Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city Tuesday, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad over the weekend.
Residents and witnesses in the southern, predominantly Christian city of Onitsha said several Muslims with origins in the north were beaten to […]

Hamas has decided to call off a planned visit to Jordan, Palestinian sources told the London-based Al-Hayat daily. Meshaâ??al hamasThe reason for the move, which was cited on the Monday edition of the newspaper, was that Jordan opposed that the political-bureau chief Khalid Meshaâ??al heading the delegation, because he holds Jordanian citizenship. Instead, Jordan preferred […]

A right-wing British historian goes on trial Monday on charges of denying the Holocaust occurred â?? a crime punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment in this country once run by the Nazis.
The trial of David Irving opens amid fresh â?? and fierce â?? debate over freedom of expression in Europe, where the printing and […]

Andy Dick’s Day Job…

[by way of: sean coon]

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Right: Denmark’s Freedom of Expression
Left: America’s Freedom of Expression
The strongest signal on the controversy over freedom of expression came from the United States though, when US officials slammed the airing by an Australian TV channel of new images of abuse suffered by Iraqi prisoners at the hands of their US jailers. The SBS channel aired […]

They paved paradise and put up a…

For the last 40 years Mohammed Hamdi Bader has left his tailor’s shop in the Old City once a month and taken a short walk to the heart of west Jerusalem where he prayed close to his grandfather’s grave.
But the 49-year-old Palestinian father-of-five can no longer reach the grave […]

From an empty room into
a den of thieves
God waits for me
to turn the tide
but stubborn waters
and stubborn tongues
are unyielding
so instead I wait for signs
so instead I draw halos in the sand
with promises to change
to turn these circles into squares
shape this clay into a fist
make the rain dance on the surface
in the shadow of His benevolence
in […]

So what’s been blaring out of my headphones this week you ask? (lets pretend you asked)
I just started listening to The Weepies and so far they have some really stellar songs. It’s basically songwriters Steve Tannen and Deb Talan creating some great tunes in the folk-pop genre. I heard them first on an episode of […]

â??A cartoon targetting the prophet, Bushâ?

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Lately there has been pressure by Israeli groups to change the name of country of origin from “Palestine” to “Palestinian Authority” for the movie “Paradise Now” at next month’s Oscars, based on the arguement that there is no such thing as Palestine. Even an online petition was started to revoke the nomination all together.
It is […]

Did you know more roses are sold in Jordan on Valentine’s Day than on any other day of the year, including Mother’s Day?
Am I the only one who is anti-Valentines? No seriously, this isn’t about love or lack there of. It’s about culture. Since when did we start living in a society (to be more […]

(the following video is in arabic….kinda)

jaguar? ya 3eini shoo cool
Arabizi n.
1- A form of speech that mixes Arabic with English. It is widely used among Jordanâ??s Western-educated elites, drawing ire from language purists and exposing a widening social and economic gap in the small kingdom. Dubbed by some â??Arabiziâ?â??a slang term for Arabic and â??Inglizi,â? […]

Israel and U.S. Jewish groups have lobbied organizers of next month’s Academy Awards not to present a nominated film about Palestinian suicide bombers as coming from “Palestine,” an Israeli diplomat said on Sunday.
With Israelis and Palestinians locked in conflict over national claims on the same land, the provenance of “Paradise Now” is as combustible an […]

‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ Meets ‘Bowling for Columbine’

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.
Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was “alert and doing fine” in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was […]

Anti-Prophet graffiti has been daubed by Jewish settlers on the wall of a mosque in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli military source and local residents said Sunday, February 12.
The graffiti was first discovered by the mosque’s custodian Osman Zamari when he opened the building at daybreak, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“I was opening up as […]

7illi ilgear! 7illi!

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