While in Uganda to open a large mosque for the Muslim community…
Ugandan Church leaders have asked Christians to forgive Libya’s leader for suggesting the Bible was forged as it didn’t mention the Prophet Muhammad.
LOL!
Ugandan clerics pointed out the Bible was written before Muhammad was born.
ROFL!
At Kampala’s Christ the King Church, Monsignor Paul Ssemwogerere said: “Since […]

Folks, I know that those of us who are still sane have been massively affected by the “Messenger of Allah Unites Us” campaign in Jordan that is boycotting Danish products. Suddenly, Lurpak, our favorite butter is no longer sold in stores, and I know, I know, we were all shocked to our core when we […]

No one liked the last Lower House but this one is just acting retarded these days. AmmanNet, which is now Radio Al-Balad, has been banned from broadcasting the Lower House of Parliament sessions because apparently they’ve insulted MP’s. Apparently the “insult” came by way of a comment posted by a reader on January 29th.
According […]

Egyptian female judges can’t be alone
CAIRO — Egyptian women must not sit as judges because it would be against Islamic law or Sharia as they would have to spend time alone with men, a male Egyptian judge was quoted as saying Saturday. [source]
That was back in March, 2007. This week, comes this lovely news:
Women not […]

Brought to you by JPA President, Tareq Momani, in a Jordan Times article:
…But Jordan Press Association President Tareq Momani disagreed with the results of RWB’s index. He said Jordan stands at a position of “relative freedom of press”, explaining that on a scale of one to one hundred, the Kingdom would be around the 50s.
Me? […]

…Waiters at several coffee shops in the capital said the popularity of argileh increases “greatly” in Ramadan.
“Demand on argileh triples in Ramadan. Some young people who come to the Ramadan tents order argileh just to try it,” one waiter in a neighbourhood in west Amman told The Jordan Times.
But Bassem Hijjawi, director of the disease […]

I don’t know anymore. I would say it’s a sad day, but I can’t remember one that wasn’t. Long story short, the Jordanian government is going on, what can best be described as, an anti-online free speech jihad. A decision has been made to monitor websites (most likely including the rising popularity of blogs) and […]

One-fifth of Americans can’t find their own country on a map? A Miss Teen USA contestant tells us why…

And to think that once upon a time, American educational institutions were hotbeds for political dissent. Suffice to say, students protesting the war on Iraq in the same manner their grandparent’s did in the 60’s, is, well, […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…
Nancy held a press conference a few hours before her concert at the Radisson Sass in Amman, Jordan. As she was talking about her participation in the Jerash Festival and everything was going as planned, an Israeli Journalist from ‘ Yadiot Ahranot’ newspaper disrupted and asked Ajram a […]

The LA Times has an article about Ahmed Oweidi, an ex-MP who is head of a small political party, Jordan National Movement. I used to receive a lot of emails from their website for some reason and I guess they put me on a mailing list. I am pretty much at odds with a lot, […]

somewhere…in the corner of a very dark room…my childhood has curled itself into the fetal position while rapidly sucking its thumb.
Despite the sad realities of Israeli occupation, you would think Hamas would give its own country’s kids a chance at a childhood instead of a monochrome world view.

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I found this just plain old sad…
(Egypt) IN AN act of grotesque discipline, a primary school principal forced a female student who had flouted strictly-gendered uniform rules to remove her trousers in front of her schoolmates, compelling her to remain so exposed for the rest of the day, and confining the girl, bound hand-and-foot, to […]

Oh dear…
CAIRO — Egyptian women must not sit as judges because it would be against Islamic law or Sharia as they would have to spend time alone with men, a male Egyptian judge was quoted as saying Saturday.
A woman judge would “contradict Article Two of the constitution,” which states that the principal source of […]

Last month, North Korea conducted a nuclear test. How does the US respond: banning iPods (which are probably manufactured in China, which is alright by China since it is the biggest lender to the US war on Iraq).
The US is now targeting the lifestyle of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il and the families of his […]

When I saw this as the biggest headline on the BBC news site, I couldn’t help but slap my head in disappointment at the absurdity of such a statement. I mean at least the Pope didn’t use silly analogies. Maybe Hilali should’ve quoted someone else saying it. In any case I have to say that […]

This is one crazy story about the family of Iraqis that died recently in Amman under mysterious circumstances. The following is what happened…
Amman - Jordanian security authorities have established that a love affair between a Jordanian and an Iraqi woman prompted the man to set his lover’s house ablaze at dawn on Wednesday, killing her […]