Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Al-Jazeera's Ittijah Mu`akis has a show on plastic surgery. The opponent is a regular Azhar propagandist. He really fits his role: he really comes across as you would expect an Azhar theologian to be: dogmatic, vulgar, misogynistic, buffoonish, dirty-minded, loud, crude, and rude. Talking about clerics: today, I saw the top (state) Shi`ite cleric in Lebanon, `Abdul-Amir Qabalan. When he was the Ja`farite Mufti of Lebanon, people in South Lebanon used to say that you can buy him with a "frakah" dish. Nobody was right about clerics more than Robespierre.