Cjones posted:

And no American media channels are covering this...

is there an IRC channel?

Al-Saqr posted:

I felt like trying my hand at a political drawing so I sketched this up quick.




Any thoughts? I might do more on tunisia and egypt soon.

Slantedfloors posted:

Looks like the protester is doing that thing where the stabee pulls the weapon into themselves to get at the stabber?

It looks nice, but I don't get what it has to do with the actual situation, though.

Great White Hope posted:

Is there an IRC chat for this thread that I missed? If so I'll feel really silly.

Apology posted:

Oh, tear gas, I'll just pour this teapot full of water on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX141avwpg0

That guy has balls AND ingenuity. I'm stunned that it worked.

Paradox Personified posted:

What do Yemen and Syria have against Libya that they would either truly vote against or be rumored to have voted against a no-fly zone?

Nonsense posted:

His forces are going to be moving in on Benghazi. I also saw when AJE cut to his speech, i turned it off, because why would anybody want to listen to his speeches.

Simtex posted:

I hate it when news sites post pictures without captions, or captions that don't describe where they came from/what they are of.

This just popped up on the BBC News website, does anyone know where it was taken/what its of?

Boner Slam posted:

Kenning posted:

Just want to point out that this is a misunderstanding of Islamic law. You need four witnesses (who have literally witnessed the act) to prove a case of zina, or adultery (which is a crime for both parties). This is usually interpreted to mean that the (very) harsh punishment for zina is meant to be more of a public indecency thing rather than an issue of private morality. Rape is more complicated, and is often a sort of he said she said thing, so in the absence of overwhelming proof (especially before the advent of rape kits and DNA testing and stuff, i.e. most of Islamic history) both parties would just walk away from the situation because the court couldn't make a determination.

The problem is that Saudi Arabia has such innovative (from a legal perspective) restrictions on the movement and associations of women that if a woman claims she was raped she is admitting that she was in the company of men who weren't her family, which is criminalized, so she'll get punished for that, and since rape can be difficult to determine (and you bet your rear end the loving Saudi authorities don't bend over backwards with their rape kits), the man often gets no punishment. This is where people get the idea that women are punished for being raped under Islamic law, when in fact the issue is that women are often punished in addition to being raped under Saudi law. They are the worst. لعن الله آل سعود

In Pakistan after the introduction of elements of Islamic law into the colonial-era legal system they defined rape as zina bil-jabr or "adultery by force" which made proving rape require 4 witnesses in contrast to the historical standard of Islamic law, which relied on the woman's testimony. That's probably where the idea of witnesses to prove rape came from.

Namarrgon posted:

And I keep hoping to come home and find my house is now made of solid gold and diamonds.

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

Israeli landmines. That says it all really. They are supposed to be banned under international law...

Xandu posted:

Such a weird loving story.

http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/new-evidence-about-amina-gay-girl-damascus-hoax

Too many pictures and too long to quote, but it provides interesting evidence that the people behind that Gay Girl in Damascus blog are a couple from America.

Ghost of Babyhead posted:

So it seems some of the rebels are assembling armed remote-control robots

suboptimal posted:

Which is weird, because most of the Egyptian lawyers I met in Alexandria were really, really smart people.

Mr. Sunshine posted:

So what does the Hebrew say?

Also, let's not turn this into another loving I/P clusterfuck, please.

Mozi posted:

There's a difference between Arabic and Hebrew, in case you weren't aware.

Mozi posted:

I was a little dickish on my part too, sorry for that.