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Posted in anti-semitism, Europe on Mar 17th, 2009
la la la la, things are different now! la la la!!!! March 17 (Bloomberg) — A study funded by Germany’s Interior Ministry showed that more than twice as many German boys belong to anti-immigrant or neo-Nazi groups than claim membership of the major political parties’ youth organizations. Out of more than 26,000 youths surveyed in [...]
Posted in Arab World, islam, Stone Age on Mar 17th, 2009
I guess the Mecca Governor’s definition of progress is quite different than mine. JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal yesterday denounced propaganda by certain westernized Muslims that Islam and Islamic values are the reason for the backwardness of the community. “Islam, on the contrary, is a religion of progress, civilization, justice, equality and freedom,” the [...]
Posted in israel on Mar 17th, 2009
Once again proving that for better for worse, Israel is the most (read: only) liberal and democratic state in the entire Middle East: homosexuals can now adopt children in Israel, and they can even go on maternity leave. (IsraelNN.com) Two recent precedent-setting cases have given male homosexual couples in Israel the right to adopt children [...]
Posted in Arab World, Science, Stone Age on Mar 17th, 2009
In yet more signs of the Muslim world’s regression back into the Dark Ages, the editor-in-chief for the Science and Technology journal in Turkey – traditionally known as a very modern, secular state – has apparently been fired for daring to publish a cover story on Evolution. Der Spiegel has an interview with Cigdem Atakuman, [...]
Posted in Arab World, islam, Stone Age on Mar 17th, 2009
Just days after Dubai announced its plans to crack down on couples holding hands, they’ve now jailed a British woman for three months for apparently committing adultery, an ‘honour crime’ according to Dubai law. DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) A British woman faced losing her children after Dubai’s top court rejected her second appeal and sentenced her to [...]
Posted in Arab World, Stone Age on Mar 15th, 2009
Via Al Arabiya: DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) A Saudi intellectual is facing a strong wave of criticism for kissing a poet on the forehead in a literary seminar, local press reported Saturday. Khadeeja Najea, head of the women’s committee of the poetry forum in the southwestern city of Jizan, kissed septuagenarian poet Mohamed al-Ali on the forehead [...]
Posted in anti-semitism, Europe on Mar 15th, 2009
Just a reminder that it’s not only Muslim fanatics that hate Jews. This was a brutal, blatant act of anti-Semitism in St. Petersburg that has left a child in the hospital. My heart goes out to the family and the victim. Let this serve as a reminder that calls of “Death to Jews” and “Hitler [...]
Posted in anti-semitism, Europe on Mar 14th, 2009
Nazism is alive and well in Slovakia’s capital: (AP) Riot police have used force to disperse a rally by ultranationalists and neo-Nazi radicals in Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital.Several hundred gathered outside the presidential palace in downtown Bratislava on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the time Slovakia served as a puppet state to Nazi Germany [...]
Posted in Arab World, islam, Stone Age on Mar 14th, 2009
Dancing or holding hands in public could now score you a prison sentence in the Arab world’s apparently most progressive and Western-friendly state. From my favourite, Arab News: DUBAI: Playing loud music, dancing, nudity, kissing and even holding hands in public is considered inappropriate behavior under new guidelines laid down by the authorities of Dubai, [...]
Posted in israel, Science, technology on Mar 13th, 2009
Yet another reason to boycott Israel. Israeli ingenuity and invention could potentially produce a global revolution in solar electricity generation. The solar energy market has generally been divided into photovoltaic (PV) solar power and large-scale solar thermal power plants – until now. Aora Solar, part of the E.D.I.G. Group, has developed a small-scale hybrid solar [...]