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  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #570 - February 05, 2011, 07:13 PM
    19:46   <zizo>: hugs could pimp u into sex

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  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #571 - February 05, 2011, 07:14 PM
    Pakistan (and states like Saudi & Israel) will always be different as they were founded & whole raison d'etre is Islam.
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  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #572 - February 05, 2011, 08:54 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on February 05, 2011, 07:14 PM
    Pakistan (and states like Saudi & Israel) will always be different as they were founded & whole raison d'etre is Islam.


    Yeah that's an unfortunate possibility. But I hold out hope that Pakistan at least will realize with time, and probably after a lot more bloodshed, that its best interests are in regional cooperation, and that a regional union will form together with other south asian countries based on cultural similarities and economic cooperation. But that won't happen while tribalism and religious fundamentalism is valued more than common humanity and common interests. Pakistan can't go and saw off its borders from India and move itself closer to Saudi Arabia, which is what some in that country would love to do. Roll Eyes
    "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #573 - February 05, 2011, 09:12 PM
    Quote from: billy on February 05, 2011, 02:16 PM
    Has anyone heard of this Egyptian writer called Taha Hussein?


    Of course, Billy! He is one of the greatest Egyptian writers - he is known as 'ameed al adab alaraby - the dean of arabic literature - he is loved by all Egyptians - I read his magnificeint autobiography al-ayam (The days) at university and still have it on my shelf. (btw it is rumoured that he was a secret atheist.)
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #574 - February 05, 2011, 09:21 PM
    I just learnt about him Hassan. I'm going to try and get some of his books and read them. Amazon doesn't have a wide variety but I've ordered his autobiography / memoir you just mentioned, 'The Days'.

    He sounds very fascinating.

    edit: wait......he was blind?



    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #575 - February 05, 2011, 09:25 PM

    Yeah, he was blind from childhood. What a man to have achieved so much despite that disadvantage.
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #576 - February 05, 2011, 10:08 PM
    Quote from: Hassan on February 05, 2011, 09:12 PM
    Of course, Billy! He is one of the greatest Egyptian writers - he is known as 'ameed al adab alaraby - the dean of arabic literature - he is loved by all Egyptians - I read his magnificeint autobiography al-ayam (The days) at university and still have it on my shelf. (btw it is rumoured that he was a secret atheist.)

    He really is the greatest figure in Arab literature. In fact if it wasn't for the Nobel prize, he'd be more famous than Mahfouz.

    On top of his novels, he is widely-known for his Islamic history books which are known for their unprecedented neutrality and non-bias.
    I remember my religious uncle telling me how the Shia have always been prosecuted referring to Hussein's book by saying "even Taha Hussein (the Egyptian Sunni) says this and that....etc". Of course little does my uncle know, Hussein was probably an atheist or a convert to Christianity.
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #577 - February 05, 2011, 10:19 PM
    Quote from: billy on February 05, 2011, 09:21 PM
    edit: wait......he was blind?


    Yes and he felt a special affinity and love for al-Ma'arri who was also blind... and a heretic Wink
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #578 - February 05, 2011, 10:24 PM

    Looking forward to reading his memoir now Afro
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #579 - February 05, 2011, 10:34 PM
    I got this from Facebook. Really funny:

    رسالة من طالب ثانوى :
    أعزائي المتظاهرين في ميدان التحرير .. بخصوص الثورة اللي شغالة عندكم متنسوش أنها هتدخل في مادة التاريخ
    واحنا اللي بنحفظ .. فإختصروا من فضلكم


    Translation:
    Letter from a high school student "Dear protesters in Tahrir Square, do not forget that this revolution will be part of the new curriculum of history textbooks. And it's us that's gonna do the learning and memorizing. So please be swift"

     Cheesy Cheesy
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #580 - February 05, 2011, 10:37 PM
    btw if anyone is learning Arabic then I strongly urge you to use Ta Ha Hussein's book as an example of beautiful classical Arabic - it is written in the most amazing and beautiful style - very brief wording yet so smooth and full of meaning and allusions - it flows like silk - truly stunning.

    That book in itself destroys the challenge of the Qur'an as it is more beautiful, more profound and more precisely worded!
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #581 - February 05, 2011, 10:39 PM
    Quote from: Iraqi Atheist on February 05, 2011, 10:34 PM
    Translation:
    Letter from a high school student "Dear protesters in Tahrir Square, do not forget that this revolution will be part of the new curriculum of history textbooks. And it's us that's gonna do the learning and memorizing. So please be swift"

    LOL Cheesy
    "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." -- Bertrand Russell

    Baloney Detection Kit
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #582 - February 05, 2011, 10:40 PM
    Quote from: Iraqi Atheist on February 05, 2011, 10:34 PM
    I got this from Facebook. Really funny:

    رسالة من طالب ثانوى :
    أعزائي المتظاهرين في ميدان التحرير .. بخصوص الثورة اللي شغالة عندكم متنسوش أنها هتدخل في مادة التاريخ
    واحنا اللي بنحفظ .. فإختصروا من فضلكم


    Translation:
    Letter from a high school student "Dear protesters in Tahrir Square, do not forget that this revolution will be part of the new curriculum of history textbooks. And it's us that's gonna do the learning and memorizing. So please be swift"

     Cheesy Cheesy


    Brilliant!

    btw I finally got through to my sister - and spoke to all the family - they are fine and of course are euphoric about the revolution  Afro
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #583 - February 06, 2011, 12:03 AM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCBFHo0_PPA
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #584 - February 06, 2011, 12:04 AM
    http://www.kharabeesh.com/
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #585 - February 06, 2011, 12:12 AM
     Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #586 - February 06, 2011, 01:57 AM
    Noam Chomsky:

    It's not radical Islam that worries the US – it's independence

    A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires (reluctant) opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds. While not without some merit, the formulation is misleading. The general threat has always been independence. The US and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism.

    A familiar example is Saudi Arabia, the ideological centre of radical Islam (and of Islamic terror). Another in a long list is Zia ul-Haq, the most brutal of Pakistan's dictators and President Reagan's favorite, who carried out a programme of radical Islamisation (with Saudi funding).

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #587 - February 06, 2011, 02:15 AM
    Riz Khan - Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek on the future of Egyptian politics

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NffzEh2b0
    "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #588 - February 06, 2011, 02:35 AM
    After reading the articles about how Iran and Egypt seem to be the odd countries within the Muslim world because of their history and sense of self-identity, I found this comment on a YouTube video by an Iranian that I thought seemed to fit quite well with the articles posted previously:

    Quote
    احمق است کسی که برای حفظ ایمانش از تغییر اجتناب کند

    The person who avoids the change to keep his faith is stupid ... Persian philosophy

    Long live Egypt

  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #589 - February 06, 2011, 03:00 AM
    People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people - V
    [13:36] <Fimbles> anything above 7 inches
    [13:37] <Fimbles> is wacko
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    [13:37] <Fimbles> you think i'd enjoy anything above 7 inches up my arse?
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #590 - February 06, 2011, 09:33 AM
    Quote from: allat on February 06, 2011, 02:15 AM
    Riz Khan - Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek on the future of Egyptian politics

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NffzEh2b0

    Zizek Brilliant as ever, Ramadan slimy as ever masking reactionary particularity behind a veil of universality. I wonder if Ramadan understand just how fundamentally Zizek's views differ from his?

    Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/01/egypt-tunisia-revolt

  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #591 - February 06, 2011, 12:17 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnNtwny_TwU
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #592 - February 06, 2011, 02:12 PM
    Quote
    MEMBERS of Anglican congregations in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt are safe and unharmed, despite the unprecedented unrest that the country is experiencing. The cathedral is being protected by Muslim youths.

    On Tuesday evening, President Hosni Mubarak promised further political reforms, and said that he would not seek re-election in September. Egypt remains tense, however. Anglicans there are asking fellow Christians overseas to pray for them and for a peaceful outcome to the crisis.


    http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=107517
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #593 - February 06, 2011, 02:15 PM
    Gas canisters used by the brutal state police are made in the old freedom loving America  Roll Eyes

  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #594 - February 06, 2011, 02:21 PM
    This is the plain clothes police targeting and grabbing Wael Ghonim - uprovoked.

    Wael Ghonim one of the main facebook/twitter activists and Egypt Google executive.

    He has been missing now for a week and no-one knows what's happened to him.


     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYShuvVVLDs
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #595 - February 06, 2011, 02:59 PM
    Quote from: Aphrodite on February 05, 2011, 01:13 AM
    Tunisians calling for a caliphate:

    Bring on the Khilafah, Rabi-al-Awwal 1432!
    "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
    - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #596 - February 06, 2011, 03:04 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdGnc6DeZ74
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #597 - February 06, 2011, 03:56 PM
    Anti-Mubarak crowds venting anger in Iran, Turkey, West Bank

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIYSLilpoBw
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #598 - February 06, 2011, 05:07 PM
    Interview with leader of the revolutionaries on the rooftops.  Gives a better idea of how/why the protests are well organized even though commands don't from a central leader.

    Part 1, translated:
    http://dotsub.com/view/5f751d40-d90f-422c-84e0-8e5766a97213

    Parts 2 and 3 don't have translations yet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsb8xrZmCWw
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loY-hFDmvC4
  • Re: Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'
     Reply #599 - February 06, 2011, 05:26 PM
    http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2011/02/amanpour_leads_inspired_abc_rou.html

     A good Video discussion  on Egypt.. 


    Quote
    Amanpour leads inspired ABC roundtable on Egypt

    In 25 years of writing about public affairs and news TV, I have seen very few Sunday-morning, on-the-news, roundtable talks that could compare with the one Christiane Amanpour led Sunday on "This Week" from Cairo.


    There are two women Journalist of Egypt speaking Candidly the future of Egypt..   watch it..
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
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