Pray yourself skinny!

http://www.mattcoyote.com/prayerdiet.html

Ladies & gentelmen, I think someone finally figured out a way to convince me to pray!

Do super models know about this?
That would give a new meaning to "getting down on your knees" to get to the top! (ohhhhh, no she di'ent)

Women In Art

Quote of the day

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Tell me about it...

ya 3ainiii

يرتدين الحجاب الكحلي ويملكن شبكة تدريس ونفوذ واسعة ... «الآنسات القبيسيات» يباشرن في سورية انخراط النساء في «الدعوة الإسلامية» ... بموافقة السلطات
<>دمشق- ابراهيم حميدي الحياة - 03/05/06//
--> لم يعد انتشار اتباع «الآنسة» منيرة القبيسي مقتصراً على سورية والدول العربية فحسب، بل ان حلقات «الأخوات» باتت تدق ابواب بيوت في باريس وفيينا لتصل إلى الولايات المتحدة الأميركية. والقبيسيات داعيات إسلاميات أثرن نقاشاً وانقساماً في الأوساط الاسلامية في سورية.
وكلما اتسعت الرقعة التي ينمو فيها فطر «القبيسيات» في الشوارع والمدارس والبيوت السورية والعربية والأجنبية، زادت إثارة وتشويقاً الحكايا والأساطير حول هذه الحركة، اذ بلغ الجدل في شأن «الاخوات» أخيراً شبكة الإنترنت بين من يتهمهن بتشكيل «تنظيم سري خطير» وبين من ينوه بدور الداعيات في «فعل ما عجز عنه الرجال».
click here to read the rest: http://www.amanjordan.org/a-news/wmview.php?ArtID=3133

Ok... here's my idea:

ندوات لا دينية

Every woman invited to these meetings would have to attend my meetings too!
Equal opportunity brain washing!

You can't fight extreme thoughts with "moderate" thoughts

Maybe, after they are subjected to both ends of the spectrum, they might become "moderates" (whatever that means these days)

(Ofcourse, i'de also make them wear navy blue... g-stings...)

Worried about visiting Lebanon?

This is what you'll be missing!

Rise Up - Live Performance by Jaba at Sky Bar Beirut

(I was there)

http://www.youtube.com/v/Y5HZU0PI3UQ

over the rainbow sooooooooo highhhhh

here are some more

Beach Party @ Edde Sands Resort

http://www.youtube.com/v/EwWJPY6hgOc

Fireworks with Yves Larock @ Sky Bar Beirut

http://www.youtube.com/v/SSP3_Kpl6eY

BO18- Beirut's Ultimate Underground Club

http://www.youtube.com/v/o7ccYkXFLQw"

The World is Mine @ Sky Bar Beirut

http://www.youtube.com/v/h-Cc3yMiiVI

Love this song!

1757 after 836 Days

Congratulations to Lebanese people everywhere!

صبرتم ونلتم

مبروك لكل الشعب اللبناني

Go Lebanese Army Go!

Light your balconies from 9:00 PM till 10:00 PM tonight in support of the Lebanese Soldiers.

Sign the petition : http://www.lebanesearmy.net

I knew it!

I knew it!

No Lebanese would have created such an unimaginative, and offensive* flag.

Then again, they did COPY the Iranian one, so that IS pretty uncreative.

Come to think of it, they also copied the I LOVE LIFE campaign and just kind of added to it.

I guess they spend so much money on weapons that they don't have enough for a creative department.

*I use to have a huge issue with the Hizballa flag, cause it actually connects the word "Alla" to a gun, but that's when I use to believe in "Alla". However, on some days I do believe in A GOD (not THE GOD Muslims & Christians & Jews refer to) but still, the flag is offensive.

Atatürk Rocks!

This post is in support of the pro-secular demonstrations in Istanbul

*Not only was he brilliant but he's not bad to look at either ;)

From "The Secret Scrolls"

A nice way to start the day :)

Sho Bini

Listining to this all week.............

Sho Bini

Custody Battle

For the past few months we have witnessed the conflict between the opposition and the Lebanese government escalating to a point that lead to riots, demonstrations, and unfortunately some innocent civilian causalities.

We watched the accusations, insults and the occasional name calling between members of both groups on our televisions. We read the verbal attacks in our papers. Big catchy headlines aimed to disqualify & damage the other party.
Yes, this is a political battle... and things do tend to get ugly... but how far should this go?
If both parties claim the other is "illegitimate", where does that leave Lebanon?
Civil war is no longer the danger here... There is a larger danger that is looming.
When the parents of a child go to court to take custody of this child, they put all their effort into proving that they are the fit parent. Sometimes they do try to show that the other is less qualified by pointing out faults, or by criticizing certain behaviors.

But what if they take it a step further? What if both start accusing each other of neglect and abuse? What if they resort to demonizing each other by trying to prove that the child is in danger if left with any one of them? What if they both equally convince the judge that this child would be exploited or mistreated with either one?

Well, the judge then will have no choice but take the child from BOTH of them, and turn him/her over to the custody of child services.
This is what is happening in Lebanon. We are in danger of loosing this country because we have divided ourselves into 2 groups that never pass on an opportunity to display each others shortcomings.
We are telling the world that we can't handle Lebanon. We are telling them that we can't properly take care of this country. Especially if we fail to reach an agreement concerning something as important as the international court to try those accused of assassinating former Prime minister Rafik Hariri.

If the "dialogue" fails, the government would be forced to pass the international court under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter. This would take Lebanon into the unknown. It will erase all the efforts made to create a "sovereign nation" out of this small country that had more then its share of problems. It will be up to the "rest of the world" to decide Lebanon's fate. (This, ironically, is something the opposition says they worry about.)

Everyone in the government claims they want justice to be served, but some members of the opposition question the adequacy of the U.N.-backed international tribunal, and fear that it would be politicized. Even though they have stated this publicly, they also stated that their main problem with the Saniora government is representation, and not the court.*

*However, the resignation of Hizballa parliament members coincided twice with the international court talks held in the parliament.

The Saniora government vowed this court will take place, and accused the opposition of putting their own interest ahead since they are allies to the Syrian regime.

So, in history, and now again we find ourselves, like that child, being pulled in both directions, without consideration to the dire repercussions of this tug of war.
In an effort to get "custody", politicians from both sides have taken risks with this country's fate during this critical period. They have discredited each other, they have belittled each others abilities, and some even declared the others mere existence unconstitutional.

And of course, in the end, (like all parents) they claim they fight over Lebanon because they love it…

Maybe no one deserves Lebanon, and we need that judge to save us.

No wonder so many Lebanese "children" runaway from home.

We are potatoes

"The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato -- the only good belonging to him is underground." -- Sir Thomas Overbury

(Now i know where the expression: "sha3b batata" comes from...lol)

Did you smell that movie???

افلام معطرة قريبا في دور السينما اليابانية

طوكيو : سيتمكن عشاق السينما الذين ملوا التاثيرات السمعية والبصرية المتطورة، من مشاهدة الافلام وتنشق روائح مناظرها الطبيعية في قاعات السينما بعد ان اعلنت شركة لتوزيع الافلام انها ستعرض اول "افلامها المعطرة" في العالم. وذكرت شركة شوشيكو انها ستطلق فيلم الدراما التاريخية "العالم الجديد" من بطولة كولين فيرل والذي تتناول قصته الاستعمار في نيو انغلاند، في اثنتين من دور السينما السبت باستخدام نظام كمبيوتر تم تطويره مؤخرا لاطلاق الرائحة المصاحبة للفيلم.

وتم تطوير النظام من قبل شركة "ان تي تي كوميونيكيشنز" التي هي جزء من شركة "ان تي تي" العملاقة للاتصالات. وستقدم ستة انواع من الروائح اعتمادا على المشاهد التي يتم عرضها. وكانت عدة دور سينما في اليابان اطلقت العام الماضي رائحة الشوكولاته اثناء عرض فيلم "تشارلي ومصنع الشوكولاتة".

وقالت ناوكو يوشيدا المتحدثة باسم شركة شوشيكو "هذه اول تجربة في العالم لتقديم انواع مختلفة من العطور التي تناسب المشاهد السينمائية التي ستجعل المشاهدين يشعرون بانهم في غابة، على سبيل المثال، عند اطلاق رائحة الغابات". ويتم نشر الروائح الست التي تضم رائحة الغابات والحمضيات، من تحت مقاعد المشاهدين.

To read the article in English: http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/12/japanese-movie-theaters-to-get-internet-controlled-smell-o-visi/

Oh my god! this was MY IDEA!
I always thought that visual and sound stimulation at the movies is not enough anymore. I thought that to have the FULL experience, they should come up with something that creates smells too.

Imagine movies that have crime scenes! I know this sounds kind of sick, but I was always curious when I watched a movie and someone would walk into a creepy place and then say: "Ugh, it smells horrible here."

I would be thinking: "What? How does it smell? I WANNA KNOW".

Then again, I'm not your average movie goer, I'm very much INTO the movie i watch.

Anyway, bad smells is one thing, but a chocolaty smell while watching Willi Wanka! YUM! that sounds great!

I wonder how long it will take them to do this here in Lebanon?

Then again... If you've been to a movie theater in Lebanon you would have noticed that they ALREADY HAVE "certain" smells :)

See, we are ahead!

(p.s. You know where else they need that? On cooking shows! The smell would come right out of our T.V.! Imagine that! Whenever i'm watching a cooking show i reallyyyyy want to smell and taste the food... So they can start with smell, and maybe they can invent something for us to TASTE the food. Ok people, you heard it here first! If they invent something like that make sure you tell me so i can sue!)

Quote of the day

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

- Galileo Galilei

Thelma & Louise Vs. 3abeer & Khadija

Well, not yet, but I can see it coming!

It turns out that Majlis Al Shoura in Saudi Arabia has advised the Court of Ministers regarding women driving in Saudi Arabia. They agreed on a list of rules & regulations.
Of course this will not take effect immediately, it'll take a few years to finalize it...

I know this is a positive step, but I can't help staring in awe at these ridicules rules!

Rules and Regulations regarding women driving vehicles:

1- Must be at least 40 years of age.
2- Must have permission from her guardian (husband or father or brother...)
3- Must have a valid driving license from a womens driving school.
4- Should be modest in clothing and not have makeup on while driving.
5- Women can only drive inside the city if alone. She must have a guardian with her if driving outside the city.
6- Driving is permitted between the hours 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Saturday to Wednesday; 2 p.m. till 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday.
7- Must have a cell phone with her in case of emergency.
8- In case of a car break down or an accident, she should call Women Police Service for help.
9- She will have to pay a certain amount of money (credit on her driving license) which will be used by Women Police for her tire puncture repair or other maintenance.

Government responsibilities:

1- Creation of female Police force who will be specialized in multiple fields like driving, taking calls with companies to repair cars, rent cars, and also issuing traffic citations.
2- Creation of free women police center for emergency calls.
3- Opening Islamic propagation center in the Women Police department inside the cities.
4- Renewal of driving licenses every year.

Violations in General:

1- If any driver chases a female driver, if caught or proved, will be jailed for minimum 8 months with fine.
2- For those drivers who try to stop women drivers in any way like making their way narrow will be jailed for 1 day with fine.
3- If any driver hurts the women drivers will be jailed for 1 month with fine.

(Notice that if someone "chases" a woman he's jailed 8 months, but if he actually hurts her, only one!)

For Women:

1- Those women drivers who do not follow Islamic behavior their license will be suspended for minimum 6 months with 500-1000 Riyals fine.
2- Their guardian will be notified in writing by the "Hay'et el Amr Bil-Maaroof" (religious police)

Ahhh... What can I say?
Where do I even start?

I won't... I'll say nothing (and knowing me that's very hard to do!)
I'll try to be optimistic & positive and just say that it's good they are working towards reform.

This song makes me feel like i'm 16 again

"Girl, You'll be A Woman Soon"

Ommet el 7ommos

It's very strange to me when people in the Arab world refer to themselves (or others) as part of "Al Omma el 3arabeyya", or "Al Omma el Islameyya."
Since when where we ONE? When did we unite?
Just watch the news... Look at my previous post. We're struggling to be united, so why do we talk like we are?
And this is not new, it's been this way ever since i can remember... This is all I heard while growing up: "Us Arabs have to become one... Us Arabs need to help each other... Us Arabs can't defeat Israel if we don't unite..."
Well, us Arabs SUCK.
We don't get it, THERE IS NO US. (That goes for "us Muslims" too)
There's no such thing as Al Omma el 3arabeyya, or Al Omma el Islameyya for that matter. We should just stop referring to it like it exists... and work on CREATING IT for a change. The only way to achieve unity is if we accept our diversity. And we are very far from that.

It also can't exist until we have true LEADERS for this unity. It's true we have deep cultural & traditional divides, but so do people in every country. Why is it that we are always FIGHTING either each other, or someone else? We fight cause our leaders want us to. We fight for them. We fight for their greed.
Basically: We are incapable of properly evaluating those who are in power, or even choosing those who should replace them. We either:
1) Rally behind corrupt questionable politicians with blood on their hands, clapping & cheering for them, posting there pictures on our walls like they are heroes. We treat them like they are "above" us, instead of treating them like oridinary people who are suppose to provide a service, people who are SUPPPOSED to SERVE & PROTECT us. They tought us to fear them, and we do.
2) Or we go with a more "mystical" kind of fear. The one from the all mighty. We choose to follow religious-political figures. We deify them, and we hang on their every word, and in return all they do is give us a fatwa every now and then to keep things moving in the direction THEY want...

All this is if we're lucky enough to live in a country that give you a choice between the 2.

So you see, there is no room for "3orobeh" or "kawmeyyeh" here... This is all we have. That's our political situation.

So what do we have left? Religion? grrreat!
Depending on religion to unite us is like depending on Michael Jackson to baby sit your kids... Sure "Never Land" looks like a lot of fun, and you might get alot of feel good freebies, but somehow someone always gets screwed in the end.
No, seriously... How many sects of Islam (or Christianity) are there? Do we even know? Islam is an idea... a belief... a philosophy... It's PERSONAL. Spirituality is not meant to be used in that way... No 2 Muslims, Christians, Jews are exactly the same...
So why burden ourselves with such labels? Why hinder your spirituality so you can feel like you "belong" to something? I never get this NEED that people have to associate themselves with people they don't even know on such a deep level???
Here's a suggestion: If you really want to feel like you are part of something start looking at the simple things that unite us. Like our love of Hommos & 3abd El7aleem :)

I'm not saying we don't have alot more in common, we do, BUT our sense of you "unity" and nationalism as Arabs is just an illusion... It will always be comprised due to our racism, fanaticism, sexism and intolerance.

So, the next time you want to refer to yourself as "anything", think about this:
If you want to feel like you belong to a certain group, guess what, YOU DO. You're human. We ARE all one. That should be enough. There is no need for a subgroup.

???ﻻﻮ ﻮﻮﺸ ﺔﻤﻮﻜﺤ

Since the opposition decided to take action here in Lebanon, our news started sounding more and more like Palestinian & Iraqi news.
Power struggle, "takhween", blood shed, well, us alot less then them, economic issues...
And if I hear ONE MORE guy saying the words: "7okomet wi7da wataneyya" I'm gonna scream. It's like the catch phrase of the year! And the irony is that politicians keep repeating it like it's something that you can just buy from the supermarket... Something they have no control over. It's this amazing great THING that the OTHER group, the "bad guys", are not letting them have!
It's like: We DEMAND a govt. that represents our UNITY DAMN IT!
You better let us have our united govt. OR ELSE!
LOL hysterical!

3aini ya 3aini

This 3abd el 7aleem song has been stuck in my head the whole day...

i don't know what the beginning of it is... i don't even know the rest, but for some reason i just keep repeating this part:

3aini ya 3aini ya 3aini 3aini 3alaiki

kol el oloob bidoob bidoob 7awalaiki ya 3aini

aallllllllllllllahhhhh

looool

If only I played the guitar...

Little Orange man
Little Orange man
What the hell is your plan?
You're ruining our winter,
and last summer you ruined our tan
"The majority of Christians" my hiney
It's impossible you still have ONE fan
You will never be president
And for being a traitor,
you should be in the can
Burning tires & rioting
Where do you think you are? Sudan?
On all things orange
They should have a ban
7il 3anna ba'a, w fil min Libnaan!

Everybody.....
Little Orange man, Little Orange man...

(I don't know why but i'm picturing Phoebe from "Friends" singing this song...lol)

Pain & suffering... Pain & suffering... Pain & suffering...

I've been reading the scrolling news subtitles for a while now... I think it's good exercise for my brain, and for my eye muscles... I can read faster in English & in Arabic then I ever could before!
But am I really comprehending everything?
I hope not.
How can I comprehend so much bad news in less then a minute?
Wars, Natural disasters, Riots, X dead Y injured...
I read these scrolling numbers, and mentally I just accept them...
Bad news first... Always the death toll comes, and then the injured.
The number of the injured is usually at least 3 times more then the number of deaths...
Do they really count ALL the injured?
Do they count the relatives of those who died?
Or the "injured" because of the injured? Like the parents who for everyday for the rest of their lives have to watch their amputee sons & daughters suffer?
We scroll by all the misery... We go quickly thru the pain... we feel "something" and move on. These numbers are so "distant". We can't possibly relate... How can we relate to all this agony?
Maybe if they make them fast enough I won't be able to read them at all.
It's not benefiting me anyway... and it's certainly not doing diddly squat for them.
SO WHAT if I know the truth? I'm not doing anything about it. No one can. Well, a hand full of people can. But they don't watch the news. They MAKE the news.

We are all atheists

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

God damn humans...

9:00 a.m.
My daughter left to school 15 minutes ago... My son left way before that... I'm about to fall asleep again............ Wow... that was loud... The thunder is strong today...
9:30 a.m.
The calls start coming in... the cell... the house phone... Panic..... Did you hear it? You mean that wasn't the thunder storm???
Should we get the kids back from school?
They said it's in 3ain 3ala!
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS! is that near here?
It's SO FRUSTRATING not to know Lebanese geography... I should've paid more attention to weather reports and memorized these names... how can I? They have a different name for every 2 Kilometers of Lebanese soil.....
Bikfayya road?! that's near... 3ain 3aar?! That's the address of the school!
Am I still sleeping?
Where's the damn remote..... LBC, NewTv, Future...
A bus! no two!
Ambulances... blood............. My kids don't take the bus... They can't be anywhere near a bus... It's way after nine, they are both already in school...
How selfish of me......
How cruel of them...
How vicious!
How many people are there that are willing to do this???
Where do they find these guys?
I'm not talking about the political decision to blow up 2 buses the day before Hariri's rally... I'm talking about the guys that actually did it... The guys that stuck a bomb under a bus full of people they don't even know cause they got paid, or worst, cause they "believe" that in killing others they will accomplish something... in this life, or the next.
Guys? They're not just guys... Men? Maybe even women!?
Who are these people? Where did they grow up? How do they live? How do they sleep?
Who do they think they are?
Puppets? Robots? No those are innocent... they don't even have a brain... Lucky for them.
Sheep? Naa... Animals only kill to eat.
I don't know how to classify such human beings........
Human beings?
I guess that's it... it's the God damn human being. We are just disgusting.
No wonder we had to invent a God that punishes and burns and kills...
Maybe, we just invented one that mirrors us.

Gen 1:27
"So God created man in His own image..."
The Book of Eve 1:20
"So Humans created God in Their own image..."

Faking it

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."

- Sharon Stone

You don't have PINK!

A Reiki master once told me that since the year 2000 a new era of "female dominance" has begun... He mentioned the rise in the number of females in high profile positions as a sign of that. (Examples in business: Female CEOs: Xerox, New York Times, Lucent Technologies... In politics: 2001-2004 President of Indonesia, 2004 Prime Minister of Mozambique, 2006 President of Chile... and many many more... Not to mention Hillary Clinton, who might not become the first female president in the U.S., but it would be the 1st time a woman is even running for office.)

So I started thinking about the Middle East. Then I naturally thought: Lebanon.
To me, the likely hood of the 1st female president or prime minister in the Middle East to come from Lebanon just makes sense. I can go on and on about why, but let's just stick with the MAIN fact that most of the countries around us are either ruled by kings or dictators...
As we all know, after Hariri's death, and our independence, the female factor in our politics started to emerge. We already have a few female members in our parliament...
Which means we're at least on the right track...
I don't need to emphasize how important this is... Do I?
Do I need to go into how female representation in any political system shows a certain level of advancement..etc....?
I'm hoping the average reader already acknowledges this...

Which brings me to my next point, which I prefer to say rather loudly:
HEY, anti govt. guys: WHERE ARE THE WOMEN on your team?
"I LOVE LIFE in colors" my hiney.
You don't have PINK!

Think for one moment that the opposition will succeed (God or whoever forbids), and that we will be ruled by: Hizballa, Amal, (aw bala Amal...lol, i'm cracking myself up today) and the little Orange man.
Now, ask yourself: How long do you think it'll take before we have a female president while we are under THAT umbrella?
LOL the idea makes me laugh.

This is just another example of what: "Biddon yraj3ona la wara" really means. (Incase some of you are still not clear what Future TV means by that.)
Yup, the opposition my friends is lacking the female gene. And frankly has way too much testosterone per "member" (no pun intended) for my taste.

So for all you ladies out there who would love to see the first female president in the Arab world come from your beloved country, Lebanon, and you still think this govt. is doing such a crappy job... Think again.

Happy Birthday Antoooon

This is for you...

I LOVE YOU

I moved a box today...

You know on surveys, when they ask you to check a box for your age...

Well, now i have to check THIS BOX! ----->

I moved an ENTIRE BOX in one day :(

(Happy i-feel-old day to me)

Poor Eve

Black Tuesday

Heavy smoke polluting the sky over Beirut

View from Movenpick Chalet

Wow... The oppostition has proved: They can burn stuff

(Photos by: Samia)

بيروت عم تبكي... مكسور خاطرها

(Photos by: Samia)

New Hizballa Campaign Logo

(*Refer to post: Sho ya3ni "I LOVE LIFE"?)

Duck a l'Orange

(3oon & his followers...lol)

Garden of Eden

I've had this picture in my drafts for a while, so i figured it's time to post it now as per all the complaints of the lack of "leaflessness" :)

Ok, It's not me, but it's as close as your gonna get to seeing me "Leafless" ;)

(The photo is done digitally, it's one of the many amazing works of Gale Franey)

Sho ya3ni "I LOVE LIFE"?

I heard someone asking that...

And i thought... "keef sho ya3ni?"

For me it was very clear... and very simple.

There's a very good reason why it was chosen for this campaign.

Those who HAVE a life just want to live it...

Those who "love life" don't believe that there religion comes BEFORE there patriotism. They see another way of "life"... They see a Lebanese strategy on how to defend the country.

The slogan is short and sweet to say, I CHOOSE to live this way... I reject your distorted political views, and your so called "cause" for dying.

On the other hand, those who lived all there lives under the brain wash & control of a militia, don't know another way to live. They are not very concerned with living THIS life anyway. They are waiting to "live" in the afterlife. It's another double edge sword that organized religion awarded humanity. Putting so much importance on the after life (hoping that would make better human beings) minimizes the importance of the role we play now, before we die.

So they talk about what "GOD" wants for hours and hours on TV. They pray all day... They create a "Hizb" for God. They even claim DIVINE victories... They think that's there DUTY. That's the reason they are here on earth. They know NOTHING else. "Moqawameh", or THE FIGHT is there LIFE.

So that's the culture clash... That's the fundamental problem.

(hmmm... i just thought of something, maybe there should be a "counter slogan" for Hizballa that reads: I LOVE THE AFTER LIFE... i just might photoshop that, and see if it sells...lol)

Anyway, the point is, the slogan is very appropriate.

I love life, means I REJECT fighting for "ideological" causes. I love life, means i want an end to political assassinations. I love life, means the only way you'll get me to fight to DEFEND my country is under the command of my OFFICIAL army, and not under any militia that hands me a weapon and tells me to fight, so i can be a hero or a martyr. I love life, means i just want to raise my 2 children (Yes, ONLY 2) and educate them here in Lebanon, and not somewhere else... I want to be able to offer them a hate free environment... a war free environment. I love life means: I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE. I'M ALIVE NOW. AND I LOVE IT. SO LET ME BE.

Happy New Years, and did u see the video?!

The video of Saddams execution was the only thing people talked about at the end of this holiday season.....

I was busy partying, but.... i saved the ranting for my blog :)

First of all: Who cares what day they hang him? I wish people would stop giving importance to silly calendar dates... What's a day in the span of history?

3eed Adha, Christmas...bla bla They are just excuses to get drunk, or pray or do whatever you need to do to feel good about yourself, feel like you "belong", and that you are part of something.

So, just because you take the holidays seriously, doesn't mean everyone else does... Especially if they are in the middle of a bloody civil war! They want to get rid of this guy ASAP, they don't care if it's Gods birthday or if it's the day when someone sacrificed a goat 100000 years ago.

Second, we Arabs/Muslims should stop feeling bad about something that is generally acceptable in our culture & religion. All of a sudden, we are FULL of emotions! "Ya 7araam Saddam"!

If you are against the death penalty, like myself and most of Europe, i could see how you can view his hanging as inhumane. But if you aren't, then what's the BIG DEAL? Was it the way he was killed? According to the real Shari3a law he was supposed to be beheaded with a sword! Imagine that? So, what the heck are you complaining about?

Yesss i know he's not the ONLY murderer... and i don't get it when people say: "Sho howeh el wa7eed illy attal 3alam?" LOL what does that mean? Do they suggest that he should be free, cause we can't catch them all???

I feel bad if ANYONE is killed, but that doesn't mean I'm about to defend a murderer and make him into something he's not. It's sad that we are so desperate for a hero, that we make a murdering a dictator into a martyr.

I also don't agree with the way it was done, it was very 3rd world, but after all, that's Iraq. That's how they used to hang people during Saddams time.

I have respect for human life as well as human death, and shouting stupid slogans at someone as he's being hanged is so low & disgusting... But you are dealing with "nawar"... Uncivilized grade C govt. officials in a 3rd world country that is in total ruins! What did you expect? something decent? Something organized?
Ya, if the Americans took care of it, maybe. But ofcourse the U.S. won't have any part of it, cause then you will have every angry Arab screaming, LOOK AT THE AMERICANS KILLING SADDAM! Even if the Americans did it by lethal injection, in a clean place, with his loved ones praying around him. So why bother... Let the Iraqis take care of it THERE WAY.
The point is, i don't believe in the death penalty, but the Iraqis do, and the Shari3a does... The Iraqi court gave the sentence, and the Shari3a law blessed it: "Al qatel, yoqtal". (Tranlsation: The killer should be killed)
I wish the Muslim/Arab world would stop being so hypocritical.