Archive for May, 2007
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
A few thoughts on hadiths and religion in general:
I had a difficult relationship with religion while I was growing up. As a child, I used to be a voracious reader and stumbled upon lots of things, including the Hadith collection my parents had. Now there was one particular Hadith that ...
Posted in Crisis of Religion, Dodgy Hadith, Hadith, Islam, Patriarchy, Prophet Mohammed, Rape, Religion, Religious Inquiry, Rights of Woman, Sahih Muslim, Slavery, Troubling Hadiths, sexuality | 372 Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Very strange goings-on.
'Russia' is apparently 'cyber-warring' 'Estonia'!
The Loose Wire writes that Russian hackers have been carrying out denial of service (DDos) attacks on Estonian websites.
The Insights Blog gives us a bit of ..insight!..into the Estonian/Russian background and tensions.
The BBC says Estonia wants to stick this at the top of ...
Posted in Cyberattack, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwar, Denial of Service Attacks, Estonia, Europe, Internet, News & info, Russia, World Affairs: politics and news, war | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
on another note, i've been terribly slack with my writing lately yes i have been busy, but i have been reading many people's blogs..i will finally get around to updating my links. and i shall be back soon ..i've got a 'to-do' blogging list dating back from ...
Posted in Blogging, Procrastination | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
well after all that drama, tasneem was released around 24 hours of his arrest...thank goodness! questions still remain unanswered and clearly it was a close shave..will the next journalist/critic of power be so lucky? the whole issue of media censorship can't be ignored and the big thing of course is ...
Posted in Bangladesh, Blogging, Media, Military Rule, News & info, Tasneem Khalil, censorship | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
via Pickled Politics ( thanks Sunny!)
"Prominent journalist and fellow blogger Tasneem Khalil has been arrested by the military police in Bangladesh, a serious attack on press freedom in the country.
An editor and outspoken journalist for the English daily newspaper Daily Star, he also worked for CNN and Human Rights ...
Posted in Activism, Bangladesh, Democracy, Human Rights, Media, Media freedom, Military Rule, Politics, Power, World Affairs: politics and news | 9 Comments »