Archive | June, 2007

Discordant Voices

Languishing in bed a bit longer on Saturdays has become a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of life. Paper delivered, people trudge to their gates to collect their weekend infusion of worldly news and views to imbibe with their morning cup of tea.

It never fails, too, to increase dormant blood pressures or further deplete recharged batteries when repeatedly exhausted words of wisdom are read which – barely a day old – emanated from supposedly learned gentlepersons; fire and brimstone await unbelievers, especially those secularists hell-bent on changing entrenched ways of life of subservience to beturbaned and unrestrained ghutra wearers whose tenuous claim to education is the diligent pursuance of ancient text with nary an attempt to comprehend that the only permanence in this world is change.

Curses! Everlasting curses are on those secularists who are the very discordant voices in our Muslim societies. Expel them. Ignore them. Incarcerate them. Kill them. Marginalise them even for we are Muslims first and foremost and to hell with everyone else. The circle closes here and now, it is the protection of our way of life!

Yet, in their next breath copious complaints emanate from the very same snarly lips against a sect being actively marginalised and ignored!

Blinkered minds are a danger to themselves and to all of those around them. Look at London and Glasgow, someone was doing the Lord’s bidding – according to them.

But sheep will blindly follow a leader to the slaughter and if they happen to die, so be it, they died martyrs and virgins await. Collateral damage is to be expected and even those will be martyrs, so what have they to complain about?

Life in the hereafter. The universe was concluded some 1400 years ago.

A hex unto thee, secular discordant voices.

The dates are almost ready

The dates are almost ready

The dates are almost ready, originally uploaded by malyousif.

One of the harbingers of summer; the dates are almost ready to be harvested. Looking forward to having them every day with meals (and at other times too!)

Have a wonderful Friday my friends…

Tony Blair is no Jimmy Carter

Bush and Blair

As much as el UK ex-Presidente would like us to believe that he is the right choice to be (yet another) Middle East peace envoy, or as much as the States would like us to, as a matter of fact, somehow I don’t think that he will succeed.

Reputations precede, you see. And his is not much to go by – as far as the Middle East is concerned that is.

Well, it seems that the Peace Process is still a few years away.

Bahrain 2030, according to SOM

Khalid Muharraqi continues to create breathtaking images in digital media; one of his recent forays is the creation of a series of conceptual images for Skidmore, Owing and Merril of what Bahrain could look like in 2030, just 23 years from now.

Bahrain 2030 Master Plan by SOM

Click on both links provided above to view the raw images in the first, and the finished in the second.

I just hope that they will fix the transport infrastructure (oh, and electricity and water and sewage and emergency services, etc) by then so that we can truly enjoy the future.

And if you have any money lying around that you don’t immediately need, buy property. Land will be more valuable than gold pretty soon.