Archive for May, 2007

On troubling Hadiths

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 ...

Cyberwar?!

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 ...

Blogging Procrastination?

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 ...

No to Military Rule and no to media censorship!

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 ...

BREAKING NEWS: Tasneem Khalil arrested by Military Police in Bangladesh

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 ...