Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Danish Embassy Car-Bombed

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri recently called for attacks on Danish targets in response to the publication of caricatures in Danish newspapers depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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Oh my God. Are we still dealing with this issue?
WTF. Seriously, have these people run out of reasons to kill [...]

Body Count

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

About two weeks ago, the American media were highlighting the fact that the death toll of US soldiers in Iraq has reached 4,000. The 4,000th body was confirmed on March 23rd, three days after the the 5th anniversary of the invasion. That is a significant number of men and women sacrificed to avenge the death [...]

If Americans Knew

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

If Americans Knew is a website I came across a couple of times by chance while reading other Middle Eastern blogs and just watching YouTube. The website is aimed at Americans obviously and hopes to present them with accurate information about the Palestine/Israel issue without any twisting and filtering of the media.
It’s a great website [...]

BS, Not Only College Students Do It

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Politicians are good at “BS” too. They are probably even better at it, because it’s not only a professor they are deceiving but huge numbers of people. When policy makers and leaders in the upper level provide BS from behind desks, these factors influence other factors. That is really serious!
In a series of internal musings [...]

Rendition

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Extraordinary rendition and irregular rendition are terms used to describe the extrajudicial transfer of a person from one state to another, and Torture by proxy is used by some critics to describe extraordinary rendition by the United States, with regard to the transfer of suspected terrorists to countries known to employ harsh interrogation techniques that [...]

Sexuality In Iran

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

This is a response to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent comments in New York.

I wrote a small research paper last semester about sexuality in Iran. It was actually inspired by Misguided’s post.

Basically, Ahmadinejad doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about. He should shut up and stop insulting the world’s intelligence.

Warning: this is a long post, but I hope you’re interested enough to read it. ;)

Student is Tasered for Asking Questions

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

This just doesn’t make any sense to me. He was a bit aggressive with what he said and with his questions but they were in favor of John Kerry! He must have been a supporter of his during the elections in 2004.