Women are nothing but meat while men are animals. This is in a nutshell the discovery of the Lunatic Mufti of Australia who has dealt the biggest blow to the religion of Islam. The jewels emerging from the mouth of the Mufti of Australia Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali were a part of a speech that he has delivered last month in Sydney. To be amused you can read the following quotations from his speech: "If... [read more]

In my Arabic blog I have posted an evolving list of the top 100 thinkers, writers and scholars in the Arab World in the past 25 years as a way to document the positive impact such intellectuals have exerted on Arab culture. It is important to mention that this list is not about the magnitude of impact on the Arab public, since using this indicator will make me end up with a list that contains more... [read more]

The Center for the Strategic Studies in the University of Jordan and in association with a Lebanese research center has conducted the most comprehensive opinion poll to discover and analyse the perspectives of the Lebanese people regarding the war with Israel based on sectarian backgrounds. The opinion poll linked the answers to the survey questions with the sectarian backgrounds of the respondents:... [read more]

Anna Politkovskaya is the brave Russian journalist who has been very courageous and accurate in her reporting on the war crimes committed in Chechnya by the Russuain army. Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment last week in an attempt to silence another voice of truth in world journalism. The British newspaper The Independent has published today the last unfinished article by Anna Politkovskaya... [read more]

Due to the total chaos in time management I am suffering from in the Holy month of Ramadan, where time is tight and the nervous system is deprived of caffein and the productivity is weak, I will have to do a drastic change in my time management scheme to meet the work load and deadlines I have to adhere to. Three elements will be temporarily suspended which are social events, TV and blogging. I will... [read more]

The Princeton project for the design and development of the US National Securty Strategy for the 21st centuray has published its final report entitled "Forging a World of Liberty Under the Law". This is a major effort in which more than 400 US national security "experts" participated for more than 3 years. The final report reflects a balanced and objective way of analysis and some reasonable recommendations... [read more]

I think all of you who follow political debates have read or heared about the Article written by the American writer Borzou Daragahi from LA Times claiming that the monarchy in Jordan is risking a fate similar to the Iranian Shah. Jammed has already posted the whole article but in case the link is lost here is the LA times link http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-jordan1oct01,1,4432688... [read more]

As a Jordanian who claims to love his country and wish all success for its citizens in their hopes and aspirations, I felt angry by Qatar's refusal to vote for prince Zeid as a potential successor for Mr Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the UN. I thought this attitude was both unhonorable and a stab in the back. However, I think the Jordanian propaganda that followed the event was pathetic and shameful... [read more]