Archives for the 'middle east' Category
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Published on 2 Jun 2008 at 8:56 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under middle east, Islam.
Kuwaiti parliament refers the case of two women legislators who failed to wear the hijab to its legal committee. At issue, whether they broke the law requiring them to ”abide by Islamic regulations while voting or contesting the elections.” Nine Islamist lawmakers walked out upon laying eyes upon women’s hair. AFP.
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Hamas Carter
Published on 14 Apr 2008 at 12:02 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under pols, middle east.
They look like fun guys to me. But Gay Patriot wants the Senate to censure Jimmy Carter for treating with terrorists.
Arab Change-Hoping
Published on 19 Mar 2008 at 8:23 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under pols, middle east, America.
It’s different than the American variety. Reformist Al-Aafaq Website, via MEMRI:
Hey There Khalilah
Published on 12 Mar 2008 at 10:26 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under middle east, song.
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Whatever you’re doing now, stop, click, view this moving vid. God bless you Theo, you old softy.
Possibility Imagined
Published on 24 Jan 2008 at 10:09 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under middle east, Israel, Palestinians.
Israel: Egypt wants Gaza, Egypt can have Gaza. Reuters:
Killing Israeli Children: Bad
Published on 19 Jan 2008 at 8:23 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under GWOT, middle east.
Allah will curse those who do this. This admonishment from a Syrian mufti and much more at MEMRI’s massive roundup of the week in Arab and Iranian news. It’s a treasure trove. Let’s see … leading member of the Saudi Fatwa Committee: Suicide bombers doomed to eternal torment in hell … ooh, that’s bad. I […]
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Peace in Someone Else’s Time
Published on 26 Nov 2007 at 8:12 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under middle east, Israel, Palestinians.
What Annapolis is about, IMHO, at Pajamas. It’s a Kumbaya thing, it’s a divide-and-conquer thing. It’s about making new friends and isolating old enemies. It’s a build, which might make it one of the more practical Mideast peace moves since Egypt and Jordan figured out which side of the pita had the humus on it. […]
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One Example Please
Published on 19 Nov 2007 at 11:26 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east.
More fun on al Jazeera as an indignant Saudi international law expert fumes over the hypocrisy of historically genocidal Americans getting worked up about the Armenians, continues with Holocaust, what Holocaust? and No Blood for Oil!
Al Jaz interviewer chimes in helpfully that the hated Crusaders have killed 1.5 million Iraqis and deformed 8 million Vietnamese with Agent Orange.
Wiseacre […]
Al-Jazeera Smackdown
Published on 16 Nov 2007 at 8:24 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east.
Quote of the week:
“As you know, these voters are a bunch of people misled and numbed by the proselytizing, generalized, deceptive, romanticized discourse, which promises them black-eyed virgins and boys in Paradise, and such things … If those voters had managed to get a job and a visa to America, none of them would have […]
Arab Yuks
Published on 21 Oct 2007 at 12:05 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east, Islam.
Editorial cartoons from the Arab press vs. terrorism and women.
Little Saddam
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 2:19 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, Iraq, GWOT, blogs, middle east.
From a Michael Totten report:
“When you came and liberated this country,” he continued, “Iraq had 25 million Saddams. America is turning us back into human beings.
The quote makes me think, in rabbit-trail fashion, of an evening I enjoyed with a few Iraqi Army soldiers a few months ago. All three were officers- drawn from […]
Howbout That
Published on 5 Aug 2007 at 9:01 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, middle east, America.
Gentlemen of “Middle Eastern descent” out on a Saturday night with a carload of “explosive devices” when pulled over in Goose Creek, S.C., home to the Naval Weapons Station and U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, home to enemy combatants:
The Long Blairwell
Published on 27 Jun 2007 at 10:08 am.
43 Comments.
Filed under pols, middle east, Britain.
Our pals across the pond view Tony Blair ambiguously at best but like Brown less. From this side of the Atlantic, Tony Blair was a towering figure who recognized the threat and at a critical moment in history acted, standing unapologetically with us, unwavering in the face of domestic and international opposition. Well, except when he was apologizing for […]
Snake-Handling Congregationalists for Freedom
Published on 6 Jun 2007 at 7:51 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east.
Hitchens vs. Hedges. via Hyscience, which has vid and other links:
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Published on 1 Jun 2007 at 12:08 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under middle east, Israel, Britain.
Times: Brit lecturers union votes to back Israel boycott.*
BBC: Army of Islam releases video of captive BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, seized in Gaza March 12.**
* Brit academics deeply concerned about human rights violations.
** The sad part is, as Theo notes below, Palestinian terrorists did not have to abduct Johnston to get this message out on the Beeb.
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Kindergarten Graduation
Published on 1 Jun 2007 at 9:37 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, middle east.
Jihad-style
UPDATE: This one’s kind of like an Iranian Barney episode. Smoking kills! Stoning purifies!
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About That Pajamas Thing
Published on 31 May 2007 at 11:59 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under middle east, Islam, sex.
Reader Salty Dog correctly notes that the loose and flowing garments of Derkaderkastan whose praises I sang also include the burkha, whose praises I did not sing. Let me correct that now.
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This Is Not A Western Conspiracy
Published on 25 May 2007 at 12:21 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under middle east, saudi arabia.
Saudi writer Wajeha Al-Huwaidar’s sequel to her poem “When.”
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Never Stop Being You, Jimmy
Published on 23 May 2007 at 9:36 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under pols, middle east.
NY Sun: CBS stockholders plan to give it to CBS subsidiary Simon & Schuster over Carter’s “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” slammed for being an anti-Israeli diatribe and “a pack of demonstrable lies” on “page after page.”
These are never simple issues. Personally, I support freedom of speech, especially in the case of Jimmy Carter, who digs the hole […]
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Statehood, Please
Published on 17 May 2007 at 7:48 am.
15 Comments.
Filed under middle east.
Because they are clearly ready for it:
Mickey Hamas
Published on 10 May 2007 at 11:37 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under middle east.
… too Goofy even for Gaza. It’s a small world after all. Given Hamas’ abrupt about-face on this, and the terrorist organization’s usual disinclination to do anything sensible, I’m wondering if they didn’t get a “come to Jesus” call from Disney’s attorneys. That would put the fear of Allah in anyone.
Which makes me think, maybe […]
Luttwhack
Published on 4 May 2007 at 2:25 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iran, middle east, moronocy.
Last month, Australian LTC David Kilcullen did the honors when eminent war scholar Edward Luttwak said a bunch of inane things about Iraq, Afghanistan and the inevitable failure of any US imperialist efforts at counterinsurgency in Harper’s.
Now Luttwak returns in Prospect with “Why the Middle East Doesn’t Matter.” The West is overreacting to Iran like Britain overreacted to […]
Sandmonkey Speaks Again
Published on 2 May 2007 at 10:37 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under blogs, middle east.
Briefly, to clarify. The Egyptian Sandmonkey, who knows better than most of us the difference between a river back home and that other thing, is not running from those who would intimidate him. He wants to do something bigger: “Let’s light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.” Read the whole thing.
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The Mask Slips
Published on 2 May 2007 at 8:34 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under middle east.
Tigerhawk:
The “Nancy Pelosi” of the Palestinian Arabs had this to say Friday before last:
Sheik Ahmad Bahr, acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, declared during a Friday sermon at a Sudan mosque that America and Israel will be annihilated and called upon Allah to kill Jews and Americans “to the very Last One.”
The United States […]
Sandmonkey Speaks
Published on 30 Apr 2007 at 8:37 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under blogs, middle east.
The Egyptian Sandmonkey, who signed off the other day, describes what happens when you speak out for freedom in Egypt, one of our allies of convenience.
Khartoons
Published on 23 Apr 2007 at 11:33 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, al qaeda, middle east.
Arabic newspapers run editorial cartoons slamming Islamic terrorists. More like this, please. How about some editorial cartoon support for the people who are fighting Islamic terrorists? You could protray them as, I dunno, Crusaders or something. Stay with me here, because it’s different, very edgy …
… Crusaders as good guys.
Not so fast, says reader Morton Doodslag:
Saudi “King” Thinks “Illegal” US Occupation of Iraq Should End
Published on 29 Mar 2007 at 1:11 am.
21 Comments.
Filed under middle east.
… that’s funny, I was just thinking the same thing about the occupation of Arabia for the past 100 years by a tribe of backward thugs from the desert whose descendants to this day make their women wear gunny sacks over their heads and give our money to terrorists in places like … Iraq.
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“Maybe We Don’t Deserve Our Rights”
Published on 27 Mar 2007 at 12:12 am.
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Filed under middle east.
Egyptian Sandmonkey after a bad night in Cairo:
Where does the government, the corrupt ministers, the ruthless SS officers and their soldiers come from? Aren’t they egyptians? Don’t they come from egyptian families and households? Aren’t they born and raised here like the rest of us? Well, what does that exactly say about us?
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Locked Like an Egyptian
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 10:40 pm.
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Filed under blogs, media, middle east.
Sandmonkey at PJM on the Egyptian crackdown.
Memri has more on same.
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Sandmonkey Quick Study
Published on 2 Mar 2007 at 12:55 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east.
Egyptian Sandmonkey says he didn’t know Seymour Hersh from a hole in the wall, but he knew the company he was keeping, and it didn’t take him long to get Hersh’s number. It never does, when you hear the guy in person. Not the polished print version that might take another 10 minutes and a reread […]
“You Are in an Arab Country”
Published on 27 Feb 2007 at 10:46 pm.
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A Saudi poet’s lament, via MEMRI:
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Blogging Time
Published on 22 Feb 2007 at 9:33 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under blogs, middle east, Islam.
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil gets four years for insulting Islam and Hosni Mubarak … the United States needs to get all over that.
Pilgrims For Israel
Published on 21 Feb 2007 at 12:59 pm.
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Filed under USA, middle east, Europe, Britain.
Michael Totten’s interview with Michael Oren, author of “Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present” ends up at Plymouth, down the road from my house. Michael van der Galien picks up the thread.
Amerikiya Akbar!
Published on 19 Feb 2007 at 11:56 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under USA, middle east, Islam.
Egyptian Weirdness via Egyptian Sandmonkey. I appreciate this guy’s moral support, but I don’t think Egypt is ready for his biting satire:
Dr. Gaber Mohamed al Gazar, the professor of foreign trade in the Univeristy of Helwan … started his lecture last Thursday with writing the day’s date on the Blackboard, and instead of writing the usual “In […]
Blogger Faces Sharia
Published on 18 Feb 2007 at 10:56 pm.
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Filed under blogs, middle east, Islam, Europe.
Egyptian Sandmonkey reports that imprisoned blogger Abdel Karim’s father has disowned him and would like to see Sharia law applied to him. That reportedly means death. Background on Karim, arrested last year for criticizing Islam, here.
While mullahs mull whether to execute a free thinker, Europeans are debating whether their culture of multicultural tolerance should tolerate […]
Who Needs a Cold War When You Have a Hot One?
Published on 12 Feb 2007 at 9:27 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Russia, middle east.
Stratfor mulls Putin’s eye-poking remarks over the weekend and sees Russia moving openly to regain its lost superpower status with a multi-front “charm offensive.”
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Making the Sausage
Published on 9 Feb 2007 at 8:21 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east, Israel, lebanon.
That dead baby the “paramedics” were parading around in Lebanon doesn’t carry exactly the same kind of emotional impact from this angle, does it. LGF wonders why the photo editors sat on this shot. I’m guessing maybe because … it has a different kind of emotional impact.
Culture of Death
Published on 7 Feb 2007 at 10:00 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iran, middle east, lebanon, Islam.
Another from Memri. Hassan Haydar in London’s Al-Hayat examines the Iranian “Culture of Death, the exaltation of martyrdom by Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Gaza. He notes that while Hezbollah TV and other outlets encourage their people to die stupidly, they also praise American and Israeli anti-war groups and military parents who want their soldiers […]
Endorsement by Rejection
Published on 3 Feb 2007 at 11:04 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under media, middle east, Europe.
Iraqi-German author Najem Wali accuses the Arab Writers Union of moral bankruptcy, hypocrisy, anti-democratic stances and bigotry for snubbing of the post-Saddam Iraqi writer union and failure to act for oppressed Arab writers elsewhere. Sight and Sign:
What the union of writers does not know: literature comes into being not in pamphlets and conferences but in life itself. And it […]
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Dangling Modifier
Published on 3 Feb 2007 at 1:15 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, middle east, Saddam.
Bill O’Reilly and Nancy Grace would kill for guests like these. Drop everything you’re doing right now and watch this al-Jazeera vid: “Do you support the execution of Saddam Hussein?”
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