THIS IS NO LAUGHING GAS – From the people who brought you Saudi Arabia as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council: Despite […]
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WE NEED MORE MUSLIM SEX CULTS – Just kidding; no, we don’t. All cults are either weird or dangerous or both. But do yourself a favour […]
Continue reading »THE SAUDI SPRING – I haven’t blogged much about Saudi Arabia’s next king, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, because I don’t want to get too excited […]
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Borders. They exist. They matter.
No matter how much I try I can’t get my head around the common leftist (and libertarian) delusion that national borders should be abolished and […]
Continue reading »IS THIS CRITICISM OR COMPLIMENT? – Turkish pro-government newspaper compares Angela Merkel to Hitler: The Yeni Akit daily, known for its hardline views on Turkish […]
Continue reading »IT’S TOUGH BEING BABY DONALD TRUMP IN AFGHANISTAN – A kinda touching story actually, of a Afghani Shia teacher who named his son Donald Trump […]
Continue reading »AXIS IS SO LAST SEASON, CHECK OUT THE TRIANGLE – Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has described Turkey as part of a […]
Continue reading »UNHAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – Problems bigger than microaggression: Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency on Wednesday quoted prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying the unidentified […]
Continue reading »PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF SEMITISM, DEFENDS HERSELF – The tragi-comedy in the letters section of the London Review of Books: There, the feminist American legal scholar […]
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Ottoman Empire 2.0
The Turkish President Recep Erdogan has made the international news again, this time for a bizarre case of psychological child abuse: The Turkish president has appeared in […]
Continue reading »THE GREAT SATAN’S MIRACULOUS HEALING POWERS – He curses but he partakes: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas appeared on local television Friday to downplay concerns over […]
Continue reading »“THE ALLY” – Not: Turkish authorities on Monday renamed a street where the U.S. Embassy is located with the name of Turkey’s military offensive in […]
Continue reading »ONE SMALL STEP – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continues to sheikh things up: Women in Saudi Arabia can now open their own businesses without the […]
Continue reading »INTERNATIONAL IRONY ALERT – Mr De Niro goes to the Emirates: Hollywood star Robert De Niro took aim at the Trump administration’s stance on climate […]
Continue reading »THIS IS WHAT REAL RESISTANCE LOOKS LIKE – Hint: it doesn’t involve pink pussyhats. Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without […]
Continue reading »OUR ALLIES ARE KILLING OUR ALLIES – Turkish ground troops have reportedly entered a Kurdish-held enclave in northern Syria and are advancing with Turkish-backed Syrian […]
Continue reading »“ISRAEL IS A COLONIAL PROJECT, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JEWS” – Palestinian Authority President (now in the 13th year of his 4 year term) […]
Continue reading »DON’T HAVE A SAME-SEX WEDDING IN MECCA – A helpful suggestions to my gay friends in Australia who are thinking of possible places to tie […]
Continue reading »IRONY IS OFFICIALLY DEAD – Asad Rehman has a whinge in “The Guardian”: Israel’s “BDS blacklist”, published in the Israeli media on Sunday, bans 20 charities […]
Continue reading »GREEN ON GREEN – In Florida, frozen iguanas are falling from the trees, but this will undoubtedly warm your heart: The Islamic State’s branch in […]
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