Kuwait's 'gay-o-meter,' 'women who drive risk damaging their ovaries' and other strange news from the Middle East...

1. 1. Kuwait 'gay-o-meter'? Clinical screenings to 'detect' and ban - RT.com

      1. rt.com/news/homosexuals-kuwait-banned-gays-887/‎

         Oct 8, 2013 - Routine clinical screenings may be used to 'detect' homosexuals and bar them from entering Kuwait and other Gulf member states, according ...

      Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries ...

      1. 1. www.reuters.com/article/.../us-saudi-driving-idUSBRE98S04B20130929‎

            Sep 29, 2013 - RIYADH (Reuters) - A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with ...

            
            

            The above stories are true (as odd as they may seem), but now for a bit of satire:

            
            

      The Pan-Arabia Enquirer - Satire From The Middle East

      1. 1. 1. www.panarabiaenquirer.com/‎

               As the Middle East's premier source of made up news, The Pan-Arabia Enquirer attracts more than 200,000 page views a month. And, according to research, ...

Muslims who saved Jews in WWII?

Si Kaddour Benghabrit was the first Imam and leader of the Grand Mosque of Paris which was built from 1922-1926. He was honoured for saving 100 Jews during the Holocaust in WWII. 

These are the stories of Muslims who saved Jews.:http://www.missingpages.co.uk/ww2.php

How to get more media coverage 101

Gaza citizen, "QUICK - someone have sex with David Petraeus and get the media ON THIS!"

Reflections on Occupying the American Art Curriculum

 Inheriting Salt, Ernesto Pujol, 2008

Interesting read, especially important to some of us that are part of the problematic system of "young Arab artists... increasingly trained by western visiting professors..."

Sulfur in the Morning… Reflections on Occupying the American Art Curriculum

Ernesto Pujol

...The West is unleashing something in the East, and it must be accountable to the young Arab artists it is increasingly recruiting. These artists are increasingly trained by western visiting professors or migrating to and studying in the West, crafting their first portfolios and projects there, most of which challenge the status quo back home...

ArteEast - Arts and Cultures of the Middle East and its diasporas |

arteeast.org

ArteEast, a New York-based international nonprofit organization established in 2003, supports and promotes artists from the Middle East and its diasporas by raising awareness of their most significant and groundbreaking work through public events, exhibitions, screenings, a biennial film festival, a...

Worth the cost in blood and dollars? US to lower flag to end Iraq war...

US to lower flag to end Iraq war
www.bbc.co.uk

The US flag is to be lowered in Baghdad in a ceremony formally marking the end of US military operations in Iraq, after nearly nine years of war.

Frank Miller pissed off about Occupy Wall Street and Muslims!

I guess I did not realize that comic book artist Frank Miller what such a cranky, angry, Islamophobic hypocrite:

Frank Miller sure is pissed off about Occupy Wall Street
www.avclub.com

Comic book crank Frank Milller’s political philosophy has become as angry—and jagged, and messy—as his drawing style pretty much since 9/11,