This crude Saudi propagandists found the cause for Arab uprisings. He said that Arab governments should just abandon the idea of "resistance." (thanks Ahmad)
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Cleric of Occupation: Grand (not at all) Ayatullah Sistani and sex with a nine-year old
So Sistani (seen above) was asked about sex with a girl who is nine years old. He said: that "it is not permissible to enter the wife before she completes her nine-year old, whether intercourse was continuous or interrupted. As for the rest of enjoyments, like touching with desire or kissing or embracing or entering between legs, they are fine."
"مسألة 8: لا يجوز وطء الزوجة قبل إكمال تسع سنين، دواماً كان النكاح أو منقطعاً، واما سائر الاستمتاعات كاللمس بشهوة والتقبيل والضم والتفخيذ فلا بأس بها،" (thanks Sajjad)
PS You may find this in Kitab An-Nikah in Minhaj As-Salihin.
And you wonder why I call him King PlayStation?
"His Majesty King Abdullah on Saturday inaugurated the Jordan Interactive Gaming Laboratory, established under a Royal initiative, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The lab, which was opened yesterday on the sidelines of the first Jordan-US Business Forum, aims to provide technical training, resources and equipment for start-ups in the field of game development. Established with support from the King Abdullah II Fund for Development (KAFD) and the Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan (int@j), the lab aims at boosting the electronic games industry to turn Jordan into a regional hub for game developers." (thanks anonymous)
The despicable Lebanese Army at the Lebanese-Palestinian border
"Unlike in Syria, there was no breach of the fence itself, nor any attempt at one, but in the minds of the Israelis, the threat justified the firing of live rounds into a crowd. A troop of Lebanese soldiers sent in to quell the crowd cowered on the ground some twenty yards from the fence, unable to calm either the pro-Palestinian demonstrators or the Israelis." (thanks David)
James Wolfensohn: awarded an honorary PhD from AUB
What a shame. Another reason for me to always denounce and oppose the American University of Beirut, and to call for its nationalization, along with all other colonialist/missionary universities in our midst. AUB will award James Wolfensohn an honorary doctorate. Can you imagine? A symbol of all what is wrong with Western patronizing and capitalist exploitation of the developing countries. He was close to Rafiq Hariri (like all bad men in Western capitals), and it seems he is being rewarded for the friendship. AUB progressives should categorically reject this nomination and protest against it, I say. He also was a tool for Bush's White House in Palestine. Enough said.
Grading: give me a break
I am grading. Will not attend much to blog today. (I think, if I can resist).
Response to Unsi Al-Hajj
Al-Akhbar publishes a needed response to a recent article by Unsi Al-Hajj which included recycled Orientalist cliches and Christian hostilities against Islam.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Muslim Brothers
Who paid for the new fancy headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo? I would not be surprised if this was paid for by Saudi royal family.
US sanctions Israeli company for doing business with Iran
Supporters of the Iran regime have to explain this Israeli connection, the lousy speeches by Ahmadinajad on Israel and Zionism notwithstanding. (thanks John),
Prisoners you don't cover in the West: Saudi protesters
"The only man to protest on Saudi Arabia's day of rage has suffered in prison, his family say. Khaled al-Johani was arrested minutes after going to the courthouse in Riyadh and giving a BBC interview in which he called for democracy and described the country as a big jail."
Obama versus Netanyahu
"President Obama got 25 standing ovations from Congress during his 2011 State of the Union address. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got 29 today." (thanks AK)
AIPAC ignorance
"I interviewed several AIPAC delegates in the streets outside the conference. While few, if any, of them were able to demonstrate the slightest degree of sophistication in their understanding of the Israel-Palestine crisis, they had been briefed inside on how to respond to critics. No one I spoke to would concede that Israel occupied any part of Palestinian territory; none would concede that Israel had committed acts of indiscriminate violence or that it had transferred Palestinians by force; one interviewee could not distinguish Palestine from Pakistan. With considerable wealth and negligible knowledge — few had spent much time inside Israel — the delegates were easily melded by the cadre of neoconservative and Israeli “experts” appearing in AIPAC’s briefing sessions."
House of Saud rally for Mubarak
"Alarmed by the calls for Mr. Mubarak’s prosecution, the Saudi royal family has for weeks urged Egypt’s current military rulers to avoid harsh treatment, fearing that it could intensify unrest in the region, according to Saudi officials and a Western diplomat."
Salam Fayyad: no one noticed that he had a heart attack
A sign that this is a man who was hand picked by Western governments has no standing with his own people whatsoever. None whatsoever. I read the news about his heart attack in Western media but saw nothing about it in Arabic press. I mean, who cares whatever befalls this man. When Yasir `Arafat--as much as I detested him--would get a cold, it was national news in the region.
Let me hear Western leaders mouth off on this one
"Saudi Arabia is the only country that bars women from driving. But the topic remains a highly emotional issue in the kingdom, where women are also not allowed to vote, or even work without their husbands’, or fathers’, permission. For religious puritans, the ban on women driving is a sign that the government remains steadfast in the face of a Western onslaught on Saudi traditions. A political cartoon here once depicted car keys attached to a hand grenade."
clown Friedman
Woe to the day when Thomas Friedman, of all people, offers ideas for the Palestinian people on how to pursue...Israel's goals. Here is his plan: "Trust me, it would stimulate a real peace debate within Israel — especially if Palestinians invited youth delegations from around the Arab world to join the marches, carrying the Saudi peace initiative in Hebrew and Arabic." Yeah. He wants Arab youth to carry signs with the Saudi (i.e. Thomas Friedman) "peace" initiative. How nice.
I knew that this one was coming: the World Bank enters the Arab counter-revolution
"The World Bank said Tuesday it was willing to provide up to $6 billion to support political and economic change in Egypt and Tunisia and to help them weather declines in tourism and other industries. The money is intended to seed a broader package of international support for the two countries’ postrevolution governments. The World Bank wanted “to help the people there and seize the opportunities of historic change to modernize their economies and build more open and inclusive societies,” said the agency’s president, Robert B. Zoellick." As is known, Zoellick is a left-over from the Bush administration. I like their reference to "more open and inclusive societies"--just like apartheid South Africa which was a cuddled and favored child for Western governments.
Comrade `Arabi `Andari
Marxist Lebanese Youth leader, `Arabi `Andari, is recovering from wounds sustained from shots by Israeli terrorists at the Lebanese-Palestinian border last week. He hosted me for a talk last summer and I wish him full recovery.
Boycott and boycott and boycott
Comrade Samah on the necessity of boycotting all things Israeli and Zionist.
"For some reason" the Economist sounds dumb here
"Israel still has far to go, however, before it can truly call itself the Silicon Valley for water. Its domestic market is small. Its neighbours, though also desperate for water, are for some reason reluctant to seek help from Israelis." For some reason? Are you kidding me? (thanks Khelil)
A tribute to Dubai ruling family
Samir `Atallah is good. This Lebanese columnist is a school in Arab journalism. He really is: it is the school of prostration before any passing oil prince or Sheikh. He made a living from embarrassing himself for the amusement of polygamous royal potentates. Here, he pays tribute to the rulers of Dubai. (thanks Alain)
Like parliaments in third world countries
Like most Arabs I know, As-Safir newspaper could not help but notice that US Congress in the presence of Netanyahu appeared and sounded just like "third world parliaments." At any moment yesterday, I was expecting the Zionist throng to chant: With Blood, with Spirit, we sacrifice ourselves for you, O Netanyahu.
Yemeni dicatator
Do you notice that the sanctimonious Western governments and their allies among Western human rights organizations barely say a word about the continuous butchery by the Yemeni dictator? Sometimes you get the impression that those forces speak only when authorized by Zionist political forces in Western capitals. That explains why they all remained silent (or supportive) when Mubarak was killing his people. He was friendly to Zionism. That is all that matters.
Netanyahu before the US Congress
"Mr. Netanyahu received so many standing ovations that at times it appeared that the lawmakers were listening to his speech standing up."
Returning, Certainly
Yesterday, on the anniversary of Israel's humiliating withdrawal--expulsion, really--from South Lebanon, Southern Lebanese mounted this giant structure to remember the recent victims of Israeli terrorist gunfire at the Lebanese-Palestinian border and to raise this slogan: "Returning, Certainly." (As-Safir)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Netanyahu and Bashshar
Many of my readers noted that members of the US Congress act toward Netanyahu the way Syrian MPs act toward Bashshar, exactly.
The cleric of occupation
A reader protested against my post on Sistani. He said I failed to note the context in the section in which Sistani calls on men to not beat up women with bad intentions. So I owe my readers an apology because I failed to note that Sistani calls on men to harbor good intentions when they beat up women?
Miqati
Designating miqati as prime minister was one of many dumb moves by hizbullah. This is like Hamas nominating Dahlan to replace Fayyad.
Netanyahu
When Netanyahu speaks to the Western media and audiences u wd think that he is the prime minister of Sweden or Iceland.
Netanyahu
Think about it. If Netanyahu vomits before the US Congress members would line up to get a taste.
Help with blogger
I try to blog today and it asks me for my password and then it rejects it although i can sign in fine to gmail. But i cant blog in on internet explorer at all on my computer. And on my phone it goes nuts when i try to log in. I can sign in on Farah's computer and phone.
Following Israeli nuclear weapons in Washington, DC
Comrade Sam compiles an excellent report on Israeli nuclear weapons, according to US officials and politicians.
An Accused Lebanese agent of Israeli intelligence (who had threatened me)
Muhammad `Ali Husayni is an alleged cleric who claims that he headed a group in Lebanon that is called "The Arab Islamic Resistance". He was clearly funded by Saudi Arabia and Saudi propaganda outlets (also known as Saudi media) vigorously promoted this crackpot and showed footage of two of his men "training for resistance". He visited Saudi Arabia and even met with the illiterate and polygamous king. I mocked him in Al-Akhbar articles and then immediately received a death threat from him. The threat was taken seriously in Lebanon (certainly by my sister, Mirvat who contacted the Minister of Interior, Ziyad Barud). I am told that there were political forces who sent him messages to the effect that he should desist. A year or so later, he tried to add me on Facebook. I declined. And then one of his men added me and I quickly realized that it was him because he would always post promotional materials for the group and I then unfriended him. So now we learn that the guy has been watched for a while and that his contacts with Israeli intelligence is reportedly poven, and he has been arrested on charges of spying for Israel. A spy for Israel who is funded by Saudi Arabia: and you still doubt my theory of the Saudi-Israeli alliance?
Monday, May 23, 2011
Bin Ali bribes the Lebanese press
Here are the Lebanese media, including Hizbullah's Al-Manar and Hariri's Al-Mustaqbal, which received subsidies from the Tunisian dictator. (thanks Ahmet)
Thus Spoke Sistani: Fatawas of Grand (not at all) Ayatullah Sistani
So I was reading in volume 3 of Sistani's book, Minhaj As-Salihin. I was reading his section on Nushuz (the section of wife's disobedience to her husband). He said taht Nushuz happens when "she breaks from the obligatory obedience to her husband, when she does not allow him to enjoy her as he deserves, and that includes non-removal of the repulsive (elements) that are contrary to enjoying her and deriving pleasures from her, and to abandoning cleaning and make up..." (p. 106). In matter number 353 (p. 107) he cautions that when the husband hits the wife he should avoid "bloodying her or blackening her skin or making it red."
Lawrence of Avatar
Avatar, the movie was OK, although it had its typical share of explosions and predictable visual effects. The politics of the movie were rather great and courageous: the analogy to US invasion of Iraq was not even masked. But typical of "good" movies, the White Man has to be the hero. The natives (just as in Lawrence of Arabia) could not rebel on their own. They need a White Man to lead them by the hand.
What Thomas Friedman did not see in Cairo, and Israeli journalist saw
"Business was fairly slow for the revolution's souvenir sellers in Cairo's Tahrir Square last Friday. Only a few thousand remained at center stage, cheering a woman who spoke about prosecuting the members of the old regime to the full extent of the law. A poster showed former President Hosni Mubarak with a noose around his neck. Another speaker, young and dynamic, doing his best to energize the thinning crowd, called out passionately: "Israel, leave Egypt alone.""
Shaykh Al-Azhar: a puppet of every regime
Shaykh Al-Azhar (a puppet of Mubarak) has suddenly announced that he won't receive any Israeli personality.
Two sources on Syria for the New York Times: one in...Maryland and another in...Washington, DC
Really. This is a typical story. They let the two fellows tell stories and anecdotes about the situation in Syria: and their propaganda basically allows the Syrian regime propaganda to talk about a foreign conspiracy (of course, there is a foreign conspiracy in Syria but the underlying causes for the uprisings is largely domestic and indigenous). Look at one guy: "“They are using these tactics to cut off communication for the people,” said Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. He said the Facebook pages of at least two close friends had been recently hacked and now featured conspicuously pro-government messages." Anything they say becomes news. Then the other guy: "said Ammar Abudlhamid, a Syrian activist based in Maryland who was one of several Syrian exiles to help organize delivery of satellite phones, cameras and laptops into the country earlier this year." I have one question: what would happen to an American living in Maryland if he admits to the New York Times that he helped in the "delivery" of satellite phones, cameras, and laptops" into, say, the opposition in Bahrain? Would he not be put on trial on terrorism charges?
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