I found this video on you tube…as it is shown…when I was searching about Syria. Anyway…I don’t know should we laugh or cry when no one knows where Syria is…which I believe is taking a huge part these days in media …since the assassination of prime Minster rafiq al-hariri …and the Iranian nuclear thing…is this ignorance from the west or should we wait for America to launch a war “Allah la y2der” so that everybody knows that such a country exist …!!
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I must say that I really admire Asma abdol-hamid courage for standing in front of these obstacles and refusing to take off her hijab…..if women are not allowed to wear hijab in parliament , then I guess Jews should also not allowed to wear the kippah or yarmulka !!
COPENHAGEN – With a headscarf elegantly draped over her hair, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, a Palestinian-born Dane, has sparked a heated debate in Denmark by declaring that she would wear her veil in parliament if elected in 2009.
A member of the ex-communist Unity List, Abdol-Hamid has a good chance of becoming what could be the first veiled Muslim in Europe to be voted into parliament. The 25-year-old social worker and former television host from the Danish city of Odense is known for her commitment to politics and equal rights, as well as her headscarf and her refusal to shake hands with men.
But the prospect of a woman in parliament wearing the traditional headscarf, or hijab, has further disrupted sensibilities in Denmark, a country still shaken by last year’s Mohammed cartoons row that swelled from a domestic Danish affair into a worldwide crisis pitting Muslim values against Western ideals.
Muslims make up 3.5 percent of Denmark’s population of 5.4 million.
A recent poll showed 48 percent of Danes believe Muslim women have the right to wear a headscarf in parliament but the same number are opposed to the idea, with 4 percent undecided.
A spokesman for the far-right Danish People’s Party (DPP), Soeren Krarup, was among the first to react to Abdol-Hamid’s pledge, calling her headscarf a “totalitarian symbol” similar to “the Nazi swastika.”
And a DPP member of the European Parliament, Mogens Camre, said Abdol-Hamid “needed psychiatric treatment.”
But harsh words have not deterred Abdol-Hamid, who moved to Denmark at the age of five with her Palestinian parents. She has rejected her critics’ view that she is an oppressed woman and defends her “right to be different.”
She was recently designated by her party as a candidate for the Copenhagen constituency ahead of the February 2009 general election, and polls show she is well-placed to win a seat in the national assembly.
Although other Muslim women have won seats in European parliaments – in Belgium and Bulgaria – none have worn the veil.
In secular Turkey, which straddles the Western and Muslim worlds and hopes to one day become a member of the European Union, parliament was thrown into an uproar in 1999 when a member of a now-defunct Islamist party showed up wearing her headscarf to take her parliamentary oath.
She was prevented from doing so as lawmakers protested loudly, and shortly thereafter she left Turkey.
Abdol-Hamid is confident that things will turn out better for her; she is used to breaking new ground.
A poised young woman with a broad smile, she made Danish headlines last year when she became the first television host in Denmark to wear a Muslim headscarf.
But the head of the Danish People’s Party, Pia Kjaersgaard, whose anti-immigrant party has grown into a political force to be reckoned with, is not convinced by Abdol-Hamid’s self-assurance.
Kjaersgaard said she “feels pity” for a woman who “tries to make everyone believe that the veil gives her freedom,” adding that the headscarf is “often imposed on very young, innocent girls by authoritarian men.”
Abdol-Hamid insisted that is not the case for her.
“I am free with this piece of material on my head. It is a choice that I consider to be right. And I prefer to greet men by placing my hand on my heart. But I would never insist that others do it,” she said.
For her, winning a seat in parliament is “a way for a Danish Muslim woman to show what she is capable of, and to fight for her ideas such as the struggle for equality between men and women.”
She said she believed firmly in “the separation of religion and politics,” and has said that she would not ask for a prayer room in parliament if elected.
While criticism of her has been harsh, she does have backers.
Several Danish imams have called on Muslims to vote for Abdol-Hamid but most of her support comes from ethnic Danes on the left-wing.
Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen, a member of the opposition Radical Party and a former culture minister who was scandalized by far-right attacks, recently greeted journalists and press photographers wearing a headscarf.
She insisted on Danes’ “right to be different” and stressed the importance of freedom of expression and the need to counterbalance the “nationalist and closed-minded” far-right which “demonizes Muslims who wear headscarves.”
“What is important is not what we have on our heads but the opinions we express,” she said.
Gerner Nielsen has, however, been criticized by a former party colleague, Naser Khader, a moderate Muslim who accuses her of “playing into the hands of Islamists” – a point of view shared by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
i found this quite intresting to know!!
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA – A study released Thursday indicates that more women than men go online in the United States, defying the perception of the Internet as a male-dominated realm.
Approximately 97.2 million women use the Internet in the United States, compared to 90.9 million men, according to research by eMarketer.
“There are absolutely more things women do online than men do,” said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson, author of the “Women Online” report.
“Women are the supreme communicators and the Internet makes it easier for them to communicate and socialize.”
For example, Williamson added, women and girls make up the majority of the users on popular social-networking Web site MySpace while only 45 percent of the audience at video-sharing Web site YouTube.
“Social networking, in general, is very big with women,” Williamson said. “Particularly young women interested in meeting people and talking with friends. It fits very well with the lifestyle.”
Seventy-eight percent of male US Internet users will watch video online this year while 66 percent of the female users will, according to eMarketer.
Reasons given for the difference in video-viewing proclivities included men adopting new technologies faster than women and having greater access to high-capacity broadband Internet connections needed to handle data-rich video streams.
When women watch online video, they are most interested in news, weather, music, and movie clips, according to eMarketer.
Women are less likely than males to visit video Web sites and not drawn to “silly videos” such as those abounding on Google-owned YouTube, Williamson said.
Women are inclined to use the Internet to accomplish tasks instead of as a diversion, according to the eMarketer report.
“Females, especially adult women, are more likely to use the Internet to get things done, rather than to have fun,” the eMarketer report states. “Many adult women, busy juggling work with their relationships and child-caring responsibilities, don’t have time to surf the Web for video.”
More women are expected to take up viewing video online in coming years as broadband connections become ubiquitous and television shows that they like are made available on the Internet, according to eMarketer.
“Early data indicate that female teens are as enthusiastic as male teens about online video,” Williamson said. “The networks are well-positioned to drive greater female online video usage by offering more programming that appeals to females, particularly adults.”
When women play online they prefer “casual games,” such as computer versions of board, card, or word games, over battle games with proven appeal to the opposite gender, according to eMarketer.
The eMarketer study estimates that 66.2 percent of female US residents three years of age or older will use the Internet this year as opposed to 64.2 percent of male residents in the same age range.
Women outnumber men by approximately 5 million in the United States, according to 2005 census figures.
“Even within the populations of men and women you see more women than men using the Internet,” Williamson said.
A very good speech by British journalist Yvonne Ridley about Islamophobia….
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check out the video response….its good
for more information about Yvonne…check out her website…
i like this video…
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If you have a message what would it be?
A very nice Animated drawing speaking about the beginning of Islam, it is quite long but worth watching
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محي الدين عيسو
قررت أن أكون مواطناً مثاليا وبذلك سأكون كالنعامة أغرس رأسي في التراب ولا أرى شيئاً، ولا أزعج أحداً بعد هذا اليوم وهذا يعني بأنني سأكون مرضي الوالدين والسلطة السورية معاً، فلن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن الفساد الذي يستشري في جميع دوائر الدولة الاقتصادية والسياسية والإدارية وغيرها من الدوائر الفاسدة لأنني سأكون عائقاً أمام الاستثمارات الأجنبية والعربية في وطني الذي يقدم لي كل ما احتاجه من وسائل الرفاهية ولا أحرم وطني من المساعدات والقروض الأجنبية وحتى لا أتهم بتهمة نشر الأخبار الكاذبة وإثارة البلبلة بين المواطنين وتعاقبني الأجهزة الأمنية على فعلتي هذه .
لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن استبداد السلطة وقمعها للمواطن ومنعها حتى الماء والهواء عنه ولن أقول أنها تمارس أبشع أنواع الظلم عليه في سبيل الحفاظ على المكتسبات التي نالها بطرق غير شرعية، وتستبد كل من يحاول أن يرفع صوته في وجه الاستبداد، وتمارس سياسة الوصاية على المواطن عبر كم الأفواه وخنق الكلمة الحرة حتى تكون السلطة السورية راضية عني وتقول بأنني مواطن صالح من الدرجة الأولى ولست طالحاً كبقية الناس الذين يتهمون السلطة السورية بالاستبداد
لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن التغيير الديمقراطي في سوريا وسأطالب الجميع بعدم التحدث عنها ، لأن هؤلاء الذين يطالبون بالتغيير هم أناس مرتبطون بالخارج وعملاء للإمبريالية الصهيونية والرجعية ويحاولون زعزعة الاستقرار الذي يتسم به مجتمعنا وسأكون مع هؤلاء الطلبة والأجهزة الأمنية التي تخرج في قمع الاعتصامات حتى أنال شهادة حسن السلوك من الأجهزة الأمنية التي تسهر ليلاً نهارا ، صيفاً شتاءاً لحماية المواطن السوري من هذه الثلة التي تنادي بالتغيير الديمقراطي ، وسأتدرب على التصفيق منذ هذه اللحظة لأكون بين المصفقين والمزمرين والمطبلين لسياستنا الحكيمة وأحفظ عن ظهر قلب مقولة لا للتغيير ، نعم للأجهزة الأمنية بجميع فروعها .
لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن التخلف والأمية ومناهج التعليم وهجرة الطلبة والعلماء إلى الدول الغربية وسأغمض عيني عن القرى القصبات الخالية من وسائل الخدمة والصرف الصحي ، ولن أقول بأن الجامعات السورية لا تستوعب هذا الكم الهائل من الطلبة وأن المتخرجين أصبحوا متسولين في الشوارع بحثاُ عن فرص العمل حتى لا أتهم بالكذب والنفاق والثرثرة
لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن الاقتصاد السوري الذي يستطيع أن ينافس أقوى الدول العربية وهو ينهب من قبل بعض المتنفذين في الدولة ، وأن البترول السوري محفوظ في أيدي أمينة حتى لا يكون مصيري كمصير عارف دليلة عالم الاقتصاد الذي حكم عليه عشر سنوات وهو في نهاية عمره ، لن أقول أبداً بأن هناك ملايين الدولارات لكبار المسؤولين في البنوك الأوربية ويستطيع شراء حي بأكمله في أجمل عاصمة أوربية
أقسم بالله العظيم لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن الفقر والجوع الذي يتعرض له الشعب السوري وسأقول بأن قصة 30 % الذين يعيشون تحت خط الفقر هي أكذوبة غايتها النيل من سلامة وطننا واستقراره ، وأن أي موظف سوري يستطيع أن يؤمن مستقبله ومستقبل أولاده وأحفاده من خلال الراتب الذي يتقاضه ، ولا أحد في وطني يرتشي ، لن أفتح فمي وسأغمض عيني مرة أخرى أمام هؤلاء الضباط الذين يملكون المزارع والفيلات والمعامل والمصانع والحشم والخدم ( العساكر ) لا بل سأقول بأنهم يسهرون لحماية الوطن والمواطن وأموالهم تلك هي من تعبهم وجهدهم وعرقهم لأكون مواطن من رتبة الخمس نجوم أمام الأجهزة الأمنية
لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن الأكراد المجردين من الجنسية حسب الإحصاء الاستثنائي لعام 1962 لا بل سأقول وأحفظ عن ظهر قلب وأردد بأن هؤلاء جاؤوا من تركيا فاحتضنتهم الدولة السورية ومنحتهم الأراضي الزراعية وسمحت لهم بامتلاك البيوت والعقارات التجارية والتوظيف في الدوائر الحكومية واستكمال الدراسات الجامعية والنوم في الفنادق السورية ، وأن محمد طلب هلال لم يقدم مشروعاً يوصي بأن تعمد الدولة إلى تهجير الأكراد إلى الداخل مع التوزيع في الداخل مع ملاحظة عناصر الخطر أولاً فأول وتطبيق سياسة التجهيل أي عدم إنشاء مدارس أو معاهد لأن بنائها أثبت عكس المطلوب بشكل صارخ وسحب الجنسية السورية منهم ومن ثم تهجيرهم وسد باب العمل أمامهم حتى نجعلهم في وضع غير مستقر وغير قادرين على التحرك كي يكونوا أمام الرحيل في كل وقت ، ولن أقول بأن العقلية الشوفينية عربت أسماء القرى والمدن الكردية إلى عدنانية وعمرانية وقحطانية وإلى آخر القائمة المعربة
لن أتحدث أبداً عن عدد السجون المنتشرة على طول البلاد وعرضها لأنها بنيت خصيصاً لمعاقبة المجرمين والثرثارين من أمثال رياض الترك وعارف دليلة وأنور البني وميشيل كيلو ورياض سيف ومأمون الحمصي وكمال اللبواني وغيرهم من الحقودين أصحاب الألسن الطويلة ، ولا أحد في سجون الأجهزة الأمنية يتعرض للتعذيب لأنه ممنوع حسب الاتفاقية الدولية لمناهضة التعذيب التي صادقت عليها سوريا لا بل سأقول بأن الذي يمارس التعذيب ( وهو نادر جداً ) يتعرض للعقوبة والمسائلة من الجهات الأعلى مسؤولية ويفصل من وظيفته التي حصل عليها بالانتخابات الديمقراطية عن طريق صناديق الاقتراع ، وأن السجون في سوريا هي من أفضل المدارس التعليمية ؟ فهل يستطيع أحد أن ينكر بأن أغلبية المترجمين السوريين هم من خريجي السجون السورية التي أصبحت أكثر من المدارس والمشافي
سأتوب بعد هذا اليوم ولن أتحدث عن حقوق الإنسان في سوريا ، ولن أطالب باحترام المواثيق الدولية لأن الأجهزة الأمنية هي التي تصنع الإنسان من لا شيء ، وأنا أتحدى جميع المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان بأن يقولوا أو أن يلمحوا بعدم عدالة الأجهزة الأمنية في التعامل مع المعتقلين فجميع المعتقلين سواسية في التعامل الإنساني والأخلاقي في المفارز الأمنية ؟
لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن المادة الثامنة من الدستور السوري والتي تجيز لحزب البعث قيادة الدولة والمجتمع والجبهة الوطنية الكرتونية ولن أطالب بتعديلها أو تغييرها – لا سمح الله – فهذه المادة أصبحت من التراث الوطني والقومي للشعب السوري وجزء لا يتجزأ من المبادئ السامية التي انطلقت عليها أفكار حزب البعث الحاكم لا بل سأقول بأن قانون الأحزاب هو أمر تافه لا معنى له ، فلماذا تزداد عدد الأحزاب وتزداد معها الصراعات فالشعب السوري كله حزب واحد وجبهة واحدة ويدا واحدة ، ثم لماذا تزداد عدد الجرائد والمطبوعات ويكثر اللعي والحكي الفاضي فهناك ثلاث جرائد رسمية ( الثورة – تشرين – البعث ) تستطيع تغطية الأخبار المحلية والعربية والدولية لا بل لكل منها ملحقها الثقافي أيضاً .
لن أتحدث بعد هذا اليوم عن حالة الطوارئ والأحكام العرفية في البلاد منذ عام 1963 ولن أقول بأن الشعب السوري هو رهينة بيد السلطة في صراعها مع إسرائيل حسب ما تدعي هي ، ولن أتحدث عن المنتديات التي أغلقت في كل من دمشق وحلب والقامشلي وغيرها من المحافظات السورية
وأخيراً لن أتحدث أبداً عن سوريا بعد هذا اليوم وسأغير موجة كتاباتي للحديث عن جنوب السودان وموريتانية والصومال لأكون مواطناً صالحاً
مرفوع الهامة أمشي منتصب القامة أمشي
وأنا أمشى
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LONDON – Britain’s World War II prime minister Winston Churchill argued that Jews were “partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer,” in an article publicized for the first time Sunday.
Churchill made the claim in a 1937 article entitled “How The Jews Can Combat Persecution,” three years before he started leading the country.
He outlined a new wave of anti-Semitism sweeping across Europe and the United States, which was followed by the deaths of millions of Jews in the Holocaust under the German Nazi regime.
“It would be easy to ascribe it to the wickedness of the persecutors, but that does not fit all the facts,” the article read.
“It exists even in lands, like Great Britain and the United States, where Jew and Gentile are equal in the eyes of the law and where large numbers of Jews have found not only asylum, but opportunity.
“These facts must be faced in any analysis of anti-Semitism. They should be pondered especially by the Jews themselves.
“For it may be that, unwittingly, they are inviting persecution – that they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer.”
The article adds: “The central fact [that] dominates the relations of Jew and non-Jew is that the Jew is ‘different.’
“He looks different. He thinks differently. He has a different tradition and background. He refuses to be absorbed.”
Elsewhere, Churchill praised Jews as “sober, industrious, law-abiding” and urged Britons to stand up for the race against persecution.
“There is no virtue in a tame acquiescence in evil. To protest against cruelty and wrong, and to strive to end them, is the mark of a man,” he wrote.
The article was discovered by Cambridge University historian Richard Toye in the university’s archive of Churchill’s papers.
At the time, Churchill’s secretary cautioned him it would be “inadvisable” to publish it and the article never saw the light of day.
Churchill was voted the greatest Briton ever in a nationwide poll held by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2002.
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This is important information for females of ALL ages ….
A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:
1) the first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun, braid or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.
2) The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women whose clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around specifically to cut clothing.
3) They also look for women on their cell phone, searching through their purse, or doing other activities while walking because they are off-guard and can be easily overpowered.
4) Men are most likely to attack & rape in the early morning, between 5:00a.m. And 8:30a.m.
5) The number one place women are abducted from/attacked is grocery store parking lots. Number two: Are office parking lots/garages. Number three: Are public restrooms.
6) The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to another location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.
7) Only 2% said they carried weapons because rape carries a 3-5 year sentence but rape with a weapon is 15-20 years.
If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.
9) These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas, or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.
Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.
10) Several defense mechanisms he taught us are: If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: “I can’t believe it is so cold out here,” “we’re in for a bad winter.” Now you’ve seen their face and could identify them in a line-up; you lose appeal as a target.
11) If someone is coming toward you ,hold out your hands in front of you and yell STOP or STAY BACK !Most of the rapists this man talked to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back .
Again, they are looking for an EASY target.
12) If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes), yell I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.
13) If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you can by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the
arm (between the elbow and armpit) OR in the upper inner thigh VERY VERY HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands – the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it- it hurts.
14) After the initial hit, always GO for the GROIN….. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble and he’s out of there.
15) When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.
16) Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don’t dismiss it, and go with your instincts!!!
You may feel a little silly at the time, but you’d feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.
1. Tip fromTae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do!
2. Learned this from a tourist guide in New Orleans. If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you….chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you, and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!
3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you, but everybody else will. This has saved lives.
4.Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc.) DON’T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side, put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR, LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.
a. If someone is in the car with a gun to your head
OFF, repeat:
OFF! Instead gun the engine and speed into anything, wrecking the car. Your Air Bag will save you. If the person is in the back seat they will get the worst of it. As soon as the car crashes bail out and run. It is better than having them find your body in a remote location.
5. a few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot or parking garage:
A.)Be aware: look around you
look into your car, at the passenger side floor, and in the back seat.
B.) If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.
C.)Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out.
IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)
6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot. This is especially true at NIGHT!)
7. if the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times. And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN, preferably in a zigzag pattern!
8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP! It may get you raped or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well-educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked “for help” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.
9. Another Safety Point: Someone just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch the night before last and she called the police because it was late and she thought it was weird. The police told her” Whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.”
The lady then said that it sounded like the baby had crawled near a window, and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over. The policeman said, “We already have a unit on the way, whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.” He told her that they think a serial killer has a baby’s cry recorded and uses it to coax women out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby. He said they have not verified it, but have had several calls by women saying that they hear baby’s cries outside their doors when they’re home alone at night.
Please pass this on and DO NOT open the door for a crying baby —-This should be taken seriously because the Crying Baby theory was mentioned on America’s Most Wanted this past Saturday when they profiled the serial killer in Louisiana I’d like you to forward this to all the women you know. It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle. I was going to send this to the ladies only, but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it onto them, as well.
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“Za7ma ya donia Za7ma” is an Egyptian folk song, I don’t know who is the singer and I am not really interested to know. Whoever he was, he was absolutely right when he sang this song. The song crossed my mind today, when I was in the car….thank God I was not driving, I would have committed a crime. For those who have never been to Egypt, it is really crowded everywhere especially in the rush hour and in the morning where most people go to their work and students to their schools or universities.
Actually, what is really ironic if you found the way to downtown not crowded, you wonder what is going on …there must be something wrong !!.Since I live in Cairo from a long time I am used to traffic jam, however sometimes you just can’t stand it anymore and you feel you want to go home and relax. Cars are everywhere you go, there is no place to walk …people who want to walk can go to the track in clubs or walk on a treadmill in gym.
The average middle class or high class family has more than one to two cars. And sometimes more, which after like 10 years or maybe less it will be a disaster especially in small cities like “Aleppo” in Syria which become too crowded with cars and very narrow roads. Though one cannot compare between Egypt and Syria because of the number of population, however in Syria it is much better. What I like about Syrian traffic is the electric traffic light, where you count the numbers from downwards to upwards then you move with your car, I know it sounds weird, but I like it!!!
Cars are no longer a luxury thing to obtain, it is a necessity in life, and espically if you live in a big city, and public transportations in Egypt are awful, you can’t take a bus or train ….it is too crowded, and not very good. What I really like about Europe, is people there can live without a car because they have good means of transportations like undergrounds which I like or good buses, and people are civilized in a way that no one can bother you…Etc.
While I was in the car I remembered the movie “back to the future” 1985.Where there was this scene for the car that Doc brown invented, it can go back in time and to the future ….the scene was for cars moving in the sky. Well maybe in the future it will be possible to invent such a car that can move in space, and thus we avoid traffic jam …well maybe I am imagining, but everything is possible these days with all the sophisticated and new technology.
