It is hilarious how British left which has doubled in volume its attacks on News International and Rupert Murdoch since the latter announced the launch of the Sun On Sunday, are in total panic.
There are frantic illogical attacks on any professional journalist or politician welcoming the launch of the new paper. The British left find the the tabloid press its popular investigative role on behalf of Mr and Mrs average British taxpayer, draining the swamp of taxpayers fund in which the left happily exist, hence the British left’s final aim is destroying the tabloid by turning the Leveson into a witch hunt against Fleet Street.
It is hilarious how British left which has doubled in volume its attacks on News International and Rupert Murdoch since the latter announced the launch of the Sun On Sunday, are in total panic.
There are frantic illogical attacks on any professional journalist or politician welcoming the launch of the new paper. The British left find the the tabloid press its popular investigative role on behalf of Mr and Mrs average British taxpayer, draining the swamp of taxpayers fund in which the left happily exist, hence the British left’s final aim is destroying the tabloid by turning the Leveson into a witch hunt against Fleet Street.
Many journalists are wrongly linking Kuwait parliamentarian elections with the daft expression “arab spring,” and relate liberals and women losing seats to rise of Islamism comparing it with Muslim Brother’s gains in Egypt. They can’t be more wrong, the election has little to do with neither.Kuwaiti elections on Thursday produced a fragmented parliament( national assembly )dominated by opposition ( the nearest definition since there are no political parties in the oil rich small Gulf nation), as 34 of the 50 members are known to oppose the government.
On Monday 23 January 2012, Egyptian parliament elected the first Islamist speaker in its 188 years history, while one Islamists member added his own ‘conditions’ to the traditional oath of allegiance to the nation which every MP is required to give at the end of their maiden speech. As each MP vows to give his full support and allegiance to the nation, its constitution and laws, an Islamist MP added ‘as long as they don’t contradict Allah’s laws’. It was evident to many that not all Islamists, accused by liberals and nationalists of ‘pretending’ to accept parliamentarian democracy as means to an end not as a political system, can manage to stick to the script until the end of act one. (more…)
In what appear to be a slow reversal of fortunes, the very conservative Saudi soceity, seem to be slowly but steadily benfeting, in an indirect way, from which has been spared the revolutions that swept Tuinisa, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, eventhough there has been no mass protest in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi king has been pushing reforms and ushring, modest, but effective steps to modernise his conservative society. In contrast, the most remarkable of all revolutions, the Lotus revolution, sparked in Tahrir Square on January 25 last year, seem to have uncertain future as the voters, seduced by some meaningless slogans about Islamic values have replaced Mubarak’s dictatorship, with a most backward totalitarian dictatorship.
In ordering Egyptian police to storm the offices of 17 human rights groups and NGOs ( Non-governmental organisations)on Thursday ( Dec 29), the ruling military junta sticks up two fingers to President Obama’s administration and to the United States Congress as well silencing internal voices of criticism. A muted response, that didn’t go beyond empty rhetoric exposes president Obama’s weakness and cast doubt on his commitment to democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. (more…)
Ten years passed since the tragedy of 9/11, during which some lessons have been learned and many lessons missed both in the Britain (and the west in general) and in Islamic nations. Remarkably, same errors of the past have been, and still, being repeated.
the fall of col Gaddafi’s 42 year dictatorship is so far the most remarkable and optimistic news for revolutionaries and reformists in Middle East and North Africa region (MENAR). It is even better news for humanity and the future of democracy than those heralded by the two, half successful, Jasmine and Lotus Revolutions in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt.
They played a most crucial rolem and without NATO air campaign Gaddafi would have won.
British special forces helped by other commonwealth forces as well as some French must be given credit for training the Libyan rebel forces ( Freedom Fighters as they like to be called)0n the ground and directing them.
six month go president Barak Obama described the Lotus Revolution as ‘ an inspiration for the whole world’ when from January 25 and over 18 days, they Egyptian overthrew their pharaoh for the first time in 7000 years, by mass largely peaceful means. Last month’s events lead liberal secular Egyptians who made the revolution fear a free-fall into totalitarianism
A Mubarak factus est vile tricephalus Aegypti: As soon as I heard the news of the arrest of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and his two sons, Gamal and Ala’a; the Latin expression ‘Vile Tricephalus’ came to mind : Is it a trucephalus scapegoat diverting attention away not only from the Military abuse of power and violation of human-rights but also, worse still, pulling the wool over the eyes to hide a sophisticated wider conspiracy? Different parties, especially the innocent revolutionaries, received news of the Mubaraks’ arrest with gratifying vengeful jubilance, taking it as the first signs of the victory of the Lotus Revolution. The national committee of the revolution called off the Million persons demonstration scheduled two days later, making Friday April 15, the first weekend without a demonstration in Tahrir Square this year.
Majority of Britons think Islam is unfair to women, lacks justice and is linked in their minds with extremism and terrorism, according to a recent opinion poll. The poll, conducted by You Gov on behalf of Explore Islam Foundation, a moderate Islamic organisation trying to promote Islam as a faith for peace and self discipline, found that 58% of Britons linked Islam with extremism while half of those asked associated the faith with terrorism. Last week’s poll also discovered that 69% of Britons believe Islam encourages the oppression of women while less than four of out ten asked thought Islam was having a positive impact on society. Only 13% believed it was a religion based on peace, while a mere six percent associated Islam with justice.
Left wing Egyptians have turned Egyptian popular diplomat, Mohamed El-Baradei’s London lecture into Farce……but he still walks tall and remains popular, thanks to public at large.
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and a hopeful candidate for 2012 Egyptian Presidency election, was in London tonight where he spoke for 20 minutes on need for change in Egypt and his hope for restoring democracy and rule of law that existed before the 1952 military coup.
The Liberal Democrats Conservative coalition is to put an Islamic style Niqab on their ‘Transparency’ promise, by blocking ministers’s media interviews
What happened to Gordan Brown today, was not just a ‘ Brown moment’ or the kind of gaffe that Prince Philip fires to keep us hacks amused, no it is an example of how New Labour own spin not just comes back to haunt them, but it’s made them captive to their own control freakery and their spin, their obsession with controlling situation and keeping the leader ‘on message’was to blame for what happened to Brown today. (more…)
Last month a cartoon in the Daily Telegraph depicted ‘Mr Middle Britain’ raising a finger covered in purple dye – the visual image of Iraq’s budding democracy among Britons – saying to his wife ‘ I have just voted to abstain in the coming election.’ (more…)
I was not planning to put this information on my blog, since I thought it to be a personal matter. but since my name has been mentioned, in the past few days, in the media both in print and in blogs and forums, in association with Just Journalism, an organisation from which I resigned as a director on 31 December 2008, I had to alert every one to the fact that I have nothing to do with the organisation any more. A significant part of the information published was wrong and some claims were false regarding both my identity and my association with Just journalism. (more…)
Please give Sarkozy a kick he remembers until the end of his EU presidency.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy heads to Dublin today trying to con the Irish into buying the famous ‘dead parrot’ after it was rejected when went on display in the Netherlands and they couldn’t find a buyer in his own land, even if they gave the dead parrot another name ‘EU treaty’ hoping to con customers that it was not the dead European constitution.
Events are shadows foretold before…. By Adel Darwish
The arena where Egyptian liberal opposition and the regime have been fighting each others seems to have changed. They moved the new phase of their increasingly heating, but still amusing to watch, struggle from the media screen, newspapers’ pages and the streets where heavy-handed police confront vigils and marches; into cyber space: blogs, facebook, you-tube and my- space have become the battle-ground for the virtual war of ideas, claims and counter claims…. events that were foreshadowed in the movie Matrix. (more…)
Egyptians at home and abroad are active in recovering their ancient identity as means of fighting corruption and linking a glorious past with the furure to bury an unhappy present.
Egyptians in London, and many cities from San Francisco to Sidney and from Oslo to Dubai, celebrated Egyptian New year’s eve on September 11.
The year 6248 ended, according to Egyptian calendar on 30th of Mesori, (Mesra in modern Coptic) 7 September while year, 6249 started on September 12 Gregorian calendar, 1st of Thoth(Thout in Coptic). Equivalent of Hermes in Greek mythology Thout is the Egyptian deity of knowledge, sciences, magic, and arbitration and the means by which Ra’s will was interpreted; it is ike the Logos of Plato.
Five days Pi Kogi Enavot (Nassii in modern speak) are squeezed between Mesra and Thout to complete the 365 days earth circling the sun. Inventing the solar year around 5000 B.C. the Egyptians divided it into 12 months of 30 days each, as accurate means of calculating hours of daylight and estimating the flow of Nile water (Thout 1st is the beginning of the river annual flood)in ordr to detrmine best time for sowing.
