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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Saudi woman journalist sentenced to 60 lashes

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From the Arab News: A Saudi woman journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in the LBC program “Bold Red Line” aired in...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Open thread time (Blue edition, updated!)

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When life gets a little nutty, and everyone needs you to do stuff for them, and you have no time to sit and blog like you would like to... I...

Hamas prevents soccer player from leaving Gaza

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Palestine Press Agency reports that a member of the Palestinian Football Federation, Ibrahim al-Akkad,who apparently leads a youth league, ...

Hasbara that falls short

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YNet reports: Israel decided to dispel rumors according to which excavations under Temple Mount were the reason behind recent riots in Je...

Today's PalArab news (10/23)

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A Jordanian newspaper claims that the US is telling the PA that it will cut aid to the group immediately and comprehensively if they go ah...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

News snippets from Al Arabiya

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Some articles in the English-language Al-Arabiya website today: A Sudanese court on Thursday sentenced two women to 20 lashes for dressing &...

Hamas backs down from shutting down human rights org

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From Ma'an : The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) said on Thursday that Hamas-allied security forces briefly ordered their...

Worth reading

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Been too busy to post, but it is worthwhile to read this piece by David Bogner in response to a troll who called all Israelis "colonia...

Why Did the Arabs Run?

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Part of a 1948 article from The Nation, by Freda Kirchwey, reprinted this year : Jaffa and Tel Aviv were like hostile Siamese twins, joined ...

Hamas attacks another human rights organization

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Palestine Press Agency reports this morning that Hamas militants stormed and closed the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Righ...

Guess who Muslims believe Gog and Magog are?

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The idea of Gog and Magog being harbingers of the Messiah is indicated in Ezekiel, Revelations and the Quran. So I suppose that it is not su...

Must read: The tragedy of the Palestinian Arab diaspora

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The Independent has an excellent, and lengthy, article about the plight of Palestinian Arab "refugees" stuck in Arab countries an...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The 3-0 count: As off-topic as I can get

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I cannot say that I am a big baseball fan. When I was a kid, sure, I knew all the players and the statistics, I memorized records, I knew ba...

Allah Save the Queen

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From The Sun (UK): HATE preacher Anjem Choudary sparked fury yesterday after calling for the Queen to become Muslim. He demanded an Islamic ...

Good news from Morocco

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From Al-Arabiya : This year's festival of the Atlantic Andalusias, held in the Moroccan port of Essaouira, will focus on a Moroccan Je...