Friday, May 30, 2014

Think NGO




Most celebrities and activists had moved to more sexier and attractive stories..!!
Most of our fantasies are echoes of brilliant agendas of int'l media rather than true interests and concerns..


Yes, there are sincere NGOs and Individuals, whom capacities and affects are marginal and unsustainable.. No wonder that all attributes of NGO movement and 3rd sector had been invented by wealth, welfare and surplus of particular communities..


Think about it..!


This is how started
Below how it ended
Full Story at:

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Farzana Parveen




Farzana Parveen.. a landmark in Pakistani Civil Rights..
I guess an earthquake is approaching to both traditional mindset and outdated moralities that hinder the human development..
In front of High Court, idle police officers and careless ...audience.. 
They used to relate honor killing to Islam, yet It is proven a historical tradition beyond any faith.. A full shake up of Pakistani Sociopolitics

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Declined Egyptian Voting





(The head of the election commission told the MBC-Misr TV station that early estimates put turnout at 35 percent of the nearly 54 million voters in the first two days of voting. That would be a significant drop from the 2012 election that Morsi won, which had a turnout of just under 52 percent) Associated Press


 This is not a complicit score by M-Brotherhood and affiliates, but a simple sociopolitical downturn.. Exaggerating value of democratic attributes, while majority are torn between religious and moral qualities.. Irresponsible noise by intellectuals, which had blown the confidence in the change process.. Lack of national charisma, despite affiliation to charismatic histories..

I would advise everyone to read or watch (Al-Harafeesh) of Najib Mahfoudh; to restore the essence of leadership that Egypt seeks and needs..





Personally, I don't believe in 3rd world "Intelligentsia" as triggers for change.. Not only they are distant from the common public.. But they lack any attributes of statesmanship.. They mostly are tactical politicians in intellectual camouflage.. They may deter the public by confusion, but unable to provide any healthy sustainable change.. 

I shall call it Egypt Syndrome..!

Racism, Reverse Racism and Slavery

A British Gypsy Wedding

Illegal Organ Sale in India  


Ethiopian Maid publically tortured in Lebanon

To start with, the notion (below) should address all people, not only the white ones.. However, I agree that most Arabs will not agree, as well as the many fair-skin ones.. Yet; Racism is universal..
Mankind is almost racist by default; reflecting tendencies for power, greed or self esteem; mixed with disagreeable historical and religious concepts.. Therefore; among most cultures and nations, people are implicitly categorized by skin, wealth and religion.. Yes, racism declines by literacy, development and governance; yet, it stills surviving; publically or hidden..
The more people are illiterate, poorer and darker; the more they are sensitive to racial classifications.. Along the social upgrading; people are further racially sensitive; exaggerating their responses; which would deepen and expose the contrary.. This is how ethnic cleansing had widely spread at Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe (where people are mostly alike) rather than at Mediterranean, North America or Western Europe..
In today’s world; the more people are literate, wealthier or fairer, the more they leave racism behind.. I had personally witnessed the same in Europe, Turkey, India, Malaysia, Nile valley and Arabia.. My epistemic gauges towards racism are simple three: cross-race matrimonies, ethnic representations at public office, and racial-trends in media and marketing..
Being affiliate to racial minorities among others, and to dominating majority in Sudan, enables me to observe the racism in practice.. Reverse Racism is temporary state of mind; whereas racial minorities deliberately avoiding reconciliation with the dominating others.. This happens by practicing the three gauges of mine: denouncing cross racial marriages, ignoring competition for political or public service, and invent parallel media and marketing channels.. There are lots of examples to confirm..

Friday, May 23, 2014

The world’s worst countries for workers

A global leaderboard in the race to protect workers’ rights was released today at the ITUC World Congress in Berlin. The ITUC Global Rights Index ranks 139 countries against 97 internationally recognised indicators to assess where workers’ rights are best protected, in law and in practice.
“Countries such as Denmark and Uruguay led the way through their strong labour laws, but perhaps surprisingly, the likes of Greece, the United States and Hong Kong, lagged behind,” said ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow. “A country’s level of development proved to be a poor indicator of whether it respected basic rights to bargain collectively, strike for decent conditions, or simply join a union at all.”

The International Trade Union Confederation has been collecting data on the abuse of trade union rights around the world for the past 30 years. Now for the first time the ITUC Global Rights Index presents carefully verified information from the last 12 months in an easy-to-use format so that every government and business can see how their laws and supply chains stack up.
Cambodia’s labour law fails to cover many civil servants, there are undue restrictions on the right to elect union representatives, and in 2013 the government responded with lethal force to demonstrators seeking a decent wage and working conditions. This resulted in Cambodia receiving a score of 5 in the Rights Index – the worst possible rating other than for those countries where the rule of law has completely broken down.

Westernization


Editors and Commentators at BBC, CNN, DW, TRT, France24 and others, are getting anxiety sickness with their continuous attempts to "bully" Russians, Egyptians, Libyans and Thais for their "undemocratic" courses..

 The logic would say; not necessarily we share the same views, despite being the same humans..
Our legacy is our diversity, not in our imitations..
Our humane innovation is how to accept each other not to be each other..
Nevertheless, the epistemic gaps of experience and exposure; which demands everyone's time to learn and grow up the way the nation agrees..

 Democracy is the people choice, not the few-outspoken..

 Stop "Westernizing" the world..
We are "Intellectual Species" too..!!


Racism in Mexico


Inevitably, our values and visions are the people we had interacted with..!!


It was an experiment with children, replicating the experiment designed by Kenneth and Mamie Clark in the '30s in the U.S.
Here we show part of the results that reflect the responses of the majority of the children that wer...e interviewed for this investigation.
The video was produced in a space of trust and the children answered with complete freedom.
In fact, a black doll was repainted to a skin tone a little bit lighter and the blue eyes changed to brown eyes.


Tuesday, May 20, 2014

66 Years of Nakba


Salute to the ONLY true worldly case of injustice, aggression and oppression..
توخذيش كل الأغراض يا إم أحمد ، خذي الشغلات المهمة بس ، كلها يومين وبنرجع ..
اليومين صارو 66 سنة يا أبو أحمد.
اليومين صاروا عقدين
والنكبة صارت نكبتين
 
بس لسا مفتاح البيت معانا ورح نرجع لفلسطين !

Monday, May 19, 2014

Ramses Wissa Wassef

A Forgotten Architecture
بناء بالطين (الجالوص) بدون قوالب أو طوب ، فقط عروق خشب للأسقف والأعتاب
كم يمكن أن نثري العمارة والبناء في السودان وأفريقيا
الابداع المنسي أو المحظور لـ رمسيس ويصا واصف
القباب والعقود الطينية التي لا أنسى منذ 1980
الألفة والسحر في العمارة الداخلية

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Utilities




A Telephone Conversation:

  • Hello, How are you?
  • Fine, Thanks?
  • How is your wife and boys?
  • She had traveled to see her parents. I'm stuck with the boys
  • I guess if they would accompany her would be good for them
  • Nooo.. I can't spare them.. It is too dangerous over there..!
(a pit of silence..)
  • However, she will come back tomorrow. It was only a five days trip
  • Safe return
  • Shall we catch up the day after
  • Ok, fair, looking forward
  • Take care
  • Bye

This is how the masculine culture had broken down the Arab world
I had spent sometime trying to imagine how this young mother would react
Then realized that it seems OK for this culture for women to be oppressed
Arab women are mostly domestic and reproduction utilities..!!

Friday, May 16, 2014

The Social Media


This not about technology change.. It is about sustainable trend to keep a person connected, informed and motivated..

A Landslide in India

How Healthy.. or Wealthy..?

Not only the BRIC, but the entire world is anxiously observing..Do not miss it..!


To understand the Indian game:
"Voters, however, mostly told me that they couldn’t be “bought”; they took from all parties but voted their conscience on Election Day. When I repeated this to a state assembly candidate, he told me that I misunderstood. H
e was not “buying” votes with cash handouts, but buying into the game; to distribute cash did not guarantee victory, he reasoned, it kept one competitive. “If money is distributed, voters might give you a chance. But if money is not distributed, you are finished.”

http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/05/09/india-s-price-of-victory/haeo

The same is typically repeated everywhere.. everywhere..
"The country’s politicians are increasingly being drawn from four demographics: political dynasties, criminals, industrialists and celebrities. Common to all, of course, are deep pockets."


The Final Numbers


This is how it had started




Monday, May 12, 2014

Asian Shariah Councils




The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will of Allah. As the meeting concluded CII Chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Shirani noted that women by existing defied the laws of nature, and to protect Islam and the Sharia women should be forced to stop existing as soon as possible. The announcement comes a couple of days after CII’s 191st meeting where they dubbed laws related to minimum marriage age to be un-Islamic.
After declaring women to be un-Islamic, Shirani explained that there were actually two kinds of women – haraam and makrooh. “We can divide all women in the world into two distinct categories: those who are haraam and those who are makrooh. Now the difference between haraam and makrooh is that the former is categorically forbidden while the latter is really really disliked,” Shirani said.
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/03/15/comment/coucil-of-islamic-ideology-declares-womens-existence-anti-islamic/


Nollywood


Like many others, I daily received more than 5 scam mails; which are typically generated by Nigerians.. Criminal mail scams became synonymous to Nigerians since their astonishing $5million penetration to the US Federal Pension System in 1990th.. However, the most populous country in Africa had been stuck with deep rooted corruption, deteriorated urbanity and declined human development.. Apparently, Nigerian politicians and intellectuals are either confused on what to do, or simply joined the ruling gangs..

In my attempt to understand the roots of Boko Haram, I was amazed with the numbers of Nollywood; yet was amazed further with the scale of violence, nudity and brutality in their production.. Regardless what drama is introduced; the common audience receive floods of materialistic, immoralities and porn feed across the scenes.. I guess either no a Control Board is there, or a very weak one.. I can't accept freedom as an option..!!
Therefore, no wonder for Boko Haram to evolve from Nollywood, as how the Arabic extremism evolved from the Egyptian 1970th entertainment and media industry.. At that time, AlHarm Street, where Egywooly, night clubs and celebrities had situated.. Abi-foq-AlShajarh, was the trigger for new culture deviating from the identity..
Egywood and Nollywood are migrations from the authentic realities of their societies, introducing 3 hours of wishful dreams, desires relief and temporary anesthesia for less than a Dollar..
When people retrieve their normal life, certainly most of them turn confused; while few go wildly angry..!!

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Again.. Boko Haram


All what's required: A courage Muslim Authority to issue a Fatwa to criminalize BOKO Haram; condemning their deeds and verdict them for Islamic Penal Code..
They deviated and terrorize innocent people for no reason or justification.. The claims of Islamic state has no authority, and chaotic..
The Muslim Authorities' silence is either hypocrisy, complicity or cowardice..
Certainly, all are not Islamic..!!


إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَا أَنْزَلْنَا مِنَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالْهُدَى مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا بَيَّنَّاهُ لِلنَّاسِ فِي الْكِتَابِ أُولَئِكَ يَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّهُ وَيَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّاعِنُونَ 159/2
Those who conceal the clear (Signs) We have sent down, and the Guidance, after We have made it clear for the people in the Book,-on them shall be Allah.s curse, and the curse of those entitled to curse,-

الَّذِينَ يَنقُضُونَ عَهْدَ اللَّهِ مِن بَعْدِ مِيثَاقِهِ وَيَقْطَعُونَ مَا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ بِهِ أَن يُوصَلَ وَيُفْسِدُونَ فِي الأَرْضِ أُولَـئِكَ هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ 27/2
Those who break Allah.s Covenant after it is ratified, and who sunder what Allah Has ordered to be joined, and do mischief on earth: These cause loss (only) to themselves.
Nigerian State had given away their harsh retaliation, due to western (Human Right Advocacy) which had lately resulted in growing influence and mushroom of those illiterate and inhumane species, claiming to be Muslims..!
http://adilsud.blogspot.ae/2009/08/boko-haram.html

The true irony is how we "civilizedly" maintain the "Right to Live" for individuals who deliberately denounce the same for others.. In their views; not everyone worth or deserve living unless abide to their code..

The judiciary code is about fairness and equal obligations and rights.. Not about satisfying our "civilized" advocacy of life.. Therefore, the paradox exists, crippling our "civilized" world by rebellious incompetents, neutralizing any efforts for sustainable reform, and jeopardize critical future opportunities towards prosperity and peace..

Islam had clearly condemned such psychic brutality, describing those individuals as irrevocably malfunctioned to engage any community, and verdict them for dismissal from life..

There is no epistemic conflict in the 1400 years old Islamic verdict..!!


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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Rethink Sudan


Most Think Tanks, Universities, Int'l Org's and NGOs treat Sudan as member of the Sub-Sahara African community..
That colorful, diverse, young, rebellious and non-extremist region..
(Azawad, Shabab & Boko Haram are not indigenous..!!)

 Despi
te how many would feel angry, goes into denial or violently respond; this became a fact in academia, policies and operations..
Nevertheless; there is no tools of capacities to confront the global syndicate..

Maybe it is a serious time to Rethink-Sudan..!!
Enough Debating..!!




RETHINK-SUDAN
(It is in English, because bi-lingual is intellectual)

Manifest
The third millennia has its distinct conditions of envision, caliber, processing and delivery; whereas no vacancy for trials, assumptions or excuses is morally or functionally acceptable; within the inevitable global urban race towards sustainability, governance and excellence.. Not all the issues are mandatory for discussion, but all epistemic barriers should be removed, enabling wider vision and envision outside the crippling man-made boundaries

Affiliations
Certainly, intellectuality is a primer condition; which sets eligibility to understand referrals, add value and motivate others; yet adherence to the basic cultural foundations is not an option; in a world swiftly and unmercifully erases all borders and identities.. Cautiously; age, gender, ethnic and religious weighting will be addressed within the authentic national code of morals and practices

Powering Gear
Intellectual led networks of national clubs; whereas communities are empowered, socioeconomic are developed and urban elevations are the main concerns.. Such clubs should be the focus-by-choice for aspirations, mediation and coherence.. Restructuring and placement of Estate Pillars will enable proper contributions and enlightenments for the competitions

Cultural Foundations
Today's world has little consideration for historical referrals; unless used to refuel or defuse conflicts of social fabrics, yet; Monotheism, Nilotics, Movability and Conservatism are the ruling livelihood motivations within the Sudanese territories; which progressively interact with a rich and diverse eco system.. Enabling co-existence means empowering all groups to grow, evolve and share the rights of wealth, opportunities and expressions

Political Vision
National Borders are synonymous with complex historical and authentic ruling systems; whereas concepts, models and dreams migrate in both directions; therefore; it is inevitable to recall local experiences, develop progressive debates and enforce estate pillars to correspond with convenience, governance and transparency.. World order is a momentous energy that requires conscious comprehension rather than arrogant confliction

Socioeconomic Framework
Slow urbanism had preserved the economic characteristics of traditional social exchange and formation; which stand unshaken despite the changed forms of wealth distribution; dictating the adequate model for socioeconomic development and growth.. The three sector economy is the revolutionary concept towards balanced and lasting growth and fulfillment; which amazingly correspond to heritage and dreams together