I dont get it.

One of the weirdest American rituals for me is the enactment of civil war battles.

Syrian security funerals

The funerals of Syrian security and army men who were killed allegedly by anonymous "criminal gangs" in Syria are often attended by a suspiciously small number of people from footage I see on Syrian TV.  And there is rarely any public emotions expressed.  

Tantawi's propagandists

So a propagandist for the Tantawi regime appeared on Aljazeera Arabic a few days ago and claimed that the youth protesters in Cairo received terrorist training in Serbia and US.  It was funny because weeks ago, the New York Times claimed that youth in Cairo received their non-violent training in Serbia and US.  

civil war in Syria?

I don't like the reference to civil war in Syria in this article by R. Jacoby.  He implies that Syria is undergoing a civil war.  That is untrue and may be what the Syrian regime would like others to believe.  A civil war refers to a situation of two sides equally (more or less) armed.  No such thing in Syria.  In Syria, there is a regime that is heavily armed and a defenseless civilian population.  The regime is (legally and morally) responsible for all the deaths that occur in Syria.  And I of course don't buy the regime's story about the roving "criminal gangs" roaming around the country and shooting at both sides.  Having said that, I am not opposed to armed revolts against all Arab regimes.  Of course, I don't want the Salafites and religious fanatics to be armed, especially those who don't even notice that Israel is the biggest source of aggression and war in the region (I am of course talking about fanatics who are employed by House of Saud).   

Legal defense of Strauss-Kahn

Do you know what the legal defense is for this Zionist serial accused rapist/harasser?  It is that "sex" between him and the hotel housekeeper was "consensual".  You know what this narrative implies?  That the house keeper entered the hotel suite and saw Mr. Strauss-Kahn and felt such sexual attraction to him, that she started to have immediate sex with him.  If a jury will believe that, they will believe that Bush is the smartest man on the face of this earth.  

Zionist inspiration for terrorism

So the Norwegian terrorist's writings clearly show that Zionism has inspired to perpetrate terrorism.  So I should only ask (or wonder):  Will the US Congress hold special hearings on Zionism?  Will Zionists be brought in before police in the US?  Will Zionist writings be scrutinized by US officials?  Will the US Congress insists that Zionist references and agitation be excised from school curricula in Israel and in other countries?  Will people be asked upon entering the US whether they are Zionists?  Will Zionist connections be investigated by the Treasury Department?  Will public officials be compelled to distance themselves from Zionism?  

Professionalism at Aljazeera

Of course, there are real professionals at Aljazeera (Arabic) who continue to adhere to professional standards at the network long after the network officially abandoned its professional standards.  I am thinking of those who are not engaging in vulgar and crude propaganda on behalf of the Arab counter-revolution that speaks through Aljazeera.  I will single out Elsi Abu `Asi and `Abdul-Rahim Fuqara'.  

Syrian exile opposition

I have criticized for years, and mocked, the Iraqi exile opposition.  Charlatans like Ahmad Chalabi were born to be made fun off.  (I hate now how, for sectarian reasons, some Shi`ite sectarian opponents of the US occupation now defend Chalabi).  But I must say that the Syrian exile opposition is a caricature of the Iraqi exile opposition.  I just watched this guy on Aljazeera Arabic: he made me miss Ahmad Chalabi.  At least the latter was very smart and articulate.  This guy told Aljazeera that "the US president never says anything that he does not mean" and said that he believe it when unnamed US officials said that Hillary spoke in her personal capacity when she changed her tone on Syria.  Personal opinion of a Secretary of State?

Hizbullah and banning alcohol in the South

As you know, Hizbullah AND Amal imposed a rigid social rule in South Lebanon back in the 1980s.  They then realize that Lebanese (long fans of "sins") would never put up with that, and Hizbullah was forced to confine its rigid social rule on its own community.  The social environment in the southern suburbs then relaxed and things changed although it was not the way it was when I was a child, when alcohol was served openly in homes in the South.  Only in Ramadan, people tended to abstain from alcohol, for the most part.  But in the last few months, Hizbullah has been clashing with leftists in Southern villages, like Hula and Kfar Rumman, who were selling liquors (with a state license).  Two days ago, Hizbullah members were clashing with a communist who was selling alcohol in Hula.  They later paid him off to stop selling alcohol for a few months.  If Hizbullah thinks that it can impose its puritanical rigid social rule and get away with it, it is wildly mistaken.  People's support for Hizbullah fight against Israeli occupation and aggression will never translate (on the part of its non-members) into support for its lousy social, economic, and political program.  

On Saudi Arabia in Paksitan

A comrade in Pakistan who wishes to remain anonymous wrote me this:  "Cmd. Junaid is correct that the Westernized, English-speaking elite of Pakistan is obsessed with Saudi Arabia to the exclusion of examining the US. It's true that they are generally dependent on the latter for funding for their NGOs, that is, when they are just not so colonized mentally to think that Western bourgeois democracy is god's gift to humanity, so that they actively and aggressively write crap like this:  -- an article riddled with omission and inaccuracy. However, one should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. What has to be understood is that Saudi Arabia and, importantly, UAE have interests in Pakistan that, while on the whole are subordinate to US imperialism, also have a logic of their own.
This has to be contextualized in US strategy in West Asia, including particularly CENTO (see Hamza Alavi's article on the Pak-US military alliance here: ). Pakistan was seen as a mercenary for West Asian reactionaries. To some extent, it did fulfill this role -- for instance, Pak General Zia ul-Haq who later was dictator for over ten years was in command of Pakistani troops in Jordan who helped massacre Palestinian freedom fighters in Black September. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has funded political Islam in Pakistan since at least the late 1960s as a response to increasing leftist sentiment, according to Vali Nasr. This has to be seen as part of the same strategy that led to Saudi support for the Ikhwan in Egypt during the same period, i.e., as a response to secular nationalism and leftism. In 1970s, millions of Pakistanis migrated to Saudi and UAE to work (in shitty conditions, but relatively better paying), so that Pakistan's political economy is structurally dependent on that of the Gulf. (Still, 40-45% of remittances come from just two sources -- Saudi and UAE.) Moreover, Gulf capital is aggressively looking at Pakistan as a source of raw materials (incl. now skilled labour), a destination for excess capital, and a large market -- classical imperialism. Also, Gulf countries are looking to support proxies in Pakistan to counter the influence of Iran -- recent Wikileaks show how US and Saudi pressured Pakistan to refuse discounted oil from Iran, and how Musharraf tried to pressure Iran into abandoning nuclear programme. So, yes, Saudi and UAE, according to the same Wikileaks and we knew this before that, fund madrassas to the tune of several hundred million dollars.
That said, Junaid is correct that political Islam that now ravages Pakistan is primarily a result of 80s policies of Pakistan's ruling elites, the US and the Gulf regimes -- but the basic network was put in place in the latter 1960s and 1970s. More fundamentally, Pakistan's ruling elites have sought to use these political Islamists as buffers and proxies against Indian expansionism. This has other spillover benefits for Pakistan's ruling classes, who seek to use Islamic extremism as a counterweight to the secular nationalism of oppressed nationalities (e.g., the Baloch and Sindhi) in Pakistan. This is also an important angle that has to be identified.
Moreover, Pakistani mercenaries are hired by regimes in Oman and Bahrain, and probably others, to suppress uprisings there. Pakistan Army (and civilian elites too, note President Zardari speaking in favour of "stability" in West Asia) is seen as a vital ally of reactionary regimes in West Asia. So we have to understand the back and forth here in order to assess possibilities for liberation in North Africa/West Asia as well as Central Asia/South Asia. Meanwhile, let us be clear that Gulf countries are built literally on the back of migrant labourers which includes millions of Pakistanis, who do not receive the proper value of their work and are subject to innumerable abuses otherwise. These things are intimately tied, and strategies for emancipation have to take this into account.
I don't know what is the state of this debate in Arab intellectual and progressive circles because I don't know Arabic. In Pakistan, it is highly underdeveloped in both English and Urdu, not sure about the other nationalities' languages. Rather than looking at this political history and political economy -- and importantly, situating it in the context of world imperialism in which the leading and directing force is the US -- Pakistan's Westernized elite is obsessed with Saudi Arabia for its "cultural" imperialism (via Wahhabism). This means that it is harder for them to attend classical music programmes, or to wear sleeveless tops, or to drink alcohol -- while the vast majority of the country is facing the obscene violence of not being able to make ends meet on a day to day basis, which is a result of dependent, neoliberal development in the context of US-led world imperialism.
If you post from this please do not use my name. I am working on a fuller article along these lines but I will probably also release that anonymously for now."    

Zionist inspirations of a terrorist

Comrade Nader sent me this:  "I'm assuming that this was mentioned to you already, but just in case it wasn't, on page 1167 of the Norwegian terrorist's manifesto, he writes:  "So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists."   Here is the link: On page 62, he also critiques Edward Said's Orientalism: "Few works have done more to corrupt critical debate of Islam in Western institutions for higher learning during the past generation than the 1979 book Orientalism by Edward Said.""

If tables were turned

So the Norwegian terrorist cited the writings of Bernard Lewis, Daniel Pipes and other Zionists as his inspiration.  Just this question.  Imagine if a terrorist cited the writings of leftists like me as his inspiration.  Can you imagine the reaction?  Would not TV trucks be parked outside my home?  Are there an TV trucks parked outside the home of Bernard Lewis?

If Muslims did that, it would be on the front page of the New York Times

"All these friends are on FaceGlat – the haredi version of the Facebook social network, in which Mandy and Chaya Mushka are not even allowed to meet...Yes, the Jewish mind doesn’t rest. Technology keeps presenting new wonders, and there's always someone ready to take the challenge. This time it's Kfar Chabad resident Yaakov Swisa, 25, who founded a "kosher" social network with complete segregation between men and women and free of any immodest pictures or ads."

Hizbullah on Syria

If Hizbullah can't say anything decent to the Syrian people, it should just shut up.

Boarded to Kill

"The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet said Sunday that the Palmer report on last year's Gaza-bound flotilla is expected to be released this week.  According to the newspaper, the UN-appointed panel to investigate the raid on the Mavi Marmara vessel has ruled that IDF soldiers boarded the ship with an intention to kill."

Zionist eugenics

"Is it possible for your ancestry, religious affiliation, or nationality to determine your intellect?


According to a study performed by Cambridge University called, "From Chance to Choice: Genetic and Justice," Ashkenazi Jews have a median IQ of 117."

Washington Post on Norway

"Read it and weep. On the Post's site Jennifer Rubin first quotes the Weekly Standard, in a rushed item about the Norway horror:

>>We don't know if al Qaeda was directly responsible for today's events, but in all likelihood the attack was launched by part of the jihadist hydra. Prominent jihadists have already claimed online that the attack is payback for Norway's involvement in the war in Afghanistan.<<

Then she goes on to argue on her own:

>>Moreover, there is a specific jihadist connection here: "Just nine days ago, Norwegian authorities filed charges against Mullah Krekar, an infamous al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist who, with help from Osama bin Laden, founded Ansar al Islam - a branch of al Qaeda in northern Iraq - in late 2001."

This is a sobering reminder for those who think it's too expensive to wage a war against jihadists. I spoke to Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute, who has been critical of proposed cuts in defense and of President Obama's Afghanistan withdrawal plan. "There has been a lot of talk over the past few months on how we've got al-Qaeda on the run and, compared with what it once was, it's become a rump organization. But as the attack in Oslo reminds us, there are plenty of al-Qaeda allies still operating. No doubt cutting the head off a snake is important; the problem is, we're dealing with global nest of snakes."<<

No, this is a sobering reminder for those who think it's too tedious to reserve judgment about horrifying events rather than instantly turning them into talking points for pre-conceived views." (thanks Nabeel)

Israeli-Saudi honeymoon

This was posted on Twitter.  (thanks Abbas)

Rotten deal over Syria

US government has been muting its criticisms of the Syrian regime.  I really smell a rotten deal being reached between the US administration and the lousy Syrian regime.  I am sure that the Asad regime would pay a price for the benefit of the Zionist usurping entity.

On Saudi Arabia in the Pakistani press

Comrade Jawad sent me this (I post with his permission):  "Dear Angry Arab,  I am the minister of potatoes in the government of Pakistan. It is part of my duties to set the record straight on Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Comrade Junaid's argument that there is already too much public Saudi bashing by Pakistan's "neoliberal" elites, is the most potatolicious pro-Saudi statement ever published on the Angry Arab blog. How can there be such a thing as too much Saudi bashing, we plead with you? It is a mathematical impossibility. Saudi Arabia is one of the leading sacred cows of Pakistan's relatively freewheeling English media. The other two are the governments of UAE and China. Most of these newspapers are available online, so it is not hard to count the anti-Saudi pieces. There aren't many at all. Junaid is right about one thing. It is fashionable among liberal Pakistanis to give the US a free pass for bombing wedding parties in the GWOT. They argue that each blown child represents not American incompetence of savagery, but something dark in the heart of the brown-skinned victims themselves. Comarade Junaid is correct to identify this blame shifting, but then in one slick judo move he uses the same silly argument to defend the polygamous head-chopping zombies of the Saudi regime. Saudis have played a hateful role in Pakistan, just as they have in Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt etc. This needs to be exposed, and not covered up, for potato's sake."

English

Daniel sent me this:  "The Lebanese Sandra Ghosn, 28, lives between Beirut, where she was born and raised, and Paris, where she currently lives. She is an illustrator as well as a photographer.  Among the highlights of her career is participating in the cutting-edge magazine "Samandal".  In terms of women's rights in Lebanon, Ghosn points out the difference between different generations. "My generation is liberated!"  She chooses to illustrate this point by drawing a Beirut party scene. "This is how my generation behaves today", she says. The country celebrates a better human rights record. The proportion of younger married women is among the lowest in the Arab world (10%). In Yemen, it is more than 35%.  Other statistics show less success: Assaults on women is 35%, in Iraq, 23%."  Other than the fact that the artwork is stunningly bad (this is thoughtless doodling by the young without life experience, not illustration), I would like to know how anyone categorizes
Samandal as a Lebanese magazine just because it is published here--it much more reflects this European idea of this region than any truly local idea. The elitism, classism, and social validity of only a small percentage of the Lebanese population as shown in her "illustration" is just as much of an assault against women as the statistics that are mentioned."

Regime cleric

Regime cleric, Shaykh Al-Buti issues a Fatwawawa that it is possible to use Bashshar Al-Asad's picture as a prayer rug.  I kid you not.  (thanks Ahmet)

Exhibit of means to call to God

A comrade in Saudi Arabia took this picture.  It advertises an exhibit for "means to call to God".  

Diverting Saudi clerical attention: they want to stay busy liberating Palestine

From BBC Monitoring service: "Mecca: Chairman of the Supreme Judiciary Council Salih Bin-Humayd has warned that current crises in the Muslim world have diverted the attention of followers from more serious issues.  "The current crises have taken a dangerous turn diverting the attention of the Muslim Ummah from major issues such as Palestine," said Bin-Humaid, who chaired the second session of the three-day conference organized by the Muslim World League (MWL) on the current issues of the Muslim world in Mecca on Sunday [24 July].  Briefly outlining the circumstances that created the present crises in the Muslim world, Bin-Humaid stressed that religious scholars should guide Muslim leaders and the people.  Mecca Governor Prince Prince Khalid al-Faysal inaugurated the three-day conference titled "Issues and Challenges of the Muslim World" at MWL conference hall in Mecca on Saturday.  Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Shaykh Abd-al-Aziz bin Abdullah A'l Al-Shaykh, who is also chairman of the constituent council of MWL, and MWL Sec-Gen Abdullah Al-Turki were present at the conference." (thanks Alain)

Resistance not diplomatic gimmicks

"The missing link is not statehood, it is a commitment to resist rather than appease Israeli occupation and US prerogatives."

Israel always sees opportunities in murders and massacres

Uffe sent me this (I cite with his permission):  "An editorial from Jerusalem post comments the slaughter of innocent people and see an opportunity:  "The attacks, which targeted a government known for its embrace of multiculturalist policies, are being billed as the worst incident of bloodshed on Norwegian soil since World War II...... Perhaps Brievik’s inexcusable act of vicious terror should serve not only as a warning that there may be more elements on the extreme Right willing to use violence to further their goals, but also as an opportunity to seriously reevaluate policies for immigrant integration in Norway and elsewhere. "  But then again Israel is a country founded on terrorism and racism.  By the way the killer was a friend of Israel.

Arab uprisings

Should we support all Arab uprisings (or even Iranian)?  Of course.  Of course.  But should we support all groups and movements that speak in the name, or even lead, such uprisings?  Of course, not.  Of course, not. Just remember how the Islamic Khumayni movement betrayed the Iranian revolution.  We are obligated to speak out against certain trends that pose a danger to the fulfillment of the promises of revolution.

Christian militias

"The killings in Norway “could easily happen here,” he said. The Hutaree, an extremist Christian militia in Michigan accused last year of plotting to kill police officers and planting bombs at their funerals, had an arsenal of weapons larger than all the Muslim plotters charged in the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks combined, he said." (thanks Khelil)

Mercenaries

I am re-reading Fred Halliday's "Mercenaries: Counter-insurgency in the Gulf".  It is a little known book from the 1970s.  Read about the Omani case.  How the Western world (and its regional clients) rallied to counter the Dhofar rebellion.  It has lessons for today.  Egyptian revolutionary comrades should be reading it.  

Deception by the New York Times

So the New York Times is at its worst when it feigns sensitivity to Muslims, when it has promoted directly and indirectly insensitivity to Muslims long before Sep. 11.  I remember when after the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, a reporter for the Times, Richard Bernstein, contacted me regarding interviews about Muslims in the US.  He said: I am sure that you will like that we are doing the series.  I said: of course, not.  The fact that Times decided to do a series, for potato's sake, on Islam immediately after the bombing is only to reinforce the association between Islam and terrorism.  This is akin to doing a series on Judaism after one of the many and regular Israeli massacres against Arabs.  So the Times today, wrote about how some right-wing anti-Muslim Americans inspired the Norwegian bomber.  Yet, the paper says nothing about information that he was also inspired by mainstream writers, like Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes and Bat Yeor.  In other words, someone should tell the Times: you, too, are an inspiration to anti-Islam bigots worldwide.

The new Syrian parties' law

You have to read the text of the new draft law for new parties in Syria.  I thought this: I can use the new law to nullify and ban the Ba`th party, because it is in violation of the new law.  Just look at the first article:  "1-Commitment to the constitution, principles of democracy and the rule of law, respecting liberties, basic rights, world declarations of human rights and the agreements approved by the Syrian Arab Republic." (thanks Sana)

Tawfiq Zayyad

"The Alawites offered lines of a song, known to everyone.  “I take your hand in mine,” they declared to the jubilant crowd. “I kiss the ground under the soles of your shoes, and I say I will sacrifice myself for you.”"  This of course is a reference to a famous poem on Palestine.  It was put to song at least by three people: the most famous is by Ahmad Qa`bur.  My favorite is by the very talented Syrian musician, Abed Azrieh.  The full poem is here (my translation).  

Anti-`Alawite bigotry

"Some Facebook pages, ostensibly affiliated with the uprising, give voice to vulgar bigotry against Alawites, who are far from monolithic in their support for the government and, historically as peasants, were the most exploited and downtrodden of Syria’s people."

sectarianism in Syria

I wrote in Al-Akhbar last Saturday about the Ba`thist tactics of elements in the Syrian opposition (namely, the Muslim Brothers and their liberal allies).  I wrote how some in that opposition resort to accusations of betrayal and even collision with the regime at anyone who is critical of them or who points out sectarian tendencies in Syria.  So I ask: will Anthony Shadid be now accused of collusion with the regime because he wrote about sectarian tendencies?   Even Syrian liberal opposition figure, Yasin Hajj Salih, recognizes the dangers of sectarianism, while (rightly) holding the regime responsible.  

Shaykh `Adnan Al-`Ar`ur: the dirty hands of Saudi Arabia

I wrote yesterday about the role of Shaykh Al-`Ar`ur in the Islamist section of the Syrian opposition (I by no means am saying that we should reduce the rich spectrum of Syrian opposition to this religious kook).  He has never been mentioned in the Western press.  He has been key in religious propaganda from Saudi Arabia.  It turns out that he is a recipient of the Prince Nayif Prize for Sunna and Islamic studies.  My mother always asks me: when will you, my son As`ad, ever win the Prince Nayif Prize for Sunna and Islamic Studies?  And I always answer her: I really don't know, mom, but I sure hope to one day win the Prince Nayif Prize for Sunna and Islamic Studies.  And if I win that precious prize, I promise my readers that I will stay true to the responsibilities of the prize. (thanks Amer)

Saudi propagnadists

Saudi propagandists are really busy  these days: they are offering advise on how to achieve democracy in Syria.  I kid you not.  

Syrian regime TV

I hope that a film maker in Syria is monitoring Syrian regime TV: the programs deserve to be put in a documentary on the fall of the Syrian regime.  It is most bizarre.  Today, we were treated to a show on the making of gold jewelry.   Yesterday, they had a show to promote tourism in Syria: they said that Syrian tourist guides have volunteered to endure pay cuts to spur tourism.  Yes, that is what is stopping tourists from flocking into Syria: the high prices of Syrian tourist guides.  I am sure that scores of European tourists were about to descend on Hama and Dir`a but felt that tourist guides are charging too much.  And regarding the derailment of the train: did we see footage of the survivors?  I feel that Syrian regime lies are now increasing.  

Sectarian slogans

The slogan raised by some in the Syrian opposition: "Sunnis, `Alawites, Druzes and Christians" is a sectarian slogan.  Just like when Lebanese chant "Muslims and Christians" during the worst times of sectarian conflict, those slogans only reinforce sectarian divisions.  When Lebanese Muslim and Christian clerics appear together in photographs, I know a civil war is around the corner.  Of course, the Syrian regime and the Saudi clients in the Syrian opposition are responsible for the sectarian atmosphere.

It has to be Islam

"But now it turns out that the alleged perpetrator wasn't from an international Muslim extremist group at all, but was rather a right-wing Norwegian nationalist with a history of anti-Muslim commentary and an affection for Muslim-hating blogs such as Pam Geller's Atlas Shrugged, Daniel Pipes, and Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch. Despite that, The New York Times is still working hard to pin some form of blame, even ultimate blame, on Muslim radicals (h/t sysprog):

Terrorism specialists said that even if the authorities ultimately ruled out Islamic terrorism as the cause of Friday’s assaults, other kinds of groups or individuals were mimicking Al Qaeda's brutality and multiple attacks.
"If it does turn out to be someone with more political motivations, it shows these groups are learning from what they see from Al Qaeda," said Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism researcher at the New America Foundation in Washington.

Al Qaeda is always to blame, even when it isn't, even when it's allegedly the work of a Nordic, Muslim-hating, right-wing European nationalist. Of course, before Al Qaeda, nobody ever thought to detonate bombs in government buildings or go on indiscriminate, politically motivated shooting rampages. The NYT speculates that amonium nitrate fertilizer may have been used to make the bomb because the suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, owned a farming-related business and thus could have access to that material; of course nobody would have ever thought of using that substance to make a massive bomb had it not been for Al Qaeda. So all this proves once again what a menacing threat radical Islam is.
Then there's this extraordinarily revealing passage from the NYT -- first noticed by Richard Silverstein -- explaining why the paper originally reported what it did:".  (thanks Rob)

Lebanese Army tank

Daniel sent me this:  "So yesterday a former student of mine was getting married in the Bekaa and as we were driving up we ran into a bunch of Lebanese army guys directing traffic around....a Lebanese tank on its
side. Completely turned almost upside down. I wish we could have taken a picture. For the next half hour we couldn't stop laughing for trying to figure out how one flips his tank? Taking a curve too fast? Doing wheelies? I'm surprised they even move. The one in my neighborhood in front of the army officers' quarters has been sitting there for years now; I'm convinced it is rusted immobile."

Israelis in Fiji

""We gave our passports to the officer, and when she saw we are Israelis she asked for ID cards. We told her we don't understand why we need ID cards and she responded shouting: 'You know very well how to ask Palestinians for IDs and humiliate them for three years."" (thanks Farah)

Counter-revolution in footage

Khalid sent me this:  "Here roweina admits to having spread rumours Here Omar solayman leads the election polls and here the Muslim Brotherhood is joining the "pro-stability" Friday protests next week This is turning to be a big show . As in this video about yesterday's protest (at 1:30) مسرحية مسرحية والعصابة هيا هيا"  

Piety of Egyptian generals

Don't watch this on a full stomach: while Egyptian generals pray.  (thanks Ahmet)

Racism of CNN: face of terrorists

"The fact the Norwegian suspect doesn't look the part of a terrorist, especially in an age marked by threats and strikes by members of the Islamic fundamentalist group al Qaeda, doesn't surprise Watkins.  One thing the Oklahoma City bombing taught her is that "evil doesn't have to look like a monster."" (thanks Adam)

NOW

"Jonas Gahr Store: - The occupation must end, the wall must be demolished and it must happen now".