Month: September 2004

Light a candle

I just got this text message from my eldest daughter Amna, please pass it along: Tonight the whole world is lighting a candle by a window in memory of the russian children. Please pass this one on. Amna Al-Yousif I have done so. Please consider doing the same. May they rest in peace and the …

Cat blogging

Not to be outdone by the likes of Sissy Willis or Mutated Monkeys who do go on sometimes about their cats, Shoufy the Cat, a Bahraini cat has now made an appearance! We will forgive her her Saudi heritage though and happily call her Bahraini!! 😉 Well if we can’t give her a Bahraini passport …

It’s a screwed up world

  Islamic leaders in the Middle East yesterday denounced the slaughter of children in Russia as ‘unIslamic’, as commentators asked unusually soul-searching questions about the region and terrorism. Even the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s biggest Islamic group, condemned the bloody siege in Beslan. Its leader, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, said that kidnappings may be justified but …