Archives for January 2012

Modern Day Pogrom in Alexandria Egypt

January 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Just as I was sitting down to write a post about the international holocaust day (was yesterday) one of my alerts went red and I red this

alxegypo — Its 2012 and these things are really going on

Like in the good old days this riot just started with a rumor, some Christian had posed with a nude Muslim woman, they say, and that is just about enough to trigger thousands of Gods faithful believers to loot and set fire to shops of another faith, damage property and of course try to go for even yet more damage and get some blood on the floor, because a good old scapegoat can not go un-noticed in todays post revolution Egypt.

The state of affairs for the Coptic Church in Egypt is quickly moving from the occasionally lethal to the seriously dangerous, you got to admire the courage of the ones staying in this country, and hope for a better life for the many who fled to the U.S. as a part of a very silenced transfer of a population out of a country in which they have now become living targets.

One can not but wonder how those who initiated this “revolution” a year ago, many of whom are secular, feel about the changing winds, to see this country and its revolution highjacked but religious fanatics who want to violently forever change the face of Egypt, and to think that the Western world stood and cheered these people…

HaeassMap – Egypt’s Sex Harassment Counter

January 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment

We thought we would make a special post for the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, however this post is much more interesting and also current situation telling. A new site publishes the number of sexual assaults made in the Egyptian capitol, and you can not ignore the very clear suggestion that the assaults started to peak around November 2011, and around the now famous Tahrir sq.

More and more stories of young girls and women who are attacked on the street or found begging for help when they felt that an attack is seconds away, just run a search for this and you will hit dozens of news articles telling the stories of raped and attacked women of all ages in Egypt today.

To make things even worst it looks like if you are a foreigner walking the streets of Cairo these days you stand a very high chance of meeting this kind of behavior in almost any corner and any time, it is either that non-Egyptian females are a huge attraction to the local men population, or that there is a “cultural” issue at work, where men feel that they can freely abuse women of another culture, faith or religion.

God Can Be a Lot of Things

January 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment

One nice video, by a guy who seems to understand religion well.

Taliban Reminds Us Who They Are

January 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Just as the world starts to forget who these crazed insane religious fanatics are, and focuses heavily into the serious and heavy price that trying to force some humane and normal behavior on the violence drenched region, we get a reminder of who these people are and why the do what they do, even more, in the name of what they allow themselves to murder, rape and disrespect human life whoever they go.

And here they are, the glorious warriors of the ever so blood thirsty god, gunning down captive Pakistani soldiers, simply murdering unarmed people, pumping them full of bullets and crying, as if to try and establish an alibi – “God is great” and “we will avenge your death” (of other killed Taliban), this is a fine example of what to expect if these people come back to a position of which they will rule a country.

Any Taliban role, over any country, will result in the murder, rape and human rights violations of its population, and to let these psychopaths un free is something that the free world will have to deal with in the future.

taliban-new1 — Taliban Remind us Who they are

Oil Leaks in Iran’s Sand Clock

January 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Looks like time is running out for Iran and its plans for nuclear weapons, the EU has declared it will put in effect an oil embargo if they Iranians do not come back to their senses. The European counters involved are not the largest consumers of Iranian oil, however this declaration brings tensions around Iran to a new peak.

Screen Shot 2012-01-24 at 09.28.18 — Iran prepares as the value of money drops

The average Iranian citizen must be going nuts by now, the local currency is dropping fast than ever, and people are stocking food and basic products for a coming war, it seems that everyone in the world does not now what the Iranian people know already, that this is not going to end on the negotiating table.

You should trust the Iranian (people, not the government) because they have been through enough to learn when something is real, and they know that the religious regime that is leading this country into a living catastrophe will not fold, defiantly not now, after it has managed to fool the entire world into giving more and more time to the development of nuclear capabilities, about 6 years now. The people know that the goal of having “the bomb” is not so much the destruction of Israel (however that might come in time) but the ability of using this winning card against all of Iran’s neighbors in setting oil quotas and limiting competition.

So we have a strange situation where most of the pressure to go after Iran is currently produced by its Arab neighboring countries and not Israel, and a Europe that is starting to grasp the fact that one day soon they will have to wake up with the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons landing in Western Europe.

In the next post – “will they press the button?”