mars 2012
149 billets
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Anouar Benmalek: French elections, the Arab...
Collateral Damage: Why has the question of relations between civilizations been raised in the French electoral campaign? Why did the UMP extend the anti-immigrant discourse to the relations between civilization when normally this discourse is centered on economic and security issues? Is it likely to have adverse effects on the foreign relations of France? France is generally perceived in the...
février 2012
94 billets
so much fear inside of me
Pakistan and Iran take the Oscars - great way to start the morning. Now off to take the train to Valencia.
Pakistan and Iran win Oscars
Islamists are taking over.
israel is PISSED because iran won the oscars ahead of them. YES!!!
i wonder what the republican house is going through now that pakistan and iran won a couple of oscar awards
Iran wins Oscar
Does this mean that Iran is getting bombed tomorrow morning?
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“To all the women in Pakistan working for your dreams, this is for you.” - Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy accepting the Oscar for best short documentary tonight, the first Pakistani ever to win.
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Biggest strike in human history
Le 28 Février 2012, une centaine de millions de travailleurs indiens s’abstiendront de se rendre au travail pendant vingt-quatre heures dans ce qui est susceptible d’être la plus grande grève de l’histoire du monde.
Hundred million workers in India are going on strike, which will make it the biggest strike in history.
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globalwarmist a demandé : At least Israel isn't oppressing her OWN people which Pakistan never learned from East Pakistan. As for supporting militants, it's pretty complex (my humble opinion). Durand Line is a mess and splitting the Pashtun area was utterly reckless and unjust (Kurd, Baloch, Basque) especially since they are a distinct ethnic group who prioritize autonomy. The border is porous so both state...
globalwarmist a demandé : I meant in terms of the instability of the region, a lot of stuff that happens to Pakistan isn't her fault although other stuff is. As for East Pakistan, if this was 1970s, they'd wanna do the same to the Baloch, pretty sure about that - disgusting
globalwarmist a demandé : There's one similarity between Israel and Pakistan that I find hilarious: self-victimization whenever criticized. Obviously Israel's crimes are far worse but it's still there
globalwarmist a demandé : your Israel and Pakistan post, I actually found it confusing. Doesn't India represent the whole of Kashmir in its map as well? Israel's makes sense in the way that it actually occupies those lands, Kashmir is split so the maps are pretty stupid
If the Republicans come into office this year, then the Mayans were actually right about 2012.
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These days my fav topic is comparing Pakistan and Israel. Here’s one similarity:
Pakistan’s map, as issued by the state (the army, rather), includes the entire Kashmir as the part of Pakistan, the region which is occupied by India, as well as the part which is claimed by China.
Israeli maps show West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Golan Heights as the part of the Israeli...
thatprettyoddfeminist a demandé : well, i suppose i'm appeased. :) now you get a question: if you were in charge of proposing a solution for israel and palestine, how would that go?
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Fears grow for protracted war in Syria
Bassima Kadma said rebels were receiving military-grade communications equipment, bulletproof vests, night-vision goggles and medical gear with the help of international allies. Western officials said they were also considering providing the rebels, operating under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, with intelligence as well as sources of funding.
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But other western officials said...
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“The path of knowledge I traveled intensely. In the cricles of mystics I have...”
– Nasir al Din Tusi
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High-Altitude Surveillance Drones: Coming to a Sky...
Last week President Obama signed a sweeping aviation bill that, among other things, will open the skies to “unmanned aircraft systems,” more commonly known as drones.
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What, exactly, will these drones be able to see? A lot, as it turns out. They will record the route and speed of every vehicle on the streets. They will observe the movements of individual pedestrians. At night, they will...
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“One day he [Mangu] overheard a couple of his fares discussing yet another outbreak of communal violence between Hindus and Muslims.
“That evening when he returned to the adda, he looked perturbed. He sat down with his friends, took a long drag on the hookah, removed his khaki turban and said in a worried voice: “It is no doubt the result of a holy man’s curse that Hindus and Muslims keep...
What is an Orientalist?
Someone who writes and talks about the Middle East and Islam but does not know a thing about these societies.
Typical Muslims don’t know a damn thing about Islam and its history.
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Keep your eyes on Syria now that arms are being sent to the protestors
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Qatari - and perhaps Saudi - arms are being sent to Syria.
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‘Friends of Syria’ to push for forceful...
Highlighting the limits of diplomacy to end the violence so far, a source with the Syrian National Council, the main opposition grouping, said arms were already being ferried to rebels fighting Assad’s forces inside Syria.
“We are bringing in defensive and offensive weapons … It is coming from everywhere, including Western countries and it is not difficult to get anything through the borders,”...
I don’t understand why I don’t speak Arabic and Persian already
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Arms are already being provided to the protestors in Syria
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Yesterday I was talking to an Afghan friend of mine who lived for 10 years in Peshawar as a refugee. He told me that in mosques, during Friday prayers, the imam would pray for the same Islam to be in Pakistan as it was in Afghanistan. This was during the Taliban, before the American invasion. Well, the prayer was heard.
A slave can dance, but only to the rhythm of his chained ankles.
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In 2008 when Sarkozy took Bashar al-Assad as his bedfellow, Le Figaro - a right wing French newspaper - was told by the French government not to print anything about political prisoners in Syria.
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Apparently the West wants to bring democracy in Syria, the same countries that used to send suspected terrorists to secret prisons in Syria to be tortured.
Going to Spain again
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How to write about the Iranian nuclear issue
mak[e] the situation appear as if it’s a clash of civilizations, where an enlightened, rational, liberal, and democratic West is engaged with a backward, religious, and belligerent Iran from the East. The endeavor has so far been fruitless; the fatherly West has been unable to convince a childish Iran to forego its naïve claims to sovereignty. Iran still clamors to independently decide its...
Everytime you say « eye-ran » or « eye-rack » or « muz-lums » or any other such thing, 1.62 billion Muslims boil with anger and the world temperature increases. This is what is causing global warming. So please stop.
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“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” - Malcolm X
Rest in peace, Malcolm X
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And,...”
– A Psalm Of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Learn to labor and to wait
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Make sure to check out the Israeli Apartheid Week on your university campuses!
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Pro-Palestinian protest ends in violence in London...
Violence erupted yesterday on the campus of the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) following a pro-Palestinian protest staged by the university’s Palestine Society, according to the Beaver, the LSE Students’ Union newspaper. A mock wall was erected on the campus grounds as part of the “Israeli Apartheid Week” events to re-create the checkpoint system in Israel. Members...
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NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast...
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned. Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles (480 kilometers) away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover agent on a...
what’s the best country to go and study arabic during the summer ?
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I am also very worried about a lunatic, religious and reactionary state and its nuclear capabilities. This country is called Israel.
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Confusion about Palestine
Norman Finkelstein disappointed a few people after his outburst in an interview with Frank Barat regarding the BDS movement. Here are my replies to it:
When Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky say that hypocrisy of pro-Palestinian activists rises to heaven when they call for the boycott of Israel but not the same for the US, American universities, their products, etc., they simply ignore that an...
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How exactly does a club go from being the Invincibles to being in a shit like this ?
Arsenal are owned by two of the richest people in the world but the club still can’t put a cent into the team.
Saudi Arabia loves Israel.
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When Iran and Israel were friendly
The alliance, though never formalized or publicized because of Israel’s unpopularity in the region, consisted of deep intelligence and arms cooperation, as well as oil sharing. In the late 1950s, Israel, Iran and Turkey formed a trilateral intelligence alliance and performed counterterrorism intelligence operations. In the early 1960s, they teamed up to support Iraqi Kurds fighting the central...