Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

Apparently it's open for interpretation !

I thought they were suppsoed to be the nice tolerant ones! Guess not!

I am writing this as I watch Cairo today, it’s about Shi’a vs Sunni. I have to say, I’m depressed (more than usual, that is). I am having a hard time pin-pointing what exactly pisses me off. Is it Khaled ElGendi’s omnipresent quest for petty personal glories (and the fact that some people, lots of [...]

“الأختلاف غنى” كلمة أعتدت أن أسمعها كثيراً من شخص أعتز به شخصياً ومن أخرين كثيرين أكن أيضاً لهم معزة بقلبي كبيرة، ساعدوني كثيراً على تكوين جزء كبير من شخصيتي. وككثير من الكلمات التي أسمعها ولا تجد راحة في قلبي قبل أن أغور أنا أعماقها، بالفعل بداءت رحلة خاصة جداً بيني وبين هذه الكلمة. بداءت أنظر لكل [...]

What he said!

So says the great Ayatollah , who is afraid that having women in their own section all coverd up in a soccer game would cause serious moral breakdown in the fabric of the iranian society, or, something like that. This makes Iran one of the few societies on earth in which women actually want to [...]

هذه التدوينة أود أكتبها منذ زمن وأشعر أن علي واجب يجب أن أؤديه. ورغم أنها لم تكتمل كافية بوضوح في ذهني ولكنني قررت البدء في كتابتها حتى أنتهي من هذا الواجب وأملاً أن تتضح في ذهني أثناء الكتابة.ماذا يجب علبنا أن نفعل الأن لأجل مصر أفضل، لأجل مصر دائما ما حلمنا بها. أود أولاً أن [...]

 The shit that this guy says :Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi: Some people believe that Muhammad is theprophet of the Arabs or Muslims alone.This is a mistake. Muhammad is the Prophet of all people. He supersededall previous religions. If Jesus were alive when Muhammad was sent, hewould have followed him. All people must be Muslims.[…]The Muslims were enraged [...]

So, I found out earlier today about the bombings, like 20 minutes after they happend, and I wasn;t even anywhere near my laptop. Y'all should know the story by now. 3 explosions went off , 23 killed , 62 injured and since this was easter weekend, it means that the majority of those hit [...]

وماذا الأن؟ سؤال طرح نفسه كثيراً على الساحة بعد أحداث الأسكندرية الأخيرة وألح علي بشدة كلما تحدثت مع أصدقائي من المدونيين وغير المدونيين.سوف أكتب تصوري عن الوضع في جزئين أساسيين، الأول سوف أتحدث فيه عن تخيلي الخاص للوضع الأفلاطوني المرجو، والجزء الثاني سوف أتحدث عن خطوات يجب أتخاذها على أرض الواقع لأجل بناء المدينة الفضلى. الجزء [...]

 

That would be really bad, especially for muslim women in the US: They have enough temptation as it is apparently .About 200 Muslim women who have memberships to the Fitness USA chainof athletic clubs have signed a petition asking the gyms to honor whatthey say was a promise to provide separate exercise times for women [...]

Let’s live for Love…Let’s die for Love…

 ليكن المواطن المصري نصحي جرجس آخر ضحايا الطائفية والتعصب في مصر دعوة للتظاهر الخميس 20 ابريل الساعة الخامسة مساء دوران شبرا – محطة مترو روض الفرج هل الأمن متواطئ ؟لا أقل من القبض على القتلة ومعاقبتهم .. لا للطائفية .. لا للتمييز الديني .. لا لاضطهاد المسيحييننعم للمساواة .. نعم لحرية الاعتقاد

 حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل اقولها مع اخي المسيحي المظلوم …علي…اخي المسلم الظالمولا يقلل ذلك من اسلامي في شئحسبي الله ونعم الوكيلحسبي الله ونعم الوكيلحسبي الله ونعم الوكيلهلا قلتم معي اذناللهم اني ابرا اليك مما صنع هؤلاء ؟؟؟تدوينة ابن عبد العزبز

انا لما قريت التقرير التانى بتاع جار القمر مبكيتش المره دى لأقعدت اسب و ألعن 10 ساعات و بقيت ماشى فى الشارع اكلم نفسىالعالم ولاد الكلب و لعوا فيهاالكلام ده مش لازم يعدى يا عتاولة حقوق الانسان و التدوين فى مصر حتعملوا ايه؟؟؟البيانات و الشعارات فى المدونات مش كفاية المره دىلازم يكون فى حركة على [...]

This is a must read .Moneyshot: So why is Islam an exception to using your brain? Why is it anexception to thinking for yourself and judging how God expects us tobehave? Why is Islam an exception to question the disturbing Islamicteachings, especially about what our attitudes are supposed to betowards people from different countries, religions, or [...]

They are fighting , the Christians and Muslims, again , RIGHT NOW. And a Muslim man just died ! (h/t BP )Muslims clashed on Sunday for a second day with Christians angered bythe murder of a Copt in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, witnessessaid. At least one person was wounded when around 100 people beganhurling [...]

 A.J. is still obsessed with Israel and the Jews . However, in what he said, there is something truly telling of the mindset that produces people like my coworker H .:President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" tothe Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared toagain question whether the Holocaust really [...]

Mubarak is trying to calm the Shia down after his incredibly stupid comment about their loyalties . So, he made a non-apology apology her e, cause you know, our great leader is never wrong, and should never apologize. He is like your Daddy figure, and Daddy figures should never apologize in middle-eastern cultures. It's almost [...]

Alexandria's blogger Jar Al Kammar has a personal account of what happend after the church stabbing in arabic, of whick the skeptic (hey man, that slogan of urs is my motto.Grrrr..) has the translation right here . Definitely worth reading to understand how near their rope the christians in Egypt seem to be these [...]

Here we go again. One week before  the egyptian good friday, but on the rest of the christian world's good friday, attacks on 3 egyptian churches were made by 3 knife and sword wielding muslim men . 1 christian worshipper was killed, 17 injured and 2 of which are in serious conditions:Police said they had [...]

Someone sent this to me, and I thought it was interesting:Some argue that Islam is still trapped in medieval modes ofthought and action, and thus needs a sort of Lutheran-style reformationas befell 16th-century Catholicism. Are there any Martin Luthers amongthe Muslim moderates?Hanson: Yes, I think thereare, but mostly in exile or abroad. Right now [...]

Muslims all over the world are deeply hurt by the recent caricatures of our beloved Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, (may Allaah exalt his mention) in Danish and several other publications.

Every now and then, some Western, media outlets provoke Muslims by insulting the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The baiting often succeeds in eliciting Muslims’ outrage and sporadic violence.

The latest incident started with a Danish newspaper’s caricature portraying the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.

Mubarak's incredibly dumb statement regarding the Shiites still draws fire from Shia leaders and clerics all over the middle-east:One of Shiite Islam's top clerics accused Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday of fueling sectarian tensions in the Middle East by saying Arab Shiites in Iraq and elsewhere are more loyal to Iran than [...]

Qhaddafi believes that Jews and Christians should be allowed to enter Mecca :Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi called for allowing Christiansand Jews to perform pilgrimage to Mecca,Islam's holiest place.Speaking following prayers with the presidents of Mali, Sierra Leone, Niger,Mauritania and Senegal on the occasion of the Prophet Mohammed's birthday inTimbuktu, Mali, late on Monday, Qadhafi said [...]

And my co-worker H. , yes, that H. , couldn't be happier that this finally happend .  This is the same dude who called wahhabists the greatest people on earth and called the Shia infidels, and yet he is so very excited that Iran is "200 working houres away"- his information, not mine- from [...]

This is how low the bar is for reform in Saudi:Along with the music new to government-run TV, female journalistsnow can interview men, appearing on the same set despite the country'sstrict gender-segregation rules. Female experts are no longer limitedto discussing social issues on TV and can now engage in politicaldebates.Newspapers and officials discuss items that [...]

Dr. Hassan Al Turabi, the islamic leader of Sudan, has just issued a Fatwa that will probably be his death sentence (arabic link ): He stated that the muslim woman has the right to marry a jewish or christian man if she wants to, and that it's not haram at all, and that the rule [...]

This time, it's over a veiled woman :Asmaa Abdel Hamid, a 24-year-old Dane ofPalestinian origin, is the co-host of an eight-part series on thepublic DR2 network on the fallout of the cartoons affair that led toviolent reactions throughout the Muslim world.Abdel Hamid's appearance on television - the first time that afemale TV host has worn [...]