Category: Ridiculous

Changes in Pakistan; If Col. Gaddafi Leaves

Posted on by Syed Abdul Wahab Gilani (Pakistan)

Revolution; the so-called, shook the most of Islamic world monarchies. Everyone in Pakistan is eying for the same here. Many bloggers, columnists, journalists, and writers of various domains are arguing on the premise of its possibility. Well, I am not …

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From Munni to Mumtaz

Posted on by Arfa Shahid Siddiqi (Pakistan/UAE)

I was asked to write about my take on Salman Taseer’s murder. At this point, I’ve decided that anything is possible. The state of anarchy that humans have reached, anything can happen. And nothing shocks me anymore. For those who don’t …

Posted in Activism, Christians, Demonstrations, Ethics, Human Rights, Islam, Media, Politics, Religion, Ridiculous | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

A Message To The Turkish Hacker(s)

Posted on by Ahmad H. Aggour (Egypt)

Not so long ago, MEY along with other sites it powers was taken down for a while by Turkish hacker(s), who stated that their reason for taking down the site was because of how it stands up for Kurdish rights. …

Posted in Assholes, Kurdistan, Kurds, Nationalism, Ridiculous, Turkey | 4 Comments

"Greens" on the Fire !!

Posted on by Sami, the beduin.

The Carmel Forest near Haifa city is blazing in fire since two days and the unstopped wildfire has resulted in 42 deaths and the burning of over 650 hectares of pine trees. Despite the regional and international firefighting teams and …

Posted in Arabs, Awareness, Culture, Current Events, Environment, General, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Politics, Ridiculous | Leave a comment

Education enhances conflict in Sudan

Posted on by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

Education often creates peace and reconciliation. In Sudan, the schools reinforced the deep and bloody conflict between north and south.In Sudan, education is an engine for the division between south and north, because the ideological differences are so large, An …

Posted in Culture and Society, Education, News and Politics, Ridiculous, Sudan | 3 Comments

Waleed Al Husseini is the New Kareem Amer!

Posted on by Marwa Rakha (Egypt)

Egyptian blogger Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman Amer, also known as Kareem Amer was sentenced to four years in prison; three for insulting “God” and one for insulting “the Egyptian President”. Amer should have been released last week after serving the …

Posted in Atheism, Bad news, Censorship, Civil Rights, Culture, Current Events, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Islam, Minorities, News and Politics, Palestine, Ridiculous, Society, Taboos | Tagged , , , , , | 15 Comments

Photoshop and False Egyptian Reality

Posted on by Shahrazad (Iran)

At this visible attempt of deceit one wonders if anything in the Egyptian media is not made to suit the ruling Pharaoh?

Posted in Censorship, Democracy, Egypt, Media, Politics, Ridiculous, USA | Tagged | 1 Comment

When You Have Something Racist to Say!

Posted on by Syed Abdul Wahab Gilani (Pakistan)

I can recall my marketing class lecture when the lecturer told us an interesting thing about communicating advertisement, i.e. “Whenever you have an idiotic thing to say, just sing it –Jingle”. However, things seem to have changed lately. Now we …

Posted in Civil Rights, Democracy, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Islam, Islamophobia, Racism, Religion, Ridiculous | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Fatwa of the Day

Posted on by Elie - FTLebanon

[...] I started a new segment titled “Fatwa of the Day” [on my blog]. Every couple days I submit a post that discusses a certain Fatwa by a certain religious scholar [...]
[...]Here are the Fatwa’s I’ve posted so far [...]

Posted in Censorship, Egypt, Entertainment, Freedom of Speech, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Humor, Islam, Middle East, Religion, Ridiculous, Satire, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Sexism, Taboos, Women | 12 Comments

MTV – "True" Life (pt. 1/3)

Posted on by Lou (Saudi Arabia)

[ This is a series of 3 blogs that i wrote during the past week or so.. This part of the blog was written before seeing the full episode, reflecting on my initial reactions to it ] Recently, MTV Arabia …

Posted in Arabs, Culture, Culture and Society, Entertainment, Ethics, Events, Freedom of Speech, Gender, Islam, Media, Music, Regional Issues, Ridiculous, Saudi Arabia, Sexism, Society, Women, Youth | 1 Comment