RiverSbend wrote:
Another look at Women Rights
In Islam there is a principle known as “sad althara’a.”
[…].
If someone is in some confusion about the “sad althara’a” principle, he or she ought to refer the matter to a council of authorized and specialized Islamic scholars representing all regions and all Islamic schools of thought. Those scholars should investigate all related dimensions and issues while consulting with all concerned parties. They must make sure the perceived dangers are real and that the benefits realized will exceed the possible harm. Only after doing so can we accept the rule.
- posted by river @ 10:09 AM
[Brian’s Comment – another straight lift. This time from Women Rights Revisited!
Khaled Batarfi, on Arab View, http://www.arabview.com/articles.asp?article=298]
Saturday, September 13, 2003
RiverSbend wrote:
Cabinet members took the oath of office.
Seventeen Cabinet members made it to the high-security ceremony at Baghdad's Convention Center. The other eight were unable. The gathering inside a half-mile circumference of sandbags, barbed wire, sharpshooters and explosives-sniffing dogs was cause for celebration.
[…]
Another Kurdish leader, Jalal Talabani, who heads the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, acknowledged that the government wasn't yet in a state to expect international recognition, but that it should come soon.
"We have a seat at the United Nations," he noted jovially. "We will send some people to sit on it."
- posted by river @ 9:43 AM
[Brian’s Comment – direct lift from the LA Times “In a Key Step on a Long Road to a New Iraq, Cabinet Assumes Office, September 4, 2003” reproduced here http://www.usembassy.it/file2003_09/alia/a3091110.htm]
Cabinet members took the oath of office.
Seventeen Cabinet members made it to the high-security ceremony at Baghdad's Convention Center. The other eight were unable. The gathering inside a half-mile circumference of sandbags, barbed wire, sharpshooters and explosives-sniffing dogs was cause for celebration.
[…]
Another Kurdish leader, Jalal Talabani, who heads the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, acknowledged that the government wasn't yet in a state to expect international recognition, but that it should come soon.
"We have a seat at the United Nations," he noted jovially. "We will send some people to sit on it."
- posted by river @ 9:43 AM
[Brian’s Comment – direct lift from the LA Times “In a Key Step on a Long Road to a New Iraq, Cabinet Assumes Office, September 4, 2003” reproduced here http://www.usembassy.it/file2003_09/alia/a3091110.htm]
Thursday, September 11, 2003
RiverSbend wrote:
My thoughts are with those relatives of all who died two years ago on this day in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon or onboard the aircraft which were used as weapons of destruction by Al Queda.
- posted by river @ 1:10 PM
[Brian’s Comment – no need to be flippant here. Many Iraqis may have turned their thoughts to the WTC attack on this date. Certainly all Americans will have]
France, Germany and Russia have agreed to approve American military leadership. The three nations submitted amendments, circulated on Wednesday, to a US-drafted Security Council resolution shortly before a weekend foreign ministers meeting in Geneva to see if a compromise can be reached.
Members of the United Nations now have an opportunity - and the responsibility - to assume a broader role in assuring that Iraq becomes a free and democratic nation.
The Franco-German document, issued separately from milder Russian amendments, calls for the UN endorsement of Iraq's Governing Council (IGC) and cabinet as a "trustee of Iraqi sovereignty" until an elected government is established.
The Arab League on Tuesday announced its acceptance of the IGC.
[Brian’s Comment – The Piece about the IGC appears stolen from an Al Jazeera press release. Sample sentence
“The Franco-German document, issued separately from milder Russian amendments, calls for the UN endorsement of Iraq's Governing Council (IGC) and cabinet as a "trustee of Iraqi sovereignty" until an elected government is established. “
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_1497.shtml]
Nayzak and her American boyfriend
When her fiancé left Iraq for Germany, Nayzak gave him a Quran for good luck. He asked her to remember him with a tiny cross that dangles on a gold chain around her neck.
Faith, they said, is the only force strong enough to protect them from the disapproving whispers of people who don't believe in love between a Muslim Iraqi woman and a Roman Catholic U.S. Army sergeant.
[…]
"You just don't know what's waiting for you, whether they will accept you," Nayzak said, looking at a photo of her boyfriend pasted on her closet door. "People think I don't love him, that I just want to leave here and go to the States. But we'll prove them wrong."
- posted by river @ 10:47 AM
[Brian’s Comment -The Nayzak story is plagiarised verbatim from “For them, love is more than leap of faith”
BY HANNAH ALLAMPioneer Press, Sept 7 2003, http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/6702884.htm)]
My thoughts are with those relatives of all who died two years ago on this day in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon or onboard the aircraft which were used as weapons of destruction by Al Queda.
- posted by river @ 1:10 PM
[Brian’s Comment – no need to be flippant here. Many Iraqis may have turned their thoughts to the WTC attack on this date. Certainly all Americans will have]
France, Germany and Russia have agreed to approve American military leadership. The three nations submitted amendments, circulated on Wednesday, to a US-drafted Security Council resolution shortly before a weekend foreign ministers meeting in Geneva to see if a compromise can be reached.
Members of the United Nations now have an opportunity - and the responsibility - to assume a broader role in assuring that Iraq becomes a free and democratic nation.
The Franco-German document, issued separately from milder Russian amendments, calls for the UN endorsement of Iraq's Governing Council (IGC) and cabinet as a "trustee of Iraqi sovereignty" until an elected government is established.
The Arab League on Tuesday announced its acceptance of the IGC.
[Brian’s Comment – The Piece about the IGC appears stolen from an Al Jazeera press release. Sample sentence
“The Franco-German document, issued separately from milder Russian amendments, calls for the UN endorsement of Iraq's Governing Council (IGC) and cabinet as a "trustee of Iraqi sovereignty" until an elected government is established. “
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_1497.shtml]
Nayzak and her American boyfriend
When her fiancé left Iraq for Germany, Nayzak gave him a Quran for good luck. He asked her to remember him with a tiny cross that dangles on a gold chain around her neck.
Faith, they said, is the only force strong enough to protect them from the disapproving whispers of people who don't believe in love between a Muslim Iraqi woman and a Roman Catholic U.S. Army sergeant.
[…]
"You just don't know what's waiting for you, whether they will accept you," Nayzak said, looking at a photo of her boyfriend pasted on her closet door. "People think I don't love him, that I just want to leave here and go to the States. But we'll prove them wrong."
- posted by river @ 10:47 AM
[Brian’s Comment -The Nayzak story is plagiarised verbatim from “For them, love is more than leap of faith”
BY HANNAH ALLAMPioneer Press, Sept 7 2003, http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/6702884.htm)]
Monday, September 08, 2003
RiverSbend wrote:
Marvelous News on aljazeera this morning.
[Brian's Snip of credited extract from Al Jazeera]
This is most important
My cousin tells of an Iraqi contract with local workers to build a new sewage transfer station to move the stagnate sewage that has posed a health risk here for more years than I have lived.
The Governing Council, Iraqi government engineers and American engineers working as a team will greatly improve the Al-Shulla and Gazalyia sections.
Bringing local contractors to the site also stimulates the economy by putting money into the worker's pockets. This is good for everyone if we have international organizations building the pumping station, then the local workers don't get a chance to make money.
So the Americans are doing what they said they would. This is good for the economy, and at the same time, the Iraqi people see other Iraqis working, and it creates a more positive attitude for the people.
- posted by river @ 10:10 PM
[Brian’s Comment - Here after taking the unusal step of initially crediting Al-Jazeera our blogger tries something else novel. Not just copying verbatim but editing slightly to make someone else’s words appear to be direct from the blogger – and throwing in a little pro-USA cheerleading. Note this from V CORPS ENGINEERS HELP IRAQIS BUILD LONG-AWAITED SEWAGE PUMPING STATION on http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2003/09/mil-030903-vcorps04.htm
" The new sewage pumping station will intercept raw sewage that dumps into the canal running between the al-Shul'lah and the Ghazalyia neighborhoods.
[..]
Bringing local contractors to the site also stimulates the economy by putting money into the workers’ pockets.
“This is good for everyone,” said Maj. Tony J. Hofman, 70th Engineers operations officer. “If we have international organizations building the pumping station, then the local workers don’t get a chance to make money. So this is good for the economy, and at the same time, the Iraqi people see other Iraqis working, and it creates a more positive attitude for the people.” "
[Brian's comment - The mention of the bloggers mythical “cousin” here is doubtless intended as a counter to the genuine Riverbend bloggers Diyala Bridge story – told by her cousin “My cousin, a structural engineer, is a bridge freak” on August 28th. Our fake blogger here is often amusingly unoriginal]
Marvelous News on aljazeera this morning.
[Brian's Snip of credited extract from Al Jazeera]
This is most important
My cousin tells of an Iraqi contract with local workers to build a new sewage transfer station to move the stagnate sewage that has posed a health risk here for more years than I have lived.
The Governing Council, Iraqi government engineers and American engineers working as a team will greatly improve the Al-Shulla and Gazalyia sections.
Bringing local contractors to the site also stimulates the economy by putting money into the worker's pockets. This is good for everyone if we have international organizations building the pumping station, then the local workers don't get a chance to make money.
So the Americans are doing what they said they would. This is good for the economy, and at the same time, the Iraqi people see other Iraqis working, and it creates a more positive attitude for the people.
- posted by river @ 10:10 PM
[Brian’s Comment - Here after taking the unusal step of initially crediting Al-Jazeera our blogger tries something else novel. Not just copying verbatim but editing slightly to make someone else’s words appear to be direct from the blogger – and throwing in a little pro-USA cheerleading. Note this from V CORPS ENGINEERS HELP IRAQIS BUILD LONG-AWAITED SEWAGE PUMPING STATION on http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2003/09/mil-030903-vcorps04.htm
" The new sewage pumping station will intercept raw sewage that dumps into the canal running between the al-Shul'lah and the Ghazalyia neighborhoods.
[..]
Bringing local contractors to the site also stimulates the economy by putting money into the workers’ pockets.
“This is good for everyone,” said Maj. Tony J. Hofman, 70th Engineers operations officer. “If we have international organizations building the pumping station, then the local workers don’t get a chance to make money. So this is good for the economy, and at the same time, the Iraqi people see other Iraqis working, and it creates a more positive attitude for the people.” "
[Brian's comment - The mention of the bloggers mythical “cousin” here is doubtless intended as a counter to the genuine Riverbend bloggers Diyala Bridge story – told by her cousin “My cousin, a structural engineer, is a bridge freak” on August 28th. Our fake blogger here is often amusingly unoriginal]
Saturday, September 06, 2003
RiverSbend wrote:
Paras find Ammo at Schools
Ammunition has been found stored in every school searched by British soldiers securing their section of Iraq.
Speaking at a media briefing at Colchester Colonel Tony Barton, a spokesman from the 16 Air assault Brigade, said: "There is absolutely stacks of it (ammunition) around."
Brigadier Jacko Page said: "I can't believe it.
Most of it has been dragged into built-up areas to secure it. Every single school we went in to was full of ammunition."
[…]
Troops are living in more basic conditions in the province and eating combat rations because there is no way of keeping fresh produce in temperatures which do not dip below 30 degrees, even at night.
- posted by river @ 1:11 PM
[Brian's comment: This entire entry has been plagiarised verbatim from an article called coicidentally Paras Find Ammo At Schools from Sandy Times – “Published weekly by and for British Forces in the Gulf” http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/sandy8.pdf
Just the sort of thing every eager Iraqi reads before breakfast]
Paras find Ammo at Schools
Ammunition has been found stored in every school searched by British soldiers securing their section of Iraq.
Speaking at a media briefing at Colchester Colonel Tony Barton, a spokesman from the 16 Air assault Brigade, said: "There is absolutely stacks of it (ammunition) around."
Brigadier Jacko Page said: "I can't believe it.
Most of it has been dragged into built-up areas to secure it. Every single school we went in to was full of ammunition."
[…]
Troops are living in more basic conditions in the province and eating combat rations because there is no way of keeping fresh produce in temperatures which do not dip below 30 degrees, even at night.
- posted by river @ 1:11 PM
[Brian's comment: This entire entry has been plagiarised verbatim from an article called coicidentally Paras Find Ammo At Schools from Sandy Times – “Published weekly by and for British Forces in the Gulf” http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/sandy8.pdf
Just the sort of thing every eager Iraqi reads before breakfast]
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
RiverSbend wrote:
The Situation for Women in Saddam's Iraq
In 1979, immediately upon coming to power, Saddam Hussein silenced all political opposition in Iraq and converted his one-party state into a cult of personality. Since then, his regime has systematically executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized, and repressed the Iraqi people. Iraq is a nation rich in culture, with a long history of intellectual and scientific achievement, especially among its women. However, Saddam Hussein's brutal regime has silenced the voices of Iraq's women, along with its men, through violence and intimidation.
[..]
Murder. In 1990, Saddam Hussein introduced Article 111 into the Iraqi Penal Code in a calculated effort to strengthen tribal support for his regime. This law exempts men who kill their female relatives in defense of their family's honor from prosecution and punishment. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women reported that more than 4,000 women have been victims of so-called "honor killings" since Article 111 went into effect. (UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, January 2002)
I want to help my country to make a new life, to get human rights, and also to get modern life, especially because we are a rich country
- posted by river @ 1:37 AM
[BRIAN’S Comment – all this, apart from the last improvised line is taken from the US State Dept site under the heading Women in Iraq http://www.state.gov/g/wi/c8973.htm. At least this time the article appeared before the blogger claimed to have written it]
The Situation for Women in Saddam's Iraq
In 1979, immediately upon coming to power, Saddam Hussein silenced all political opposition in Iraq and converted his one-party state into a cult of personality. Since then, his regime has systematically executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized, and repressed the Iraqi people. Iraq is a nation rich in culture, with a long history of intellectual and scientific achievement, especially among its women. However, Saddam Hussein's brutal regime has silenced the voices of Iraq's women, along with its men, through violence and intimidation.
[..]
Murder. In 1990, Saddam Hussein introduced Article 111 into the Iraqi Penal Code in a calculated effort to strengthen tribal support for his regime. This law exempts men who kill their female relatives in defense of their family's honor from prosecution and punishment. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women reported that more than 4,000 women have been victims of so-called "honor killings" since Article 111 went into effect. (UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, January 2002)
I want to help my country to make a new life, to get human rights, and also to get modern life, especially because we are a rich country
- posted by river @ 1:37 AM
[BRIAN’S Comment – all this, apart from the last improvised line is taken from the US State Dept site under the heading Women in Iraq http://www.state.gov/g/wi/c8973.htm. At least this time the article appeared before the blogger claimed to have written it]
Sunday, August 24, 2003
RiverSbend wrote:
I am Iraqi
I can honestly say now that I'm proud to be an Iraqi. Because of what has happened, because there is freedom here like I have not known before. Now I can talk-to you, to people I could never talk to before. I am a simple woman. I am just a worker. But even these simple things-talking-give me hope.
- posted by river @ 4:31 AM
[BRIAN’S Comment – I am an Iraqi. I am a woman. I am a worker. Don't believe a word of it. "I am simple". Now that I won't argue with.]
I am Iraqi
I can honestly say now that I'm proud to be an Iraqi. Because of what has happened, because there is freedom here like I have not known before. Now I can talk-to you, to people I could never talk to before. I am a simple woman. I am just a worker. But even these simple things-talking-give me hope.
- posted by river @ 4:31 AM
[BRIAN’S Comment – I am an Iraqi. I am a woman. I am a worker. Don't believe a word of it. "I am simple". Now that I won't argue with.]
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