Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus: Category Archive for Religion

Jalili and al-Sistani in Najaf, Passion Plays and the Bush ‘Ardha in Riyadh……..

Kansas Saved from Islamic Sharia Law: Kosher or Meaningless or Small?………

Pigs and Revolutionaries: Old MacDonald and Elvis in New Egypt……………..

Egypt's National Dangers: Entertainment and Shi’ism, Misyar and Mut'ah, Video DWTS……

Liberation of Jerusalem: a New Caliphate, Holy Twitter, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav………

History: al-Nahayan Take Aim at al-Afghani and Mohammed Abdu and British Intelligence and the Grinch……

Saudis to Convert Fish and Scuba-Divers: Underwater Madrassas, Pigskin and Miswak, Freudian Towers………

America and a Song of Persepolis: A New Tunisian Hypocrisy on Freedom………………..

Malaysia Issues Kosher Saudi Fatwa against Popular Protests…………

Viruses Prefer Salafi Sites to Porn Sites? the Promised Rose Garden.............

War on Terrorism and the New Deal: Mother of all Economic Stimuli……………

Wahhabi Grand Mufti Reiterates Support for Legalized Pedophilia…………

Sweet Blasphemy Laws: Dershowitz and Islamic Founding Fathers, Modern Neanderthals........

Islam Threatened by Words, Sticks and Stones........

A PR Dialog of Faiths: Saudi State to Go Catholic, Vatican to go Wahhabi……..

Persepolis on Trial in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia, My God…………..

Salafi of Egypt, Salafi of GCC, Mein Kampf and Goebbels in Arabic........

Kingdom of Segregation: Extremism in the Eye of the Beholder…….

On my Gulf: An Armenian Church and Salafi Taqiya, a Fan of Hip Hop……….

Was Abdel Nasser Right? Shari’a the ONLY Goal of Egypt’s MB Candidate ………

Salafi La Leche League: Dueling Gulf Fatwas on Kosher Foreplay and Suckling and Milk………………

Salafi Passover: Proselytizing Red States, Jews Before Rapture………….

The Mufti, the Pope, the Chief Rabbi, Mel Brooks, and Passover.........

Ring of Fire on the Persian Gulf: Salafi Six-Pack and Burning an Iranian Allah...........

Meshugenner American Evangelicals and the Rapture of Israel………

Paid Fatwa: Using Allah in Politics…………

Alibi of Scoundrels: God of Wall Street vs. God of Intolerance…….

Hateful Scientific Grand Mufti and Salafis Call for Destruction of All Gulf Churches……….

America’s Sectarian Elections, Arab Sectarian Elections………

Persian Purim: Netanyahu Evokes Esther and Haman, about Cyrus and Babylon……

Freedom of Religion: a Death Sentence in Iran……………

Jesus and Mohammed: Turks and Saudis trying to Convert Santorum and Gingrich………..

Another Saudi Killing Fatwa: on Assad and Hezbollah and Israelis and Jews…….

Adonis of Syria: Secular Reactionaries and Islamo-Fascist Revolutionaries…...

Racism: Protocols of Shi'a Elders, Protocols of Salafi Elders………….

Protocols of Shi'a Elders, Protocols of Wahhabi Elders, بروتوكولات حكماء الشيعة, بروتوكولات حكماء السلف

Fragmentation of Libya, Fragmentation of Syria……..

Cole on US Media Distortion on Iran: a Hole in the Ground and the Rapture of Santorum………...

Ali Stone, the Ayatollahs, and Freudian Agonies of the American Likudnik Right……..

Nuclear Kingdom: Scientists, Scholars, Princes to Redefine Halal and Kosher………

Catholics: from Torquemada to Rick Santorum to Bin Laden, Uncle Joe and the Little Corporal……..

More on the Kashghari Case: Who Owns Interpol and Malaysia? ……….

Tweeting Mohammed: Kashghari and the Princes and the Wahhabi Palace Clergy…….

Dubai Claims Second Virgin Birth in History, no Manger no Magi ………..

The Kashghri Case: A Fatwa to Kill, a Fatwa to Boycott, a Royal Order………

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Reinvents the Islamic Wheel, the Holocaust and the Two Phobias………….

Destroying Islamic History in Mecca: Marble and Glass but no Class……..

Salafi Endlösung : Saudi Vice Squad Engages in a Dialog of Faiths…………….

(2) Rick Santorum & the Middle East: “Mein Kampf gegen die Muslime und Araber”………

Woody Allen’s Manhattan in Riyadh: of Sex, Money, and Medicine……….

Forgotten Arabs: Africa’s Sambi Denies Saudi “Accusations” of Shi’ism…….

Iran Clerics Declare War on Barbie: Ugly Sara and Fat Dara and the Jewish Doll……………

Schmoozing in Cuba: Ahmadinejad Blows his last Chance at the Republican Nomination………

al-Azhar Outside the Box: Imam Ahmed the Nice vs. King Not-So-Nice..........

Ancient Halal ‘Bread Stamp’ Discovered Near Acre and Akko and Akka, Jews under Islam………………

Sharia Law: U.S. Federal Court Saves Oklahomans from own Folly……….

Mickey and Minnie vs. the Fundamentalists: Just How Freer are Egyptians Now? Beast of Cairo………

Holy Kims of North Korea: about the Three Magi and the Star of Bethlehem and Mount Paektu……

Saudi Urge to Merge the GCC: pan-Tribal pan-Dynastic Union, a Mufti to the Rescue ………..

Shaikh Abdulwahhab of Nejd, Bon Vivant Abdelwahab of Cairo, Shaikh of Qatar, Sectarian Princes…………..

Rosa Parks of Jerusalem, Shikses of old Alabama and Free Afghanistan.........

West Bank Churches on Fire: GOP to Expel Palestinians and Bomb Iran.......

In Nazareth: a Fox News War on Christmas and Christians………….

History: Egypt Fatwa Adapts to the Zeitgeist, of Omar and Ali and the Two American Rices...........

Salafis of the World, Unite! Of Egyptian Culture, Naguib Mahfouz, Nasser, Sadat-Mubarak, and the Wahhabi Brothers……

Yusuf Qaradawi: on Hitler's God, the Holocaust, the Liberation of Iraq and Libya and Syria........

Israel and her Pious New Neighbors: Middle East Going Theocratic? You Betcha...............

Massacres of Shi'as: Illustrative Reactions of the Arab Media and Regimes………….

Saudi Arabian Foster’s: the Mysterious Insult that earned an Australian Man 500 Lashes…..

Nutritious Salafi Dildo: Islamist Shaikh Bans Sexual Bananas and Cucumbers and Bugs Bunny for Women……….

Of Iranians, Eschatology Issues, the Mahdi, End of Time Films, and Drones………..

France’s Jeannette Bougrab: Why She May be Right about Islam and Christianity and Judaism and……………

Saudis on Nuclear Threshold: Top Scientists Worry about Female Virginity......

Salafis of Egypt and the Arab World, a Muslim Brotherhood Comintern………….

Saudi Arabia Appoints an Iranian Ayatollah as Supreme Cleric for Iraq………

Follow-Up on Baha’is, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Elvis……..

Human Rights and Education: Iran and her Baha’is……….

Salafis of the Israeli IDF………….

Fatwa: Saudi Mufti Shaikh Al, Court Clerics Blast ‘Dishonest’ Contractors, Ignore Princes…….

Fatwa: Quranic Cure vs. Obamacare, about Freud.............

British Islamic Attire Proscriptions and the Questionable Wisdom of Qaddafi……..

Newt Gingrich in the Middle East: the Ike Strategy, the Walter Mitty Strategy…………

Arab Counterrevolution: Stoking Royal Salafi Fires on the Gulf…………..

Marabutin Avenge Quetzalcoatl: New Conquistadores, Muslims of Mexico, Tequila Sunset…………

A Tea Party in Iran During Ramadan: Religious Repression and Waning Piety………

MTV Shaikhs of Salafi Islam: Have Fatwa, Will Travel...............

Saudi offshore Tolerance Center in Vienna? What about Riyadh?.............

Tunisian Salafis Attack Persepolis, Television Manager, Free Speech, Imagination……….

Al-Azhar and the Salafis: a Relic of the Mubarak Days and the Evangelical Al, Abdel Wahab………

American Schism: Salafis vs. Shi’as vs. Mormons vs….....

French Discover the Joys of Wahhabism, Give up the Beaujolais Republic, Sarkozy to Enter Rehab........

Alarabiya: Libya Denies Reopening the Tripoli Synagogue, about the Shari'a and Monarchy…………

Yusuf al-Qardawi: 'Pay as You Pray' Anti-Semitic Shaikh of Islam……………

Kitchen Clergy: Senior Saudi Cleric Pissed about Promise of Women Vote…….

On Mainstream Muslims, Falafel, Terrorism, and a Hole in the Ground.........

United States of Paranoia? Imported Baggage, “Native” Baggage, Pakistani Beaver Hunters.................

Saudi Astronomers: Torn Between Saturn and our Moon………

Silly Iranians, a Politicized End of Ramadan, and the Age of Aquarius……….

Arabian Peninsula: “Winter Trips” and “Summer Trips”, Liaisons in Yemen ……….

Former Iranian Chief Justice Blasts the West and Turkey…….

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