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6 billion ppl's brain connected to interweb there is always new ingenuity

January 30, 2012, 12:52am 47 notes

Memo Re: Honor Killing

It’s not Islam (“It’s culture”) - but why Islam is not going against it full force? I don’t get this.
I do believe there are parents who come to see how their children are growing up in different culture, different way of life - and come to accept it.

So why -

1) Parents who can accept these new changes - and
2) Parents who cannot and choose to follow cultural tradition

cannot be brought together - via

government’s facilitation or
Islam/Imam’s facilitation?

So that they can discuss - their feelings, challenges they face, and how they can find and build the best way forward.

I think that’s the probably most humane, and real way of attending to this challenge.

[*Academics - seem to be only doing ‘typology’ and not really trusting the potential of interactions.]

January 30, 2012, 12:34am ➼ 1 note

Family convicted in Canada ‘honor murders’

Kingston, Ontario (CNN) — A Canadian jury Sunday convicted three members of a family of Afghan immigrants of the “honor” murders of four female relatives whose bodies were found in an Ontario canal.

I found this CNN piece ‘trying’ to - weave up something. Not so typical coverage. So.

But it’s an painful case. Thus it’s behind read more.

(Source: CNN)

January 30, 2012, 12:28am ➼ 1 note

link» [Breaking] Sarkozy Says France to Tax Financial Transactions From August - Businessweek

roxygen:

akio:

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — France plans to unilaterally impose a 0.1 percent tax on financial transactions starting in August, President Nicolas Sarkozy said, brushing aside opposition from the nation’s banks.

“What we want to do is provoke a shock, to set an example,” Sarkozy said late yesterday on French television from Paris. “There’s no reason why deregulated finance, which brought us to the current situation, can’t participate in the restoration of our accounts.”

Sarkozy unilaterally introducing ‘Tobin Tax’ in France.

Pros and cons are of course abound. And Sarkozy is also facing election (this April/May).

French public’s reaction, and then major financial institutions - and other countries - can be significant.

Ouchhhhh. Good luck, France.

If Gordon Brown stayed in power, he and Bank of England probably be pushing for this faster than Sarkozy did. There are simulations out there but - it’s also about public sentiment/support.

Have to see what’d unfold.

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January 30, 2012, 12:23am 2 notes

link» [Breaking] Sarkozy Says France to Tax Financial Transactions From August - Businessweek

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — France plans to unilaterally impose a 0.1 percent tax on financial transactions starting in August, President Nicolas Sarkozy said, brushing aside opposition from the nation’s banks.

“What we want to do is provoke a shock, to set an example,” Sarkozy said late yesterday on French television from Paris. “There’s no reason why deregulated finance, which brought us to the current situation, can’t participate in the restoration of our accounts.”

Sarkozy unilaterally introducing ‘Tobin Tax’ in France.

Pros and cons are of course abound. And Sarkozy is also facing election (this April/May).

French public’s reaction, and then major financial institutions - and other countries - can be significant.

January 30, 2012, 12:12am 2 notes

Photographers in Asia and Africa

arawella:

When i was in Dubai once there was this old German man who tried to take a photo of my cousin she was running around in an abaya right outside Dubai Mall-he didn’t even ask permision he just took out his camera and decided to try to take a picture of her.
I told him NO-he seemed confused.
This happens a lot-random tourists take pictures of kids in their traditional clothes and then the kids won’t refuse ever-they’ll agree.
The question is do they always ask their names? NOPE they just label it as ‘Somali Child’..’Emirati child’ or whatever and then people tag it as ‘ethnic’..
That isn’t fair.
When i was in Somalia a bunch of european men [from organizations] were taking pictures of my grandfather’s house and then they started taking pictures of kids playing with car tires.
They never bothered really comunicating just took pictures and would leave…
Just taking pictures and never asking what they are-who are they..what are their names.
I am not a photographer but I’d like people who do visit these ‘third world countries’ to at least talk to the people they will photograph-even a little ‘what’s your name’ could make the person warm up to you…
They aren’t nameless you know-they all have stories or are they not that important.

This is goddamnly important point.

I don’t have time for outrage but the part that photographers not even have a mind for communicating with people and kids really made my blood boil.

I know there is something still so persisting - and not exposed.

I try not to reblog those ‘third world’ people and kids photo as much as though. I do think it’s an outdated racist thing.

Reblogged from AraWella.

January 29, 2012, 11:34pm ➼ 5 notes

I think there are white (?) or Western people don’t get even their own Christianity right

Reblogged from Free tickets to Hell, here!.

it's annoying and then they don't get Islam or Judaism right of course

January 29, 2012, 11:30pm 163 notes

orientalism in’it?

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Reblogged from awake my soul.

i persist anti-Saidism

January 29, 2012, 11:24pm 16,284 notes

arawella:

i read my first erotica when i was 12 it was online and it was about Pokemon.

It sounds explosive

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January 29, 2012, 11:19pm ➼ 4 notes

arawella:

hard life
hard life it must be living in the desert
HARD LIFE

I mean, I don’t think your grandfather was in Kismayo (your clan is from North? so ports must be close by) But from Kismayo - to port Berbera is 2500 km on foot. Could take like 2 months or more.

Also BBC reporter in Berbera said

“To my eyes, it all looks like desert. There is no brushes, no trees, it’s all dry and it’s all sand. But there are live stocks - thousands of camels, goats and chickens showing up out of nowhere. That means those animals are fed. So people here must know how to survive in this.”

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January 29, 2012, 11:16pm ➼ 3 notes

arawella:

my grandfather used to ship camels to yemen.
whenever they do it is as if he was sending his children to college or something.
Hard life.

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January 29, 2012, 11:08pm ➼ 2 notes

arawella:

akio:

“Camels are lifted on to a ship at the port of Berbera for export across the Gulf of Aden.” (via 2011 May 17 « Somaliland247’s Blog)

Somaliland ‘exporting’ camels (to Middle East) D:

Somalia has been doing this trade for a long time-being shipped to middle eastern countries (specifically the khaleej)-aha i remembered i sorta was shocked when i saw camels being lifted like that :)
The trade between Somalia (Somaliland,Puntland etc) has always been livestock-nomads made a trade between their ‘daris’ usually many somalis refer to the Yemenis as their ‘daris’ neighbor because of this on going trade-many of the people working at the ports are from South Asia-anyways…this has been going on for centuries the export of livestock and we get spices in return from India etc.
:D also because of this trade it is helping people out-never ending trade that even despite war they continue.

Yeah. I heard they move camels from (on foot)

Kismayo to port of Berbera? like ~~1000 miles.~~ 2500 miles

~~… 1000 miles …~~ 2500 miles on foot, to get camel to port

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January 29, 2012, 11:08pm 4 notes

sssaltskin: