According to the GDN today: Bahrain’s Royal Air Force yesterday successfully fired a Hawk missile, during joint military excercises with the UAE Air Force… Defence Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa expressed pride at this achievement. Pride? For pressing a button? How about the hundreds of thousands of dollars that that missile cost and watching …

Nothing better to do, so I searched! Here’s what I found: Random: Being that i possess the dreaded Y chromosome, i take it as my responsibility to man the grill as often as possible, and today was no exception. So we got some chicken, we got some burgers.. and we started the cooking process. Which …

A recent fatwa posted on a popular Islamic Web site in Saudi Arabia explains when a Muslim may mutilate the corpse of an infidel. The ruling, written by a Saudi religious sheik, Omar Abdullah Hassan al-Shehabi, decrees that the dead can be mutilated as a reciprocal act when the enemy is disfiguring Muslim corpses, or …

Asra Nomani (along with many other Muslim women and men) has a dream. The outspoken columnist and author made waves earlier this year with the story of how she took over the main prayer hall of her Morgantown, WV mosque, reclaiming for herself and all Muslim women a right that they clearly had in the …

Another day, and another life lost, this time of an American who worked for Vinnell who trains the “elite” Saudi National Guard – who’s main purpose of course is to protect the Royals. The American was killed as he stepped out of a clinic in the Saudi capital Riyadh. The problem as I see it …