i like this video…
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A very nice Animated drawing speaking about the beginning of Islam, it is quite long but worth watching 
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So the fact that the blessed amongst us, who were brought up on a healthy diet of metal and hard music didn’t come accidental nor was it coincidental. It was a case of psychological predetermination. The melancholy and/or numerous outbursts of fits and anger accompanied by underground, anti-mainstream, anti-social, anti-establishment cords, riffs and lyrics had its purpose and reason all along. Now the reason is being uncovered before my “burning eyes” and our will to listen, headbang and mosh makes sense after all. it wasn’t diabolically juvenile. It was a symptom of all the hidden talents and supression of gifted tendencies. Like the X-men, these tendencies, thanks to metal and hard-core, were tamed when they could have easily mutated into “Suicidal Tendencies”. I can now turn to my future “Offspring”s or children (of Bodom) and reveal to them the great news that they mustn’t be alarmed if they find themselves alienated musically from the rest of society, as they are probably decedents of a long line of metal heads.
enjoy ….
A study has revealed that death metal and thrash bands such as Slayer and Slipknot produce the music of choice for today’s brightest youngsters.
A survey which was carried out among students at the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, a cohort drawn from the top 5 per cent of the nation’s youngsters, drew praise for metal’s “visceral brutality” with more than a third rating it among their favourite styles. Researchers admitted they were surprised to find that “intelligent” genres traditionally associated with the precociously bright, such as classical and jazz, were the least popular.
What they discovered instead was that youngsters liked to let off steam to hardcore sounds, particularly if it had an emotionally charged or overtly political message behind it. One respondent said: “You can’t really jump your anger into the floor and listen to music at the same time with other types of music.”
Stuart Cadwallader of the University of Warwick, which conducted the survey, said heavy metal was found to provide a form of “catharsis”, particularly for those with low self-esteem.
They found the aggressive music a useful conduit for their frustrations and anger, according to the findings revealed at the British Psychological Society conference in York yesterday.
Mr Cadwallader said this intellectual elite often found themselves facing situations and issues not encountered by less able students.
“Perhaps the pressure associated with being gifted and talented can be temporarily forgotten with the aid of music,” he said.
While other musical forms such as rock, pop and R&B were rated as the most popular, students said they felt particularly attracted to the “thrashiness” of heavy metal.
Answering questions in an online survey, one student said Systems of a Down’s anti-war track, “Bring Your Own Bombs” particularly appealed. Another track, “Aenima” by Tool, was praised for its subject matter – “the stupidity of the celebrity culture”.
Another praised “the visceral brutality offered by metal bands like Slipknot and Machine Head.” The student added: “The cathartic release offered by heavy music played loud, either by my hi-fi or myself on guitar, is a wonderful thing when it’s needed.”
However, many of the students disagreed over what constituted a heavy metal fan andargued that they liked to pick and choose from different styles according tothe way they were feeling.
One student concluded: “As with most music, it depends heavily on the person’s mood at the time. So while there probably is your ‘average metalhead fan’, there will also be a lot of other fans who just feel ‘metalheady’ every so often. Which I guess goes some way to justify my playlists being named ‘emotions’.”
School of rock
System Of A Down Los Angeles-based four-piece whose politically-charged output has much to do with the fact they are descended from Armenian genocide victims.
Machinehead Boasting albums entitled Burn My Eyes and Hellsalive, the Oakland-based nu-metallers were banned by MTV for lyrical insensitivity after the Waco siege.
Slipknot Once compared to a “threshing machine devouring a military drum corps” this Des Moines nine-piece achieved notoriety with their first album, Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat.
Slayer Recently celebrated 25 years of exploring the delights of satanism and serial killers.
Finntroll Finnish folk-death metal band that sings in Swedish and draws on Norse legend.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2377708.ece
غريندايزر
أغنية المقدمه أغنية النهايه فيديو المقدمه فيديو المقدمه 2 موسيقى الأنطلاق موسيقى الخطر الموسيقى الحزينه الموسيقى الحزينه 2 موسيقى القتال موسيقى الشك موسيقى الكاوبوى مقطع من حلقه
الرجل الحديدى
اغنية المقدمه فيديو المقدمه فيديو النهايه فيديو الاتحاد فيديو للقتال فيديو الرجل المزيففيديو التحول الاول
السندباد
اغنية المقدمه اغنية النهايه فيديو المقدمه فيديو النهايه مقطع من حلقه
جزيرة الكنز
عدنان ولينا
اغنية المقدمه اغنيه النهايه فيديو المقدمه فيديو النهايه
الليث الابيض
اغنية المقدمه فيديو المقدمه فيديو قصير
هايدى
اغنية المقدمه فيديو المقدمه فيديو النهايه
فلونه
اغنية المقدمه فيديو المقدمه فيديو النهايه
جونجر
اغنية المقدمه فيديو المقدمه اغنية القتال الانطلاق
مغامرات نحول بشار
زينه و نحول
اغنية زينه ونحول فيديو المقدمه فيديو النهايه
Churchill found Jews ‘partly to blame’ for woes »« For Arab Metal Fans
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The Palestinian Territories
Turkey
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Yemen
If you (A) currently live in one of these countries, (B) are attending the festival and (C) are interested in being interviewed for “Global Metal” please contact the directors at: info@metalhistory.com
“Global Metal” is the follow-up film to “Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey” which explored metal’s impact and controversy over the past 35 years and featured interviews with Tony Iommi, Bruce Dickinson, Alice Cooper, Ronnie James Dio, SLAYER, Dee Snider, ARCH ENEMY, LAMB OF GOD, CANNIBAL CORPSE, EMPEROR and many more. The two-disc DVD set was released in North America in May and includes extended interviews, an interactive metal history chart, and a mini-doc on Norwegian black metal.
For more information, visit www.metalhistory.com.
Interesting and fun bit of animation i stumbled on.
For most of you who might be history buffs, you’ll probably find inaccurate, but still. Its interesting. Perhaps someone can attempt to do a better job?
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf
If you’re more interested in accuracy rather than colourful flash, then this might be more for you
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/shiite-vs-sunni.html
For Arab Metal Fans »« FEb 14th, the new Leb National Holiday
So Jumblat feels he can bark that loud. the word populist come to mind. either that or he knows something most of us dont know. I’m primarily amazing at the short term memory most of our Lebanese brothers and sisters have. Wasnt that same chameleon a dear friend and ally to Damascus at one point? or Geagea , who is officially a murderer by all accounts. I have once given the lebanese far more credit than this. Are they that easily manipulated or is that what we’re lead to believe? perhaps they are that forgiving.
“Perhaps. The reality, however, is that Lebanon continues to live on borrowed time. Its economy – more than $30bn in public debt – is bankrupt. “There is not a businessman, not an architect, not an investor who wants to put money into this country,” a young American-trained urban planner said among the crowd yesterday. “Sure, we won’t have a civil war. But what is our country worth in financial terms?”"
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2271659.ece
the Lebanese seem to have mastered a talent in selective attention, fact avoidance and self delusion. I hardly call that crowd at Martyr square patriotic. And to call a remembrance for someone who in fact was never admired by the public before his death is even more puzzling. Normally, in a civilized environment or society, a sad memory of that nature is expressed in what is called a “one minute silence” allocated on a specific day and time where everyone around the country, who cares, participates. That was enough for 9/11 victims. But not for Hariri (radya allahu 3anhu). people have to make a day of it.
http://www.champress.net/?page=show_det&id=14823
Imperial map of the Middle East »« Are you taking the Mickey?
Because thats what the region needs. While sides are on the brink of confrontation, the Saudi prince finds that every now and then, people might need to let off some steam and enjoy themselves. Perhaps American battle ship marines and Iranians can mix it and have a laugh with Mickey for good times sake, just before they go back to business.
Prince Alwaweed bin Talal, the world’s eighth richest man, is reported to be considering investing in a £4bn Disneyland theme park in Bahrain.
While the park would feature the likes of Mickey and Minnie, visitors streaming through the gates of Disney Bahrain would be welcomed by characters from Aladdin and Fantasia.
It would not be the prince’s first foray into the world of Mickey Mouse. He already has a 10 per cent stake in Disneyland Paris’s operator Euro Disney, and signed a deal late last year to distribute Walt Disney products across the Middle East and north Africa.
The Bahrain newspaper Al-Waqt says that the need for a “project for family entertainment” in the region is long overdue.
If the scheme gets the green light, the first visitors to the park will be welcomed in 2013. The park would cover 16 million square metres, with work expected to start in May.
Disney has 11 theme parks worldwide and looks set to expand its empire in Shanghai to tap into the wealth created by China’s economic boom.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2245128.ece
I just thought this is way too funny and had to share with all:
No stoning, Canada migrants told
Don’t stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.
The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and insulting.
Quebec is in the midst of a huge debate on integrating immigrant cultures.
Montreal police are investigating an officer who wrote a song called That’s Enough Already, which says immigrants are undermining Quebec culture.
‘Not racist’
Herouxville, which has one immigrant family in its population of about 1,300, is 160km (100 miles) north-east of Montreal.
Its council published the new rules on the town’s website.
“We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here,” the declaration reads.
“We consider it completely outside norms to… kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc.”
It points out that women are allowed to drive, vote, dance and own their own homes.
The rules ban Sikh children from carrying ceremonial daggers to school, even though the Supreme Court has ruled they can.
The man behind the declaration, councillor Andre Drouin, told the National Post newspaper the rules were not racist.
“We invite people from all nationalities, all languages, all sexual orientations, whatever, to come live with us, but we want them to know ahead of time how we live,” he said.
Mr Drouin said there had been a number of recent incidents of culture clashes that meant the new rules were needed.
In one a Toronto judge ordered a Christmas tree removed from a court so as not to offend non-Christians. In another a Montreal gym installed frosted windows after a Hasidic synagogue complained the sight of adults exercising was offensive.
However, the president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, Salam Elmenyawi, condemned the council, saying it had set back race relations decades.
He told Reuters news agency: “I was shocked and insulted to see these kinds of false stereotypes and ignorance about Islam and our religion.”
A poll in a Montreal newspaper this month revealed that 59% of Quebecers admitted to some kind of racist feelings.
Montreal police are considering disciplinary action against the 37-year-old officer who wrote the song urging immigrants in Quebec to assimilate.
The song includes the lines: “We want to accept ethnics, but not at any price… if you’re not happy with your fate, there’s a place called the airport.”
Police spokesman Yan Lafreniere said the song did not uphold the values of the Montreal police force and that the officer would be questioned as to his motives.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6316151.stm
Are you taking the Mickey? »« Zionism in the Cinema – Part One
Thought this to be quite a good and informative review of few relatively connected films in terms of topic.
http://www.counterpunch.com/portis01182007.html
