Is on Tatooine?
Ra di Martino, an Italian filmmaker based in New York, spent over a year locating and photographing the old Star Wars sets in Tunisia and Morocco. Apparently, another prominently abandoned site was located, utilized for the 1976 film “The Message” and it doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist (much less a TIE fighter pilot) to figure out what it is!
Time for The Overnight Open Thread!
Posts Tagged ‘Tunisia’
Anti-Sharia Protests in Support of Amina Tyler
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 38 Comments › )Filed under Censorship, Europe, Free Speech, Islam, Sharia (Islamic Law), World at April 5th, 2013 - 2:04 am
This is not your run of the mill San Francisco Slutwalk.
The demonstrations were in support of a young Tunisian activist named Amina Tyler. Last month, Tyler posted naked images of herself online, with the words “I own my body; it’s not the source of anyone’s honor” written on her bare chest. The head of Tunisia’s “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” reportedly called for Tyler to be stoned to death for her putatively obscene actions, lest they lead to an epidemic.
Full story on recent protests (and arrests) here. These women are serious.
Hillary throws fellow Americans under the bus to please Tunisians
by Phantom Ace ( 116 Comments › )Filed under Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Republican Party, Tranzis at February 26th, 2012 - 10:00 am
The Popular Uprisings known as the Arab Spring were supported by Western elites. Western allies like Mubarak, Qaddafi and Zine El Ebidine Ben Ali were overthrown. Their replacements were the Muslim Brotherhood or its many offshoots. What is clearly going on is the birth of a new Caliphate. The leading Republican candidates (except Ron Paul) have been discussing this as a foreign policy failure on the part of the False Messiah. In another sign of dhimmitude, Hillary Clinton tells Tunisians not to worry about GOP concern over recent developments in Arab countries. She said Republicans don’t represent America’s values.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to “not pay attention” to the comments made by candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the often overheated rhetoric of the campaign doesn’t reflect U.S. policy.
Speaking at a town-hall style event in Tunisia, the North African nation that sparked the “Arab Spring” revolts, Clinton said the partisan remarks made during campaign events “certainly don’t reflect the United States, don’t reflect our foreign policy, don’t reflect who we are as a people.”
Clinton’s remarks came in response to a question from a member of her audience who said he was troubled by some of the comments, which he considered anti-Muslim, made by candidates running for president.
So the Tunisian is worried about Republicans pointing out the sinister agenda of the Arab Spring. He expects Americans to accept militant Islam spreading. Does anyone think this Tunisian cares about the Coptic Christians being killed in Egypt as a result of this Popular Uprising? Nope and rather than point out what is wrong with the Arab Spring Hillary throws fellow Americans under the bus.
This is just another act of dhimmitude on the part of this regime. The False Messiah said he would stand with the Muslims and he is keeping his promise..
An Orientalist scholar from… Tunisia
by coldwarrior ( 86 Comments › )Filed under Blogmocracy, Guest Post, Islamists at January 9th, 2012 - 11:30 am
Blogmocracy in action!
Guest post by: Zimriel
An Orientalist scholar from… Tunisia
It looks like the West isn’t the only place where Islamic research gets done.
I went googling around for “q-th-m” in Arabic and I overheard some chatter about a news article published in Gaza, “Tunisian researcher says, the real name of Muhammad was Qutham and he was never illiterate”. Here’s a reproduction. That researcher would be http://www.arabist.net/blog/2008/10/8/on-hichem-djait.html” Hichem Djaï, speaking at a symposium in Tunis “last weekend”.
This news article is linked the first week of April in 2007. The “last weekend” contained, of course, the first of that month. But the book is 4reals. Djaït has since published what he had “said”, in Tarikhiya al-Da`wat al-Muhammadiyat fi Makkat (Beirut: Dar al-Tali`a, 2007); which one might translate, “History of the Muhammadan Da`wa in Mecca”.
The news article, supplemented by the page numbers in this book, goes something like this: <q>Muhammad was born at [earliest] limit AD 580 [p. 143-4], and he was called ‘Qutham’ before his [Apostolic] mission,[pp. 147-9 and p.337 nn.198-9] and he married at the age of 23 [p. 150] and preached at 30; and he was never illiterate.</q> On the name “Qutham”, readers of Ibn Warraq have known that from his translation of Henri Lammens, <cite>Recherches de Science Religieuse</cite> 1 (1910), 25-51 in <cite>The Quest for the Historical Muhammad</cite> (Prometheus, 2000).
But Djaït ignored that Lammens article – at least he didn’t say that he read it, nor Ibn Warraq for that matter. Djaït says instead that he got this “Qutham” idea from al-Baladhuri’s <cite>Ansab al-Ashraf</cite>: <q>as for `Abd Allah b. `Abd al-Muttalib, his kunya is Abu Qutham and it is said that his kunya was Abu Muhammad</q>. Djaït has, however, read a lot of Lammens.</p>
The fun stuff is in the lead-up to that. In the second chapter he notes all the problems the West has with Islam’s account of itself. He notes the Qur’an’s weirdness in pp. 21-6; the different codices appear in p. 23. [I notice that this section was left out of the Table of Contents.] Then he deals with siyar and tarikh as a genre, from Ibn Ishaq to Waqidi and beyond; I haven’t read this, but I’m guessing he calls bullshit on most of that stuff. The third chapter from 43-129 is an historical “anthropology” of the Arabs’ tribes, gods, idolatry, pilgrimage and so forth until, at the end, trade. The fourth chapter starts with Mecca, relying mainly on Patricia Crone’s <cite>Meccan Trade</cite>, which trade he finds irrelevant to the actual trade between Rome and Yemen; and continues to the meaning of “Muhammad”, which he debunks – and then drops the Qutham bomb on us. The book up to this point reads like a translation of a Prometheus book.
The news article reported that in 2007, his Tunisian audience was as aware of German 1800s orientalism as he was. Whether we get more like this out of North Africa remains to be seen.
Best wishes, [Zimriel]
