Statler & Waldorf in wonderland

The Syrian game

2007-06-15T14:33:00.000-07:00

Good one.

Waldorf

Another secterian clashes

2007-05-13T11:11:00.000-07:00

In Egypt, between Muslims and Copts.
This time in a village called "Behma" around 60 Kms south of Cairo.
The Muslims acted on a rumor that the Copts are planning to build a church in town, or in an another story were expanding a house that they used to conduct their prayers.

Apparently the Friday sermon at a village mosque had discussed ongoing church construction, sparking anger among worshippers who emerged from the mosque in a large group and then moved to the church site, where clashes erupted with the Copts ridiculously outnumbered.

Then they went to burn Christian owned homes and shops.

10 Christian were reported injured and the Police arrested 60 Muslims.

Nothing new here, Egypt has seen such clashes growing in the past few years and the official reaction is always the same with downplaying the incidents and issuing stupid statements and then the papers publish a photo of the Pope and Sheikh Al-Azhar hugging, and everything is cool, without addressing the real problem.

Copts consist of 7-15% of the Egyptian population depends on whose side of the story you want to believe, but they are not allowed to build any church unless they get a decree from the President, based on a law from the 1800.

The incident failed to make the state owned newspapers, and there was no official statement from the ministry of interior, which is a shame as I was really waiting to hear their take on the matter.

But probably they know that by now that everybody knows anyone doing such acts is called insane!

Waldorf.

The Iranian FM and the red dress

2007-05-05T13:48:00.000-07:00

The Iranian FM skipped dinner in the Sharm El-Sheikh summit after finding out that they are being entertained by a Russian violin player who wore a red dress that the minister found too revealing for him to stand, so the guy had to excuse himself.

But the fact that he was seated directly in front of Condoleezza Rice was very irrelevant.

Waldorf.

Pkistani Add

2007-05-05T13:28:00.000-07:00

This is the kind of add you see in a Pakistani paper:

Basically what the add says is:

We have some nuclear material missing, but no need to panic nothing to worry about really folks, but if u get a chance to stumble in anybody carrying or handling the nukes or happen to find the stuff lying in the street, give us a call on the following number.

Waldorf

75% of Egyptians support Shari'a laws

2007-05-02T03:34:00.000-07:00

According to this poll!

But one must not be surprised as the same desire was shared in this demonstration in London calling for Shari'a laws to be implemented in UK!!

Waldorf.

All Italians should undergo DNA

2007-05-02T03:31:00.000-07:00

Just when you thought you've heard it all from the Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, he comes out with this.

Waldorf.

Gamal Mubarak ties the knot

2007-05-02T03:22:00.000-07:00

While never forgetting denying yet again any intentions for him to run for president.

Waldorf

Copts are angry

2007-04-30T01:33:00.000-07:00

Egyptian Christians (Copts) are in fury after a court ruled last week that for a Christian that has converted to Islam and now wishes to return to Christianity, he should not be allowed to change his religion in his national ID from Muslim to Christian!
The case was filed by a Christian man who had converted to Islam and gone back to Christianity but the interior ministry declined to amend his papers, and now the judge joined in and ruled their act as lawful.

Just how on earth such ruling deems constitutional fails to register with me as the last time I checked freedom of religion was a constitutional right, but then again we should be glad the judge didn't order the man to the sword!!

Waldorf.

The Monkey throws in the towel

2007-04-29T01:16:00.000-07:00

Damn, damn damn.........The Sandmonkey, my favorite Egyptian blogger is calling it quits.
He fears his identity might already has been exposed, and fears for his safety which is a wise choice in these days in Egypt.

This is like a nightmare, somebody please wake me.

Waldorf.

Conspiracies, conspiracies.

2007-04-17T05:29:00.000-07:00

A round up of the latest conspiracies the good people of the Middle East had to endure the last week:

This one is about Israeli HIV infected water melon found to be sold in Saudi Arabia.

While this is about a virus in Pakistan that spreads through mobile phones and actually kills the receiver in a week.

Great minds at work here!

Waldorf.

On Steny Hoyer

2007-04-17T05:22:00.000-07:00

Ok, what’s the deal here? First the house majority leader Steny Hoyer denies ever meeting with anyone from the Brotherhood while he was in Egypt, and then he says yeah he met some of them but unintentionally whatever that means and then we hear talks about Hoyer inviting the head of the MB to speak in the Congress! Which was denied by the MBs themselves!
And to top it all the US ambassador to Egypt Francis J. Ricciardone was summoned to Washington to explain why such a meeting was held in his place?

What on earth are the Democrats up to with the house speaker visiting with the Syrian leader and the majority leader talking to the MBs?

Something is very wrong here.

Waldorf

Libya is the 3rd great power in the world.

2007-04-17T05:16:00.000-07:00

Al-Qaddafi said so, so it's gotta be true.

But he didn't mention the first two, but Sudan and Somalia would be a wise guess!

Waldorf

Apologies

2007-04-17T05:11:00.000-07:00

Many apologies for the lack of blogging recently, it’s been crazy times at work and with the Easter holidays and everything.

Waldorf.

Another Veil row.

2007-04-02T12:50:00.000-07:00

This time in Kuwait, where the newly appointed female minister of education refusing to wear the headscarf in Parliament.

Waldorf.

This good Friday

2007-04-02T12:34:00.000-07:00

According to this and this, the US is planning to launch an air strike on selected targets in Iran Next Friday April 6th, which coincides with the good Friday.

The operation is not a start of an all out war, but rather aimed to set back the Iranian nuclear program from 5-7 years.

This piece of information is supposed to have leaked from the Russian intelligence.

Well it's only a couple of days away, let us wait and see and hope for the best, whatever that is!

Waldorf.

Suicide bombing debate

2007-03-30T11:11:00.000-07:00

Is it right or wrong from an Islamic point of view, and do we call the suicide bomber a Martyr or will he die as a sinner for killing himself?

Watch the video from MEMRI with Al-Quaradawy leading the pro-suicide bombings group.

The interesting thing is that both sides emphasise the strength of their arguments with verses from the Quran, each with his own interpretation.

Waldorf.

Fatwa of the day

2007-03-27T14:16:00.000-07:00

So this guy brings in a sheep to his house as a sacrifice for Eid Al-Adha, the ill-behaved sheep apparently hungry ate a part from a foreign newspaper that happened to be in the house.
So the question is, was the sheep still sacrificable and was it permitted to be consumed?

And the great sheikh answered, that it really depends on the paper the sheep ate from, if it contained nothing harming God or Islam then the sheep is to be consumed!!

Just something to light up your day.

Waldorf.

Egypt adopts constitution changes

2007-03-27T13:38:00.000-07:00

Surprise surprise, the results for the referendum on the constitutional changes are in with the government announcing a handsome 75.9% approving the move.
As usual and as expected turnout was very low and depends on whose side you wanna believe with the government claiming 27% of the registered voters and the opposition putting the figure at a maximum of 10%, all the opposition forces had called for boycotting the referendum as usual.

No news really everything went as planned with the state security people holding a firm grip on anyone trying even to speak outloud.
But I should note that as I recall this is the lowest approval rate for the people on anything they were asked to vote for at least for the near future, I mean results lower than 98% approval was unheard of, no I'm not claiming that the process was fair or anything it's just something I noticed.

Anyway, nothing really would change with these amendments except maybe for the MBs whom by the looks of things are the biggest losers as now the constitution clearly states on banning forming political parties based on religious beliefs and the aspect of banning independent candidates from running in parliamentarian elections, so it should be interesting to see how the MBs would react.
And of course to anyone who actually hoped for a real shake up of the political life in Egypt and that the president and the guys at NDP were willing to give away some of their powers and allow any party to become a respectful opposition and pose a threat to them, well ehhh we've seen the end of that.
As for the emergency state, it is bound to become permanent and would be a normal state!

Waldorf.

After the interview, a video clip

2007-03-22T13:01:00.000-07:00

After the "How many Jews did Mama kill" interview with the 2 children of a Palestinian female suicide bomber, the guys at Hamas are not satisfied yet, so they produced a video clip!

In it the girl "Dhoha" is supposedly singing to her mother asking her about what she was carrying in her arms -the bomb- then after the explosion the girl actually sings to the bomb while vowing to walk in her mother's path!

Here's the Video clip.

The thing is as I recall this suicide bomber blew herself back in 2004, so why all the sudden interest from Hamas to exploit the matter now?
Running out of suicide bombers are we?

Waldorf

iRack

2007-03-21T15:43:00.000-07:00

After iPod, iMac and iPhone we now have iRack.

Check it out.

Waldorf

Terrorist in the making!

2007-03-19T14:53:00.000-07:00

I wouldn't be surprised if they actually stuffed this baby with explosives and blew her up.

Waldorf

Why Do Islamist Extremists Who Incite Against the West Insist on Living There?

2007-03-19T14:06:00.000-07:00

Good question.

Waldorf

Egypt MPs Walk out of Parliament

2007-03-18T13:05:00.000-07:00

Today in protest of the new constitution amendments, the majority of them are MBs:

Over 100 mainly Islamist lawmakers walked out of Egypt's parliament on Sunday to protest government moves to push through constitutional laws that opponents fear will entrench the ruling party's grip on power

Well please go and do not come back.
I myself am against the way the Constitution is being amended but if that's what it takes to kick the MBs out of the parliament well so be it.

Waldorf.

How many Jews did your Mama kill?

2007-03-14T11:15:00.000-07:00

This is a clip of an interview with the 2 children of Palestinian suicide bomber Rim Al-Riyashi.

A word of warning this is really really sick.

Here is the clip from MEMRI, and the following are excerpts of the interview:

Interviewer: "Let's talk with the two children of the jihad-fighting martyrdom-seeker Rim Al-Riyashi, Dhoha and Muhammad. Dhoha, you love Mama, right? Where did Mama go?"

Dhoha: "To Paradise."

Interviewer: "What did Mama do?"

Dhoha: "She committed martyrdom."

Interviewer: "She killed Jews, right?"

Interviewer: "How many did she kill, Muhammad?"

Muhammad: "Huh?"

Interviewer: "How many Jews did Mama kill?"

Muhammad: "This many... "

Interviewer: "How many is that?"

Muhammad: "Five."

Interviewer: "Do you love Mama? Do you miss Mama?
"Where is Mama, Muhammad?"

Muhammad: "In Paradise."

I'm afraid from the way things are happening it won't be long till children in Palestinian schools will be fighting over whose mother killed the most Jews!

Waldorf

Google vs Viacom

2007-03-13T13:11:00.000-07:00

Ouch......... This is bound to get ugly.

Waldorf

Still in Australia

2007-03-12T12:14:00.001-07:00

Where Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali A.K.A. the raw meat guy is starting a political party!

I'm suggesting "the unshackled covered meat party"

Waldorf

Drought and Climate change due to lack of Faith!

2007-03-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

According to yet another Australian Muslim cleric:

Radical sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Brunswick mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster.
"The fear of Allah is not there. So we have now a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland," he told a meeting this year.

Again, what's wrong Aussies?

Waldorf.

Karim's sentence upheld

2007-03-12T11:24:00.000-07:00

Today the appeal court upheld the 4 year sentence for the Egyptian blogger Abdel Karim Suleiman:

An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who criticized conservative Muslims and was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt's president, court officials said

I'm not gonna comment on this, nothing to be said really, I'm just wondering why this guy is sentenced with such a rush?

Waldorf

Mandatory Veil

2007-03-10T11:26:00.000-08:00

Even for Christian girls, they have to wear the veil to be able to attend school. This is happening in an all girls Secondary school in upper Egypt.

The best part is when the principal was interviewed he confirmed it and said it was a non-discriminatory uniform, so no one can tell Muslim girls from Christian ones!!!

Waldorf

No change in the second article.

2007-03-09T13:01:00.000-08:00

Of the Egyptian constitution, the one which states that Islam is the Religion of the State, Arabic is its official language, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia).

There were numerous enlightened voices along with the Christian minority calling for the removal or amendment of the 2nd article as it directly violates the rest of the constitution which states that people are equal with no regards to religious beliefs. And also it could pave the way for an Islamic like state.

But his Highness prince Gamal Mubarak assured us all yesterday and denied any such allegations.

Thank you sir, now I can sleep better.

Waldorf

Egypt angry over US Human rights report

2007-03-09T12:51:00.000-08:00

They are calling it interfering in our internal affairs.

And since when was mass detentions, torture and the arrest and sending bloggers to jail is considered as human rights violation?

We call it here in Egypt retribution.

Waldorf

Iran seeking better realtions with Egypt.

2007-03-09T12:41:00.000-08:00

After the KSA, Iran is turning its attention to Egypt for closer ties.

But Syria is not happy about all this, jealous are we?

Anyway, Egypt is a long shot for the Iranians a lot of hatred has been building for a lot of time, I mean they named a street in Tehran after the guy who assassinated president Sadat!

Waldorf

They were Palestinians!

2007-03-09T12:25:00.000-08:00

Not Egyptian POWs, claims the maker of the documentary that caused the big controversy in Egypt last week.
But he insists that the mistake did not change the film's overall message!

Whatever.

Waldorf

Quote

2007-03-06T05:48:00.000-08:00

From a book I just finished called "Angel's rest" by Charles Davis.
It's a conversation between an 83 year old black man, and an 11 year old white boy, who somehow became best friends:

"-Easiest thing in the world to do is hate, it don't take no effort at all you see cause you don't have to work to not care about nothing, hating is a lazy feeling, dark feeling. A person never has to look for into his own heart when they hate you see, it's a dangerous feeling too. We all give harbor to it, but it ain't much good in it.
-Is hating always bad?
-I'd have to give a good think on that.
-But it usually is?
-Well what we're speaking of is a sort of general hate, where some people just hate or mistreat a bunch of other folks, folks they don't even know much about to figure if they should hate them or not, that kinda hating don't do nobody no good, just breeds more hating.
See hate is a fire that won't go out in some white folks and some black folks, get a little wind and gasoline on it and you got trouble.
I reckon the worst thing for some folks around here is they never get out of these hills to see how other folks live and what they're like. It's too far for them to travel from where they live inside you see. This mountain and their place on it is the whole world to them, when the town ain't nothing but a dang spill on the map.
Like the folks around here are all faithful praying Christians, now there ain't a thing wrong with that, no sir I pray quit a bit myself, not gonna say who I pray to cause that's my own business.
But so many of them will tell you that theirs is the only true way of knowing our maker. If you don't believe what they believe in and do what they do, then they're out to get against you quick, when the truth is the only reason they believe what they do in the first place it's because that what they were raised on, they don't hear or think another different till they get some age on them, and then they don't wanna listen to none of that because they've been told if a man believes in other than what they already believe, then that man is wrong, they think it's the dang devil talking to him you see. But it ain't child, it's their heart and head they're talking. Some of them will go so far to say that other man is a real bad man for believing in something different, a sinner and not the kind going off to heaven someday like them of course.
Now the truth is, if those same folks were born somewhere else they'd be taught some other religion and they be shaking their fists the same way they do now, but then they'll be saying that other religion is the one true religion, and if you don't believe in it you're wrong.
I'm just trying to show you how these folks I'm speaking about stay thinking the same old things about lots of things like they were taught to think as youngest just like their parents were taught as youngest. It makes them feel safe in it you see, it makes them sleep good nights like they did as children. The world makes some sense to them when they wake and it keeps little money in their pockets and the peace the way they like it. But when you got too many folks in charge of one small place all thinking alike, it ain't a good thing. They so have to go against somebody who don't think or live or look like they do.
Do you think a God up there in the heavens would judge a fellow by what color his skin is child?"

Great book by the way.

Waldorf.

Egyptian MPs blasts Israel yet again

2007-03-04T11:59:00.000-08:00

This time words like "infidel" and believe it or not "Dog!!" were used to describe the Israeli ambassador to Egypt.

It all started with a documentary aired on the Israeli Channel one called Ruah Shaked (The Spirit of Shaked), in which claimed that the current Israeli infrastructures minister Ben-Eliezer's unit killed 250 unarmed Egyptian prisoners of war in the Sinai desert after the fighting had stopped in the 1967 six day war.

And now Egypt demanded Israel to probe the matter, but that didn't satisfy our dear parliamentarians, they are always eager to perform, and they especially love it when the story is related to Israel or Religion, so the stage was set, the usual words like wage war with Israel and cutting diplomatic ties were said, and everybody went home happy!

Waldorf

I love Gadhafi

2007-03-04T11:43:00.000-08:00

Libya is boycotting the next Arab league summit due to be held in Riyadh (if it ever took place), and the reason for that, is that it was declared that this summit should take place in Sharm Elsheikh, and now they are telling him to go to Riyadh!

You have to see the irony in this, I mean Sharm Elsheikh is a glittering sea resort with lots of beaches and hot chicks wearing practically nothing and, Riyadh....ehhh..........

Colonel Gadhafi was probably bracing himself for a good time, and they took it away from him. I feel for the guy.

Waldorf

The Burka band

2007-03-02T13:01:00.000-08:00

Check it out.

Waldorf

Divorce by SMS

2007-03-02T11:33:00.000-08:00

Is legit, so says the grand Mufti in UAE.

"U R divorced *3"

Can it get easier than this?

Waldorf

I don't want to do this.

2007-03-01T14:52:00.000-08:00

I have no idea what is going on but I will answer them anyway.
SECTION 1 - Last 1s?

1. last beverage? Manzana Verdi
2. last phone call? Customer
3. last instant message? Cousin
4. last CD played? CD, do people still use this
5. last time you cried? last night.
6. last text message? some one special.

Section 2 - 6 Have You Evers:

1. dated someone twice? No
2. been cheated on? No
3. kissed someone & regretted it? No.
4. lost someone special? Many
5. been depressed? Define derpressed
6. been drunk and threw up? Almost drunk but no threw up.

Section 3 - List 3 Favourite Colors
1. Blue 2. Green 3. Red

Section 4 - This month have you

1. Made a new friend? Almost everyday but what is friend.
2. Fallen out of love? I want to get into first.
3. Laughed until you cried? This is usually how it ends.
4. Met someone who changed your life? Everyone I meet changes my life in a way.
5. Found out who your true friends were? Were
6. Is there something you want to tell someone? Please think.
7. Would you kiss anyone on your top friends? HA.
8. How many people on your top friends do you know in real life? On line ones counted
9. How many kids do you want to have? Do I have to get married first.
10. Do you have any pets? Not real one though
11. Do you wanna change your name? Yes.
12. What did you do for your last birthday? Bought chocolate while in Paris airport.
13. What time did you wake up today? 7:45 am
14.What were you doing at midnight last night? Watching Videocast
15. Name something you CANNOT wait for? Peace in me.
16. Last time you saw your father? I have been seeing him in my subconscious for the last 4 years.
17. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life? If I even change that one, there will be another one.
18.What are you listening to right now? A talk show that shows the democracy at its best in a civilized country.
19. Have you ever talked to Tom? Jerry always answered the phone.
21. Have you ever talked about someone behind their back? Would email and IM be considered behind a back talk (Walter, you hardly do that!!!!)
22. What’s the last piece of clothing you borrowed from anyone? No comment
23. Who’s getting on your nerves right now? this long list of questions.
24. Most visited webpage? Google Reader.
25. Coke or Pepsi? Many years since I tried either of them.
26. Have you kissed or been kissed by anyone in the past week? Nope :-(
27. Mac or PC? Linux

Statler

Tagged

2007-03-01T03:31:00.000-08:00

Memz tagged us to answer a bunch of random questions, there it goes:

SECTION 1 - Last 1s?

1. last beverage? Bacardi Rum
2. last phone call? Client
3. last instant message? statler
4. last CD played? The Mastery of love audio book
5. last time you cried? Me cry? never.
6. last text message? Vodafone.

Section 2 - 6 Have You Evers:

1. dated someone twice? No
2. been cheated on? Not that I know of
3. kissed someone & regretted it? I did
4. lost someone special? Yes
5. been depressed? Yes sir
6. been drunk and threw up? Drunk a lot, threw up never.

Section 3 - List 3 Favourite Colors

1. Black
2. Red
3. White

Section 4 - This month have you

1. Made a new friend? Depends on how you define friend.
2. Fallen out of love? Nope
3. Laughed until you cried? Wish I have
4. Met someone who changed your life? Not really
5. Found out who your true friends were? I know this for a while now
6. Is there something you want to tell someone? Sure, who do you think you are to judge me.
7. Would you kiss anyone on your top friends? If I get a chance.
8. How many people on your top friends do you know in real life? All of them
9. How many kids do you want to have? 2
10. Do you have any pets? No, and ain't planning.
11. Do you wanna change your name? I thought about it.
12. What did you do for your last birthday? Worked, got drunk, had sex.
13. What time did you wake up today? 9:00 am
14.What were you doing at midnight last night? Watching TV
15. Name something you CANNOT wait for? Take my next trip.
16. Last time you saw your father? Some 11 years ago
17. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life? Have the freedom to travel more.
18.What are you listening to right now? Clicking sound of my keyboard.
19. Have you ever talked to Tom? Who the fuck is Tom?
21. Have you ever talked about someone behind their back? Sure did.
22. What’s the last piece of clothing you borrowed from anyone? I don't borrow no cloth, no one to match my size!
23. Who’s getting on your nerves right now? Life.
24. Most visited webpage? Google reader.
25. Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi man.
26. Have you kissed or been kissed by anyone in the past week? Of course.
27. Mac or PC? Mac I guess.

Your turn Statler, but I ain't tagging nobody.

Waldorf.

Jesus tomb discovered.

2007-02-27T12:37:00.000-08:00

So says Hollywood director James Cameron in a new documentary due to air on Discovery Channel:

Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James Cameron.
The film examines a tomb found near Jerusalem in 1980 which producers say belonged to Jesus and his family.

But archaeologists and theologians are skeptic and claim the evidence provided by Mr. Cameron is unfounded and circumstantial:

Archaeologists said that the burial cave was probably that of a Jewish family with similar names to that of Jesus.

As for the Church's reaction? Well it was quick to deny the claims and attacking Mr. Cameron's credibility and motives:

"I don't think that Christians are going to buy into this," Pfann said. "But skeptics, in general, would like to see something that pokes holes into the story that so many people hold dear."

"They just want to get money for it"

That's it? No calls for beheading or slaying or any violence? So how can they show their love and commitment to Jesus? Christians must be real pussies.

Waldorf

Egypt stops pro-militant Iraq TV

2007-02-27T00:46:00.000-08:00

Egyptian government owned Nilesat says it was taken off air because it broadcast on frequencies which interfered with other channels, but the owner of AL-Zawraa TV calls it bowing to American pressure and he is planning to sue Egypt:

Egypt has stopped the transmission of a private Iraqi TV station which glorifies the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.
The United States has privately asked the Egyptian authorities to stop al-Zawraa which is carried on Nilesat - a government-owned TV satellite.

Either ways it's about time.

Waldorf

And the Oscar goes to

2007-02-27T00:39:00.000-08:00

Waldorf

3 French travelers slain in Saudi desert

2007-02-26T13:27:00.000-08:00

OH my god:

Three French travelers were killed by gunmen Monday in the Saudi Arabian desert when they stopped their car to rest on the side of a road leading to the holy city of Medina in an area restricted to Muslims only.

These people are dead serious.

Waldorf

Anti-Shi'te Convention?

2007-02-26T02:44:00.000-08:00

Turkey is denying that a seven nation convention currently undergoing in Turkey is aimed against Iran or Shi'tes.

So what are seven heavy weight Sunni nations including: Turkey, Egypt, KSA, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Jordan discussing?

Probably climate change.

Waldorf

Cairo sees its first female only Cafe

2007-02-26T02:40:00.000-08:00

(H/T) Memz.

I don't see anything wrong with that, The US has exclusive Gay and Lesbian Pubs.

Waldorf

Palestinian brothers

2007-02-24T12:04:00.000-08:00

So the Egyptian police detained a would-be Palestinian suicide bomber crossing from the
Gaza Strip and planning to blow himself up among Israeli tourists in a south Sinai resort.
Another Palestinians were also held in Sinai, these were to guide the would-be bomber to the targeted resort.

Couple of days later, Egyptian security forces discovered a tonne of explosives "TNT" near the Gaza border.

This is not the first time Palestinians were linked to terrorist activities within Sinai, they cannot pursue Israelis in their own territory so they go after them in Sinai which is popular among Israeli holiday makers.

So our Palestinian brothers will have no regard to the Egyptian lives that might be lost nor the economic strain and the Egyptian jobs that would go, no all this is a side issue, the main issue here is to kill the Jews.

And to think that there are actual voices in Egypt calling to wage war against Israel to protect our Palestinian brothers and all the people who hail the suicide bombing technique, well we were about to get a taste of the medicine.
But the worst thing is that if god forbids this suicide bomber was successful, there would have been actually Egyptian people who are quit content saying that the Jews got what they deserved, but what about the innocent Egyptians? Well they were wrong in the first place to go to serve the Jews.

To these people I say, if you hate the Jews and care for the Palestinians, please take your friends or brothers and go fight your own damn holy war in the real battle zone, you chicken shit.

Waldorf

This is just in.

2007-02-21T07:29:00.000-08:00

23 Palestinians, Egyptians held in Sinai.

More on this to follow.

Waldorf.

U.S. Navy to Monitor Egyptian Ports

2007-02-20T12:11:00.000-08:00

Interesting:

The U.S. and Egypt have signed a cooperation protocol allowing the U.S. Navy to monitor Egyptian ports to prevent them from being used for smuggling nuclear or radioactive material. The protocol allows CIA agents to install highly sensitive instruments in Egyptian ports.

Waldorf.

Egyptian Official to Egyptians: Go to Palestine to Defend Al-Aqsa

2007-02-20T11:46:00.000-08:00

Didn't I just said that?

Either Mr. Safwat Al-Sharif reads this blog, or the people at the NDP finally had enough and decided to expose the high voices of die hard jihadists by depriving them of their only excuse not to go defend Al-Aqsa:

According to the Egyptian daily Al-Masryoon, Egyptian Shoura Council Chairman Safwat Al-Sharif said during a council session yesterday that the door was open to Egyptians to volunteer to go to Palestine to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Smart move.

Waldorf

Canadian inputs needed

2007-02-19T09:57:00.000-08:00

Shock doesn't even begin to describe what I felt after reading this:

Fully 12% of Muslim Canadians polled by Environics said the alleged terrorist plot -- that included kidnapping and beheading the prime minister and blowing up Parliament and the CBC -- was justified.

Canadian readers please tell me that this is just not true.

Waldorf

Saudi Fatwa: Women Forbidden from Going Online Without Male Guide

2007-02-19T01:40:00.000-08:00

Sick sick sick bastards.

Waldorf.

Why all guys should date in Parallel

2007-02-18T11:05:00.000-08:00

I'm not saying so, Electric diagrams do!

So to avoid having this:

You go like this:

Go read the whole experiment, pure genius.

Thanks man I finally saw the light.

Waldorf.

Wishful thinking

2007-02-16T11:31:00.000-08:00

Here here.

Waldorf

On Hymen restoration.

2007-02-16T04:50:00.000-08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hypocrisy at its best:

The grand Mufti of Egypt issued a Fatwa allowing unmarried girls to undergo a Hymen restoration operation prior to their marriage for whatever reason they lost their virginity for.
Moreover he instructed girls who committed adultery not to tell their fiances about it and the same applies to married women who commits adultery while they were married!
The reason??? To protect family unity!!!!

Deception? No no nothing like that it's just easier this way, I mean why face the problem by admitting the truth when there is another way around.

People say it's an invitation for women to sleep around before and after marriage, but these people forget something, that women who commits adultery should be stoned under Shari'a laws, so they are not totally of the hook.

So if I got things right, women should be stoned then restore their Hymen so the future husband would not know so will have no choice in the matter and thus protecting the family unity!!!

Anyway, Egyptian Gynaecologists rejoice, you're about to become very rich.

Waldorf

Welcome Starbucks

2007-02-16T04:37:00.000-08:00

Had my first cup of Starbucks Coffee in Egypt today.
Damn, it's good.

Waldorf

Eyptian MP "Israel should be Nuked"

2007-02-14T02:05:00.000-08:00

On Monday, the Egyptian parliament produced one of the best performances of the season sparked by the excavation work Israel is currently undergoing near Al-Aqsa mosque, with one of the MPs actually calling to nuke Israel to wipe it out of existence:

"That cursed Israel is trying to destroy al-Aqsa mosque," Mohammed el-Katatny of President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) told a heated parliament session held to discuss the Israeli digging.
"Nothing will work with Israel except for a nuclear bomb that wipes it out of existence," he said.

But the respectful MP would not elaborate how he is planning to nuke Israel, with us struggling just to pick up a place to build our first nuclear reactor (peaceful by the way) while Israel almost confirmed owning a nuclear bomb!!

But other MPs were much moderate with their demands (i.e. less hilarious) which ranged from the withdrawal from the Camp David treaty to kicking the Israeli ambassador's ass out of Egypt.
And as it is always the case is such situations the inevitable question was asked "where are the Arabic armies?" (again by that everybody means where is the Egyptian army?)
One of the MBs literally asked the government to allow the MBs to wage Jihad against the Jewish state, saying they are perfectly capable of wiping it out!

I would like to cease this opportunity to plea with the government or the president to do exactly that. Please allow the people who are willing for Jihad against Israel to do so, gather them in a recruiting center and deprive them of their Egyptian nationality and load them up by the buses to the Gaza border where they could be smuggled through tunnels along with their weapons and forget about them, and lets stop the talk of Egyptian army or Jihad against Israel once and for all, period.

Something tells me these buses will be painfully empty.

Waldorf

Uncircumcised pupils sent home!!

2007-02-13T14:45:00.000-08:00

Not Joking here:

A Kenyan secondary school has sent home 20 boys because they were not circumcised, saying it feared they would be bullied by other students.

Just a quick question, anybody of you guys had to show his penis before admitting to his new secondary school?

Waldorf

Apologies

2007-02-13T14:31:00.000-08:00

Apologies for the light blogging, just getting over the shock of Statler actually meeting a spy. Man I wish I had the opportunity.
Anyway, let's go.

Waldorf

What the ****

2007-02-06T02:35:00.000-08:00

Egyptian authorities unveiled last Saturday the arrest of an Egyptian-Canadian man with the charge of spying for the state of Israel as one of a four members spy ring, the other three are Israelis:

High State Security Prosecutor Hisham Badawi said the Egyptian, Mohamed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar, 31, had been arrested and charged. The rest of the suspected spy ring, who are in Turkey and Canada, were charged in absentia.

And now to the reason I'm cursing out loud:
Yesterday, on the front page of the largest distributed state controlled daily newspaper Al-ahram we were faced with the following headline " The Spy began the treason by changing his religion!"
As it turned out to be that in 2002, Mohamed el-Attar (the alleged spy) went to a Catholic church in Turkey and converted to Christianity and became Joseph el-Attar.
And to further discredit the guy, the paper states that he is gay, and that was one of the reasons for him to leave Egypt and seek asylum.
Now let's observe for the moment the message the state media is releasing to the mass, the way I see it it is one or more of the following:

- People who convert their religion are now considered as traitors!
- Anyone who converts to Christianity is on the fast track to become a spy.
- Muslims are incapable of committing such act so the guy had to change his religion first.
- Christians are not loyal to their homeland and therefor can not be trusted.
- People who convert to Christianity must be gays!!!

Again, what the ****

Waldorf

The conspiracy theory

2007-01-30T15:21:00.000-08:00

I know I know, you've all heard it before, the real Saddam was not the one who was hanged but rather it was a duplicate and all that crap.
But nonetheless here are some interesting details, for all the fans who love a good conspiracy theory.

Waldorf

Bill Gates and the Saudis

2007-01-30T14:45:00.000-08:00

And Saudi women in particular:

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates told the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland that if Saudi Arabia would utilize "half of country's talents" (i.e. women), the country would be a competitive economic force in the world by in 2010.

Oh how dare he, I mean to mention the Saudi women in public and in front of all these men, oh what a dishonor, and moreover to even think about them as working women is just despicable.
I'm afraid we would soon hear voices calling for a way to wipe away this horrible shame inflicted on Saudi women.
And what better way than blood for that matter?

Waldorf

Nasrallah: Vengeance for Slain Martyrs Will Be Against U.S.

2007-01-30T13:39:00.000-08:00

Not the March 14 movement.

The logic? ehh, well looks like the March 14 movement are slaves and mercenaries of the grand master the U.S.
It came in a fiery speech in which he lashed out at Bush.

Waldorf

Escalation

2007-01-28T01:59:00.000-08:00

I previously mentioned that there is a lot of lobbying these days in the Egyptian media against the Shi'its and Iran as part of the hostility erupted between Sunnis and Shi'its.

Well today the escalation reached another level, with the largest distributed state controlled paper "Al-Ahram" quoting on its first page a diplomatic source (anonymous of course) that the abduction and killing of Egypt's first ambassador to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein some two years ago was actually the work of the Iranian intelligence, who wanted to send a clear message that it will not tolerate any influence for Egypt and any Sunni country for that matter in Iraq.

Waldorf

Why God always a male!!!

2007-01-27T15:04:00.000-08:00

Really, Almost in all cultures and religions, God is a male, no existence for female Goddess, or even a neutral God/Goddess, except maybe Christianity which made a female super sacred (I am talking here about major religions)

That question came to me when I read that Mufti "The biggest religious man in Egypt" that women can be a judge, a minster, etc. BUT NOT A PRESIDENT!!!!!!

They funny thing, we can't even have another male president!!! and he is talking about a female!!

I am sure we still have a long way to go before we call our selves as civilized nation!!

Good Luck!!

Statler

Shame

2007-01-27T03:25:00.000-08:00

Well, BP is ashamed to announce this to his English readers, but I think everybody should know.

The story from the beginning:
A month ago, a renounced Islamic writer called Mohamed Omara published a book with the authorization of the minister for religious affairs, in this book Omara quoted an old Muslim cleric "Sheikh Elghazaly" in a fatwa saying that Christians are non-believers, and that it is the right for Muslims to shed their blood and possess their properties.
And the book was published as such, until Egyptian Christians (Copts) started making noise and a case was filed at the public prosecutor against Mr. Omara and the Minister citing spreading of hatred and disrupting national unity. Copts said that this was an invitation to kill and steal Christians.
Anyway, later on the fanatic Mr. Omara published a lame apology in the Coptic paper called "Wattani" claiming that he quoted the old cleric without properly revising his work, and these were not his opinions regarding Copts and so.
Then the Minister for religious affairs also produced an apology and orders were made to collect all printed version of this book and another version is to be printed without this paragraph.

All this is not what BP and every moderate Egyptian is ashamed of, what is really scary is that the weekly paper "Elfagr" conducted a poll on its website asking if readers agree with the original Fatwa regarding Christians or not, and the results were:

- 56.5% Yes
- 38% No
- 5.4% No comment

Surprised? Well I'm not.

Waldorf

Hezbolla's version of a united Lebanon

2007-01-26T06:12:00.000-08:00

Another brilliant Cairo Freeze.

Waldorf

Another proof

2007-01-26T04:33:00.000-08:00

On the Sunni-Shi'ats struggle, came yesterday from Beirut university:

At least three people were killed and dozens were injured in the clashes before army troops backed by tanks and firing barrages of warning shots into the air dispersed most rioters. The military then declared Beirut's first curfew since 1996.
But the fallout reaches far beyond the final casualty count. The sudden melee, sparked by a cafeteria scuffle between pro-government Sunni Muslims and pro-Hezbollah Shiites, reinforced fears that Lebanon's confessional divides are breaking into violence as they did during the 1975-1990 civil war.

And the worst is yet to come.

Waldorf

MMT

2007-01-24T12:52:00.000-08:00

In case you are wondering it's for "Mecca Mean Time".
This guy is convinced that Mecca is the center of the universe and he has all the scientific evidence to prove it.
And he's asking to abolish GMT and replace it with the only and true reference MMT.

Sure why not, I have heard crazier things

Waldorf

Muslims unhappy over "24" show.

2007-01-23T04:46:00.000-08:00

How true!!

Waldorf

Behold the next war in the middle east.

2007-01-23T03:44:00.001-08:00

It is out in the open now people, the next war in the mid-east (whether it is a cold war or not remains to be seen), it is Sunnis against Shi'ats.
With the Sunnis backed up by the 6 Arab gulf states along with Egypt and Jordan which happens to be all pro-American, and of course the Shi'ats are backed by Iran.
The war started long ago in Iraq, where everyday a 100 or so people die from both camps.
And it is rapidly moving towards Lebanon where a general strike began today called by the opposition lead by Hezbollah against the pro-western government. And it was a bloody start with 15 people wounded in the morning hours.
But I think it is about to escalate even more and here are my reasons:

- Secretary of state Rise was in the region last week and met with delegates of the now called 6+2+1 countries (6 gulf states, 2 for Egypt and Jordan, and USA) aiming at stopping Iran's influence in Iraq and the region.
- All of the sudden Egypt, Jordan and some gulf states realized that they have a severe energy problem and they all need to start building nuclear reactors for future energy needs!
- In an interview with former Hezbollah Secretary general he clearly stated that Hezbollah is part of Iranian intelligence.
In KSA a lot of clerics are calling Shi'ats as non-believers and the government stating that it will interfere in Iraq if the killing of Sunnis continue.
- In Egypt there has been some serious lobbying recently against Iran and the Shi'ats both domestically and internationally:

* Egyptian foreign minister Aboul Gheit, was in Turkey (another big Sunni country) and was talking tough saying that Egypt will not stand by watching the Iranians becoming a nuclear power.
* Pakistani president Musharaf is in Egypt to hold talks with Mubarak.
* Sheikh Youssef Elqaradawi is accusing Iran of spreading Shi'ism in Sunni countries.
* Al-Azhar president criticizes distribution of Shi'a books in Egypt.

So forget the Zionists and the Imperialists and watch out for the Shi'ats.

Waldorf

Sentencing in KSA

2007-01-23T03:38:00.000-08:00

This (arabic link) is just hilarious:

A judge in KSA has sentenced a drug user to memorizing the Quran instead of serving six months in prison!

So reading and memorizing the Quran now is a punishment?

Waldorf

The definition of stupidity.

2007-01-23T02:57:00.000-08:00

How funny is that:

Three men have been arrested for allegedly stealing global positioning systems mistaken for mobile phones.
Fourteen GPS systems were stolen last week from a warehouse in Babylon, New York. They were to be used to help the city council track its lorries.
Police remotely activated the systems after the theft which lead them to the home of one of the alleged culprits.

I can't comment I'm down on the floor laughing my ass off.

Waldorf

On Bush's new Iraq strategy

2007-01-20T13:23:00.000-08:00

Another fine Bennett's.

Waldorf

Another misunderstanding

2007-01-19T13:35:00.000-08:00

The Australian cleric who called on Muslim parents to be prepare their children to become Martyrs, is now backing up saying -typically- that his words were misunderstood:

"The jihad I speak of is not one of violence," he told The Australian newspaper from his home in Lebanon. "It is one of personal struggle against things like mischievousness, temptation and personal harm.

As for calling Jews as pigs he admits it but regrets it:

Mohammed also retracted comments in which he ridiculed Jews as pigs, saying they were made in reaction to the release of photographs showing bloody clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in 2002.
"That remark was made in the heat of the moment and I regret it," he was quoted as saying. "It was not something I should have said and is not something I believe."

Now I truly think the real reason for backing up is this:

Australian federal police have said they will investigate whether a radical Muslim cleric who encouraged children to become religious martyrs should face criminal charges.

I say make an example of him, bring his ass from Lebanon and put him on trial and send him away, so to stop people like him from giving hate speeches and then saying " please don't hurt me I was misunderstood".
But the damage has already occurred.

Waldorf

Practicing religion in space

2007-01-18T16:04:00.000-08:00

Okay, I am sure if it is telepathy or not.

I was chatting with a relative of mine discussing life matters when he pointed out what if people started to live in space, how they will behalf.

Then he mentioned that Muslims will have some challenges about praying, which direction will they pray for and how they fast, based on Sunset and sunrise on the moon.

His point was, we should be thinking forward!!!

Religion should be flexible, but according to most Mulisms, they say Quran is for all ages, so can you give me an answer.

What I am sure of, in Quran, is there any mention about prayers direction and sunset and sunrise fasting.

However, the reason I say it is telepathy is, I just found the same idea on a different blog http://arabsinspace.blogspot.com/

Man, don't you love blogging, it is a different world.

Statler

What's wrong Aussies?

2007-01-18T04:12:00.000-08:00

For the second time this week an Australian Muslim cleric is in the midst of controversy.
This one called on children to be prepared for martyrdom and ridiculed the Jews as pigs (what's new they all call the Jews pigs and Christians as apes).
So after the "uncovered meat" and calling non-Muslim Aussies as the descents of convicts who came in shackles, we now have this:

Sheikh Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Sydney, urged children to become martyrs for Islam and mocked Jewish people as pigs.

"Teach them this," he says, "that there is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a Muhajid.
"Put in their soft, tender heart the zeal of jihad and the love of martyrdom."

And what is the government doing about this?

The Australian government has condemned a Muslim cleric for making offensive comments in videotaped lectures.

Ahh, how nice they condemned the comments. I'm sure that will certainly stop all the hate speeches which are coming from Australia!
People wake up and start probing the matter, and why these incidents are becoming more frequent, or do you have to wait for your own 9/11 or 7/7 god forbids?

Waldorf

Kuffar

2007-01-16T15:51:00.000-08:00

I am really sick and tired of what I hear of should I say forced to hear.

I need an answer from any one who will read this blog and the question will go like this:

If you are a Muslim, what word Kuffar means?

and

If you are non Muslim, do you have similar word in your religion?

I know this is not a new question but I need help in this!

Statler

Egypt religion minister bans face veil for some employees

2007-01-16T12:51:00.000-08:00

Well Mr. minister, brace yourself as the gates of hell is bound to open in your face:

"I totally reject the appointment of fully veiled women working as counselors meant to guide people in religious matters," minister Hamdy Zaqzuq told the daily Al-Masri Al-Youm newspaper on Monday.

The minister said fully veiled women working as counselors would just promote "the culture of the niqab".
"The niqab is a matter of custom and not the faith -- it has nothing to do with the religion," he added.

Is it just me or anybody else think this country is finally doing something right?

Waldorf

Stepping up the crackdown

2007-01-16T12:45:00.000-08:00

The Egyptian government is stepping up its crackdown on the financial arm of the MBs, with more detentions:

Six senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been remanded in custody in Egypt, it has emerged.
Five are wealthy businessmen who are believed to have financed the Islamist organisation. The detentions took place on Sunday.

More more more.

Waldorf

Egypt to launch first remote sensing satellite

2007-01-16T12:39:00.000-08:00

Well Egyptian officials say it's for scientific research, but everyone knows it's a spy satellite:

The Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot described the device as a "spy satellite" that is expected to include Israel in its orbital path.

Better late then never I say.

Waldorf

My Hibernation

2007-01-13T13:51:00.000-08:00

I know I haven't done any blogging for ages, but I was in hiberante time over Xmas, New year, etc.
I guess Wadorf is mad, and I don't only think, he said it clearly one day.

"You are not doing your job Statler!!!!!" said Waldorf.

So, I decided to come out of my hibernation and start blogging again.

Statler

Would you shut the **** up?

2007-01-12T05:50:00.000-08:00

The great Mufti of Australia (the uncovered meat sheikh) is back in the news again with more outrages comments:

Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali said Muslim Australians had more right to live in the country than white Australians whose descendents arrived as convicts.

"The Anglo-Saxons arrived in Australia in shackles," he said. "We (Muslims) came as free people. We bought our own tickets. We are entitled to Australia more than they are".

Seriously, why is the Australian government keeping this guy there? Deport him right away but please don't send him back home to Egypt, god knows we have enough of those.
I hear the good people of Afghanistan are in short of a grand Mufti, he would fit the job just perfectly.

Waldorf

Mubarak says Brotherhood is threat to security

2007-01-12T05:30:00.000-08:00

Music to my ears:

CAIRO (Reuters) - President Hosni Mubarak said the Muslim Brotherhood poses a threat to Egypt's security because the country would face isolation in the world if the Islamist movement became more powerful.

In an interview released on Thursday, he said people would leave Egypt with their money, investment would stop and unemployment rise if the Brotherhood -- the country's strongest opposition group -- gained in influence.

So what is he doing about it? Crackdown crackdown:

The authorities are carrying out one of their regular crackdowns on the Brotherhood, which the government refuses to recognize despite its electoral successes.

About damn time I say. God knows they left them long enough to infiltrate into most of ordinary Egyptian lives through universities, unions and finally parliament.
They use their unlimited finances to attract people by offering them help in the sort of money, medical treatment and educational services, so I always say the first thing should be done is to probe who is financing the MBs.
Anyone else smell oil money?

Waldorf

Just wondeful

2007-01-07T12:26:00.000-08:00

First we have this:
"Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran,"

And then this:
Iran vows to hit back at any Israeli strike

Coming this spring, Imam Mahdi!

2007-01-03T00:59:00.000-08:00

The long awaited for Imam Mahdi is due to make his appearance by springtime, to wipe out all sorts of oppression in our world.
Oh well at least that's what an official state media website in Iran thinks:

An official state media website in Iran has posted a message heralding the coming of the Shiite messianic figure, Imam Mahdi, noting he could arrive with Jesus by the spring equinox.
"Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) will appear all of a sudden on the world scene with a voice from the skies announcing his reappearance at the holy Ka'ba in Mecca," the message says.

The guy will come in full action he will form an army and defeat all enemies of Islam:

The Mahdi's far sightedness and firmness in the face of mischievous elements will strike awe. After his uprising from Mecca all of Arabia will be submit to him and then other parts of the world as he marches upon Iraq and established his seat of global government in the city of Kufa.
Then the Imam will send 10 thousand of his forces to the east and west to uproot the oppressors. At this time God will facilitate things for him and lands will come under his control one after the other. ...

And watch out he's not coming alone, he's bringing with him his most fierce lieutenant "Jesus Christ"!!! (Is this really a wise choice? He never fought a single battle!!)

The Iranian series also claims the Mahdi will reappear on Earth with Jesus: "We read in the book Tazkarat ol-Olia, 'the Mahdi will come with Jesus son of Mary accompanying him.' ... Imam Mahdi will be the leader while Prophet Jesus will act as his lieutenant in the struggle against oppression and establishment of justice in the world. Jesus had himself given the tidings of the coming of God's last messenger and will see Mohammad's ideals materialize in the time of the Mahdi."

The rest of the article suggests that no other than the Iranian president Ahmadinejad might very well be the Mahdi as he gets visions from heaven and while addressing the United Nations last year there was a mysterious light cast on him which he said came from heaven!!

In a videotaped meeting with Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli in Tehran, Ahmadinejad discussed candidly a strange, paranormal experience he had while addressing the United Nations in New York last September.
He recounts how he found himself bathed in light throughout the speech. But this wasn't the light directed at the podium by the U.N. and television cameras. It was, he said, a light from heaven.

And the guy even has a witness to what he is saying:

The Iranian president recalled being told about it by one of his delegation: "When you began with the words 'in the name of Allah,' I saw a light coming, surrounding you and protecting you to the end."
Ahmadinejad agreed that he sensed the same thing.
"On the last day when I was speaking, one of our group told me that when I started to say 'Bismillah Muhammad,' he saw a green light come from around me, and I was placed inside this aura," he says. "I felt it myself. I felt that the atmosphere suddenly changed, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, all the leaders of the world did not blink. When I say they didn't move an eyelid, I'm not exaggerating. They were looking as if a hand was holding them there, and had just opened their eyes – Alhamdulillah!"

OK So we now know who the Mahdi might be so what about Jesus Christ? Any ideas?
All bets are on!

Waldorf

Muslim haj pilgrims perform devil-stoning ritual

2007-01-01T10:02:00.000-08:00

And who is the biggest devil on earth that took most of the stoning?
America, who else!

"The number one Satan is America," said Iraqi pilgrim Suleiman Awadallah, who described himself as "a resistance fighter", after performing the stoning ritual.

"The prayers of all Muslims when they cast their stones at the devil must be directed at (U.S. President George) Bush and his devilish allies in America and the Arab world."

Ahmed al-Dosary from Kuwait agreed. "I prayed for myself, my family and for the end of the main evil, the United States."

Waldorf

Egypt sends weapons through Israel

2006-12-28T09:38:00.000-08:00

With the blessing of Israel:

JERUSALEM - Egypt has sent a large shipment of weapons through Israeli territory to shore up forces loyal to the embattled Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli security officials said Thursday — an extraordinary show of support by both countries for his efforts to renew peacemaking with Israel.

The Haaretz daily meanwhile reported that "a load of 2,000 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles as well as 20,000 cartridge clips and two million bullets were transferred to Fatah's armed groups in the Gaza Strip, in coordination with the Israeli army."
The paper said the arms had been transported by a convoy of four trucks from Egypt into Israel vie the Kerem Shalom crossing point to the south of the Gaza Strip, and had then been taken to the Karni crossing further north where they were received by Palestinian Authority security services loyal to Abbas.

So we have arms from Egypt to Fatah on the surface in a convoy of trucks and we have arms going from Egypt to Hamas through tunnels.
And we have a conflict between Fatah and Hamas! I think it is safe to predict that the weapon dealing business in Egypt is about to flourish.
Hell it should at least be good for the economy.

Waldorf

No veils in shops, say Pune jewellers

2006-12-28T09:26:00.000-08:00

Why? Well women were using burqa as cover to steal jewellery:

Pune: Pune's jewellery shops are becoming off-limits for burqa-clad customers in the New Year.
The Jeweller's Association has decided to debar them from the shops as even tight security, including use of close circuit cameras, failed to stop a rise in thefts. The association says only those who don't cover their faces can shop for jewellery.

And it really worked:

But police says jewellery shop thefts have gone down drastically in Pune. As against 39 cases last year, only 25 jewellery shop thefts were reported this year. Burqa-clad women were involved in not more than five of them. Yet, police says it won't intervene.

And sure enough Muslim women were not happy about this:

Meanwhile, Muslim women, not surprisingly, are expressing outrage at the move of the jewelers.
Making out a single solution or pointing out fingers at some people is not right. There are surely other solutions - like they have CCTVs. They can have more people to look after burqa-clad people. They can't ask us to remove are veil if we are comfortable with it,‌ says a resident of Pune, Muntaha Khan.

BTW Pune is in India where 35% of the population are Muslims.

Waldorf

Sinai is not part of Egypt!

2006-12-27T13:06:00.000-08:00

So first we have MPs in the Egyptian Parliament claiming Eilat is part of Egypt.
And now this article is claiming that the whole of Sinai was never part of Egypt anyway:

The Egyptians who raise the matter of Eilat are skating on thin ice. For the Sinai, which Egypt has convinced the world is historically part of its domain, was always a corpus separatum.

How many of you have ever seen the map, reproduced in the Diaries of Colonel Meinertzhagen, that show how much of the Sinai became Egyptian only in the 1920s? Egypt had no historic or legal title to the Sinai except that provided by Great Britain. Britain was perfectly willing to diminish unilaterally the territory intended for the Mandate for Palestine by lopping off all of historic Palestine east of the river Jordan. It was also perfectly willing to curry favor with Egypt, at the very moment when the British who had come under Lord Cromer to improve the civil service were leaving, by handing over the Sinai to an Egypt that had never before been thought entitled to it.

So why did the Israelis hand back Sinai after the camp David treaty? ahh well they were so helpless and Naive and could not resist the immense pressure put by Jimmy Carter (who by the way turned out to be antisemitic!!)

This was not an argument that was made by the Israelis at Camp David. They were beaten about by Jimmy Carter, who was the same Carter then as he his now. At the time, however, all kinds of Jewish leaders were falling all over themselves praising the antisemitic Carter as a veritable prince of peace.

So who should claim Sinai then? Well either I'm a bit slow or the author doesn't really say it out loud but rather implies that it should be to Israel!!
OK this is just bogus, so what if Sinai was never part of Egypt and was handed by the Britts in 1920, wasn't the same story for the state of Israel in 1948?
And if that was the case why the hell did the Egyptians claimed Taba, a part of Sinai that was still under Israeli control until 1989 through an international panel of arbitrators?
Give us a break.

Waldorf

On freedom of religion

2006-12-26T02:09:00.000-08:00

I was misfortunate enough yesterday to be listening to Radio Sawa and part of their program is something called Sawa Chat where they go out on the streets and ask different people the same question to get different reactions.
Yesterday's question was "Do you believe that a person should be free to choose his own religion?"
And the answers went like this (all Egyptian people):

Man: yes any person should be free to choose based on readings and understandings of other religions but in the end one must choose Islam as it is the true religion.

Woman: Well I am lucky to be born a Muslim girl and any Muslim person should know that his religion is the true one so one should never think of changing but as for the Christians yes I think they should be free to become Muslims as it is the better religion

Man: A child is born and raised to be what his parents are, but when he becomes older he should read about all religions and be allowed to choose as long as he chooses Islam.

Me (to myself): May God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Waldorf

Merry Christmas Everybody

2006-12-24T09:30:00.000-08:00

Bring back Eilat

2006-12-24T09:10:00.000-08:00

The MPs in the Egyptian parliament are debating for the past two days whether Eilat the Israeli port city should belong to Egypt!!

"Eilat, or by its former name Umm Rashrash, belongs to the Palestinians," he said, representing the opinion of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

A-Nasser's response was meant to calm tempers in the rowdy debate in the Egyptian parliament, after dozens of opposition representatives demanded holding negotiations to have Eilat returned to Egyptian sovereignty

Significantly, in the debate among the Egyptian MPs, the experts and the Foreign Ministry officials, no mention is made of possible legitimate Israeli sovereignty of Eilat. The debate in Cairo is between two camps: the Egyptian Foreign Ministry which claims that Eilat belongs to the Palestinians, and the opposition MPs who claim that Eilat belongs to Egypt.

Hehehehe, so Eilat is either Egyptian or Palestinian.
I say flip a coin for it and the looser goes and claim Eilat from Israel!!

Waldorf

The "Angered upon" and the "Led astray"

2006-12-23T03:32:00.000-08:00

I recently came across this:

Nevertheless, the idea that Christian belief and observance is illegitimate is deeply rooted within Islam. The Islamic prophet Muhammad composed for the Muslims a brief prayer, known as the Fatiha (Opening), that became the cornerstone of Muslim prayer (it is recited seventeen times a day by the Muslim who performs the five daily prayers) and the first sura of the Qur’an:

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds,
The Beneficent, the Merciful.
Master of the Day of Judgment,
Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help.
Show us the straight path,
The path of those whom Thou hast favoured;
Not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray. (Qur’an 1:1-7)

Even this, which has a status among Muslims analogous to the centrality of the Lord’s Prayer for Christians, has a polemical edge. Traditionally Muslim divines have identified those who have earned Allah’s anger with Jews and those who have gone astray with Christians. The Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir (1301-1372) explains that “these two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should be aware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is the knowledge of truth and abiding by it. In comparison, Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians” (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, vol. 1, 87).

I really can't tell if this is true or not, and if it is, do all the Muslims in the world know it I mean do they know that they are cursing Christians and Jews 5 times a day, every day of their lives?
Not only then but even in their funerals and wedding proposals and mostly any type of agreement?
So yes my son I would love to give you my daughter as your future wife and while we're at it let's curse the Christians and Jews!!!

Waldorf

Ahmadinejad: What would Jesus do today?

2006-12-20T02:07:00.000-08:00

The question came in his new year greeting to the Christian world:

"My one question from the Christians is: What would Jesus do if he were present in the world today? What would he do before some of the oppressive powers of the world who are in fact residing in Christian countries? Which powers would he revive and which of them would he destroy?" the Iranian president asked.

I would like to answer for that:
If JC was present today, he would have done nothing to the oppressive powers you are speaking about, nor he would have revived or destroyed either powers, why? Well if you have read anything regarding the life of JC you would have known that he came and went in peace, he never used any force in his mission nor he has taken sides and for sure he did not destroy any powers that existed back then.
But I'm willing to bite and assume that nowadays he will take sides and destroy the vicious power he sees deemed.
Sure you are right, he will take the side of the Muslim world against the oppressive powers of the west, I mean how dare they allow their people to practice personal freedom even if it means disobeying him in certain matters? Why would they not give privilege to people who follow him and discriminate those who don't? How dare they alienate his church from state like this, I know he said to give what belongs to Caesar to Caesar and what is God's to God but not like this. And why did they have to become so rich, didn't they know that JC loves the poor.
But on the other side, the Muslim world they do not allow people to commit acts that anger God and all they want is to live in peace and of course they treat his followers real nice no persecution or anything. So yes I do agree that Jesus would have taken the Muslim side.

Then he asks another question:

"If Jesus were present today, who would be facing him and who would be following him?" He added.

Now that's an easy question I do not need to answer, but if the answer I have in mind is true, well wouldn't this make today's Muslims to become infidels?
Someone please answer my question.

Waldorf

Keep the guy alive

2006-12-20T01:44:00.000-08:00

The Americans are trying to keep alive Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman the mastermind of the 1993 World trade center bombing and who is gravely ill.

Why?

Well they think that his death might spark a wave of terror attacks as his latest message to his followers went like this:

“My Brothers...If they [the Americans] kill me, which they will certainly do – hold my funeral and send my corpse to my family, but do not let my blood be shed in vain. Rather, extract the most violent revenge, and remember your brother who spoke the truth and died for the will of God...The Mujahid Sheikh Omar Abdel al Rahman. In the name of God the kind and merciful.”

So even if the guy dies from a natural cause, this would not be the will of Allah but rather the doing of Americans (you know the bastards can make it look like the work of god) but the true believers and followers of the Sheikh would know better as he already told them what would happen and what to do.

So please keep the guy alive as long as you can.

Waldorf

Haniyeh: We're Shahids (martyrs), not ministers

2006-12-16T12:02:00.000-08:00

May god or the IDF grant him his wish.
Amen

Waldorf

AJ & the Holocaust

2006-12-16T11:54:00.000-08:00

For some reason I failed to understand, Ahmadinejad and his gang think that The Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel!!!

Iran Holocaust Denial Conference Announces Plan to Establish World Foundation for Holocaust Studies – To Be Eventually Based in Berlin and Headed by Iranian Presidential Advisor Mohammad-Ali Ramin Who Has Said: 'The Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel'

Ehh Berlin as in Germany? these guys are a real treat.

Waldorf

A stand-off

2006-12-16T04:47:00.000-08:00

Finally it's happening a stand-off between the MBs and the Government, the reason as you all know it the the Hamas like parade which went on inside Al-Azhar university to protest the expelling of 6 of the MBs student.
So it's official now and out in the open, the MBs have a military wing and have training camps and they are not afraid to show it, and all this happened because our government is being such a big pussy with its handling of the MBs and was just concentrating on breaking down any liberal party or movement thinking that they represent the bigger threat.
Meanwhile the MBs were gaining huge ground and testing the government every once in a while, from organizing demonstrations to hot statments like the famous TOZ Fy Masr (Screw Egypt), and the kicking of any opposition to the MBs by the shoes, to the declaration that the MBs are ready to send a squad of 10,000 men to fight with Hizbollah against Israel, and the declaration that the MBs are ready to rule Egypt, up to the parade.
But apparently the latter was an overshot that the government could not take so they cracked down hard on the MBs arresting 120 of them including their number 3 man and their spokesman.
Now I really hope it wouldn't end there and the government would get scared of any further escalation and reach a deal with the MBs, instead I truly wish they would enlarge the scale of the operation and probe where the hell these people are getting their huge finances and cutting them off, something like what Nasser did in the 50s after the MBs tried to assassinate him, he really beat the shit out of them.
I know I know, human rights people and anti-torture and blah blah, but the thing is we are violating these rights anyway and with the wrong people, shouldn't we like do it to someone who really deserve it?

Waldorf

"A very jihady Xmas" the album

2006-12-06T14:07:00.000-08:00

The new Jingle Bell:

Oh, infidels, infidels
In the Holy Land!
Oh what joy it brings to cut
Off an ear nose head or hand!

Go Listen to the song.

Waldorf