Good. You’re paying attention now so let’s start this week’s roundup with the mundane and progress from there: Mahmood seems to have been branded a pervert for photographing wild parakeets having sex in one of his palm trees and have chosen to nest in his house’s eaves. He’s been warned; however, to quit this “bird-porn” …
Have a load of this, the UAE has issued a federal law on combating cyber crime: Some of the offences and their punishment: – Abuse of any Islamic holy shrines or rituals. – Abuse of holy shrines and religious rituals stipulated in other religions since such rituals are maintained in accordance to the rulings of …
The freeloader has been kicked off the island, it has been reported. Good riddance and thank you Shaikh Abdullah for doing what I would have done from the start: not offer him a pad in our fair isle. But then, you’re more generous than I am. In any case, I hope he does not return. …
Mating rose-ringed parakeets, originally uploaded by malyousif. These two were going at it and were almost completely oblivious of me being about 15 meters away snapping pictures of them! They nest in the eaves; which unfortunately for us, they are ripping apart. We see plenty of evidence of them “preparing” their nest by wood chips …
Ashoora procession/haidar, originally uploaded by jamalaly. Images of commemoration of Imam Hussain‘s martyrdom in Karbalah on the 10th of Muharram in 680 CE. The “haidar” is a barbaric and completely unwarranted and unneeded custom which does more damage to Shiism than anything else. The Shi’as pride themselves as “progressive” in that they have “Ijtihad” which …