Posted in America, Humor, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Sunni on Mar 8th, 2007
I have a problem.
I get annoyed. About Little things.
Well, not EVERY Little thing, but a lot of Little things – like, for instance, the proper pronunciation of words.
I was driving home today after dropping my aunt off at the airport and was listening to my second favorite radio station, when the announcer said the word calzone. [...]
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Posted in Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Shiite on Feb 19th, 2007
One interesting observation put forward by Dr. Bernard Lewis in his interview with The Jerusalem Post (‘The Iranians do not expect to be attacked’, Jan. 31, 2007), is this one:Â
The Arab states are very concerned about the Shia revolution. They see a militant, expansionist Shia movement which already seems to be spreading from Iran to [...]
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Posted in History, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Sunni on Aug 29th, 2006
To outsiders, the difference between the Sunnis and the Shiites seems rather vague and esoteric. They both absolutely believe and venerate the Qur’an (aka Koran), the holiest book of Islam. They both call themselves Muslim. They both go on Hajj every year to Mecca, in Saudi.
But, they seem to have spent the last 13 centuries [...]
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Posted in History, Islam, Judaism, Saudi Arabia on Aug 28th, 2006
I was going to talk about the threat from other radical Islamic groups, but I think that we need to take a step back and look at the basic structure of Islam before putting Muslim radicals under our microscope.
First up: Mohammed
He was an ambitious, silver-tongued young man who grew up in the later part of [...]
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Leaders in the Arab world are worried.
Very.
And, in the international news media, they talk about how worried they are, what they are worried about, and then blame it all on Israeli aggression.
They say that Israel’s war with Hezbollah is radicallizing the ‘Arab street’ (the average Arab) and threatening the stability of the Middle East.
Outside of [...]
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