This piece is lengthy … but it is powerful.
(Courtesy of WAWA blog)
Prophets on Apartheid: Part 1
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=631&Itemid=176
Prophets on Apartheid: Part 2
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=632&Itemid=176
I will need to find the time to write about the tragedy of Hebron someday …
Here is a piece that I came across today …
http://time-blog.com/middle_east/2008/07/a_south_african_in_hebron.html
“To me, what I saw in Hebron defiles the memory of the Holocaust and the name of Judaism” In a way this statement describes everything I feel about the practices of Israel.
“…That famous phrase: “Never Again”, was never just about the Jews. It was about all of humanity.” How true!
I picked up this story from the Angry Arab blog (angryarab.blogspot.com) … However, it passed without much discussion.
Yesterday (July 10th), the Al-Arabiya* main page had a sidebar showing the most popular stories on the site … this is the translation …
Most Read: British woman on trial after having sex on Dubai beach
Most Discussed : British woman on trial after having sex on Dubai beach
Most printed: British woman on trial after having sex on Dubai beach
Most Bookmarked: British woman on trial after having sex on Dubai beach
Most E-mailed: British woman on trial after having sex on Dubai beach
Arabs (especially Al-Arabiya Arabs) are not obsessed with sex … what are you talking about??!!
Ohh … And if you are a sex-crazed Arab … here is the original story …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/09/middleeast
*This is a Saudi-financed “news” station … that was created to challenge the Qatari-financed Aljazeera … Qatar and Saudi Arabia are not on good terms … so they fight through news channels … Al-Arabiya’s coverage is similar to Fox news coverage… you know …“fair and balanced”!
It’s mainly U.S. and western propaganda.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/07/10/newton.yemen.child.bride.cnn
I was surprised that CNN did not follow the trend of blaming this on Islam (like all other western news outlets that covered this story). The culture is to blame here for letting something like this happen. Yemen’s tribal population (mainly males) is addicted to Khat – a drug that induces excitement and euphoria. For that reason, I am not surprised that so many similar stories are coming out of Yemen. Stories like these have to be put in a cultural and social context to be understood and dealt with appropriately.
I bet Ayaan Hirsi Ali started babbling on and on about how evil Islam is when she heard of this story. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a racist fear-monger that has been a victim of CULTURAL abuse in Somalia. But instead of blaming it on the culture of Central Africa, she is blaming Islam and all 1.2 billion Moslems of the world. If this is not racism, I don’t know what is.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Wikipedia … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali …It’s ok to be racist when it comes to Islam … all the cool kids are doing it.
On a final note, Nujood Ali, the child in the video, is a wonderful character. I will be keeping an eye on her story (I have a feeling that it is not over). A girl with this amazing mentality can do so much if educated. But I am worried that her society will fail her again. Her courageous and confrontational spirit might be exactly what the women of Yemen need.
Today is the 13th anniversary for the Srebrenica genocide – one of the most gruesome atrocities in modern history. On July 11th 1995, Serbian troops occupied the town of Srebrenica (inhabitants mainly Moslem Bosniaks ), and systematically killed men and boys.
This morning, the burial of hundreds of victims was done after DNA identification of their remains. Their families can finally find some peace.
The sad thing is that such atrocities will happen again! The UN and The Hague courts are not enough … they are not independent, and are manipulated by the same countries that are committing these acts. The US will never be tried for their massacres in Iraq, Russia will not be held responsible for its massacres in Chechnya. Israel will not be held responsible for the massacres of 1948, 1967, 1982, 1996, 2003, 2006 …..
