OMG Feb 22, 2006 12:15 pm 229 Views Ops! i hit the wrong key OMG and the setting back to zero wowie... so tiring work... 8 Comments

200 Nurses for Canada and UK. Feb 21, 2006 4:53 am 248 Views Filipina ang gusto.. the details not yet complete... i will post later.. 3 Comments

New Crown Prince Feb 21, 2006 3:56 am 218 Views KUWAIT: “I have heeded my nomination as Crown Prince and pray to God Almighty to help me fulfill my duties to serve the best interests of the country”, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said as he took the constitutional oath, Monday. This came as National Assembly held a special session to pledge allegiance to Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed after his nomination as Crown Prince by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed and a 64 member house unanimously voted in favour. (Arab Times ) 7 Comments

The guilt of being a woman Feb 20, 2006 3:10 pm 226 Views By Dr Sami Alrabaa Der Spiegel, a German weekly newsmagazine publishes a disturbing story (Feb 6) -- the story of Mukhtar Mai from Pakistan. In the name of "tradition", Mai was raped by several men from her village. Here is summary of the story: Allegedly Shukkur, the 12-year old brother of Mai, raped the 25-year-old daughter of a neighbour, Faiz Moahmmed Mastoi. The family of Mai, father, mother, siblings, and Mai herself went to the house of the Mastois to ask for forgiveness if Shukkur had really ever raped their daughter. The Mastois knew that Mai's family were coming to apologise. So the leader of the village and all the men of village gathered in front of the Mastois house to watch a barbaric show. According to the tradition of the village, the punishment for a man who rapes a woman is that one of his sisters be raped by as many men in the village as possible. After Mai said, "If really my brother raped your daughter, I apologise for him, I ask you for forgiveness," two men grabbed Mai, pulled her into the house and raped her. The rest of the men queued up to rape her as well. Mai cannot exactly remember how many men raped her, ten, twenty, more? She cannot remember. Mai filed a lawsuit against the men of the village. However, the highest court in Pakistan ruled: Not Guilty. Mai did not keep silent. She wrote and published her story in a book with the assistance of Marie-Therese Cunny. The book was translated into several languages. The German version is "Die Schuld, eine Frau zu sein," (The guilt to be a woman). Mai has become a celebrity in Pakistan and worldwide. Human rights organisations have adopted her and imparted her story to the whole world. Mai was received by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy. However, the former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer refused to meet Mai. He did not believe her story. Mai received a lot of money from donations and from the book. With the money she is financing two schools; one for boys and one for girls. The men of the village have tried to kill Mai. That is why the governor of the region ordered his police to protect her 24 hours. My comment: There are regions in Pakistan, especially those on the border with Afghanistan, which have not yet heard of civilisation. People there are still living under the rules and traditions of the Middle Ages. It is in such regions that Osama Bin Laden is hiding. It is also in such regions where the rule is "Quran-schools" which teach a rigid form of Islam and nothing else. Such schools have bred the Talebans and are still breeding more Talebans. The war on terrorism must actually begin in these regions. German 'experts' on Islam Bassam Tibi, a Syrian-German sociology professor at Goetingen University, writes in the German newspaper, Tageszeitung (Feb 9) "Numerous Germans have appointed themselves "experts" on Islam and Arab affairs without having proper qualifications. Lots of them reproduce what they write and what fellow "experts" write. What they write has little to do with the reality on the ground. 99% of them do not read Arabic and hence do not know how Arabs and Muslims think. Lots of them have never left their cosy offices and five-star hotels, if they ever visited the region, to gauge what and how Muslims think of themselves and of the others and why they have these or those views. German "experts" see everything through their own "rational" eyes and glasses. To a great extent, they resemble lots of Arab and Muslim writers who also sparsely speak any European language or read what is being published in the West. German "experts" are either soft on Islamism, and regard terrorists as "freedom fighters", or tough on it. My comment: Professor Bassam Tibi, a German of Syrian origin, is one of those few real Islam-experts, who have access to the German media. Unlike media in Britain and America, none of those major German newspapers and newsmagazines have any Arab editors and journalists. German audio-visual media invite predominantly German "experts" to their talk shows. In addition, it is always the same "talking-heads". Balanced, informative reports, shows, and articles about Islam and Muslims are hard to find in Germany. Unlike Radio 4 in Britain which broadcasts almost daily "Thought of the Day", a kind of preach, by moderate Muslim thinkers, German radios limit their "Thoughts of the Day" to Catholic and Protestant priests, although already 3.5 million Muslims live in Germany. Consequently, for many Germans, Islam, Arabs, and their culture remain exotic and enigmatic. Most Arabs and most Muslims are "terrorists". Black and white colours dominate the German media, as far as Islam is concerned. In fact, integration of Muslims of diverse descents in Germany (3.5.millions), and multicultural co-existence require proper information on all aspects of the issue. German school textbooks scarcely include information about Islam. German education officials must seriously start thinking of building in their school curricula at least basic information about the Muslim-Arab culture. Ethnocentrism is a fertile soil for prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Muslim and Arab culture can no longer be ignored. 4 Comments

Cat leads to tragic death Feb 20, 2006 2:49 pm 225 Views A cat and her kittens disturbed a couple while they were sleeping. The wife(filipina) asked her husband (Indian) to remove the cat from the roof of the flat but the man fell from the roof of the building and died instantly. (Kuwait Times news) 4 Comments

Kuwait Donation for Leyte Feb 20, 2006 12:19 am 115 Views No action yet, seems so quiet tsk tsk tsk. cya later. 1 comment

Sabi ni Lola Feb 20, 2006 12:14 am 210 Views Sabi ni Lola kay Tatay, loy pag ako mamatay gusto ko sa Leyte i-libing...katabi ko si Tatay mo. Sabi ni Tatay oo Nanay kailan bah>>>>.. 2 Comments

Si Tatay Feb 19, 2006 10:35 pm 217 Views Sabi ni Tatay huwag daw akong umuwi eh ipunin ko raw ang pera , para patayo ng palascio. Huwag daw sa Leyte kasi mayroon mudslides/landslides. 4 Comments

Lola at 60 years not 50 yrs. Feb 19, 2006 10:16 pm 226 Views Si lola talo ang younger's sa acting niya 3 Comments

Pisot Feb 19, 2006 1:24 am 280 Views haaay nag umpisa na naman si fellow pisooot!!! 9 Comments

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