Dome over the shrine of Habil, the Biblical Abel, forty-five minutes west of Damascus in Zabadani. This Old Testament son of Adam is considered a prophet in orthodox Islam, the first wasiyy or Successor amongst the Shiites, and the very manifestation of the light divine according to the Druze sect who administer this holy site.

Nazism has become the most convenient and abused metaphor applied to the baddies we don't like. Remember Rush Limbaugh's term 'feminazi' which he popularized in the 90s? As if university feminists were clandestinely stacking gassed bodies of males, heterosexuals, and Christians in the basements of America's colleges.

bash me if you want, flame me if you desire, but even through this whole work swamp I'm in now, I couldn't stay silent in front of this charade, even with my previous decisions to stay clear of politics cos I really don't understand it... but this is starting to defy logic now.. not politics..

but this Ahamdnajad character is working very hard on proving himself a mass murderer.. I hope Iranians put him in jail before he brings death upon them just like Saddam did to his people..

it is a tradition in the middle east to hate the USA, and it is even more common to go with the "My Enemy's enemy is my friend" way of thinking.. so all the cheering and victorious looks I have seen on people's faces after Ahmadnajad's nuclear success declaration shouldn't come as a surprise to me.. but I still can't stand this passive idiotic mentality that glorifies "dying with dignity" instead of plainly being realistic and working hard to stay alive.. what are people so happy about? Another someone giving yet another reason for more wars to happen in our area?

for all the people I have recently spoken to, Ahmadnajad "stood up against the evil Bush administration", he managed to "show those Americans that their will to control the world can't work anymore".. blah blah blah..

BULL-FUCKING-SHIT...

Ahmadnajad just signed a death sentence to all Iranian people, just like Saddam signed another for the Iraqis when he stood up against the whole world.. I mean.. can't people see and learn? look at Iraq now.. can you imagine this war expanded to include Iran? do they think that with the little quantities of plutonium they produced, they can stand against another international collation?

is this really about "sticking it to the man"? or is it a few individuals trying to get into history books as heros? even if that meant sacrificing the whole population of those who elected (or were forced to elect) them??? is it really that hard to understand that HISTORY IS SELECTIVE.. and if those who write it elect to depict you as the bad guy, then your image will be deemed bad to eternity.. even if some people think that you were a hero..
see Joseph Stalin, Salavadore Allende, Fidel Castro, etc.. who (other than frustrated, forced-to-be-socialist middle-eastern) will remember the good deeds they did to their people (if ever)....??? don’t you agree that Hollywood has the stronger end in controlling how history is written?

this is all a big charade.. this new Axis-of-Eastern-Anti-American-coalition is a very dangerous game that everyone is being forced into.. if that game ever goes towards a final stage.. the end is not going to be fairy-tail like... and no one will be left around to write this history everyone is working so hard to become part of.

Hamidiyyeh Souk, the famous traditional market in Old Damascus, is all dressed up for the Mawlid al-Nabawi, the Birthday of the Prophet Muhammed. For the next couple months, mosques and private residents will be sponsoring commemorations of the Prophet's birth in which they recite the Qur'an, devotional poems and other religious works.