Blogger arrested, his whereabouts unknown; news website and blog publishing service blocked by authorities SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris (RSF/IFEX) – RSF condemns the detention of blogger Ahmad Fouad Al-Farhan (http://www.alfarhan.org) since December 10, 2007. His family does not know where he is being held or what he is charged [...]
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