Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

The view from the right: "There are people on top who are pissing on you. It's ok though, because if you work hard enough, one day you could too become one of those people and piss on others."The view from the left: "There are people on top who are pissing on you, and they will [...]

When mindbleed is genius:You watch TV and you can’t help but wonder: what will it take forthis shit to stop? Diplomacy has taken a seat, and there areconflicting reports on why Israel is shelling places like Qana andkilling 55 in the process. Most of the dead are children and women, andAl-Jazeera is taking full advantage [...]

I could use your legal opinion on the valdity of those arguments on "Collective Punishment". Any takers?

Well, it does involve pushing Israel into the Sea, but in a way that I am sure the Israelis wouldn't find..ehh..objectionable. Hell, they would probably support it! Check it out!

What he said!

I have a phobia when it comes to self-medication. I fear all kinds of anti-depressants, mainly because I think that the majority of people take them out of conveinece and not necessity. As one who took Adderral in College on and off for 2 and a half years because I was too lazy to bother [...]

Dear Egyptian readers, A couple of days ago I wrote a couple of angry posts at the USA for what I considerd to be nothing short of a betrayel of the democracy seeking forces in the country. Having the White House strongly advocate against any symbolic cuts of Egypt's aid and then having the House shoot [...]

She tries to reach out to people on the other side of the political divide, something that I don't think happens often enough, least of all by me personally. Moneyshot:Can we finally agree that none of us really have ALL the answers?? Thatwe have to work together without prejudice and hate? That the things wehave [...]

Just in case any of you get confused over this, this blog and its writer do not advocate the actual shooting of Michael Berg , no matter how much he pisses us off. We would also discourage and disspell any notion that we advocate any kind of violence against him, altough the US is a [...]

The Egyptian police has just announced that they suspect that Palestinians were behind the Dahab Bombing . While I am likely to believe it, since our "palestinian brothers" have shown us nothing but disdain and disrespect time and time again, I am not going to endorse it, since it comes from the egyptian [...]

Faisal wrote a post criticizing my response to Evo Morales nationalization of Bolivia's oil industry. Here is how he views it:My previous postwas about President Evo Morales of Bolivia nationalizing the countriesEnergy sources, mostly those owned by foreign corporations. Not everyone shared my viewthat his actions would lead to a situation which is [...]

PRINCIPLE #1: Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.PRINCIPLE #2: What belongs to you, you tend to take care of; what belongs to no one or everyone tends to fall into disrepair.PRINCIPLE #3: Sound [...]

 and now Fatah is saying it too .Fatah accused Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal of being hysterical forsaying on Friday, in a thinly veiled reference to Abbas, that he waspart of a plot to undermine Hamas and remove it from power."We view Khaled Meshaal's speech with concern," a statement said, referring to an address in a [...]

And why it makes sense :Nonetheless, the idea of a sacred Judas always seemed rational to me,at least in Christian terms. The New Testament tells us firmly thatJesus went to Jerusalem at Passover to die and to fulfill certainancient prophecies by doing so. How could any agent of this process,witting or unwitting, be acting other [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was reading the egyptian Newspaper Al Ahram Yesterday, when I saw a small piece of news that royally pissed me off. It said that Egypt is building 2  Electric Power stations worth $150 million dollars (Almost 1 Billion EGP) in Southern Sudan as a "gift" to our Sudanese brothers.Ehhh, nothing against our sudanese brothers [...]

Regardless of what I think of Brigitte Gabriel and her views, the story of what happend at her lecture in Memphis is worth mentioning for a specific reeason: It demonstrated how Modern Muslims should and shouldn't act in the face of criticisim, even one that they consider to be extremely inciteful.It took 10 [...]

The story is always the same. An arab country starts having a blogsphere, and it gets populated by mostly secular or moderate voices from the left, right and center at first (To see an example of how we used to be like, check the excellent Jordanian blogsphere . It's how ours used to be like, [...]

After all, the numbers tell the story (H/T Gatewaypundit ):81, 76, 50, 49, 43, 25What are these numbers? This week’sPowerball winners? A safe deposit combo? New numbers to torment thosepoor b*stards stranded on the island in Lost?No, they’re the number of troops that have died in hostile actions in Iraqfor each of the past [...]

They are realizing that what's in Iran's best interest is not necessarily in their own .Top intelligence officers from several Arab countries and Turkey havebeen meeting secretly to coordinate their governments' strategies incase civil war erupts in Iraq and in an attempt to block Iran's interference in the war-torn nation, Arab diplomats said Tuesday.The meetings [...]

Dr. Sanity decided to analyze the cartoons the egyptian cartoonists used to "strike back" at the danish cartoons . While I don't agree with everything she said, there are things I agreed with, and I will post them right here:One thing they are not (except unintentionally) is funny. The anger and rage shine through [...]

Here is an FT article that I found interesting. It openly wonders about what the boundaries of the modern definition of anti-semitism means. The article argues that the term has become very broad in definition, and any attempt to clarify it is not aided by the political forces at play today.If fear of being [...]

Moneyshot:If it is Israel that decides on the deployment of American force, it seems odd that the first President Bush had to order them to stay out of the coalition to free Kuwait, and it is even more odd that the first order of neocon business has not been an attack on Iran, as Israeli [...]

Mindbleed takes my estimation that egyptians are sex machines to the next level:Think of it this way. For a baby to be born every 23.4 seconds, a sperm must have taken hostage one embryo 9 or so months prior (i.e. 23,348,000 seconds prior, give or take a few thousand). So it is probably safe to [...]

The assholes and dictators club Arab League summit that was held in Sudan (Darfur, anyone? No? Ok!) was very interesting and very funny. Those people are so useless and unable to do anything constructive that I am just wondering why the hell do they bother with this charade. First they all agreed that in order [...]

Rape is not up for debate!

Rottweliler Puppy has the latest on the london terrorism trial. The shit that they have recorded those guys that they arrestedsaying , yeah, psycho and disgusting doesn’t even begin to cover it. Those are the elements that need to be eliminated from the muslim world people, the infected body organ that needs to be chopped [...]

The Afghani court has dismissed the case against Abdul Rahman, for, get this, lack of evidence.An official closely involved with the case told The Associated Press that it had been returned to the prosecutors for more investigation, but that in the meantime, Rahman would be released.“The court dismissed today the case against Abdul Rahman for [...]