God was happily playing with a hole punch in His universe today!

“I am scared,” a Saudi man told me after the Khobar attacks. “There is no clear vision to where my country is heading. We want to progress, but we also want to live like the good Muslims did 1,400 years ago. We want to change, but we believe that change is the road to hell. …

A Bahraini man was jailed for three months yesterday after being convicted of torturing a Bangladeshi employee. The sentence will be suspended if the 26-year-old fish trap maker pays a BD300 fine. He had been charged with assault and injuring the worker, the Lower Criminal Court heard.

The Bisht is the cloak you see some Arab men wearing from time to time. It’s purpose is largely ceremonial now and they vary in price from $100 to $1,000s depending on the cloth, its source, the gilding done on its edges etc. It’s a “must have” accessory if you want to show yourself as …

Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority has issued an edict calling on all Saudis to report anyone they suspect of terrorist activities. BBC World. more… If this guy issued this edict on Sept 11, 2001 or even during the height of the Taliban era, he wouldn’t have had to issue it now would he? Short memory? …