ABC / CBS / CNN (in alphabetical order) and other USA Channels

Sunday 4th November

I watched George W. Bush on the above-mentioned various channels and heard his speech (not all, but enough of it) to The Heritage Foundation (members) a couple of days ago and I must say I was impressed!

The gist of – what he implied and what I inferred from – his speech was:

* America needs to know what the terrorists are planning – not the Americans

* Americans need to know and believe they’ve got a president and his government who are doing their jobs, facing their responsibilities, meeting their obligations, and doing what they have to do, in the best way they can, for them. In other words, after you’ve voted for a person, you get off his back and let him do his best to the best of his knowledge and ability; you do not get on his back and dig your spurs into his sides!

* The De-Mock-Rats would say they’re hiding things (or holding things back) from the people, and that the people need to know everything the government is doing, or planning and/or going to do. Well, that may do for all domestic and/or internal affairs or matters, but not for all foreign and/or external affairs or matters; especially when it concerns dangers and threats to the homeland, The War against Terror, and the Fight against Despotism and Tyranny as opposed to Democracy.

* Also – and this is very important – Americans must know, or be told or informed, that there are several – too many, if you ask me – elements amongst them – and in the very heart of the homeland – who wittingly (paid to do it) or unwittingly (out of ignorance and naivety) help the terrorists, despots, and tyrants.

* Bush and his team have taken the fight – or the battle – to the enemy so Americans won’t have to fight them in the beloved homeland – remember 9/11 and the passengers and crew of Flight 93 who chose to do and/or die rather than let the terrorists reach their intended target – which was the White House.

* Those that think and believe – and FART – that America and her allies – and all they stand for – are not at war are either naïve, obtuse, and ignorant, or choose to bury their heads in the sands of their illusions and misunderstanding of the situation and/or what is actually going on all over the world; or else they’re working for the enemy – wittingly or unwittingly.

* Funding for troops delayed and decreased while complaints about and over troops hurried and increased, and troops and commanders harried.

* If Heritage is something, or a state, transmitted by or acquired or inherited from a predecessor, then Bush’s government is one whose heritage – not what they inherited from that lying, cheating, thieving, sneaky schmuck of a scumbag cook (he cooked the books) – is vision, foresight, strength, and boldness; and the will to do the right thing.

* Concerning the post of Attorney General and the right person to fill or fit the post; and Legal and Illegal Torture………

From here on, dear readers and fellow-Apes, it’s I, myself and me; Daniel: What’s the difference? Very slight indeed! An Attorney General is only an Elevated Decorated Lawyer; and every Lawyer is a Liar. The only very slight difference is: he’ll lie for the one who gave him the post, and lie to the others.

Me: What’s the difference between a lawyer and a whore?

Mama: No difference. They both lie to live.

Torture: The studied and systematic infliction of intense pain and/or extreme discomfort to either punish or coerce someone; or to extort a confession or obtain crucial information.

Also, and by the way, what the FUCK in hell do they mean by LEGAL TORTURE and ILLEGAL TORTURE? Whoever ever heard of LEGAL or ILLEGAL TORTURE?

What the FUCK are we talking about here; MURDER and/or MANSLAUGHTER?

What the FUCK difference does it make to the victims and their families and relatives?

Are we lawyers in court trying to reduce the punishment or sentence of confessed and convicted criminals by bandying words around? Legal and/or Illegal Torture! WHAT NONSENSE! BY GOD!

To us, it is Illegal Torture when they torture our people and Legal Torture when we torture theirs; and to them, it is Illegal Torture when we torture their people and Legal Torture when they torture ours! That’s all.

SO ENOUGH HORSE-SHIT! BY GOD AGAIN!

PS It amuses me the way third-rate Clown-Comedians like David Litter-man Letterman brings on male and female ass-holes to say and do things – perform monkey-antics – to cover up for the several times when guests on his show actually told him and other guests off and even insulted him.

How transparent! He may fool the audience and the rest of you viewers out there, but he doesn’t fool me a single iota! I’ll say one thing for him, though; his tongue-in-cheek attitude, since he sticks his tongue in his cheek every time. Jay the Gay Leno de Luna was slightly less, but Jon Stewart is a lot more, obnoxious than Litter-man, and his guests are almost as bad as, if not worse than, he is! Hey! Don’t quote me on Jay being Gay since I don’t know! Gay rhymes with Jay. That’s all.

I watch Jon Stewart’s Lame Night-Show not because I like it, but because it exposes, reveals, and explains a lot of things to me! I’m willing to bet a bent buffalo nickel dipped in Horse-shit that he pays the audience to laugh.

Conan Oh-Brain O’Brian – a con-artist; short for counterfeit-artist and Oh! If only he had a brain! A scare-crow who stares at the audience and makes weasel-cracks at everyone – I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that he pays the audience to laugh, too! In fact, I’m willing to bet another bent buffalo nickel dipped in Horse-shit that he does. Wanna bet?

Bush is no politician, and it shows, BUT! He is no Wimp, either. If he is so clumsy and inefficient, how come the American ass-holes voted for him or chose him to be their president twice running?

What does that tell us about them? Was Bill The-Unpaid-Bill Clinton a better president? No way, José! Abraham Lincoln was the best president the USA ever had or will ever have; and Bill Clinton was the worst. As for Hilarious Hillary Clinton; she’ll have to go somewhere else to get her own back at her lying cheating thieving husband.

By the way, has Barrack Obama decided yet whether he’s white or black? Poor guy; it would be better for him if he did not become the next president of the United States of Adamant Asinine Ass-holes. Washington DC is a jungle into which fools rush where lions fear to go. BY GOD, ONE MORE TIME!

GEORGE W. BUSH – To Back Or To Hack A President. That Is The Question

ABC / CBS / CNN (in alphabetical order) and other US Channels/Websites

8th October 2007

BY GOD!

I hope the Democratic De-Mock-Rats were finally satisfied.

Let’s hope they can and will do better when, and if, they win the upcoming elections – withdraw, not only all The USA’s troops, but all USA citizens as well, from all over the world; then fill the larders, close and bolt the gates, close the shutters, draw the blinds, and hide in the shadows of their self-sufficiency and self-illusive-safety.

Instead of backing their president, the Americans have hacked him to pieces and reduced him to a nonentity, and made him the laughing stock of mad-men and terrorists and murderers!

And to think that a low-life scumbag liar, cheat, thief, cook, farter, and womanizer like Bill Clinton stayed and did and undid all that he did and undid at The White (Pale) House for two (or was it three) terms running, and he still struts around and FARTS FROM BOTH ENDS, and they still listen to and believe him!

GEORGE W BUSH – His speech on the War in Iraq in August 2007

Gleaned from The Guardian via AP via Naharnet Thursday 23^rd August 2007

President George Bush aptly compared a premature pullout from Iraq with the pullout from Vietnam – and the bloodshed and chaos that followed.

He said he would resist pressure from congress the following month for an early and ill-advised withdrawal. He signalled that US troops, whom he hailed as the greatest force for human liberation and hope the world has ever known would be in Iraq so long as he was president. He also said that the consequences of leaving without getting the jobdone would be devastating and that the enemy would follow them home.

Freedom's Watch, a conservative group, launched a $15m (£7.5m) advertising campaign in 20 states the day before, saying: It's not the time to quit. It's not the time for politics.

Bush had previously strenuously avoided making any explicit references to Vietnam. It was a gamble and a risk to remind Americans that Vietnam turned out to be a military quagmire and to remind them of the shambolic retreat or escape from the US Embassy rooftops in Saigon on the day a Black Hawk crashed in Iraq killing 14 US soldiers.

Daniel: It is true! Vietnam turned out to be not only a military quagmire but a moral and reputation destroyer: America! America! Was this you?  – which, of course, provided the politicians with butter for their breads, and provided the media with selected news, pictures, and scenes for their pages, screens, and air-time – BUT! Only because the USA leaders and politicians at the time thought it was only a game – albeit a War Game – and handled it as such.

Bush turned the argument around and made a series of contentious political parallels. He argued that US involvement in the Far East had turned it from a continent with only two democracies in 1939 – Australia and New Zealand – into a region where democracy was the norm: he mentioned Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam.

In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge began a murderous rule in which hundreds of thousands of Cambodians died by starvation, torture, and execution. Some historians argue that it was the US covert bombing of Cambodia that produced the Khmer Rouge rather than US withdrawal from Vietnam. Daniel: Horse-shit! It was the other way round! It was the fact that the Cambodians were being intimidated and suppressed, forced into accepting and adopting an ideological way of life, and starved, tortured, and executed when they refused, that prompted the USA to intervene. The savage murderous and merciless rule only increased because the USA had tucked her tail between her legs and slunk off – instead of staying and finishing the job.

Bush added that in Vietnam, former allies of the United States: government workers and intellectuals, and businessmen, were sent off to prison camps where tens of thousand perished. Hundreds of thousands more fled the country on rickety boats, many of them going to watery-graves in the South China Sea.

In his speech, he quoted advance excerpts from his forth-coming speech on Wednesday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and said that History would prove the Iraq war was right and worth it; and that he wanted a nation running short on patience with the Iraq war to take a good long strong look at it. He compared it to previous US involvements in Asia that lost popular backing but eventually proved their worth and led to lasting peace; and that the ideals and interests that led America to help the Japanese turn defeat into democracy were – or must be – the same that prompted the USA to remain engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The defence strategy that refused to hand the South Koreans over to a totalitarian neighbour helped to raise an Asian Tiger that is a model for developing countries across the world, including the Middle East.

Bush had often used historical comparisons in urging patience on Iraq, but White House aides hoped a specific focus on Asia will get skeptics to re-think their positions on Iraq and get beyond the daily violent setbacks there. He even cited Vietnam as a cautionary tale for those urging troop withdrawals today.

Three decades later, there was a legitimate debate on how the USA got into the Vietnam War in the first place, and how she left. Whatever their position in that debate was; one unmistakable legacy of the Vietnam War was that, the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to their vocabulary new terms like boat people, re-education camps, and killing fields.

Bush's speech at the VFW was the first in a planned two-punch combo.

After comparing the current war against extremists with the militarists of Japan and the communists in Korea and Vietnam in Wednesday's speech, he planned to discuss the war in Iraq in the context of its implications for the broader Middle East in a speech the following Tuesday at the annual American Legion convention in Reno, Nevada.

In the aftermath of Japan's surrender, many thought it was naive to help the Japanese transform themselves into a democracy. Critics complained after the USA had intervened to save South Korea from communist invasion. And in Vietnam, people argued that the real problem was the US presence there, and that the killing would end if they withdrew.

The advance of freedom in those lands should give us confidence that the hard work we are doing in the Middle East can have the same results we have seen in Asia – if the USA showed the same perseverance and sense of purpose.

My comments: If George W. Bush said all that, then I strongly advise the Adamant Asinine American Ass-holes to stop making fun of him – Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brian, and the other Clown-Comedians like Jon Stewart and his birds-of-the-same-feather obnoxious guests on his Lame-Night Show – AFTER GETTING OFF HIS BACK!

All the Americans – even his own people – at the time, made fun of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or Speech. Abraham Lincoln had to die to be vindicated; and for the United States of Adamant Asinine Ass-holes to appreciate and acknowledge him as the greatest President the USA ever had or will ever have – my not-so-humble opinion – and to include his short, brisk, and now famous speech among American Historical Documents in the Harvard Classics.

WHEN, HOW, AND FROM WHOM LEBANON GOT HER INDEPENDENCE – IT WAS A FART FROM THE START

It was an Upset from the Onset and a FART from the START

Lebanon was part of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years; in a region known as Greater Syria until 1918, when the area became part of the French Mandate of Syria following World War I.

On 1^st September 1920, France formed the State of Greater Lebanon as one of several ethnic enclaves within Syria. Lebanon was a Christian, mainly Maronite, enclave but it also included areas containing Moslems and Druze.

Six years later, on 1^st Sept. 1926, France formed the Lebanese Republic. The Republic afterwards became a separate entity from Syria but was still administered under the French Mandate of Syria.

Lebanon gained her independence in 1943, while France was occupied by Germany. The then Vichy High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon played a major role in the independence of the nation. The Vichy Authorities in 1941 allowed Germany to move aircraft and supplies through Syria to Iraq where they were used against British forces. The United Kingdom, fearing that Nazi Germany would gain full control of the region by exerting pressure on the weak Vichy government, sent its army into Syria and Lebanon.

The above paragraphs ought to give you – dear readers and Fellow-Lebanese-Apes – a clear and concise idea of the sneaky, slimy, and very questionable way in which this miserable country (Lebanon) got its independence on the 22^nd day of November, 1943; and not from France, but from the treacherous, traitorous, and treasonous Vichy Government that betrayed France and her allies during the German occupation in WW II. And now we all know HOW the Original Lebanese Constitution came to be and WHY it was such Fiasco, Folly, and Madness.

Under Lebanon's unwritten constitutional agreement, Al Mithaq Alwatani Horse-shit, the presidency is earmarked for a Maronite; the prime minister's post is reserved for a Sunni; and the parliament speaker's post is reserved for a Shiite. In other words; only this can be that, and only that can be this. In better words, and not to cut it short: A Black Cauldron of Stupidity, Banality, Inanity, Futility, and Iniquity; spiced by Greed, Egoism, Vanity, Vice; and a total lack of Honour, Dignity, Decency, and Patriotism.

Actually, Lebanon’s Constitution was first adopted on 23^rd May 1926; which makes the average decent and sensible citizen wonder whether it has ever been amended in more than eight decades, and whether the amendments were for the better or for the worse! Not only that. What have we today? A government composed of both incumbents and oppositions – like who are the gardeners and who are the watchmen? Both!

Vichy France, or the Vichy Regime, is the common term used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. That government, which succeeded the Third Republic, officially called itself the French State, L'État Français, in contrast with the previous designation, French Republic. Marshal Philippe Pétain proclaimed the government following the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany during World War II and the vote by the National Assembly on 10^th July, 1940. That vote granted extraordinary powers to Pétain, the last Président du Conseil (Prime Minister) of the Third Republic, who then took the additional title of Chef de l'État Français: Chief of the French State. He headed the reactionary programme of the so-called Révolution nationale, aimed at regenerating the Nation.

Pétain and the Vichy regime willfully collaborated with the German occupation forces to a high degree. The French police and the state Milice or militia organised raids to capture Jews and others considered undesirables by the Germans – including Arabs and other nationalities – in both the northern and southern zones.

It is no wonder, then, that all of the Lebanese Leaders and Politicians – from before so-called independence to date – turned out to be traitors to their country and betrayers of their people – each one worse than the one before except one, who gets worse and worse with each 6-year era of rule. Dear readers and fellow-Apes again; I repeat: It was an upset from the onset, and a FART from the START.

TRUE OR FALSE, BUT BELIEVE IT OR NOT: 8 INDICATIONS THE WORLD WILL END IN 2012

Scientific experts from around the world have genuinely predicted that a few years from now, all life on Earth could well end. Some have said it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause; but the religious fanatics say it'll be God himself who presses the stop button – Daniel: If non-existent God could press any buttons, he would have done it aeons ago; from the moment that non-existent Eve ate the non-existent apple, and later tempted non-existent Adam to eat it, too; and saved us all the pother and humbug of living on this tiny sorry dot in awesome space. Actually, I have always wondered how both Eve and Adam could eat the same apple. She must have plucked another one and given it to him – no wonder women are smarter than men!

BY NON-EXISTENT GOD AND SATAN!

1. Mayan Calendar

The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a blood-thirsty race that were good at two things: Building highly accurate astrological constructions out of stone, and sacrificing Virgins. They managed to calculate the period of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days thousands of years ago; only 34 seconds out – and with no scientific instruments, too. The Mayan Calendar predicts the world will end on 21^st December 2012. Given the fact that they were pretty close – too close – to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well – only 34 hours out?

2. Sun Storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy; it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.

3. The Atom-Pulverizing Tunnel

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically it’s a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-construction has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's probably a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They have predicted all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4. Religious Prophesies

As if having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough; religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012.

The I-Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing; and so do various sections of Hindu teachings.

The I Ching has been used for more than 5000 years as an aid to making decisions and predicting the future, etc. So, if nothing else, it is a long-standing and popular source of wisdom, knowledge, and inspiration.

5. Super Volcano

Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and the Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple; it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone Volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun, and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter-night that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6. Prediction by Physicists

This is a typical case of simple mathematics. Physicists at Berkley University have been crunching numbers, and they've determined that the Earth is long overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they claim their calculations prove that we're all going to die very soon. They also claim their prediction comes with a certainty of 99%; and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it will occur

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so – and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart, roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift right round the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field will be disrupted and will eventually disappear, possibly for up to 100 years. The result is enough Ultra-Violet Rays outdoors to burn skins to a crisp in seconds; killing everything.

In a few major bursts, the sun produces gamma rays with energies of up to a million electron volts. The interaction of high-energy electrons, protons, and nuclei of the sun, emit the rays. Gamma rays can also come from the sun and other stars in space, through the creation and death of stars along with the creation of solar flares. Astronomers have studied gamma rays to gain a better understanding of the astronomical process. To collect these waves, astronomers installed optical collectors with wide apertures at the Whipple Observatory. Gamma rays are a form of electro-magnetic radiation similar to x-rays. Gamma rays may carry millions of electron volts. As gamma rays pass through matter, they lose energy, but at the same time, knock electrons loose from the atom which ionizes them. Uranium and other naturally occurring radio-active elements, which emit alpha and beta particles from their nuclei while transforming into new elements, also emit gamma rays. Gamma-ray bursts can release more energy in 10 seconds than the Sun emits in its entire 10 billion-year lifetime! So far, it appears that all of the bursts that have been observed come from outside the Milky Way Galaxy. Scientists believe that a gamma-ray burst will occur once every few million years here in the Milky Way, and in fact may occur once every several hundred million years within a few thousand light-years of Earth. Studied for over 25 years now with instruments on board a variety of satellites and space probes, including the Soviet Venera spacecraft and the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, the sources of these enigmatic high-energy flashes remain a mystery. By solving the mystery of gamma-ray bursts, scientists hope to gain further knowledge of the origins of the Universe, the rate at which the Universe is expanding, and the size of the Universe.

8. An Un-invited Un-welcome and Un-wanted Visitor from Outer Space

An Asteroid – 7 miles long and 3.5 mile wide – could be, is actually, approaching the Earth even as the Mad-Zealots and Fanatics bray and bark and fart, and Human-Apes do nothing but grasp and fight over inane and banal trivialities. In 2012, you ask? Well, only they – the scientists – know, but I say: Why not? 2012 is as a good a year for it as any other year. This is not the sort of thing that scientists like to hide, but it is exactly the sort of thing that world leaders and politicians like to hide. Think of the sort of panic it would cause – Human-Apes are mad, vicious, and cruel enough as they are now! 

Daniel: A burst of gamma rays hitting the earth would mean the end, but it would be quick and merciful; and an asteroid of such dimensions hitting the earth – wherever at all – would mean the end as well, but it would be quick and merciful only for those close to the point of impact, and slow and painful for the rest of all life-forms.

So – dear readers and fellow-Apes – someone, or some people, ought to warn Osama Bin Ladin and all the other Mad-Zealots and Fanatics to leave the West alone and to treat them with more respect and courtesy, because they are Man-the-Ape’s only hope for survival, since only their scientists could possibly discover a solution or solutions to all of the above formidable threats to life on earth – the total extinction of all life-forms.

A word to the wise is enough, and a thousand words to the obtuse ought to be enough!

THE USA IS NOT IN THESE COUNTRIES: Hundreds of Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons IDPs! We thought there were IDPs only in Iraq and Afghanistan

Gleaned from IRIN-News / Plus-News Monday 25^th August 2008

Muqtedar Khan, Ph.D. of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, and the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy: “Before we rush to condemn America we must remember that even today, millions of poor, miserable, and down-trodden peoples all across the world are lining up outside US Embassies eager to go to America, not just to live there, but to become American citizens. No Moslem country – at present or in the past – could claim that people of other nations and other faiths saw it as a promise of hope, equality, prosperity, and dignity; and the chance to be whatever they chose to be, so long as they were prepared to work hard to be. Saturday 17^th February 2007

Oh ye narrow-minded Apes – Arabs, Arab-speaking, and all the rest – with your short-spanned attention and your memories like sieves! Read my posting: 309

COLOMBO: According to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), the national authorities, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), and local authorities in northern districts are pooling resources to enable thousands of displaced students to continue their education despite disruption by conflicts. Clashes between Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have escalated recently in the four northern districts of Mannar, Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, and Mulaitivu, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, including an estimated 12,000 students, most of whom were preparing to take their government exams this month.

* PHILIPPINES: UN appeals for peace as fighting escalates in south

MANILA: UN agencies have appealed for peace in the south where fighting between government forces and Muslim separatist rebels has escalated over the past two weeks and the number of Internally Displaced Persons is now over an estimated 270,000.

Daniel: You realise that estimated means less than the real figure since only those they were able to count were included. And! The figure is what it was more than a week ago, so you may guess what the figure is today, and even predict what it will be later.

On 22^nd August, a statement by the UN/IASC said civilian lives were at risk as a result of fighting between the army and the MILF: the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Mindanao. The Defence Secretary said government troops were closing in on the rebels, but told the public to prepare for a protracted battle. Meanwhile, the Global Rights – the Global Retches – Group, Amnesty International – Ass-holes Inebriated – has warned the government against creating additional civilian militias to support its offensive against the rebels in the south., and asked both sides to exercise restraint and make sure civilians are not harmed. The warning came after the Interior Department had said on 20^th August it was sending a cache of shotguns to arm civilians so that they could defend themselves from, and even hunt for, MILF fighters.

Daniel: UNICEF, Human and Global Rights, Amnesty International, Child-Sponsor Agencies, Women’s Rights – especially in Islamic Arab and Arab-Speaking Countries – and all the other con-syndicates: white-washed tombstones fronting rotten corpses! Where do these Miserable Monkeys come from and what do they take us for? If the MILF arm civilians and force them to fight – by threats, intimidation, and other means – it’s all right; but if the government arms civilians to defend themselves and hunt the MILF Mother-Fuckers, it’s not all right; actually, they are afraid of more civilian casualties because that would force them to dip into the funds, which they need for their own pockets and comforts; not all of us are Etc, and so forth and so on.

* SOMALIA: Humanitarian situation increasingly acute

NAIROBI, 27^th August 2008: According to humanitarian officials, an estimated 3.2 million people in urban and rural areas face extreme poverty, and the combined effects of escalating conflicts, civilian insecurity and instability has fuelled an economic crisis that has begun to have a wider and more devastating impact on the broader population, threatening to plunge the country into an even greater humanitarian disaster.

NAIROBI, 25^th August 2008: Islamic insurgents took total control of Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo, 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, after three days of intense fighting that displaced an estimate of thousands of families and killed 100 people.

* BURUNDI: FAO predicts serious food shortages

BUJUMBURA, 27^th August 2008: According to an official of the UN/FAO: UN Food and Agriculture Organization, parts of eastern and southern Burundi are threatened with acute food shortages following low agricultural yields compounded by an influx of returning refugees.

* ETHIOPIA: Thousands more displaced as floods spread

ADDIS ABABA, 27^th August 2008: Flash floods following torrential rains in Ethiopia's Gambella regional state have spread to four woredas or districts and displaced tens of thousands of people.

* ZIMBABWE: Hopes of a political settlement waning

Zimbabwe's economic crisis is set to worsen. Almost everything is in short supply and annual inflation has risen above 11%. Signs of political tension have resurfaced after a lull in the political violence that erupted following the March elections. The police also reported two bombings in the capital, Harare: in the first incident, earlier in August, several offices at Harare central police station were blown up; the second damaged a railway track 30km west of the city on 21 August.

* NEPAL: Over 40,000 Internally Displaced Persons face diseases and starvation

KATHMANDU 26^th August 2008: Over 40,000 people were displaced by flooding in Nepal’s Sunsari District, 500km southeast of Kathmandu, and they faced………

* NIGER: Northern desert conflicts disrupt everything

AGADEZ 26^th August 2008: Agadez; a main entry point to the Air Mountains bordering the Sahara desert, was under a state of alert after northern desert rebels had taken up arms against the government. All buses and private cars travelling to the north could do so only every other day; when military convoys are available.

* SUDAN: Disease, Squalor, Starvation, Poverty – and Weapons – in IDP camp

KHARTOUM, 26^th August 2008: Sudanese police surrounded one of the largest sites for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Darfur, the day after gunfire had caused dozens of injuries and, according to some sources, numerous fatalities. Government forces entered Kalma Camp in July, saying they had seized a variety of ammunition and weapons including canons, mortars, a machine-gun and other weapons and ammunition. According to the Sudan Tribune newspaper, the latest was the fifth government raid of the camp.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; and so it goes…on and on…ad infinitum. And the joke and the irony are: The USA is not in these countries!

RIGHT SWAN-SONGS IN WRONG PONDS – Warda in Lebanon after Fairuz in Syria – Algerian Rose at Baalbek, Lebanese Jewel or Precious Stone in Damascus

Algeria's voice of Arab nationalism ignites Jupiter Temple. Warda Al Jazairiya leaves audience at Baalbek festival wanting more

The Daily Star Saturday 23rd August 2008

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; no comments. It is sad and delicate enough as it is. However, to those that might say Baalbak was closed when Fairuz went to Damascus, I say Warda could have gone to Damascus, too, but she waited for Baalbek.

BAALBEK: It was a beaming and charismatic diva who strode onto the stage before the splendidly lit Baal Temple on Thursday night. At a distinguished 68 years of age, and despite a voice beset by a Lebanese humidity-induced cold, Warda Al-Jazairiya charmed and dazzled Baalbek's capacity audience into wild enthusiasm and multiple ovations. Many in the audience had braved a rare patch of August mist and rain to cross the Lebanon range into the Bekaa Valley. A good many of them were men and women of a certain age, eager to remember the heady days of their youth. Many had brought their children along for a taste of a past they had never known. They were not disappointed.

From the moment the legendary singer joined the orchestra and opened her show with Fi Yawm wa Layla until the climactic final chords of Harramt Ahabbak, Warda fascinated, thrilled, and enthralled the audience. Her voice let her down at times and the orchestra occasionally hesitated, but her sheer charisma and obvious pleasure at being on the stage in Lebanon again more than compensated for such minor flaws.

Warda played the crowd with beaming self-confidence, joking and making wise-cracks as she sang and was rewarded with enthusiastic clapping and seat-dancing. All present sang along passionately to such classics as Batwanes Bik, Hikaiti Maa Al-Zaman, Qalbi Saied and Tab Wana Mali. It was as if this would be one of the last opportunities to enjoy a concert by this icon from the heyday of Arab nationalism, one of the few living stars on a par with the classic voices of Umm Kalsoum and Abdelhalim Hafez.

Warda Al-Jazairiya was born in July 1940 in a little town near Paris. She was born the daughter of Mohammed Ftouki, said to be one of France's first Algerian immigrants. He ran Tam-Tam, a cabaret in the Quartier Latin, that staged live Arabic music and later served as the French headquarters of the Algerian independence movement, the FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale). Her Lebanese mother taught her the classical repertoire of Lebanon and the greater Middle East. As a child, Warda would sneak down into the cabaret to listen to the orchestra's rehearsals. She appeared on the Tam-Tam stage at the early age of 11. She won her first successes on an Arabic children's programme for French radio and by 1954, when the Algerian war for independence began, she'd begun singing patriotic songs. In 1958, the family had to leave France because of their involvement in the independence movement and found refuge in Beirut. The family moved into a small apartment on Hamra Street. There, the 17-year-old Warda started singing in Tanyos, a then-famous nightclub in Aley, where she was discovered by the late Mohammad Abdel Wahhab. Abdel Wahhab honed her talent and formed her into a professional and remained her mentor throughout her later career. She remained dedicated to the struggle for Algerian independence and Arab nationalism and, in 1961, along with Abdelhalim Hafez, Mohammed Kendil and others, recorded Al-Watan Al-Akbar. It was during that period that she adopted the stage name Warda Al-Jazairiya: the Algerian Rose.

A few months after Algeria had won her independence in 1962 she went there for the first time and married an FLN Army officer, whom she'd met in Beirut. For a decade she gave in to his insistence to give up performance and take care of her family.

In 1971, however, the then Algerian President, Houari Boumedienne, asked her to sing at the ceremony to celebrate the tenth anniversary of independence. She agreed, and returned to the stage; thus ending her marriage. Back in Cairo, she married Baligh Hamdi, the composer who would write many of her subsequent songs. From then on, she released four to five albums a year and starred in movies such as Sawt al-Hobb and Hikaiti Maa al-Zaman.

Warda has always been an independent and proudly individualistic artist, choosing to develop her own style rather than imitate popular predecessors or cater to prevailing trends. Her unique style owes much to her mastery of Maghrebi genres and her ability to cross the boundaries within the Arab world – combining traditional Andalusia vocalization with Middle Eastern melodies. Her tremendous talent and passion for music and performance still burns vividly and joyously in her and the Baalbek audience paid tribute. Even after two hours of intense pleasure, the audience still demanded an encore. The exhausted diva obliged with a short version of Wahashtuni, before finally retiring backstage.

N.B: The Baalbek International Festival ended tonight, Saturday 23^rd August, with a programme of classical music preformed by piano virtuoso Abdel Rahman Al-Bacha.

INSIDE THE MIND OF A SUICIDE BOMBER – Willingly or Unwillingly – Facts and Limbs

ABC-News Tuesday 14^th December 2004

Daniel: Know how mad-men so-called Religious Leaders and Warriors manipulate and exploit others to further their aims of further future manipulations and exploitations.

WASHINGTON: There appeared to be almost an endless supply of fighters – willing to die for their cause in Iraq. Suicide bombers had routinely struck UN buildings, hotels and check-points since the end of major combat in the country.

The weapons of choice were usually explosive-packed automobiles, but explosive vests had been used as well. However, the majority of the bombers were not foreign fighters, as many believed.

The big myth was that there was an endless supply of suicide bombers and that the foreign fighters were everywhere. That was the story everybody wanted to hear, and the Iraqis did not want to admit that most of the suicide bombers] were, in fact, Iraqis.

On that day, Tues. 14^th Dec., a suicide car bomber killed seven people at a Green Zone check-point in Baghdad. It was the second attack in two days near the same gate into the district that houses Iraq's interim government and the US Embassy.

Unwilling Martyrs

The previous assaults on the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, raids on private Iraqi homes, and military bombings that had killed Iraqi civilians radicalized young Iraqis. A visiting fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and an expert in political Islam said that the deaths of their own families, the destruction of their homes – all of those had  led to frustration and anger and hopelessness, and they wanted the enemy to feel the same frustration and hopelessness, so they resorted to violence. But it also appeared that not all of the bombers were willing participants.

U.S. and Iraqi military officials found body parts in vehicles used in suicide bombings – left by frantic people who had been trapped inside, unable to flee. They found hands chained to steering wheels, and feet bound with ropes in cars – unable to escape.

In some cases, it appeared that men were forced to carry out suicide bombings because their families were being held hostage. There were quite a number of incidents where – with their wives and children kidnapped -- fathers were forced to drive a car holding a dud remote-control device, thinking they would blow themselves up, whereas there would be a car following it with the real remote-control device.

New tactics in the field:  insurgents would send two separate suicide bombers to launch an attack, in case the first one backed out.

WAHHABISM: WHAT it is, and HOW and WHERE it came from

Wahhabism: Arabic: Al-Wahhābīyya الوهابية is a conservative reformist call of Sunni Islam attributed to Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahhab an 18th century scholar from what is today known as Saudi Arabia, who advocated a return to the practices of the first three generations of Islamic history.

Wahhabism is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and popular in Kuwait, Egypt, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania; it is often referred to as a sect or branch of Islam, even though both its supporters and opponents reject such designations. It has developed considerable influence in the Moslem world through generous funding of mosques, schools and other means from Persian Gulf oil wealth.

The primary doctrine of Wahhabism is Tawhid, or the uniqueness and unity of God. Ibn Abdul-Wahhab was influenced by the writings of Ibn Taymiyya and questioned medieval interpretations of Islam and claimed to rely on the Qur’an and the Hadith; he preached against perceived moral decline and political weaknesses in the Arabian Peninsula and condemned idolatry, the popular cult of saints, and shrine and tomb visitations.

Taqī Al-Dīn Abu El Abbās Ahmad Ibn Abdul-Halīm Ibn Abd Al-Salām Ibn Taymiya Al-Harrānī: Arabic: تقي الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد السلام بن عبد الله ابن تيمية الحراني (1263 – 1328), was a Sunni Islamic scholar born in Harran, located in what is now Turkey, close to the Syrian border. He lived during the troubled times of the Mongol invasions. As a member of the school founded by Ibn Hanbal, he sought the return of Islam to its sources or roots, the Qur'an and the Sunnah.

Ahmed Ibn Hanbal: Arabic: ‏‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎أحمد بن حنبل‏‎‎‎‏‎‎‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ Ahmad Bin Hanbal: 780-855AD, 164 - 241AH was an important Moslem scholar and theologian of Persian background ^[6] He is considered the founder of the Hanbali school of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). His full name was Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Hanbal Abu Abdallah Al-Shaybani.

The term Wahhabi or Wahhābīya was first used by opponents of Ibn Abdul Wahhab. It is considered derogatory by the people it is used to describe, who prefer to be called Unitarians or Muwahiddun.

The terms Wahhabism and Salafism are often used interchangeably, but Wahhabism has also been called a particular orientation within Salafism – an orientation some consider ultra-conservative – extremely in favour of preserving the status quo and traditional values and customs, and against change.

Salafi: Arabic: سلفي predecessors or early generations, is a Sunni Islamic school of thought that takes the pious ancestors Salaf of the patristic period of early Islam as exemplary models. Early usage of the term appears in the book Al-Ansab by Abu Saad Abd al-Kareem al-Samaani who died in the year 1166, 562 Islamic. Under the entry for the ascription Al-Salafi he stated: This is an ascription to the salaf, or the predecessors, and the adopting of their school of thought based upon what I have heard. He then mentions an example or more, of people who were utilizing this ascription in his time. An even earlier ascription of the term Salaf was used by the Prophet Muhammad who noted: I am the best Salaf for you.

Salafis view the first three generations of Moslems who, during his lifetime, had been the Prophet Muhammad's companions and the two succeeding generations after them: the Tabi‘in and the Taba‘ Al-Tabi‘in, as examples of how Islam should be practiced. This principle is derived from the following Sunni hadith by the Prophet Muhammad:

The people of my generation are the best, then those who follow them, and then those who follow the latter – the first three generations of Moslems.

The principal tenet of Salafism is that Islam was perfect and complete during the days of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions, but that undesirable innovations have been added over the later centuries due to materialist and cultural influences. Salafism seeks to revive a practice of Islam that more closely resembles the religion during the time of Muhammad. Salafism has also been described as a simplified version of Islam, in which adherents follow a few commands and practices.

Salafism is often used interchangeably with Wahhabism. Adherents usually reject this term because it is considered derogatory and because they believe that Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahhab did not establish a new school of thought nor self-describe them as such. Adherents used terms like Muwahidoon, or Ahel Hadith, or Ahel Al-Tawheed.

Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahhab Al-Tamimi' (1703–1792): Arabic: محمد بن عبد الوهاب التميمي) was an Arab, born in Najd, in present-day Saudi Arabia, and an influential person. Despite never specifically calling for a separate school of Islamic thought, it is from Ibn Abdul Wahhab that the western world derived the term Wahhabism.

KSA FEMALE DRIVERS BAN TO WAN SOON – Arab Female Bane to Wane Soon

Ban on Female Drivers in Saudi Arabia May be Eroding

FOX-NEWS (AP) via Yahoo! News Thursday 21^st August 2008

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: A 20-year-old university student's father and two brothers were badly burned in a fire, so she had no choice but to break Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers to get them to a clinic. Using the driving skills her father had taught her on the family farm, she managed to reach the emergency entrance without a hitch.

However, when she pulled up, a crowd of people surrounded the car and stared as if they had seen an extraterrestrial being. Also, instead of focusing on the burn victims, the nurses kept asking her if she had driven them there. I ASK YOU!

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans all women – both citizens and foreigners – from driving. The prohibition forces families to hire live-in drivers, and women who cannot afford the $300-$400 a month for a driver must rely on male relatives to drive them to work, to school, for shopping, or to the doctor’s, Etc. Daniel: Dear readers and fellow-Apes; do you see the Jackass-Joke and the Irrational-Irony in it? I ASK YOU AGAIN! They won’t trust their well-educated and highly intelligent women and girls to drive – whether alone, or with their fellow-female-Apes – but they will expose them to the whims and quirks of live-in drivers or male relatives – if not, in fact, place them at their mercy; whereas most rape and sexual-molestation crimes are committed by parents, family members, and relatives. Who and what is to say that the live-in drivers do not connive with the women and girls in their sprees and adventures for a share of the goodies and/or money? Have you read my postings: 139 / 324?

The young girl’s story was first published in one of the biggest Saudi newspapers, Al-Riyadh, which even called her brave. Her father praised his daughter's action from his hospital bed and asked why such an act should be such a big deal, since his daughter used her filial instincts, made the right decision, used her initiative, and did the right thing at the right time – and the joke and the irony were: she could drive quite well.

She is one of several women whose driving made the headlines. It is not clear whether the reports are a sign that more women are driving or that newspapers are just more willing to report about them. In either case, it suggests the long-unquestioned nature of the ban is eroding.

That may be, in part, because of signals from King Abdullah, a reformist, who said the issue is a social one, not religious – opening the door for society to spur change.

Previously, women who spoke out against the ban paid heavily. In November 1990, when U.S. troops were in Saudi Arabia following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, some 50 women drove family cars in an anti-ban protest. They were jailed for a day, their passports were confiscated, and they lost their jobs. The reaction was so harsh that lifting the ban was barely broached again until recently.

Recent media reports have highlighted women driving not as organised protests, but out of necessity or just a desire to be behind the wheel. 5 women were briefly detained in separate incidents across the kingdom.

One was a 47-year-old woman detained by the religious police after they had received calls from Saudis who had seen her drive repeatedly in the eastern city of Qatif, said a member of the Commission for the Promotion of Vice and the Prevention of Virtue.

Another was arrested in the central city of Buraida while driving to pick up her husband from a car show. She was released after her husband had promised that his wife would not do it again.

Last month, two women died while driving. One, in her 20s, was speeding in a family car when she hit an electricity pole in Riyadh. The second, in her 70s, died in a collision with another car in the northern region of Hail. Daniel: These incidents are irrelevant, since hundreds of men and boys die in daily accidents in the Kingdom of Sorry Ass-holes.

Supporters of ending the ban on female drivers point out that the prohibition exists neither in law, nor in Islam. There is no written Saudi law banning women from driving; only fatwas or edicts issued by senior clerics that are enforced by the religious police. No major Islamic clerics outside the country call for such a ban.

Conservatives say women at the wheel create situations for sinful temptation. They argue that women drivers will be free to leave home alone, will unduly expose their eyes while driving and will interact with male strangers, such as traffic police and mechanics. Daniel: SUCH HORSE-SHIT WITHOUT THE HORSE! Who is there in the vehicle to see whether the women and girls expose their eyes and their asses to their live-in male drivers or male relatives? It's like asking a fox to protect the chickens from foxes, or asking a wolf to protect the sheep from wolves. I ASK YOU ONE MORE TIME!

Many Saudi women own cars and have driver's licenses from countries where they studied or lived. Some, like the 20-year-old English major, learnt to drive in remote desert areas, where practicality outweighs ideology and it is acceptable for women and girls to drive tractors and water-tankers, or even cars for short distances.

Her father, 50, an airport inspector, said he taught his wife and four daughters to drive so they could cope in an emergency. He said he even gave them rudimentary tests – by placing tree branches on the roads to make them more narrow and winding – to make sure they could drive and park on difficult roads.

Last September, a group of women formed the Committee of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars to lobby for the right to get behind the wheel, and collected more than 3,000 signatures. They sent two petitions to King Abdullah.

To mark Women's Day in March, a member of the committee posted a video of herself, driving in the Eastern province, on a popular website. Surprisingly, the government did not try to stop the group from collecting signatures or punish her for her bold move.

She said that, that was an encouraging sign and that she believed that women would start driving by the end of the year, since they had moved forward since last year and there was more awareness and discussion of the matter.

At the hospital where her father and brothers were being treated for leg burns, the 20-year-old young woman described her 10-minute drive through the streets of Riyadh. She said she wasn’t nervous and that her dream was to own and drive her favourite car – a pink Ferrari JEEZ – because she loved the noise it made.

All the way to the hospital and back, and all the time, she was covered from head to foot in the traditional Islamic hijab and niqab – the black aluminium foil that covers nature’s own lollipop. I wonder how they knew she was who and what she was!

SAUDI ARABIA QATIF WOMAN ARRESTED AND DETAINED FOR DRIVING

AKI-Adnkronos International via Yahoo! News Tuesday 12^th August 2008

QATIF: The Saudi daily, Okaz, reported that the Religious Police – agents from the Committee for the Promotion of Vice and the Prevention of Virtue – spotted and arrested a woman in the region of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia for driving a car after other men had reported the woman. The woman was later released after her family had  posted bail, and will now be put on trial. There is no law in Saudi Arabia that prevents women from driving. However, fatwas or religious edicts, have been issued by Wahhabi scholars and clerics saying it is sinful for women to drive. Conservatives argue that if women were allowed to drive, it would lead to women being able to mix freely with men, then later to corruption and the destruction of family values. Daniel: They are mixing well enough; no sweat! As for corruption; Saudi Arabia is one of the most corrupt countries in the Arab and Arab-speaking World – if not the most corrupt!

Saudi women have been continually pushing to be allowed to drive, and have asked the government to make reviewing the ban a priority. On 23^rd September this year, a group of civil rights activists will formally demand that the government reinstate the right of women to drive. The date also marks Saudi Arabia's Independence Day. Daniel: Some Independence: independence for the men and dependence-in for the women and girls!

In 1991, a group of 47 women activists challenged the ban by driving through the centre of the Saudi capital Riyadh in protest. They were arrested by the religious police but later released. However, some were then suspended from their university jobs for one or two years as punishment. Read my postings: 78 / 126 (read it to the end) / 132 / 133 / 139 / 181 / 183 / 198 / and 224. If you’ve read them then all is well and good.

BIRTHDAY PARTIES, WEDDINGS, MOTHER’S DAY, CEREMONIES / CELEBRATIONS

Reuters via Yahoo! News Thursday 21^st August 2008

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz Al-Shaikh said that celebrating anniversaries, birthdays or Mother’s Day is against Moslem righteousness; quashing suggestions by a colleague that Islam permits personal celebrations.

Media-savvy-cleric, Salman Al-Awdah, told viewers during a call-in television show last week that celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries was not against Islam, sparking a debate in the conservative kingdom and prompting the mufti to weigh in.

Abdul-Aziz Al-Shaikh said that celebrating such events make Moslems like followers of other faiths – including Jews and Christians; the Al-Madina newspaper reported.

Abdul-Aziz Al-Shaikh embodies Wahhabism, the hard-line, hard-nosed, and hard-head Islamic doctrine that has ruled hand in hand with the Saud family since the kingdom was founded some eight decades ago.Women are banned from driving and mixing with unrelated men in Saudi Arabia, whose clerics also issue edicts ordering Saudis not to buy red roses on Valentine's Day on an almost annual basis.

The paper quoted Shaikh as also saying: a Muslim should thank almighty Allah if his children are healthy and if his married life is stable as the years pass by and that two occasions only call for celebration in the Moslem world: Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan; and Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Daniel: What’s the use of children being healthy when they cannot live their child-hood? What are they, livestock? Also, how could marriages be stable when wives are treated like slaves or properties and children are treated like livestock?

Salman Al-Awdah, who follows a relatively softer line, is widely believed to be favored by circles close to King Abdullah. The monarch has repeatedly said that Saudi Arabia needed reforms that would help the KSA to evolve with the times and adapt to changes.

Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, with the help of mad-men megalomaniacs like Hassan Nesrallah, want to set up their own brand or version of A United States of Shiite Islam, comprising Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and the KSA. Osama Bin Ladin is determined to revert Afghanistan and Iraq to the Status Quo Ante before the invasion for the liberation of these two countries, topple or destroy the Saudi Royal Family, and establish his own brand or version of an Islamic Sultanate or Caliphate – with him as The Sultan or Caliph of Arabia – so any plans or projects that promise to bring knowledge and enlightenment are a danger to their kind since they survive and thrive on illiteracy ignorance naivety mute submission and blind obedience – the men moving and staring about with their mouths wide open and their eyes wide shut like zombies; and the women moving and staring about with their faces and bodies covered, but with their mouths wide open and their eyes wide shut all the same, although we cannot see them, like phantoms or shadows: subdued, cowered, mute, submissive, and obedient; and under their rule and control! In other words: under their heels and wheels!

Saucy-Arabia’s Religious Leaders and Police have banned Spouses, Lovers, and loved-ones from expressing their emotions at Valentine, and now intend to ban couples-to-be, parents, relatives, friends, and children from celebrating weddings, christenings, baptisms, birthday parties, and holding funeral ceremonies for their deceased loved-ones; not knowing that they are crippling the economy by preventing Green-house and Gift-Shop Owners and other Shop Owners – not to mention Gift Manufacturers – from doing business: these from enjoying seasons and occasions of love and joy, and those from gaining from it.

Personally, and if you ask me, the CPVPV ought to be changed to the CDVPV: the Commission for the Demotion of Virtue and the Promotion of Vice because The CPVPV is The Commission for the Promotion of Vice and the Prevention of Virtue

If anything at all; this will pour oil on the fires and compound the problem beyond solution. It will only make things much worse than they are already. Also, I wonder whether the CPVPV or CDVPV realise that this will force most of them to travel to neighbouring countries and push the rest to look for other ways and means of either expressing themselves or celebrating. Less business for the KSA means more business for neighbouring countries.Anger and Frustration lead to Repulsion and Rebellion, eventually.This is exactly what I meant by taking one’s religion too seriously and to extremes.

A religion and system that do not adapt and adjust, and conform to, and integrate into the times is bound to face serious difficulties and eventually lead to revulsion repulsion and open rebellion.

Read my postings: 78 / 126 (read to the end) / 132 / 133 / 139 / 181 / 183 / 198 / 224

THE PRODIGAL SON: HAMAS CHRISTIAN CONVERT: I've left a society that sanctifies terror

HAARETZ.COM 31^st July 2008 Quoted word for word with only slight adjustments

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: a moment before beginning his dinner, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas Leader, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.

"I'm now called Joseph," he says at the outset. A few seconds earlier he had received me with greetings in Arabic: "Ahlan wasahlan. I'm very excited that you're here," he said, switching to a few words in Hebrew: "Shalom, ma nishma [What's up]?" he laughed.

Four years ago, he decided to convert. He says that nobody in his family knew about it. "Only those Christians with whom I met and spent time knew about my decision. For years I helped my father, the Hamas leader, and he didn't know that I had converted, only that I had Christian friends."

Tawil, 19, blew himself up in March 2001 next to a bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem; 31 people were wounded.

"Many people will hate me for this interview, but I'm telling them that I love all of them, even those who hate me. I invite all the people, including the terrorists among them, to open their hearts and believe. Now I'm trying to establish an international organization for young people that will teach about Christianity, love and peace in the territories, too. I would like to teach the young people how to love and forgive, because that's the only way the two nations can overcome the mistakes of the past and live in peace."

Daniel: No comments; only one question: Dear readers and fellow-Apes; is Masab-Joseph – Née Masab Hassan Yousef – a bona fide Christian Convert or a fool who has now become a propaganda tool? I’ll leave it to you to work it out and decide for yourselves. One thing is for sure; they're going to make a lot of money out of him and his story or conversion......but they'll give him only a little of it. BY GOD!

Read my postings: 169 / 177 / 281 / 286

VEILS VROOM VICE WITH VIM NOT VIRTUE OR VICE VERSA – the Hijab and the Niqab are Camouflage – Phantom Costumes

In Egypt, Some Women Say That Veils Increase Harassment

The Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday 17^th August 2008

CAIRO: in a Muslim country where the numbers of women and girls wearing the veil are rising, and so, by most accounts, are incidents of harassment – groping and catcalls – in the streets; the message in ads circulating anonymously in E-mails here in Egypt is clear.

One message warns: A veil to protect or eyes will molest!

The words appear over two illustrations; one comparing a veiled woman; her hair and neck covered in the manner known to Muslims as the hijab and niqab, to a wrapped lollipop, untouched and pure – JEEZ! The other picture shows an unveiled woman; hair flying wildly and hip jutting, next to a candy with its wrapper stripped off – covered with flies.

You cannot stop them, but you can protect yourself – warns another ad likening men to flies and women to sweets. Bloggers in Egypt have taken to calling such messages the veil-your-lollipop campaign.

No groups have asserted responsibility for the online ads, which so far have drawn little attention outside Egyptian blogs. But the campaign comes at a time of converging debates on two keenly felt issues in Egypt: the growing social pressure on Moslem women to veil themselves; and the rising incidence of sexual harassment by men because of the veil.

Daniel: A veil to protect or eyes will molest! HORSE-SHIT! Veils cannot protect; they can only cover or hide. And eyes cannot molest; they can only see. What they thought they meant to say but could not find or did not know the right words to say it was: Veils to protect or eyes will detect and hands will molest, but I say: Veils to hide from eyes that detect and hands that arrest. If I need to explain that to you then… Candy is also a street-word, street-slang, for heroin, cocaine, and other hard drugs or narcotics. Also, if men are flies then women are shits because flies usually hover over and squat on shit or carcasses or rubbish. Only houseflies hover over and squat on food and that is only because their favourite dishes or meals are not available in homes! BY GOD!

Surprisingly, some Egyptian women say that their veils do not protect them against harassment, as the lollipop ads argue or claim, but fuel it and make it worse. A survey released this summer supports the view.

In accord with her interpretation of Islamic law, which says women should dress modestly, a 20-year-old girl side-walk vendor in Cairo's Mohandisseen district wore a flowing black robe and a black veil – the hijab and the niqab. Together, they covered all but her hands and her pale face with its drawn-on, expressive eyebrows. Despite her modest attire, she said that she endured suggestive comments and remarks from male customers and fellow male-vendors.  She said that those guys were animals; if they saw a female dog, they would harass it. Daniel: Someone ought to inform her that animals or beasts do not act or behave in that way – only Man-the-Ape does!

She also said that a woman or girl who wore the hijab and the niqab could be more provocative; and that the more covered-up a girl or woman was, the more interesting she was to them. Daniel: Like, what’s she hiding? Is she a woman or a man? Who is she, where’s she going, and what’s she going to do? Is she someone we know – the wife, or mother, or sister, Etc, of someone we know – who is out on a spree?

A 60-year-old shopper in the same street said she had long ago stopped wearing the traditional Islamic coverings, in part for that reason; and a 41-year-old Egyptian social commentator who now lives in the United States said that, as a Moslem woman who had worn the hijab for nine years and had been harassed countless times in Egypt, she had concluded that the increase in veiling had somehow contributed to the increase in harassment. She had written, in an interview on one of the most popular websites, that the more women wore the veil, the more men behaved as indecent and uncivilized members of society; and the more women were harassed, the more they wore the veil thinking it would protect them. Daniel: What a cursed endless cycle of cause creating effect creating cause creating effect……Etc, and so forth and so on.

Female travellers-abroad consider Egypt one of the worst countries in the world for harassment on the streets – second only to Afghanistan, where the Taliban had forced all women behind the veil and into seclusion in their homes.

The United States and Britain both warn female visitors in travel advisories that they may face unwanted and unwarranted attention, or sexual attacks and/or harassment in Egypt. When Egyptian lawmakers objected to Britain's advisory this summer, calling it a slur, Britain responded by saying that more female British tourists had been harassed and assaulted, even raped, while in Egypt than in any other country.

A recent survey by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights makes harassment on the streets appear not as a risk, but as a virtual certainty. According to the center, 98% of foreign women and 83% of Egyptian women surveyed said they had been sexually harassed in the country. About half of the women, Egyptian and non-Egyptian, said they were harassed every day as they went about the streets. Foreign women identified Egyptian policemen and other security officials as the most frequent perpetrators.

Two-thirds of Egyptian men surveyed admitted to harassing women, in actions ranging from staring openly at their bodies, shouting explicit remarks, touching the women, or exposing themselves. In fact, the results of the survey proved contrary to the stereotype.

While both men and women surveyed said that short skirts and tight clothes triggered harassment, the survey found that women in the hijab were the most frequent targets of unwanted comments and touching on the street. 72% of those who described incidents of harassment said they were veiled at the time. Daniel: These assailants and molesters know perfectly well that they are immune to indictment or prosecution – let alone conviction and imprisonment – since there are no laws against confronting, molesting, abusing, or raping women and girls; otherwise they would think twice before doing it.

Egypt's most notorious case of harassment occurred last year when two fully-veiled Gulf Arab women were surrounded by dozens of men in a street and molested. By-standers filmed the episode and posted it on a Website. It became an embarrassment to Egypt's government and a spark for the first public debate on sexual harassment in Egypt. A female Egyptian law-maker is at present pushing for a legislation that would impose jail-sentences for some forms of sexual harassment and discrimination. She quoted anecdotes told by the women who had been surveyed, who chose to give up jobs and education because of harassment. She presented the Egyptian news media with the case of a 14-year-old girl who had stopped going to school because of the harassment she suffered on a public bus during the daily trips to school and back. The girl's father came to the women's rights center, seeking help in getting his daughter back to school.

An estimated 80% of Egyptian women now wear the hijab and pressure on the rest to cover up grows every year, as fundamentalism gains influence in Moslem societies worldwide.

A few of the reasons, other than religion, that prompt women to wear the veil: rebellion against a less openly devout older generation; a desire to demonstrate Islamic solidarity; and a desire to show oneself a good girl who would make a good wife.

Daniel:

The picture at the top of the article showed 5 (supposedly) women or girls fully covered from head to foot in hijabs and niqabs. All it needed was the following caption above or below it: Guess who!? Guess What!? Translation: Guess who and what we really are; 5 women, or 5 women and girls, or 3 men and 2 women, or 3 boys and two girls, or 2 men and 2 women with 1 accomplice, or 2 boys and 2 girls with 1 accomplice, or 1 man – a pimp – and his four prostitutes, or 1 Matron and her whores, or......you take it from here. They could even be 5 gays on patrol, on a spree, or on an assignment – for crying out loud!

The hijab and the niqab are camouflage; they’re like walls. Walls do not only keep out, they keep in, too. They keep those outside out, and keep those inside in. The hijab and the niqab only provide women and girls with perfect camouflage – Phantom Costumes – and some men and boys, too. A boy was discovered in a girls-only-school’s dormitory in an Arab country. And that wasn’t an isolated event or incident. The way women and girls are treated and mishandled, and forced to cover themselves up from the hair on their heads to the toes of their feet, I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it – in fact, I am quite positive they used it – to their advantage. Read my posting: 306

Veils to hide from eyes that detect and hands that arrest

Slink about and dart or sneak into alleys and/or houses and pass through doors like phantoms – I see you, you no see me. You no see me, you no know me. You no know me, you no catch me. You no catch me, you no tell on me.

A woman or a girl is a Lollipop – NATURE’S OWN LOLLIPOP – and the wrapping is the clothes she wears to cover or hide her delicate and sensitive parts: her equipment, tools, and accessories; just as a man wears clothes to hide his. A woman, or a girl, wearing the hijab and the niqab is a wrapped LOLLIPOP wrapped in black aluminum foil – or a lollipop wrapped in black aluminium foil – for crying out loud again!

If the story of Adam and Eve were true, then the following is the only sensible and logical version that any educated and enlightened Man-the-Ape could possibly accept and acknowledge: Satan transformed himself into a man, and the snake was Satan’s penis – no woman or girl, let alone Eve – a naïve obtuse moron, since she hadn’t yet eaten the fruit of knowledge – could resist a goodly-sized penis standing at attention in its full height, or length; and after Eve had tasted it, she saw that Adam also had a penis, so she………you take it from here again. And BY GOD AGAIN, TOO!

Not God or Satan – or even God and Satan combined – can stop a woman or a girl, if she is bent on doing something. In fact, it is much easier and safer for women and girls to do whatever they want and to commit whatever sin or so-called social and moral misdemeanors when they are hidden from view; that is, when they know they cannot be known or recognized – in other words: CAMOUFLAGED – so enough of this Horse-shit without The Horse! Read my postings: 120 / add 121 / 327

NOTES:

Foil (v): to obscure the trail in order to hinder pursuers or throw them off the tracks / thwart / impede / prevent / obstruct / out-wit / out-smart / out-fox / out-maneuver

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