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	<title>Comments on: It&#8217;s over, an islamist parliament is complete</title>
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		<title>By: can we talk</title>
		<link>http://mahmood.tv/2006/12/03/its-over-an-islamist-parliament-is-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-69294</link>
		<dc:creator>can we talk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>very mature. words like &quot;lecherous&quot; and &quot;distasteful&quot; come to mind. 

poor ammar.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>very mature. words like &#8220;lecherous&#8221; and &#8220;distasteful&#8221; come to mind. </p>
<p>poor ammar.</p>
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		<title>By: chan'ad</title>
		<link>http://mahmood.tv/2006/12/03/its-over-an-islamist-parliament-is-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-69092</link>
		<dc:creator>chan'ad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@canwetalk: the song is the background music on his official website. go here and wait for the music to load: http://boammar.com/index.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@canwetalk: the song is the background music on his official website. go here and wait for the music to load: <a href="http://boammar.com/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://boammar.com/index.htm</a></p>
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		<title>By: can we talk</title>
		<link>http://mahmood.tv/2006/12/03/its-over-an-islamist-parliament-is-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-68922</link>
		<dc:creator>can we talk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what did i tell you? generally speaking, the shura is more confidence-inspiring than the representatives. yes there are a few question marks and a few mutes but overall not too bad. at least we can expect some intellectual discussion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what did i tell you? generally speaking, the shura is more confidence-inspiring than the representatives. yes there are a few question marks and a few mutes but overall not too bad. at least we can expect some intellectual discussion.</p>
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		<title>By: can we talk</title>
		<link>http://mahmood.tv/2006/12/03/its-over-an-islamist-parliament-is-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-68906</link>
		<dc:creator>can we talk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;A so-called Sheikh would be more mature than to even think of releasing such a song.&quot;

what do you mean he released it? what was his part? the producer, the promoter, the agent, the recording artist, what?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;A so-called Sheikh would be more mature than to even think of releasing such a song.&#8221;</p>
<p>what do you mean he released it? what was his part? the producer, the promoter, the agent, the recording artist, what?</p>
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		<title>By: mahmood</title>
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		<dc:creator>mahmood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On a much more serious note, read what columnist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alayam.com/ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=24&amp;ArticleId=216464&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lamees Dhaif&lt;/a&gt; wrote advising him on how to conduct himself in parliament in yesterday&#039;s Al-Ayam.

Excellent advice for sane people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a much more serious note, read what columnist <a href="http://www.alayam.com/ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=24&#038;ArticleId=216464" rel="nofollow">Lamees Dhaif</a> wrote advising him on how to conduct himself in parliament in yesterday&#8217;s Al-Ayam.</p>
<p>Excellent advice for sane people.</p>
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		<title>By: mahmood</title>
		<link>http://mahmood.tv/2006/12/03/its-over-an-islamist-parliament-is-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-68900</link>
		<dc:creator>mahmood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nobody doubts his moronity! But couldn&#039;t we pay that guy driving to slam on the brakes?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nobody doubts his moronity! But couldn&#8217;t we pay that guy driving to slam on the brakes?</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look at this new post at the ****** so called Sheikh Mohammed Khalid. 

In this song, he makes fun of the liberal opposition candidates (the left) and calls them infidels and many other pethatic names!! A so-called Sheikh would be more mature than to even think of releasing such a song. 

http://www.q8forever.com/audio/sound10.rm 
       

Look at how he is celebrating his victory in Hamad Town. He looks like a teenager after a soccer match and not like a Sheikh:

http://boammar.com/we_win/16.JPG

And you ask what&#039;s the difference between him and Sheikh Ali Salman!!??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at this new post at the ****** so called Sheikh Mohammed Khalid. </p>
<p>In this song, he makes fun of the liberal opposition candidates (the left) and calls them infidels and many other pethatic names!! A so-called Sheikh would be more mature than to even think of releasing such a song. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.q8forever.com/audio/sound10.rm" rel="nofollow">http://www.q8forever.com/audio/sound10.rm</a> </p>
<p>Look at how he is celebrating his victory in Hamad Town. He looks like a teenager after a soccer match and not like a Sheikh:</p>
<p><a href="http://boammar.com/we_win/16.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://boammar.com/we_win/16.JPG</a></p>
<p>And you ask what&#8217;s the difference between him and Sheikh Ali Salman!!??</p>
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		<title>By: nurox</title>
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		<dc:creator>nurox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wasn&#039;t surprised when mansoor aljamri spoke on alarabeya and said &quot;the opposition should be getting around 15 seats, but to think that they&#039;ll get 20 or over, under the current situation, they&#039;d need &quot;i3jaz Ilahi&quot; (Let&#039;s just say a miracle). And we still kept our hopes up going into round two!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wasn&#8217;t surprised when mansoor aljamri spoke on alarabeya and said &#8220;the opposition should be getting around 15 seats, but to think that they&#8217;ll get 20 or over, under the current situation, they&#8217;d need &#8220;i3jaz Ilahi&#8221; (Let&#8217;s just say a miracle). And we still kept our hopes up going into round two!</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To answer banderagate and Mahmood,
The reason the government made sure the liberals do not get elected by manuipulating the votes in the &quot;general&quot; voting centers is to not get Sheikh Ali Salman elected as speaker of the parliament. 

In the first round, they let AlWefaq enjoy their victory with their 17 seat victory. They also didn&#039;t dare to meddle (manipulate) with AlWefaq votes since they didn&#039;t want a huge public outcry.

In the second round, they managed to completly remove the liberals from the parliamnet by meddling with the general voting centers vote counts. Ofcourse they favored meddling with the liberals since their outcry and protests will not be supported by a huge national protest since the liberals&#039; popularity base is small compared to the Shia&#039;s and the Sunnis.

This all makes sense, since, if ALL the liberals managed to get elected to Parliament, including (Ebrahim Sharif, AbdulRahman AlNaimi, Munira Fakhro, Abdul Aziz Abul, Sami Seyadi), and the unsuccessful Wefaq Candidate who lost in the 2nd round, Mahdi Abu Deeb; the opposition would have had 23 seats in the parliament thus having a complete majority, having their sway in major decisions, being able to consitutute major reforms in many pending issues + (which is possibly the most embarrassing to the government out of all), electing a major oppositioin leader who was kicked out of the country in 1994 to be the next speaker of parliamnet! This if actually translated in reality would be something unusual in the history of Arab nations!

I hope that by 2010, the nation would finally get rid of this racial sentiment and this Shia&#039;a sunni differentiation breaking up our country. I also hope that by 2010 that the citizens would realize the competency of the liberal and opposition members and would elect them by majority in 2010.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To answer banderagate and Mahmood,<br />
The reason the government made sure the liberals do not get elected by manuipulating the votes in the &#8220;general&#8221; voting centers is to not get Sheikh Ali Salman elected as speaker of the parliament. </p>
<p>In the first round, they let AlWefaq enjoy their victory with their 17 seat victory. They also didn&#8217;t dare to meddle (manipulate) with AlWefaq votes since they didn&#8217;t want a huge public outcry.</p>
<p>In the second round, they managed to completly remove the liberals from the parliamnet by meddling with the general voting centers vote counts. Ofcourse they favored meddling with the liberals since their outcry and protests will not be supported by a huge national protest since the liberals&#8217; popularity base is small compared to the Shia&#8217;s and the Sunnis.</p>
<p>This all makes sense, since, if ALL the liberals managed to get elected to Parliament, including (Ebrahim Sharif, AbdulRahman AlNaimi, Munira Fakhro, Abdul Aziz Abul, Sami Seyadi), and the unsuccessful Wefaq Candidate who lost in the 2nd round, Mahdi Abu Deeb; the opposition would have had 23 seats in the parliament thus having a complete majority, having their sway in major decisions, being able to consitutute major reforms in many pending issues + (which is possibly the most embarrassing to the government out of all), electing a major oppositioin leader who was kicked out of the country in 1994 to be the next speaker of parliamnet! This if actually translated in reality would be something unusual in the history of Arab nations!</p>
<p>I hope that by 2010, the nation would finally get rid of this racial sentiment and this Shia&#8217;a sunni differentiation breaking up our country. I also hope that by 2010 that the citizens would realize the competency of the liberal and opposition members and would elect them by majority in 2010.</p>
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		<title>By: zodiac</title>
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		<dc:creator>zodiac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>btw did u see the flood in muharraq .. it was describing the shameful acts ..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>btw did u see the flood in muharraq .. it was describing the shameful acts ..</p>
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