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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Eid: The festival of sexual harassment

From the Daily News Egypt:More than 50 men were arrested on Monday, the first day of Eid Al-Adha, in downtown Cairo for alleged acts of sexual harassment targeting women in the street.Fearing a repeat of acts that tend to happen on the first day every Eid, the Interior Ministry ordered a campaign to crack down on any further incidents, which led to the arrests.The 50 were taken in and police reports filed against them for various offences including...

Egyptians against Jewish pilgimage to holy man's grave

An interesting article in Palestine Today that shows the real hatred that Egyptians have for Jews:With the advent of the month of December each year comes the renewed desire of Jews to converge on the village of Dmitoh, in a province north of the lake Egypt, to the grave of "Abu Hatezira". Israelis and Jews come from Europe and the United States to commemorate the birth of the Jewish rabbi, blessed him and asking for miraculous cures.The cause of...

Abbas compares Hamas to infidels in Mecca speech

From Palestine Press Agency (Arabic):President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a strongly-worded attack on the Islamic Resistance Movement 'Hamas', likening them infidels and heretics, in a speech from Mecca today, Tuesday.President Abbas, in his Eid al-Adha speech, accused Hamas of preventing pilgrims from the Gaza Strip to go to the performance of their religious duty, saying that 'Hamas is responsible for those [Gazans] not coming to the Hajj.'Mahmoud...

Maybe if he gets on his knees

From Reuters:Leaders of the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah have turned down a request to meet former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit to Lebanon that began on Tuesday, a Carter spokesman said.Carter had requested a meeting with the Iran-backed political and military movement, which is listed as a terrorist group by Washington, as part of a visit to assess whether his Carter Center will monitor a legislative election next year."I...

Iran getting on Egypt's nerves

From Xinhua:The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Iranian diplomatic representative in Cairo in protest against recent anti-Egypt demonstrations in Iran. In a statement issued Tuesday by the Foreign Ministry, Egypt voiced its complaints on the demonstrations staged from time to time outside the office of the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Tehran. The Egyptian ministry also criticized some Iranian newspapers that have repeatedly...

A story I had been meaning to blog:The Palestinian Authority has decided to ban a number of journalists from entering the presidential Mukata compound in Ramallah.The decision is aimed at punishing the journalists because of their criticism of the PA leadership or for reporting about the activities of Hamas leaders.Al-Jazeera reporters and TV crews are among those who now...

Lull?

From AP:Israel has reopened its crossings with Gaza to shipments of humanitarian aid and fuel. International journalists are also being allowed in.The Israeli military says 45 trucks of food and medical supplies are to pass through on Tuesday, along with shipments of cooking gas and fuel for Gaza's power plant.The military says cargo and passenger crossings were reopened because of a lull Monday in attacks by Gaza militants on Israel.The reopening...

Husband defects to the West? Blame Zionists!

From Infolive.tv:The wife of Iran's former deputy defense minister Ali Reza Asghari protested in front of the Turkish embassy in Tehran on Monday, claiming her husband was kidnapped by Israelis while in Turkey two years ago, Iranian news agency Faras reported. Asghari denied rumors that her husband had defected to the west and claimed that he "was in the Zionist prison." She vowed to protest again next year.Of course, Asghari did defect, and may...

Respect for women!

Morocco’s Rajaa Houlla, 29, reacts after discovering that she had been divorced by her Saudi husband. She only learnt of the divorce when police came to her house to deport her in Jeddah on Friday.I guess the husband doesn't have to worry about lengthy court proceedings - he just got his local police to get rid of his wife, literall...

Don't move the embassy - yet

JTA has an op-ed by the orthodox Union's Steven Savitsky imploring the incoming US administration to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.I cannot argue with his goal:At this crucial time for Jews throughout the world, the Orthodox Union proclaims loud and clear that Jerusalem must be off the table. Any peace negotiations must be predicated upon the fact that Jerusalem will remain Israel’s undivided capital. We pray for it, yearn...

Israel's iniquitous Koranic plots

Firas Press breathlessly reports on the latest nefarious Israeli plot to debase and twist the Holy Koran:A report of the Monitoring Committee of the Islamic Research Academy in Egypt warned that Israel is expanding in the perversion of the Koran and issued editions distributed to many African countries including Kenya and Niger.The recent report says that 'The Israelis were distorting the Koran and deleted verses that talk about Jews and signs calling...

Qatar should call Israel's bluff

From Dion Nissenbaum of McClatchy Newspapers:Israel is taking unusual new steps to discourage Arab and Muslim nations from challenging its prolonged economic siege of the Hamas-led Gaza Strip by sending aid ships to ease the desperate circumstances of the 1.5 million Gaza Palestinians.In recent days, Israel prodded Qatar, a friendly Persian Gulf nation, into calling off a delegation preparing to transport aid from Cyprus to Gaza, according to officials...

Odds and ends

Christians detained and beaten in Muslim Indian Ocean nationsThis year's gruesome Eid al Adha photos from Gaza. Let's play in the blood!Desertification conference - Israel saving the world again:This is a crisis that has actually been defined by the United Nations and World Bank "Millennium Assessment" as the environmental problem which affects more people than any other worldwide.Israel's climate is of course largely a desiccated one. Indeed 93...

Swing your partner ‘round and ‘round, And turn your corner upside down. And turn your corner like swingin’ on a gate, And meet your partner for a grand chain eight, And hurry up boys and don’t be late. Chew your tobacco and rub your snuff, And meet your honey and strut your stuff. Right...

Egypt afraid that Gaza will expand into the Sinai

From Palestine Today:MPs from the Egyptian Shura Council warned of the seriousness of Israel to harm the Egyptian national security, pointing out that Israel still has ambitions in Sinai with the displacement of Palestinians to Sinai from Gaza.Isn't it interesting that Palestinian Arabs are considered a national security threat to their fellow Arabs, but the world expects Israel not to treat them as suc...