Today there are many who argue that giving Hezbollah the right to operate freely in the country is a must, either for the purpose of defending the country against Israel, or simply because they represent a segment of the population we do not want to sideline and risk plunging the country into civil war.
The argument [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Islam’
The Hezbollah trap
Posted in Politics, tagged Democracy, Hezbollah, Islam, Lebanon, Middle East, Religion, Resistance on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Broadcasting ignorance!
Posted in Journalism, tagged Arab World, Islam on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A fair share of the Arab airwaves today are dominated by quacks and pseudo-scientists selling their bogus theories on a whole host of things. Here is a good example from a television program talking about the importance of Mecca. When I first saw this, I did not know whether to laugh or cry. I just [...]
Buying protection for Lebanon’s Christians
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Christians, Hezbollah, Islam, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many Aounists today insist that their wise leader has chosen to side with Hezballah against March 14 because the latter are dominated by the Sunnis who are itching to turn Lebanon into a mini Saudi Arabia. They point to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that they signed with the Hezballah as an example of a [...]
Another episode of Islam being insulted
Posted in Society, tagged Islam, Religion on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is sad to read of another case of someone being arrested and punished for “insulting Islam”. The fact is this only happens to whites, westerners or Christians living in the Islamic world. Meanwhile, not a day goes by without a “Muslim” insulting their own religion. For example, in Iraq there is a whole culture [...]
The Muhammad drawings
Posted in Society, tagged Cartoons, Islam, Religion on September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Its been over a year and a half since the Muslim world was up in arms about a series of images published in a Danish newspaper claiming to represent the Prophet Muhammad. While the Islamic world seems to have forgotten this episode, in Denmark it remains an event which defines for them “who Muslims are”. [...]
Dogma in public life
Posted in Society, tagged Arab World, Cartoons, Islam on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the Middle East we define our public (and private) lives by dogmas in which we purport to believe strongly. They can either be religious or non-religious secular dogma. In most Gulf countries, for example, there is a strong dominance of Islamic dogma which appears to define everything, from the way people eat to how [...]
