JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — A decision to allow women to ride in the cabs of water tankers in response to the water crisis has caused uproar in one Saudi Arabian city. The move was to keep drivers from running off with the water for which families had already paid.
Arab News said the decision by […]

Well it’s been the bombshell story in American politics these last few days: Republican Mark Foley resigned on Friday after several “naughty” emails were exposed on ABC which he wrote to former male teenage pages; minors. In an Austin Power’s moment Foley asks the page “Do I make you a little horny?”. The rest of […]

The most recent and 12th “honor” crime in the Kingdom is one that is a bit curious and even more outrageous than the usual. The story apparently is that a 17-year-old boy comes into the house to discover his 22-year-old married sister signing a letter and handing it to her father; the letter containing a […]

“Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori”. Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. If only Virgil was an Iraqi, he might’ve seen it differently today…
Even dating is perilous in polarized Baghdad.
The new taboo on Sunni-Shiite romances is only one of many impediments to love in this war-ravaged country. Religious authorities have […]

What I wanna know is why people brought swords to a wedding…
IRBID (Petra) â?? A pre-wedding party for a young groom in Irbid took a turn for the worse following an altercation between attendees this week. A fight between relatives and friends of 25-year-old man culminated when a man brandishing a sword attacked […]

I’m hoping this is just a case of a crazy man acting independently and not affiliated with AlQueda.
A British tourist has been killed and five others wounded when a man opened fire on them in Amman, a Jordanian government spokesman said. The other tourists injured in the attack were two British women, an Australian woman, […]

I can’t believe I almost missed this post. I didn’t find out about it till I was surfing the Democracy Now! site. Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar from Raed in the Middle had an out of this world experience when he was not allowed on board a flight at JFK for wearing a t-shirt with Arabic […]

It was actually never until a year or two ago that I had ever heard of mosques being blown up by different sects.
Recently I had a discussion with a group of Muslim friends about topical issues. The conversation quickly took a turn to the sectarian violence in Iraq upon which one brother blurted out: “it’s […]

Knowledge can be deadly sometimes; let the stupidity continue…
BAGHDAD — Mohammed Shakir has been selling newspapers from his stall on the right bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad for 20 years.
He used to offer a selection from all of Iraq’s political movements and parties - but no more. In his majority Sunni neighborhood […]

All Muslims and/or brown-skinned people should arrive at the airport 6 hours prior to their flight for advanced screenings. For your convenience please follow the “Brown’s Only” signs to the nearest interrogation room.
LONDON - As airport security tightens, checkpoint lines grow and tempers fray amid fears of devastating airborne attacks, more and more Britons are […]

Wednesday was a fairly surreal day for me. Tuning into morning television to see if there was any new news from the Middle East I was shocked to discover that the American media was preparing its viewers for Armageddon. Realizing I didn’t have any flashlight batteries or canned goods in the house I wondered what […]

Say what you will about the IOF or Israelis for that matter, but when it comes to supporting occupation and killing they’ve perfected it to a fine art…including the kosher toppings.

On behalf of the soldiers of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), we wish to thank the many, many people the world over who have sent […]

AMMAN â?? A 26-year-old Jordan Valley woman was hacked to death by her mother and sister after delivering a baby out of wedlock, an official told The Jordan Times Saturday.
The criminal prosecutor on Saturday charged the 69-year-old mother and her daughter with premeditated murder, the official said. The victim reportedly received multiple axe wounds to […]

If this doesn’t make you laugh then you’re just not having enough fun in your life…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as “pizzas” which will now be known as “elastic loaves,” state media reported Saturday.

The […]

A lone gunman burst into a Jewish organization in downtown Seattle on Friday, killing one woman and wounding five others in what authorities were calling a hate crime.
The gunman is a U.S. citizen, and police said initial contacts with him by phone while he was inside the building indicated that he was a Muslim.
Amy Wasser-Simpson, […]

Oh dear…
MOGADISHU — Mogadishu’s new rulers, the Union of Islamic Courts, have promised to implement Islamic Sharia law and vowed to kill anyone failing to perform daily Salaad prayers.
Mogadishu’s Shabelle Media Network Radio reported on Wednesday that the Union of Islamic Courts intended to implement Sharia law throughout the country and particularly in Mogadishu, […]