“…But You Throw One Shoe…”

Muntazar al-Zaydi is the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at president Bush, yelling the immortal words, “This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog,” and, “This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq.”
Immediately after his release in September he left the country for medical treatment, then [...]

*Snort*

This struck me as really funny.

Crusader Broccoli

So there I was, looking up broccoli in Wikipedia and then clicking on the Arabic version of the article to see what the Arabic word for broccoli is. For the tiniest split second I was thrown by this: القرنبيط الأخضر أو البروكلي أحد نباتات الفصيلة الصليبية
“One of the crusader family of plants”? No, haha, it’s [...]

Couple Things, Here and There

1- If you’re interested in the Rifqa Bary story, The Saint Petersburg Times online has a good article by Rifqa’s mother’s attorney, an evangelical Christian.
It will astonish many fellow conservatives as well as many on the left to learn that I, an evangelical Christian, have vigorously defended Rifqa Bary’s mother in court. And I believe [...]

Finally, Mug Available. Shirts, Too

UPDATE: if you saw this before about noon on Monday, you saw a version that had a typo in the Arabic. It is fixed now and the faulty products have been removed and good ones are there in their place. The picture below shows the real picture.
Buy the shirt and other stuff HERE at my [...]

A Musical Interlude

Here’s a clip of song sung by a cute little girl with a good voice. It’s not subtitled, but it’s a religious song. Happily, it has a nice, upbeat tempo.

Music is a great way to improve your language skills. I should really listen/watch more, because just in this song, for [...]

Is It Permissible to Eat a Mermaid?

Over on PZ Myers’s biology and atheism site, Pharyngula, PZ has posted a fatwa found on Islam Q&A that he thinks is pretty funny. I can’t tell when the question was originally asked and answered, but I found Arabic-language sites talking about this particular fatwa back in 2007.
Islam Q&A is new to me, but it [...]

Qur’an Authors

Found this over on The Arabist’s site.
Amazon.com lists the authors of the Holy Qur’an as Muhammad and Gabriel.

Deity Identification Fail

TBogg has a blurb quoting some moron who thinks the supreme being of Islam of someone other than God.
Said moron wrote:
Can you imagine the uproar that would ensue if the Vice President of the United States used the name of Islam’s supreme being as a curse word? They rioted all over the Muslim world when [...]

Mildly Amusing Video

Chameleon grooves to Arabic music.

Song is apparently “Ya Walad Ya Nino” by Faisal Alawi Fasil Alawy.