It was a long and epic story…
It started with four MPs from the Islamic Action Front party glorifying Zarqawi at his funeral a few months ago. This was followed by several thousand people protesting, which was followed by the MPs being detained, which was followed by them getting a harsh jail sentence, which was followed […]

Last night I had an interesting discussion with an uncle of mine after ftoor over here in Canada. The conversation centered around the choice of living in the Arab world versus the western world, specifically with regards to someone such as myself.

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What makes an honor crime unique as a story is the shock value and that consists of three main elements. Firstly the initial impact of the story where we discover a brother or a father taking the life of a sister or a daughter with such unbridled and incomprehensible savagery. Then the second impact of […]

I thought this was hilarious. For almost a year now Jimmy Kimmel has been closing off his show by saying “Apologies to Matt Damon, but we ran out of time” and brushing off the actor until recently where he finally had enough time to fit Damon in on the show and apologise to him. But […]

Last week was The Office season premiere and I couldn’t resist but look up a few older videos off of YouTube. I truly believe Dwight and Michael are probably the funniest characters to be introduced to TV since Kramer. So if you feel like laughing for a few minutes check out these clips that are […]

Five years after 9/11 and two months away from elections, the White House still doesn’t know who they’re fighting exactly or what to call them or where they are, which kind of makes it hard to fight them not to mention what the speechwriters have to go through. Maybe it’s in their best interest to […]

The most recent and 12th “honor” crime in the Kingdom is one that is a bit curious and even more outrageous than the usual. The story apparently is that a 17-year-old boy comes into the house to discover his 22-year-old married sister signing a letter and handing it to her father; the letter containing a […]

I found this little piece hidden in the Jordan Times today very curious. Lower House Speaker Abdul Hadi Majali defended Parliamentarians from recent press claims that this latest extraordinary session resulted in “external pressures” placed on MPs to pass/approve government legislation. 32 of the 42 proposed bills have been passed thus far. It’s a curious […]