The best portrait of Qadhdhafi that I have read is a chapter in Ghazi Al-Qusaybi’s Al-Wazir Al-Murafiq. Qusaybi (who died recently) was a talented Saudi intellectual with great literary skills. He received a PhD in sociology in the 1960s and then started a career of serving House of Saud. He held several ministerial posts and felt strongly about Palestine. He was mistreated by the royal family and yet he remained loyal. When you server House of Saud (or any of those lousy governments) you squander your talents and then you lose them.
International Muslim Clerical Cooks
Aljazeera is now hosting the secretary-general of the International `Ulama’ Union, which is a clerical organization headed and controlled by Yusuf Qaradawi, who in turn is controlled by Gulf gas and oil.
Yasin Hajj Salih: arrested
Yasin Hajj Salih is a smart Syrian dissident: I am not a fan of his and he finds it convenient to express support for democracy in racist anti-Syrian (people) publications owned by Hariri family or Saudi royal family. He was a leftist who became a liberal, but he has a good mind and is an original thinker. The regime today arrested him and he can’t in any way be accused of being part of a fundamentalist Salafi conspiracy but the regime does not discriminate in its oppression. I see no justification whatsoever for supporting this tyrannical and arrogant regime that is killing people to keep a nasty family in power. The issue is not the Ba`th party (a mere tool of the ruling family), but about the Asad family.
PS No, I learned that Hajj Salih has been in hiding for weeks now, but that his brother has been arrested. (Salih wrote an op ed piece for the NYT early durign the Syrian uprising).
PS No, I learned that Hajj Salih has been in hiding for weeks now, but that his brother has been arrested. (Salih wrote an op ed piece for the NYT early durign the Syrian uprising).
Aljazeera and Muslim Brotherhood
Do you notice that when supporters of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood appear on Aljazeera, they always express gratitude for the news/gas station for its “support” for their cause. I kid you not. The anchorperson today said: we don’t support any side we just report. This line may have been stomached 5 years ago, but now? Give me a break.
Aljazeera has lost it. Yesterday, on the way from the airport, I tuned in to Aljazeera since I missed Arabic news while in London. Instead, I got political speeches similar to the speeches delivered by Arab leaders. I kid you not. They start with Syria, and you hear Majid Abdul-Hadi (a great reporter/writer/narrator) reading a speech about Syria from the perspective of…NATO of course. Then you hear a speech about Libya, from the perspective of…NATO. 20 minutes after the speeches began, they mentioned Israel. I thought to myself: finally. At least they still cover Israeli crimes. Instead the Qatari gas station was reporting on the “anniversary” of the arrest of the Israeli terrorist occupation soldier in Gaza. I kid you not.
Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil
