Ali of Free Iraqi blog commenting on the picture he saw of the demonstrations against terrorism in Bahrain. He says:
Now there's nothing wrong with She'at demonstrating against insulting their sacred places but we should not fool ourselves and believe that this could mean the start of a wide and active rejection of terrorism among Muslims.
On the other hands there were many signs that had an obvious sectarian tone. One sign was saying, “This is what the Yazidis did” with a picture of the destroyed shrine. Yazidis here refer to followers of the 2nd Amawi caliphate “Yazid Bin Mu'awiya” which is obviously used as a subtle reference to Sunnis.
Iranian students in Paris criticized Iranian government and its repression policy against Iranian students and opposition in a meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian president's advisor in Paris. Here are the films [fa].
Regine, at we make money not art, introduces us to photographs by Bas Princen of Cairo's Mokattam Ridge or Garbage City (Zabbaleen) - where a community of mainly Coptic Christians live and make a living out of collecting, sorting and disposing of Cairo's waste.
Iranian authorities released Mohammad Ali Abtahi,former vice president and blogger on a $700,000 bail one week ago after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison. Human rights activists reported [fa] that a few days ago Sasan Aghayi, a blogger and journalist got arrested in Tehran.
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