Kuwait Detains Sunni Blogger for Anti-Shia Comments
Twitter censorship: Kuwaiti Mohammad al-Mulaifi is not the first and won't be the last to be arrested for 'controversial' tweets. (image source: "theverge.com")
Kuwaiti detained for 21 days for his tweets, amid calls to have his citizenship revoked
With tough rules on what can be said and what can't, social media has become a bit of a black hole in the Middle East. Kuwaiti national Mohammad al-Mulaifi's anti-Shia comments qualify him to enter the pantheon of 'controversial' Middle Eastern Tweeps.
"Twitter has become something of a minefield in the Middle East. While tweeters have served prison sentences, Saudi Journalist Hamza Kashgari could be facing a far more serious sentence due to statements he made on Twitter."
"Twitter has become something of a minefield in the Middle East. While tweeters have served prison sentences, Saudi Journalist Hamza Kashgari could be facing a far more serious sentence due to statements he made on Twitter."
Source: The Next Web
The ‘Arab Spring’, or the ‘Great Arab Secularist Disappointment of 2011/2’
With its light-hearted name and revolutionary spirit, the Arab Spring exploded onto the pages of history books. But who will be tagged under epic fail in said history books? The secularist left-wingers who have failed to mobilize and speak directly to the people, according to this blogger.
"It is this last point that more than anything explains the failure of secularist Arabs to capitalise on the uprisings to push for wider reforms and mount serious attempts at taking power. It became clear from the beginning that Arab secularists are far more skilled at speaking to the international media than to their countrymen and women."
"It is this last point that more than anything explains the failure of secularist Arabs to capitalise on the uprisings to push for wider reforms and mount serious attempts at taking power. It became clear from the beginning that Arab secularists are far more skilled at speaking to the international media than to their countrymen and women."
Source: Karl reMarks
Classic burger joint... the truth is out.
With Lent around the corner, all sorts of chains are coming up with seafood menus. This Lebanese blogger's problem? These chains advertising these menus could be more straightforward behind the oh-so sudden emergence of seafood a la carte. What's wrong with saying 'for Lent'?
"Why suddenly there's a proliferation of ads about fish menus? Because of the above mentionned reason naturally. Somehow everyone is too shy to say it. And even went a bit further than expected visually and inserted the fish symbol as early Christians used to draw it..."
"Why suddenly there's a proliferation of ads about fish menus? Because of the above mentionned reason naturally. Somehow everyone is too shy to say it. And even went a bit further than expected visually and inserted the fish symbol as early Christians used to draw it..."
Source: Beirut NTC
The Lebanese Celebrities Wedding Album
Celebrity weddings are always a spectacle, but nobody does them like the Lebanese. Ivy from Lebanon shares the wedding pictures of some of the more prominent Lebanese celebs. Some are beautiful; others are trashy, but all are very Lebanese.
"Some look like puff-pastries others look like little girls playing dress up at second hand bridal stores. One can’t help what wonder what the hell were they thinking but hey, if the Lebanese Politicians get to do it, why can’t these divas give it a go?"
"Some look like puff-pastries others look like little girls playing dress up at second hand bridal stores. One can’t help what wonder what the hell were they thinking but hey, if the Lebanese Politicians get to do it, why can’t these divas give it a go?"
Source: Ivy Says
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The Koran condemns "schismatics" in no uncertain terms, who are the ones going on with "Sunni" this or "Shia" that .. real Moslems cast truth at falsehood, according to the following stricture in the Koran.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Cast truth against falsehood
The Koran: Chapter 21, verse 18
And despise schismatics, and false Moslems who fail to "cast truth" about equally .. 60,000 or so Jews failed to turn up for work at the WTC, 11 September 2001, whence allegedly hijacked aircraft, were flown into the World Trade Center in New York.
In an attack blamed on Arabs, which became the impetus for the current wars against all and sundry, in the name of the War on Terror .. Mossad agents filming the drama amid “evident Jewbilation,” and Put Options on airline stocks, that made hundreds of millions traced to Mossad HQ in Yisrael, says Jews did it.
http://s60.radikal.ru/i169/1003/f7/5dbc426c4403.gif .. Cruise Missile at the Pentagon on 911 .. http://s014.radikal.ru/i329/1102/51/ee7df9707ac5.gif .. Guided Missile at the WTC in New York on 911.
I similarly castigate all Persian, Iranian, Middle Eastern, Indonesian, and the Atalanta and Chicago False Moslem congregations in the United States, as unbelievers of the worst kind, for similarly failing to "cast truth," in a matter of such vital importance as illegal war!
Agriculture, writing, and the domestication of animals, all originated in the Tigris Euphrates region called Iraq, the tribes that have been located there since the time of Adam, are the Sunni.
The Shia are every one else, the Sunni are often don’t do the manual chores, so they have been bringing in workers from other places for centuries, these workers do not usually attend Sunni mosques, which are most often built and maintained by a single extended family.
They usually attend to their religious affairs, in Mosques that are located in working class areas of the city, that have become known as Shia Mosques.
At no time has war or conflict between the two sectors of society, been permitted, either under secular law, or within the strictures of Islam, and all parties are aware, that murder is met with speedy and deadly retaliation, according to the instruction in the Koran.
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