The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Posted on June 26th, 2006 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Read this: The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!! by Mary Anne Weaver

How a video-store clerk and small-time crook reinvented himself as America’s nemesis in Iraq

He continued, “The Americans have been patently stupid in all of this. They’ve blown Zarqawi so out of proportion that, of course, his prestige has grown. And as a result, sleeper cells from all over Europe are coming to join him now.” He paused for a moment, then said, “Your government is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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Saudi women unveil opinions online | csmonitor.com

Posted on June 26th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.

Saudi women unveil opinions online | csmonitor.com

More women are blogging in the Kingdom, getting the attention of censors and their conservative counterparts.

By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA – In this country where women are forced to completely cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it’s small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on the Internet.

As Internet usage continues to climb here, so do the numbers of women who have started Web logs, or blogs, to express themselves in ways they might never do in public.
“I love blogging because it helps me to express myself and I like to write in English,” says Farah Aziz, a translation student at King Saud University in Riyadh who started blogging in January 2005.

On several women Saudi bloggers:

Farah’s Sowaleef

Saudi Eve

Green Tea (Arab)

A thought in the Kingdom of Lunacy 

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Saudi women unveil opinions online | csmonitor.com

Posted on June 26th, 2006 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues.

Saudi women unveil opinions online | csmonitor.com

More women are blogging in the Kingdom, getting the attention of censors and their conservative counterparts.

By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA – In this country where women are forced to completely cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it’s small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on the Internet.

As Internet usage continues to climb here, so do the numbers of women who have started Web logs, or blogs, to express themselves in ways they might never do in public.
“I love blogging because it helps me to express myself and I like to write in English,” says Farah Aziz, a translation student at King Saud University in Riyadh who started blogging in January 2005.

On several women Saudi bloggers:

Farah’s Sowaleef

Saudi Eve

Green Tea (Arab)

A thought in the Kingdom of Lunacy 

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Telegraph | News | Police seize long lost Islamic treasures of the Java Sea

Posted on June 26th, 2006 by martijn.
Categories: Islamnews.

Telegraph | News | Police seize long lost Islamic treasures of the Java Sea

The implication is that instead of being spread across the Indian Ocean by Arab traders, as previously thought, the religion of Mohammed could have been brought to what is now the world’s most populous Muslim nation from China, where there was already a Muslim presence.

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Telegraph | News | Police seize long lost Islamic treasures of the Java Sea

Posted on June 26th, 2006 by .
Categories: Islamnews.

Telegraph | News | Police seize long lost Islamic treasures of the Java Sea

The implication is that instead of being spread across the Indian Ocean by Arab traders, as previously thought, the religion of Mohammed could have been brought to what is now the world’s most populous Muslim nation from China, where there was already a Muslim presence.

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Beautycheck – average faces

Posted on June 26th, 2006 by .
Categories: Joy Category.

Beautycheck – average faces

I find this very interesting. Don’t you?

The faces above are so called average faces. Highly intelligent as I am, I thought well these people look quite hansom…so conclusion might be that a face becomes more attractive when it resembles the average in a higher degree.

Not. Well there is some truth in that but some people with more skills than I have on this territory have done some more thinking: Beautycheck – average faces

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