blog:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/12/lighting-jihad-fuse.html
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2007
“Lighting the Jihad Fuse”
by Baron Bodissey
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Note: Includes Video.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/24/advertising?gusrc=rss&feed=media
“’Terrorist’ firework ads spark row”
Mark Sweney
Guardian Unlimited, Monday December 24 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Dutch government firework safety ads featuring a spoof Islamist terrorist group have been criticised as insensitive and depicting a negative stereotype of the Muslim community.”
blog:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/4308.htm
(”Sources: http://www.aafaq.org/english/aafaq_today.aspx?id_news=112 , December 27, 2007; http://www.hrinfo.net/ , December 24, 2007; http://www.alfarhan.org “)
“Arrested Saudi Reformist Blogger Being Held Without Bond, At Unknown Location”
(December 28, 2007)
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UPDATE:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/02/saudi.blogger.jailed/index.html
updated 11:01 p.m. EST, Wed January 2, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(CNN) — A Saudi blogger arrested in December could be freed soon, a spokesman for the kingdom’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
No details about any charges or a release date have been announced. However, a friend and fellow Saudi blogger told CNN that Fouad al-Farhan was arrested because he wrote about political issues.
Al-Farhan, operator of the Web site alfarhan.org, was arrested December 10. In an e-mail posted on the site since his arrest, he told friends that he faced arrest for his support of 10 reform advocates the Saudi government accuses of supporting terrorism.
The 32-year-old blogger is one of the few Saudi Web commentators who uses his own name, according to the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists. He was was arrested at his Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, office by government agents who also seized his laptop from his home, the organization said in a statement issued in late December.”