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New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Johnson, Gorbachev, Obama
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Imagine you’re a villager living in southern Afghanistan.
You’re barely educated, proud of your region’s history of stopping invaders and suspicious of outsiders. Like most of your fellow Pashtuns, you generally dislike the Taliban because many are overzealous, truculent nutcases.
Yet you are even more suspicious of the infidel American troops. You know of some villages where the Americans have helped build roads and been respectful of local elders and customs. On the other hand, you know of other villages where the infidel troops have invaded homes, shamed families by ogling women, or bombed wedding parties.
As an American-born Muslim to Pakistani parents, it often disgusts me to see the pop culture society of Pakistan thriving in such a devastating time in its history. But this music video seemed to offer some hope into the evolving discussion of even the pop music industry.
What is Google Wave?
Oct 4
Source: Epipheo Studios
Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi who threw his shoe at George Bush gave this speech on his recent release.
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious and Most Merciful.
Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war.
Firstly, I give my thanks and my regards to everyone who stood beside me, whether inside my country, in the Islamic world, in the free world. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act.
But, simply, I answer: What compelled me to confront is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.
And how it wanted to crush the skulls of (the homeland’s) sons under its boots, whether sheikhs, women, children or men. And during the past few years, more than a million martyrs fell by the bullets of the occupation and the country is now filled with more than 5 million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. And many millions of homeless because of displacement inside and outside the country.
Los Angeles – Saturday, Oct 10th 2009
ONE DAY ONLY
Location:
IMAX California Science Center
Exposition Park
39th Street & Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90037
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Please arrive half hour before show time.
Ticket Cost: $25.00 Presale – $50.00 at the door
Tickets are expected to sell out.
Introduction:
Journey to Mecca is an IMAX® dramatic and documentary feature that tells the amazing story of Ibn Battuta, the greatest explorer of the Old World, following his first pilgrimage between 1325 and 1326 from Tangier to Mecca.
His perilous journey resonates with adventure while presenting an unforgettable picture of Islamic civilization during the 14th century, culminating with Ibn Battuta’s first Hajj. The story is book-ended by a close-up look at the contemporary Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca that draws three million Muslims from around the world.
http://www.islamicity.com/journeytomecca/
Made it to Amman last night AlHamdulilah!
So unfortunately the wi-fi internet is reallly slow here at my hotel in Swaifiyah. I’ll add comments and pictures soon inshaAllah!
[Updated!] So here are some pictures as promised. I still need to add all the captions, so I’ll do that soon.
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