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Egypt Goes Wild – Underage Marriage & Post Mortem Sex

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Oh, Freedom, We have waited so long for you

It starts to look like a new habit, news coming from the post revolutionized Egypt are boarder line perverse and deviant in nature, not the first time, and it looks like far from the end of it.

Now that the evil and corrupt dictator Mubarack is out of the way Egypt has all kinds of ideas of how to move forward and provide its people with the extended freedoms and liberties that they desperately wanted for so long, under the crashing oppressive government of the former president. And it looks like they set the priorities right, by pushing forward laws to decrease the age of marriage (14 for girls) and also letting men (exclusively male perk) have sex with their dead wife – as long as she has been dead for no more than 6 hours (because 7 hours would just make it, like, disgusting?).

Coming from a culture that is so sensitive that it is willing to kill and be killed for the presence of cartoons around, it is pretty amazing to think that these people are simply fine with a men having sex with a corpse – and an 14 year old girl forced into marriage without the idea of what womanhood is – let alone adult life. But cartoons? this is really too much for them, and bloody riot against cartoons are widely accepted.

All of this, of course, is a conscious attempt at copying the holy teachings of Islam, or the ideas it presents in it, applying 1,400 desert rules to modern day life, and in the process making it look like this society is more pious than others in the region, to any normal person this looks insane, disgusting, appalling and primitive, but if you really believe that God wrote that book word to word, it might actually make sense.

Looks Like Nothing Changed – Muslims Riot Over Cartoons Again

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Muslims Again Trying To Rape Free Speech (in Germany)

In peaceful city of Bonn, Germany, they were not expecting this kind of violence and riots over a small group of right wing demonstrators protesting free speech. However the far right movement (Pro NRW), did not show up on the scene in order to confront anyone but rather to protest free speech, and they did so with cartoons of the prophet Mohammad, who by now are notorious for sparking uncalled for violence in many parts of Europe where Muslims feel that they are feel to react with fantastic violence whenever their feelings are hurt in any way over a religious issue.

It would be complete hypocritical to say that the far right demonstrators did not know what they were getting themselves into, however one has to wonder how could it be that a few years after the initial world wide riots over publication of cartoons in small local European newspaper there has been no progress in the understanding of Muslim minority groups of the basic freedom for one to express his or her mind in any way, cartoons included. It only leads to one conclusion that there is a very large community in the Muslim minority across Europe that aspires to force the locals to adhere by their rules and to play nice to any Muslim sensitivity – or else.

Once again we are forced into a discussion over the who is the guilty party, the one waving a cartoon or the other passionately trying to inflict physical damage on those who do it, we find that there is no doubt that the total and complete fault here lies with the aggressors and not with anyone holding a piece of paper with a cartoon. There is no way to accept a limitation of free speech, this is one thing that the Western civilization had learned over hundreds of years of pain and anguish, and no one will take it away, not for personal sensitivities or anything different.

The good people of Bonn and Germany should realize how dangerous their streets have become, and that it is time to act and make a stand on the issue of free speech and individual rights, immigrants as well as natives should respect those issues without any need to show consideration for their feelings or sentiments.

Another Oil War – With a Twist

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Sudan Goes Full War on South Sudan Christians - For Oil

South Sudan, the world’s newest country member is not doing well these days. The country is on the edge, facing an ongoing threat of starvation and economical difficulties, and more than that it has to deal with its violent and aggressive next door, former same country, the original Sudan which has for years brutally abused the people of the south and killed them because of the differences in religion between the two parts of the country.

This all should have been solved when South Sudan declared its independence in July, only a few months ago, and the Sudan president accepted the break and also made many believe he will not be in the way of this young country and its people. However things did not go as planed or as stated and since that call for freedom and break form the Muslim majority Sudan tensions have been on the rise, as well as short military conflicts around the boarders of the two countries.

The main issue this time is not that Muslims from Sudan want to kill Christians from South Sudan but that they are now trying to get oil out of the South’s hands. Oil, the financial life stream of the area is mainly located in the south of the country and has been the reason to took decades for the two parts to break apart. There is also something to be said of Sudan’s economy, who suffered an overwhelming decrease in activity because of the lost oil production located in the south of the country, however it is always a problem to defend someone who has been an aggressor for such a long time, and for all the wrong reasons, the people of the south have been killed and driven out of their homes for the sole reason of being Christians in that part of the world.

The #AntiAtheistCampaign

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First – for your viewing pleasure.

Now, it seems that some people are engaged in what is called (Twitter) #AntiAtheistCampaign, which basically means that some Twitter accounts with atheist usernames have been suspended or removed from the system, or that some other users have reported those accounts as such and alerted Twitter, which in turn removed them.

Twitter is saying that it did remove some accounts like that but that they were automatic spam Twitter accounts and had no value or made any contribution to the twitting community, however some users seem to feel that there is an anti atheism move on twitter and that it could be coming from the ranks of those highly moralistic believers who will stop at nothing to please their god (or gods).

But being against atheists does not make sense in the first place, atheists reject the idea that any gods exist, atheists are not against anything but simply think and feel that there is no evidence for the existence of god (or gods) and until such evidence will be presented to us we will not believe that there is such a thing.

So being against someone who does not believe in something just because he does not believe is like an #AntiMightyMouseCampaign, sure, Mighty Mouse is a cool animated character but not many people thinks he is real or that he exists in reality in the form of a little mouse that can fly, talk and of course – save the day. Would people who strongly believe that Mighty Mouse is real move to create a campaign against those who do not believe it? sounds pretty stupid to me.

Twitter does not like Atheists?

Assad’s Catch 22

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Assad is unable to please the West, and is forced to survive with Iran

The Syrian uprising of 2011 and 2012 seems as simple as the Egyptian and Tunisian ones before it, however it is not just a battle for freedom and liberty as was the case in those countries, but of tribal and religious struggle as well. Syria is a country that has been ruled by a minority for a long time, like many other countries in the Arab world is constructed on the ancient method of divide and rule as was used by the British in their colonial days.

Assad is the son of the late Syrian president, who also was involved in bloody fight against the majority of Syrians who wanted to remove him from power, so it is not a big surprise that both father and son as mutually hated by most of their countrymen, however strange it might seem.

Assad belongs to the Alawite minority, who is well positioned in all the finest spots of Syrian society, military and civil authorities are made of mostly people who belong to that religious group, and like Saddam Hussain’s Iraq are expected to remain loyal to the regime whatever happens. Here we get to the first point that is critical to the understanding of the situation in Syria and, maybe, of its outcome.

For one to expect a peaceful transition of power from the Assad family to a democratic parliament or group of people is as unrealistic as to assume that the Iranians will separate state from religion. There can not be a peaceful transition because the minority Arab Sunni population holds so much grudge against (not only) the Assad family and the entire Alawite tribe that once power will move into new hands a bloodbath will instantly begin in the country.

Not only had Assad junior now ordered the mass killing of many Syrians, his father before him was responsible for the killing of tens of thousands, as well as the organized oppression of that entire Sunni population. One should realize that this is bad blood running for decades, if the Syrian Arab Sunnis could – they would massacre everyone who is Alawite and had any connection to power and money.

So Assad here plays a double rule, on the one hand he is called (by name only) the Syrian president, although he was not elected, is not popular and does not work for the good of the entire Syrian people, on the other hand Assad is expected and probably also intrinsically wired to protect his own clan and preserve the power his Alawite tribe needs in order to survive. It should be clear even to the most liberal of people that if Assad caves he might save his own family but the fate of his fellow Alawite clan members is dim.

To say it honestly, Assad can not leave power. Not for his own family’s sake, and not if he wants to physically survive.  He saw and learned the lesson from the dead Libyan ruler Gaddafi, who knew he had to fight for his life, only Gaddafi did not have Shia brothers in the form of the Iranians, who were actually happy to see Gaddafi removed.

This brings us to the last piece of the puzzle, Iran is deeply involved in Syria, and this only makes sense because both Alawites and Iran are Shia muslims and regard their power over the Sunni world essential for the success of their religious mission. Iran makes a normal and peaceful solution of the Syrian situation impossible because it is more radical and more tilted towards control and power in the Sunni world than Assad is about his own clan.