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, […]

Civilians getting killed is just a lamentable side effect of spreading democracy in the Middle East. The upset stomach and diarrhea of freedom, if you will.

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The Daily Mirror has the full transcript but here is an excerpt

BUSH: Yo, Blair - how are you doing?
BLAIR: I’m just…
BUSH: You’re leaving?
BLAIR: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy. This is a reference to discussions on agreeing a new international trade deal through the World Trade Organisation.
…..
BUSH: You see, the thing is […]

…and how the Kempinski hotel at the Dead Sea is going to help…

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Sorry to non-Flickr users. These pictures were by way of my dear sister who also suggested the title of this post. Frankly, it’s great to see that multi-national companies such as Kempinski are setting up in Jordan. It’s also great to […]

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, […]

Granted that I’ve made my own fake IDs’ in my time, but even a 16 year-old would choose a photo a little less…I dunno…conspicuous?
Dubai: A salesman faces trial for forging a labour card by pasting Hollywood actor Brad Pitt’s photo on it and an Arabic name.

The 29-year-old Jordanian, T.H., said he did not know whose […]

I freaked out when I read this, the kind of freaking out that results in hair pulling but currently my hair is too short to pull so I slapped myself hard to make sure I wasn’t dreaming…
Jordan’s Al-Dastour newspaper reports that the Department of Publications is taking Jordanian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah to court over his […]

Strange how seven black men, who were charged for “building an Islamic army”, actually worshipped Jesus. Some will still blame Islam, I blame weed. The Daily Show puts a few things in perspective…

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Persian? Arabian? Come on, it’s just a body of water…so let’s compromise…The Perabian Gulf!
TEHRAN, Iran, AP -Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely “the Gulf” in a map published in the latest edition, state television reported Wednesday. It is the second time in two years that Iran has banned […]

A few days ago Wael had a post entitled “The Largest Sofa in Town” about a sofa he saw on the side of the street in Khalda. Today while surfing the net I discovered that the sofa measures seven metres long and two metres tall, took about seventy metres of material and two weeks to […]

Very disturbing…
RIYADH, 19 June 2006 â?? Police in Riyadh arrested an expatriate who was watching a pornographic film in a mosque compound in the Al-Naseem district of Riyadh, Al-Watan daily reported yesterday. The man was caught watching the film during afternoon prayers on Thursday. Worshippers and policemen who were praying at the mosque heard bizarre […]

According to Robert Fisk, as a Brown-Skinned Muslim Canadian, I should be ‘checking the airline timetables for a flight out of town.’
This has been a good week to be in Canada â?? or an awful week, depending on your point of view - to understand just how irretrievably biased and potentially racist the Canadian press […]

Yesterday, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Pentagon and Congress to investigate the four-minute video posted in March on the youtube.com website.

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2,000 Jordanians protested in front of the parliament today (God I wish I was there), denouncing terrorism and mainly the act of those 4 IAF (Islamic Action Front) MPs who went to Zarqawi’s funeral to offer their condolences and praise him as a â??martyrâ?. It was obviously not such an organized protest as it was […]

…Aljazeera? Its constant anti-Jordanian sentiment.
In a recent article entitled “Jordan Detains Islamist Deputies” it had the following to say about Zarqawi:
Jordan brands al-Zarqawi as a terrorist and says he is the mastermind behind the triple hotel bombings that killed 60 civilians last November.
First of all, he is a terrorist with or without Jordanian “branding”. Second […]