Wednesday, August 13, 2014

#Raba'a and Its Report : The Debate won't end

And Human rights Watch has issued its final report about the dispersal Rabaa sit in aka the massacre of Rabaa describing it as nearly a crime against humanity.

This report is issued in the first anniversary of the most horrible sit in dispersal in the history of Egypt. I can not say anything about the report except that you have to read it. The U.S human rights watchdog organization says that Egypt should stop the use of excessive use of force in protests and that UN should form an independent commission to investigate the killing of the protesters in Egypt.

You can imagine the reaction of the Egyptian regime. The Egyptian government unleashed its media and claiming that the report was biased and the HRW was Pro-MB to the rest of that set of accusations. Yes the international human rights organization that issued reports against Mohamed Morsi's administration is accused of being Pro-Muslim Brotherhood now.

Already moments after the HRW has released its report online , Egypt's State Information Service "SIS" issued a statement online describing the report of being biased. The SIS accused HRW of ignoring the attacks against the police and army forces as well the attacks against the churches in Upper Egypt not to mention how the Rabaa protesters were not peaceful protesters..etc.

Oh and they say that the HRW was operating and conducting interviews without legal permits.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

RIP Robin Williams

When I heard the news of Robin Williams’ suicide last night , all what I could think about was that episode from Mork and Mindy especially that scene.

Mork and being a celebrity : Robin Williams and the list he joined

RIP Robin Williams , you made millions and millions of people around the world laugh and God knows laughter is hard to find nowadays. 

Monday, August 11, 2014

#Supermoon2014 : My Not So-SuperMoon snap shots

It is supermoon time in August , the biggest supermoon you can see this summer and probably this year.

Here are the best snap shots I took for the supermoon tonight in Giza , Egypt. Of course they are not the best but here they are.

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Different settings to get best results.

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and Happy Supermoon ;)

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Talk to me about breaking the law and constitution !!

It turns out that the judge in the #Jan25 Protesters killing retrial referred yesterday during Habib El-Adly’s 5 hours speech a complaint presented by non other Mubarak’s minister of interior against a group of revolutionary activists to the prosecutor general !!
Oh yes the judge referred that complaint to the prosecutor general to investigate it. Habib El-Adly reported politician and Constitution Party leading figure Gamila Ismail , leftist activist and singer Samia Jaheen as well activist Ahmed Douma to the prosecutor General for attacking public properties during the 25 January revolution !!!!!!
Yes and of course we know that such complaints sometimes if not most of the times turn serious and Pro-Democracy activist find themselves behind bars.
Already Ahmed Douma is currently serving three years in jail for illegal prosecuting along April 6 Youth founders Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel.
Anyhow I am amazed that the judge cared to refer that complaint to prosecutor general and not to refer Habib El-Adly himself to the prosecutor general for admitting that he used to spy and blackmail people !!
Oh yes in a strange moment of pride that shows the true IQ of El-Adly , he admitted that he used to spy on people and recruit them.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

#Jan25 : And it turns out that Arab Spring was a plot against Islam

Yes according to Mubarak's minister of interior Habib El-Adly in front of the court during the retrial of the century aka the killing of the protesters retrial on Saturday the Arab spring was actually a plot by the west against Islam and the Islamic way of life !!
He also said that the 25 January revolution was orchestrated by the United States claiming that he did not give any orders to attack the protesters or to use live ammunition against them.
For five hours Habib El-Adly kept speaking and defending himself as well fabricating lies about the revolution. He repeated the same old lies that Hamas as well PLO “yes” came from Gaza and Palestine to kill the protesters. He also said that they “The Palestinians” betrayed the hand that helped them and trained them.

Regarding the Yazidis and the Arab Media : The elephant in the room

Right now Thousands of Iraqi/Kurd Yizadis are trying to escape with their lives and their kids from the hell unleashed by the IS aka ISIS aka the Neo-Islamic Caliphate in Northern Iraq. 

They headed to their holy Sinjar mountain as a refuge for days with no food or water before the Peshmerga forces managed to rescue them and transfer them to Duhok province.

Despite how awful it may sound now but this is not the first time the Yazidis face this and head to the mountain in an attempt to protect themselves just like any other religious and ethnic sect in Levant and Iraq.

Despite all what is happening last week ,  there has been complete silence regarding to what is happening to this small and old sect in Iraq in the Arab media. I believe there was even more attention to what happened to the Christians in Mosul than to the Yazidis and the reason is well know to everybody but nobody wants to speak about the elephant in the room.

The Yazidis as an old religious sect revers Melek Taus which is commonly known in Judaism , Christianity and Islam as Satan aka the devil. They are commonly known as the devil worshipers in the Arab media and Arab people especially those who don't deal them or know them outside Iraq and Syria.

Already even there are some Shiites as well many Sunnis believe that the Yazidis are named after Yazid , the most hated personality in the Shiite beliefs who was responsible for the death of Al-Hussein.

For radicals the Yizadis are simply Satanists in nutshell and you only have to see how the IS deals with the Christians and other Muslims to know how they are going to deal with them.

Personally I knew about the Yizadis for the first time in some American Indiana Jones novel when I was a teenage and you do not have to guess how the Yizadis were portrayed then. They were those evil Satanists in the East that Indiana Jones kicked their asses.

The second time I read about them was after the US invasion to Iraq. Some Egyptian journalist wrote about his visit to their territories in a publication issued by Egyptian Dar El-Halal and actually I remember that he wrote about their beliefs explaining it but still they were regarded as Satanists.

Already that particular point made them so attractive to adventure journalists as well tabloid journalists all over the world as well radical groups throughout history.

Technically speaking they are Satanists in their own way but not in your usual Anton LaVey cat blood suckers Rosemary’s baby cult.They chose exclusion I believe to avoid that image.

This is the elephant in the room I am speaking.

This is why I believe that the Arab media ignored what happened to them because they may not get the sympathy they deserve as humans like the Christians in Mosul.

If you notice there is more coverage about the Christians in Mosul and we got social media campaigns in solidarity with them and the head of Arab churches in several countries including Egypt spoke about them. 

Only on Friday a group of Arab and Muslim tweets launched a hashtag called “Save the Yazidis by the names of humanity”. Needles to say the IS supporters are attacking those tweeps and ask them that same question “ Do not you know what they worship !?”

Satanists or not the Yazidis should not be killed and forced to leave their land which they chose to live in away from the rest of the people to keep their beliefs.

Ironically when you think about according the mainstream religious views , I believe that the IS crazy sick fighters are falling to the devil’s trap with their genocides in Iraq.

BY the way I believe the Gulf countries should send food aids to the Iraqis and Kurds including Yazidis just like Gaza. I think the Gulf countries owe it to the Iraqis and Kurds after all many of the IS financers are from these countries.

Friday, August 8, 2014

#Ramadan Arabian Nights #2014: King Dandash’s tale-28&29

Now here are the episodes 28and 29 of King Dandash and Shamalan’s tale. Sorry for the delay but we got frequent blackouts besides the usual news marathon in Egypt and the Mideast.
First here is the episode 28 or 368 you can hear it after the break.