Hamza Kashgari, a young journalist has caused a wide anger among Saudis when tweeting on the Mawlid (the Holy Prophet’s birthday). His tweets included his opinions about the prophet, how he’s equal to him and how he hated some of …
Posted in Activism, Atheism, Censorship, Current Events, Freedom of Speech, Islam, Media, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Society, Taboos | Tagged blasphemy, hamza, prophet, Saudi, Twitter | 8 CommentsI recently found myself interested in the roles of women in Islamic (Arab) societies. There is no doubt that women are extremely oppressed with everything that makes them human being shunned away and buried by overuling men. I even found …
Posted in Islam, Sex, Society, Taboos | Tagged Arab, Egpyt, Islam, Lebanon, Middle East, Religion, Saudi, Sex, Syria | 4 CommentsIn the occasion of Bayram (Eid al-Adha) Thank you, God Just approximately a year and a half ago, there were soft, vital and green fingers, were doing their best for 6 months to build the foundations of a successful marriage …
Posted in Islam, Religion | Tagged eid, Islam | 12 CommentsWell….now comes the hardest part, building a nation. For the sake of simplicity I will use the example of Libya. With all the diverse demographics how will the Libyans come together to build the ideal democracy? Arabs, by no fault …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Awareness, Education, Islam, Middle East, Philosophy | Tagged Islam, secular, secularism | 1 CommentIran aside, all Middle Eastern countries might freely choose Islamic states. The choice is due to an identity pride in their people’s collective conscience. It is formed by emotion, tradition and history, not rationality. Rationality is a new paradigm shift …
Posted in Iran, Islam, Middle East | Tagged Iran, Islam | 2 CommentsIn the seventies and eighties of last century, militant Islamist opposition appeared, which was the strongest of the opposition movements, which was able to challenge the July militarist regime… This opposition reached its peak on October, 1981, when it assassinated …
Posted in Arabs, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Egypt, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, History, Islam, Israel, Nationalism, Politics, Regional Issues, Religion, Society, Taboos, Terrorism, War | Tagged antimilitarism, Egypt, Israel, Maikel Nabil, pacifism | 1 CommentBefore the status of women in Islam can be determined, the religion itself must first be analyzed separately from the cultures and practices in “Islamic” countries—most notably, those in the Middle East.
Posted in Afghanistan, Culture, Culture and Society, Gender, Human Rights, Iran, Islam, News and Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Society, Women | 2 CommentsA Kurdish activist, Sherko Moarafi, is in danger of being executed in Iran for “enmity against God” for his alleged membership in a proscribed Kurdish organization. Moarafi was detained in October 2008, transferred to a solitary confinement in the death …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Culture, Current Events, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iran, Islam, Kurdistan, Kurds, Middle East, Petitions, Racism | 3 CommentsI seek refuge with Allah from the evil insinuations of The Rejected, Accursed, Shaitan. With Allah’s name, The Merciful Benefactor, The Merciful Redeemer, As-Salaam-u alaikum! Where is God (اللهُ, Allah), and why should I care? Allah tells us clearly there …
Posted in Islam | Leave a commentHas the “domino effect” in favor of democratization begun to take hold or will this become a mirror image of so many protests that have taken place in the mid-east but have ultimately been brutally put down?
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Egypt, Islam, Tunisia | Tagged Democracy, democratization, Egypt, Islam, Kurdistan, Middle East, protests, riots, transparency | 2 Comments