A Worldly Sudanese..

A Worldly Sudanese..
A Sudanese with a Global core.. Realizing how the taste marvelously varies across Countries, Continents, Religions and Cultures.. Believing we have to share it.. Denouncing the 2011 Sudanese Partition..
Showing posts with label Humanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humanity. Show all posts

Sunday, June 13, 2021

10 من أشهر مقولات آن فرانك..

 


في مثل هذا اليوم قبل 92 عاما، في 12 حزيران/ يونيو عام 1929، ولدت آن فرانك، فتاة يهودية ألمانية المولد أصبحت مشهورة عالمياً بفضل المذكرات التي كتبتها أثناء بقائها مختبئة عن الجيش النازي في الجزء الخلفي من مبنى في أمستردام خلال الهولوكوست في الحرب العالمية الثانية. بعد عامين من الإخفاء، تم العثور عليها وإرسالها إلى معسكر اعتقال نازي حيث توفيت وهي في ال15 من عمرها.
اليكم 10 من أشهر الاقتباسات التي كتبتها آن في مذكراتها "يوميات آن فرانك" التي تُرجمت منذ نشرها إلى أكثر من 70 لغة وتعد من أكثر الكتب قراءة في العالم:
1. رغم كل شيء أؤمن ان البشر قلوبهم طيبة في الحقيقة
2. كم هو رائع أن لا أحد يجب أن ينتظر لحظة قبل البدء في تحسين العالم!
3. على المدى الطويل، فإن السلاح الأكثر حدة هو اللطف والروح الجميلة
4. لا أحد أصبح فقيرًا من خلال العطاء
5. فكر في كل الجمال الذي لا يزال من حولك وكن سعيدًا
6. يمكن أن تضيع الثروات والهيبة وكل شيء. لكن السعادة في قلبك لا يمكن خفوتها؛ ستظل دائمًا هناك، طالما كنت تعيش، لتجعلك سعيدًا مرة أخرى.
7. لا أريد أن أعيش عبثا مثل معظم الناس.
8. أنا لا أفكر في كل البؤس، ولكن من الجمال الذي لا يزال قائما
9. ما تم فعله لا يمكن التراجع عنه، لكن يمكن منعه من الحدوث مرة أخرى
10. من هو سعيد، سيجعل الآخرين سعداء جدا

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Why We Celebrate Torture..?


Torture is one of the activities that Mankind had enjoyed creativity and innovation since dawn of time

Capturing evidences of Torture is not only to condemn who practiced; but also included a hidden attraction to show weakness and vulnerability of Humans

Publicly distributed historical and contemporary pages included many forms of torture; which indicated more severity and craziness that were never recorded or witnessed

It is an epistemic question rather than journalistic or legal.. 

How Cruel We Are
We are truly far from what we used to claim


Let's Think..!

Because All Life Matters



BECAUSE ALL LIFE is sacred and it MATTERS !


This is a Pulitzer Prize winner. 
A journalist caught sight of an indigenous woman who was breast feeding her own child as well as this little fella - wild boar - whose mother was poached by illegal hunting irrespective of the fact she had her family of little wild boars to care for. 

BECAUSE LIFE MATTERS!

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Monday, October 20, 2014

Global Hunger Index



I have a sketchy idea that "Hunger" is a "Moral" decline.. not a "Resources" or a "Distribution" one..
Do you share that?


Macro Economics are political, while Micro Economics are social.. Geopolitics is often immoral, while Sociopolitics are..
The meant paradox aims to transform Politics into a moral perspective, while elevate the Politics of social practices..


Disposal of crops' surplus is macro/political; while wasted tomato in festival is micro/social..
I can live with La-Tomatina, Oktobarfest, Cité des Citrons, or Adha's waste meat; but I agree on need to denounce the dumping of surpluses, the use crops for alcohol manufacturing, improper processing of sacrifice meat, as well as the electricity consumption to watch extravaganza's and late TV shows..!!



Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Religion and Foreign Policy


This was my Interest Statement to attend a Tony Blair Foundation's program with the Balkan Institute.. on Religion and Politics
 
Despite I had no degree in programs affiliated to international relations or geopolitics; my personal and public interests in these fields are serious and research-based..
My blog (http://adilsud.blogspot.ae/) traces many of the global issues and concerns, with my own views on both events and chronicles..
I deeply believe in the epistemic foundations for both human urbanism and civilization; whereas our trends, phenomenon and favorites are always reflections of local cultures and identity demarcations..
As a Muslim, I do understand the amount of confusion that had flooded the Balkans with the expansion of Ottoman empire.. Similarly, the amount of confusion followed September-11..
As a Sudanese, where my country had gone apart by religious and cultural claims, I can identify the hidden triggers within national and local mindsets..
As an Arabic Speaker, I can tell about the partition within personalities and characteristics; which had considerably spread the emotional unrest..
Yet, as a Human Being, I trust both intuitions and unexplainable derivatives that bred the Millennia Generation; which uncompromisingly advocates peace..
Therefore; I'm interested to attend..!

Friday, May 10, 2013

Celebrity and Publicity



Regardless of Celebrity and Publicity
A Human substance is shockingly drawn

Should we welcome the simple Reality
or follow the glowing Falseness

My immortal question:
Why Arabs have no Integrity..?

 

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Same Sex Marriage..

Celebrated as The Best Marriage Equality Sign..!
 
Same Sex Marriage..
Blindness of Hearts..
Darkness of Minds..
End of Times..!
 
It only took the "Globalization & Privatization" 20 years to flood the world..
How swift this new illusion will take..?
Thankfully, I don't have kids to watch the “Epidemic” snaking in my own household..


Be Careful Parents..
Watch out the “Violet”..
Search for the “Arch”..!!
 

"Sin” became a controversial term since early 1900th.. This had produced Radicalism, Extremism, Anarchy, Scientology and later LGBT..
When “mind” goes uncontrolled without referrals; claiming freedom to think, innovate and express; we simply prove principle dumbness as freaking species with intelligence..
 
Only “enlightened” minds can find the path..!
Yet: What is the Path..? and leading to Where/What..?
 
As per the Sudanese proverb: “Learning Not often eliminates Dumbness..”
 
It seems our “brains” are sinful by default.. Therefore, thousands of Prophets and Messengers of Allah were needed to restore sanity and brightness.. with no much gains..!!

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Charpoy or Angarabe..

Sudanese or Indian..?

 The influence of the Indian culture and ethnicity in Sudan is widely unknown, due to the absence of any serious anthropological studies.. Adding to this, the patriotic arrogance practiced among many Northern Sudanese in particular, who represent majority of literate and intelligentsia of the Sudan..

Between India and Sudan, an unknown historical story, goes beyond the recent 200 years (Suakin Times).. I personally guess it goes back to early Mamluk times (1500 AD), when Egyptian Navy had seized all western shores of India for long six months.. As how much this was the trigger of Egypto-Indian discomfort.. It was the Sudanese-Indian love story..!!

Ingredients of Indian Culture in Sudan are not limited to women's Jewelry, Perfumes, Dress, or men's Turban, Mustaches, Military-Code, but also to household’s Bed-Frames, Ornaments and Architecture.. Social customs of Weddings, Funerals, Gender and FGM are almost identical..

The 4000 km journey from India to Sudan was certainly too long and too old.. There are no clear evidences on time or route; which surprisingly had left no trace along possible ports of the maritime voyages or caravan trails..!!

Sudan is almost an in-land country, with lots of natural barrier towards the Red Sea.. Having such traditions to cross blocks of nations and territories; to find a comfort in Sudan is a big enigma that no one had the interests to answer..!!


 
Traditional Sudanese Angarabe (Charpoy)


Enjoy the Wedding cermonies of Sudaness Reem and Indian Mohammed






 Epistemic Tour on Charpoy


Charpai, Charpaya or Charpoy (Persian, Urdu, Saraiki, Punjabi, Pashto چارپائی; char "four" + paya "footed") is a traditional woven bed in the Subcontinent. In some languages like in Punjabi and Saraiki, it is also called a Manjaa or Manji and in Sindhi and Saraiki it is also called a Khatt, Khaatt or Khattra. It consists of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes. Traditionally the user would lie directly on top of the ropes without an intervening mattress. Its making begins with the tying of a jee (Life knot) at one corner of the bed.
In Dera Ghazi Khan, the big Charpai is also called a hamacha. This city has the world largest charpai.


A Brief History of Charpoys
Charpoys are an ancient furniture style still used extensively today in the Indian sub-continent. The earliest reference we have found is in Hobson Jobson, a glossary of colloquial Anglo Indian words and phrases :
Charpoy, s, H.(Hindi) charpai, from P.(Persian) chihar-pai (i.e. four-feet), the common Indian bedstead, sometimes of very rude materials, but in other cases handsomely wrought and painted. It is correctly described in the quotation from Ibn Batuta.* c.1350.-
“The beds in India are very light. A single man can carry one and every traveller should have his own bed, which his slave carries about on his head. The bed consists of four conical legs on which four staves are laid ; between they plait a sort of ribbon of silk or cotton. When you lie on it you need nothing else to render the bed sufficiently elastic.”-iii. 380.
*Ibn Batuta. Voyages d’Ibn Batoutah, Texte Arabe, (Societe Asiatique). 4 vols. Paris, 1853-58.

Manji
Charpoy/manji is an ancient furniture style still used extensively today charpoy is very light bed a single man can carry. The Charpoy is very versatile and functional piece of furniture we have taken this simple design to make many different pieces of furniture thus we have several sizes which include beds benches and footstools.
“Char Paya” in Persian meanings four footed bed stead of woven webbing or hemp stretched on a wooden frame on four legs common in this subcontinent of Indo-Pak the bed used in Pakistan India consisting of a frame strung with tapes or light rope. Charpoy is an important part of the lives of the Pakistani people it used as bed at night and for guest offered charpoy to sit and relax.
A manji is a traditional hand woven bed used all over Pakistan specially the villages of Pakistan it consists of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes. Charpoy is traditionally made of wood and its feet or (poy) are beautifully carved or decorated with lacquer or paints. It’s knitted with date palm leaves or a rope made of jute. Now a day’s charpoy also made of Iron pipe and knitted with colorful plastic rope.
Charpoy is multi uses furniture it used not only at home but at commercial basis on long route the village hotels used charpoy and serves food on it the traveler takes rest at mid journey the truck driver spend their night on these charpoy at road side hotels and restaurants. Char payee means four footed bed in saraiki and Punjabi it called manjaa or manjee and in Sind it called khatt khaatt or khattra or khatya traditionally user would lie directly on top of the ropes without an intervening mattress. It’s making begins with the tying of a life knot at one corner of the bed. In dera ghazi khan the big charpai is also called ahamacha this city has the world’s largest charpai
http://www.dostpakistan.pk/charpoy/


Images for the Multi-Uses of Charpoy in the Subcontinent


 

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

LGBT Fight..!

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Transgender Women’s Constitutional Challenge To Sharia Law Fails In Malaysia
by Guest Author on October 16, 2012
in International,News


The LGBT is the greatest myth of 21st Century.. People discuss the rights; while deliberately ignoring the counter-scientific advocacies.. It is a plotted tsunami that will eventually take over.. Destructuring rationales, morals and ethics.. Igniting the End of Times..!!

Humanity is proved to be too ignorant and blind for counter-comabt..!!

LGBT claime: "Attributes of their nature that they did not choose and cannot change.."; which is challenged by advanced scientific discoveries; proving such attributes are man-made by means of education, up-bringing and media..

Among most species, there is no evidence on authentic behavioral or biological disorder among sexes.. On the other hand, the experiments and proofs which were developed in late 1980th and 1990th; became weaker by scientific standards, with lots of doubts on their governance, integrity and research environment..

Beware of the LGBT Colors..

Beware of the Violet..

With no religious prejudice; in any creativity, there are always faulty products.. LGBT is the one among human beings.. They simply do not fit to the scope been set for the Mankind by its Creator swt.. Contrarily, they disturb the scope, deform the mission, and ignite evil moralities; based on desires and physiques.. People were created for much Nobel cause, and higher agenda rather than such temporary sensations.. Noah’s son was described as faulty creation; who deserves no forgiveness, and been left to voluntarily drawn..

In Islam, despite the harmful misconceptions and wide deviations, there is undoubted program for communal recovery from LGBT illness:
(1) Adequate mass media controls,
(2) Authentic Spouseship and Parenthood
(3) Proper child up-bringing,
(4) Fitness and Boot-Camps for adolescents,
(5) Early 20th marriages, and
(6) Punishment and isolation of the ill-fated ones..
These are interpretations of how LGBT is considered a social disease not a bio or genetic disorder.. It is an Urbanism Disease..

Decline of correct religious awareness had made any religious objection or combat against LGBT as back-warding in time and inadequate for the current global civilization, while as correctly said, they are a brick in the overall humane decay..!

Sunday, September 2, 2012

South Korea - Illuminati Aim to Corrupt Youth

I'm not into this complex issue, not advocating nor supporting.. But understanding how much it grows and relates many confusing issues and development to a particular theory..
However, the topic is interesting and reflects many similar trends across the world..

The boys are being taught that the metrosexual look is hip


LETTER FROM SOUTH KOREA:
The Illuminati have given up on adults and focused on youth.

Ex-pat James Farganne wages a street-level battle against their influence.

"At the end of the third day, all of my testimony about Illuminati Jewish methods of infiltrating a society was a matter of Korean court record. The judge reviewed the testimony and released me immediately. Despite indirect threats, I have experienced no further reprisals."

by James Farganne
(henrymakow)

As an ex-pat in South Korea, I am fortunate to be part of a society that has thus far rejected feminism.

On Korean television, men are still generally portrayed as strong, loving fathers, husbands, and sons.

Korean women, by and large, still practice the art of knowing when to be strong women, delicate ladies, and, on occasion, delightful girls. Career driven mothers are most definitely the exception and not the rule.

The unity of the family is still paramount here. Divorce is still a stigma that can stunt a woman's social and economic prospects. I don't say "single mother", because from what I understand, the courts tend to award custody to the father, especially if the woman instigated the divorce -- in which case, no alimony.

However, if the woman demonstrates that the father has been unfaithful, abusive, or negligent, these conventions are waived. In other words, Korean family courts are not venues for the highway robbery of men.

I like this society so much that, having married a woman with whom I know I'll go the distance, I have applied for citizenship. But I see a very disturbing trend emerging: a Luciferian attack on Korean children.

Some months back, I wrote about my attempts to strike at what I saw as the root of the corruption. Those efforts landed me in jail. The detectives interrogated me for three days. They wanted to know why I had been harassing certain people. I told them exactly why, and they took assiduous notes. I never retained a lawyer, stating that a man of truth needs no such animal.

At the end of the third day, all of my testimony about Illuminati Jewish methods of infiltrating a society was a matter of Korean court record. The judge reviewed the testimony and released me immediately. Despite indirect threats, I have experienced no further reprisals.

TARGET YOUTH
This is all good news. But every time I get on the subway, I see signs of degradation everywhere, and it is almost always directed at youth.

Children are impressionable. Without watchful parents, most of them will imitate the garbage that is sold to them as "cool". The pop music culture here is vile, laced with pornographic dance and Masonic imagery. The boys are being taught that the metrosexual look is hip. I wonder what will happen to those boys when they get smacked upside the head with mandatory military service.

Every time I see a metrosexual boy on the subway, without exception, unless my wife is there to get embarrassed, I take him to task. I walk up to him with my turban and my very big beard. I squint at him until he starts to squirm. By now, people are looking. I create a silent situation. When the tension is sufficient, I bark out at him, in perfect Korean (I'm quite practiced in this):

"Your legs are hairy, but you have lipstick on! No boobs, but you're carrying a purse! Are you a BOY or a GIRL?"
"I -- I --"
"BOY OR GIRL! ANSWER! I AIN'T GOT ALL DAY!"
"I'm a -- I'm a boy!"
"BOYS don't wear lipstick and carry purses! I think you might be a very ugly GIRL!"
"No, I'm a boy!"
"You might THINK you're a boy! I think maybe you're a GIRL who just WANTS to be a boy! And yet, no boobs!"

By now, the old people are cackling and nodding vigorously. I get lots of positive feedback from the seniors when I do this. The "boy" is always cowed. He can't backtalk me, because he is a boy, and I am a man. He usually scampers off the train at the next station. The seniors know what's what. After the foregoing incident, once we have a dialogue going, I always tell them they have an enemy in their midst, and I ask if they know who the enemy is.

You'd be shocked how often they immediately reply: "The Jew".

GIRLS
Another thing I do, though much less often, is to counsel girls who dress like whores. Yes, the whore look is being foisted on girls who spend most of their week in dowdy school uniforms -- so this is mainly a weekend hit. When I see a girl who is obviously under 18 sluttishly dressed and with her face horribly disfigured by makeup, I gently ask her if she is trying to find a boy to have sex. Responses do not vary. There is zero defiance. They are always mortified, and sometimes confused, so I explain to them that the only reason any girl would dress that way would be to attract sexually excited boys.

"Well that's not why I'm dressed this way!"
"Why are you dressed that way, then?"
"Because [insert K- pop singer's name] dresses this way..."
"God made you prettier than she is. Why isn't God's look good enough for you?"

So goes my fight against the Illuminati in South Korea -- via guerrilla tactics, ones that I can't be arrested for.

Why is this important? Well, if I were awake and aware and living in North America right now, I'd have no hope for mankind -- none whatsoever. But I do have hope. The elites still have their work cut out for them here.

That said, even living in the society that I have just snapshot for you by anecdote, I am mightily concerned. I wonder if traditional family values here will be enough to squash the onslaught of Luciferian poison being sprayed directly into the brains of these children each time they watch a pop music show on TV.

They always start with the women and children. Everything else falls like dominos. Where will this go?

Feminism has failed in Korea
Here is a really funny example. There is a Korean breakfast cereal that consists of puffed barley. The pieces are oval and each has a black blotch on one side of it . A group of upstart feministas tried to lobby the National Assembly to pass laws banning this popular cereal.

Why? Are you sitting down?
  They claimed that the puffed barley grains looked like vaginas, and therefore degraded women. Assembly lawmakers did the sensible thing: publicly mocked the lobbyists, and sent them packing. At least, that is the story as was told to me by my university students.
But the children? I can't say. As a stepfather whose Korean teen stepson is militantly homosexual (a real rarity, but nonetheless a fact), I am worried, but again, not hopeless. I believe that if people stand firm for their families, they can overcome the Illuminati, because the elites are nothing without our submission and consent.

The West has been all but won. The East will be a tougher nut for them to crack.
http://www.henrymakow.com/korea-iluminati-aim-to-corrupt.html

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Europe & Islam..


‘Gender issues: Europe’s main challenge to internalizing Islam’
Barçın Yinanç
barcin.yinanc@hurriyet.com.tr
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

As European culture becomes more secularized, the biggest point of contention about Islam in Europe is striking a balance between the sacred and the profane, Professor Hakan Yılmaz says. Gender issues are where this contention makes itself felt the most, constituting a challenge for Europe in its efforts to internalize Islam.
Europe is confused on how to cope with Islam, according to Professor Hakan Yılmaz, an editor of the recently published book “Perceptions of Islam in Europe: culture, identity and the Muslim other,” which compiles several articles by prominent experts. The aim of the book is to reveal the real points of contention about Islam in Europe and gender issues constitutes one of the most important contention points, Yılmaz told the Hürriyet Daily News in a recent interview.

What is the common message of the articles complied in the book?
Our main motivation with this book was to scrutinize the perception of Islam that has been shaped following [the] Sept. 11, 2011, [attacks in America]. After the end of the Cold War, Islam and Muslims started to become the new ‘other’ in Europe and this trend became ossified after Sept. 11, 2011. We wanted to question the perception of Islam as ‘the other’ and find out what Islam in Europe is really about while also showing where the real contention points are.

One other motivation we had was the several books that had been published after Sept. 11; books on Islamophobia or the so-called Eurabia books. The real points of contention about Islam in Europe are not the ones pointed out by those Eurabia books. In order to find the answer to the question of ‘How can we live together?’ you have to pinpoint the right points of contention and in the book we have several articles on different cases. One article, for example, talks about Muslims in Poland. Another one talks about how Holland is trying to “Hollandize” Islam.

Is this trend of Europeanizing Islam a general trend throughout the continent?
Europe has understood it cannot get rid of Islam. Islam is within Europe and it is in its neighborhood. The current problem is about the modalities of integrating Islam. Through which modality should Islam become part of Europe? In some cases, there is a will for total assimilation, in certain cases there is an effort to nationalize and localize Islam.

Is Europe trying to cope with it by attempting to Europeanize Islam?
One way is to create a national local Islam. But this is not the only way. In the period between the Cold War’s end and Sept. 11 there was an acceptance of Islam in Europe. It was the golden age of globalization and liberalism and there was more room for Islam. But this perspective changed with Sept. 11 and there came a perspective that saw Islam as a danger, a threat to the European way of life. Of course the perspective present and valid before Sept. 11 did not disappear. That’s why you can find both inclusive and exclusive approaches in Europe and that’s why I believe Europe is confused about Islam. Europe is on a pendulum. You have on the one hand the inclusive approach of the liberal, global trend of the pre-Sept. 11 era. On the other hand is the exclusivist trend of the post-Sept. 11 era that says we need to draw the borders of Europe, and Islam should stay beyond those borders while the Muslims that stay inside these borders should adapt totally to us; an assimilation approach.

But in the meantime you said earlier they have accepted that Islam is part of Europe.
Europe understood that they could not exclude the millions of Muslims living in the continent, but the pendulum moves back and forth on what to do with them. Gerard Delanty, one of the authors of the book, argues that the European capacity for dialogue is not inherently ‘European.’ Europe did not always have an ‘inclusive’ culture. Each time Europe faced a challenge in integrating a new culture and religion within its boundaries, it has increased its degree of freedoms to incorporate these challenges and this is how Europe became ‘Europeanized.’ Delanty calls it a process of cosmopolitanization, which, for instance, involves the process of making Protestantism, secularism and Judaism a part of Europe.

The argument is that each time Europe opted for the inclusive approach, which is what made Europe what it is today. Is that right?
Correct. If Europe would today say: ‘I am tired and exhausted. I will no longer go further in cosmopolitanization,’ then we would be talking about the end of Europe as a concept. The continuation of liberalizing European culture will only be possible to the extent that it will internalize Muslims. This is the challenge today, and it is not limited only to those Muslims living in Europe. This challenge includes Turkey’s membership to the European Union as well as the issue of how to deal with the countries in the Mediterranean.

What are the problems that stem from Islam that make the challenge harder?
The biggest contention point is the issue of striking a balance between the sacred and the profane. In European culture it seems that what is profane is more prominent. In the case of Islam, however what is sacred for the average Muslim has a greater place compared to the understanding of an average European.

Europeans have probably become more secularized.
Looking from the perspective of Muslims, the real challenge with Europe is not about Europe’s welfare state or its level of freedoms. Gender issues are, for instance, an area where the issue of what is sacred and what is not is most reflected.

In a 2009 survey we found that culture predominantly affects Europeans’ perception of Turks. In order to understand what Europe perceives as [Turkish] culture we provided 24 cultural characteristics, such as individualist, rational, strong family values, sexually liberated, respectful of others’ rights and asked which of them were considered European, Turkish or both. The European respondents overwhelmingly, with 70 percent, saw sexually liberated as a European characteristic while only 2 percent thought that was a Turkish characteristic. Ninety percent of the Turkish respondents thought sexually liberated was a European characteristic and said this was not a trait of Turkish culture.

If this is one of the contention points, what is the solution then?
There is a trend in some part of Europe that argues for multiple legal systems, where some problems among Muslims can be solved according to their own law. One of the contributors to the book, Deniz Kandiyoti, says that should not be the solution. She argues that the universal approach to women’s rights and citizenship rights should be maintained, and it should not be left to the domain of religion or sects. There should be an accommodation effort of only what is left after maintaining the universal gains.

What do you think about Europe’s stance on political Islam especially in the context of the Arab Spring?
Europe is the one place best equipped to help the political transformations in its environment. It has soft power. Yet the cultural phobias about Islam in some European governments have weakened Europe’s strategic talents. Europe could not show enough of a reflex in the face of the Arab Spring. This cultural deafness can be a strategic cost to Europe, but the marginalization of Europe as a democratic reference will equally be a loss for [Turkey] and Islamic countries that are trying to become democratic as the alternative does not provide an easier road.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gender-issues-europes-main-challenge-to-internalizing-islam.aspx?pageID=238&nID=28022&NewsCatID=338

Monday, August 6, 2012

Paradox of illiteracy and evolution..

I had never laughed or found it funny..
Paradox of illiteracy and evolution..
He is a poor street tea-vendor in Nairobi,
who used to walk almost naked with bear feet,
who dreamed to look as urban as seen on TV,
purchased 2nd hand cloth,
and spent time to wash and iron,
then worn and walked proudly to serve his customers..
Certainly; his attire and outfit had changed in few days..
Certainly; his son will be a literate, an urban and a venture capitalist..!!

Saturday, June 30, 2012

The Lovers of Valdaro


“The Lovers of Valdaro"
Archaeologists unearthed in 2007 two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in an embrace and buried outside Mantua, Italy.
Their loving embrace has lasted an eternity. 5000 years to be precise



By Phil Stewart
VALDARO, Italy (Reuters) - Italy
won't split up its Stone Age "lovers".

In a Valentine's Day gift to the country, scientists said they are determined to remove and preserve together the remains of a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, their arms still wrapped around each other in an enduring embrace.
Instead of removing the bones one-by-one for reassembly later, archaeologists plan to scoop up the entire section of earth where the couple was buried, they told Reuters.
The plot will then be transported for study before being put on display in an Italian museum, thereby preserving the world's longest known hug for posterity.
"We want to keep can them just as they have been all this time -- together," archaeologist Elena Menotti, who announced the discovery a week ago, told Reuters.
Their removal will be a relief for archaeologists who had to hire extra security to guard the rural site outside the northern city of Mantova after the discovery made world headlines.

STAR-CROSSED LOVERS?
More importantly, it will give scientists a chance to figure out what was has become one of Italian archaeology's greatest mysteries: the first known Neolithic couple to be buried together, hugging.
Was it a sudden death? A ritual sacrifice? Or maybe they were prehistoric, star-crossed lovers who took their own lives.
That is a crowd-pleasing theory in these parts, since Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was set in nearby Verona.
But scientists acknowledge they still know precious little about the now-famous Stone Age couple, whose embrace has become a subject of world newspaper headlines and chat shows.
Italians dubbed them the "Lovers of Valdaro" after the Mantova suburb of farmland and factories. But even their gender is a open question until scientists confirm the theory that they were a man and a woman.
Archaeologists seem certain the couple died young, since their teeth are intact and that they died during the Stone Age because of an arrowhead and tools found with the remains.
But new evidence indicates the couple were not alone and that the remains may have left been near a Stone Age settlement.

A CULT? DEATH GRIP?
Archaeologists on site showed Reuters photographs of another skeleton found nearby, suggesting the couple were in some sort of prehistoric burial ground.
While the single body was buried East-West, possibly following the daily path of the sun across the sky, the Stone Age couple were buried "the wrong way".
"They were buried North-South, and we don't know why," said archaeologist Daniela Castagna, standing over the grave site.
John Robb, lecturer at Cambridge University and an expert in Neolithic Italian remains, says the trouble with the Stone Age couple is the singularity of the find -- which makes it difficult to explain using known historic data.
He said Neolithic burials are almost always single burials.
"There are a couple of mass burials. There are couple of examples of heads being found under houses. And then, about one burial in every 20 or 30 sites is completely unique," he said.
"And these are probably things that have strange ritual circumstances of one kind or another."
But until scientists get a closer look at the bones, all anyone has are loose theories.
The discovery generated Internet conspiracy theories with some taking a darker interpretation of the hugging skeletons.
One reader on AOL, said it was absurd to assume "this couple is in eternal bliss".
"Maybe it is eternal hatred that had them locked together in a death grip," wrote another reader.
Other people have called for the couple to be left alone -- something that Italian archaeologists say would leave the remains vulnerable to looters, vandals and even bad weather.
There is also a practical reason, the owner of the land hopes to soon build warehouses on it.
"We say rest in peace -- unless you're dead long enough to be interesting," wrote another reader, Jim Noonan.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL12831255020070214?irpc=932



Sunday, May 20, 2012

Anonymous Hugs..


Absolutely, a very inspiring idea.. Only, for an urban society..!!

Not suitable for Arabs, Africans, many Asians..!!

Sympathy is inevitably lost by urbanism, whereas life has to be fast, rational and beneficiary.. Competitions over urban resources and fittings is never an easy, whilst brutal, sadist and opportunitists.. Yet, our urbanity is the sole symbol of our civilized excellence, despite the hallucinations and hysteria among the outspoken..
Such idea is not different from Charities, which fill great gap in urban administration and formation.. Urban Peoples needs that “Anonymous Hugs” to restore their humanity though the urban rush..
It is fits outlines of both NGOs and Entrepreneurship..!

Moonfleet Eldai: I think in this metric we do score better and we don't probably need a kissing booth or a hugging booth hence the lack of suitability.
I am speaking of extended families that are nuclear, I am speaking of supporting neighbors and more or less of things that make us compassionate. Not to entirely wipe out these in the urban citizens, I am just saying we score better :)

Azizi Hesham; Pls apply unified experimental measures..
We are not urban enough to fit for the comparison.. That's why I had related it to Urbanity..!

Those who are scoring less, do not advise girls to avoid their Dads, don't make love to the dead wives, don't formally marry at 12, etc.. Once we urbanely fit to the comparison, we shall score nothing but minus..!!

I believe; if we apply any AEME (actual empirical methods of enquiry) among the main domains of our species, shocking and amazing results will reveal, swinging between extraordinary and fiction.. We’re shielded by our modesty and dwellers, whereas no one knows what’s going on behind the closed doors.. When glimpse leaks, scandals and amusements follow..

We’re merely rural, as privacy typically shrink along the ladder of urbanity.. Also, People's readiness to defend their privacy, typically vary..
Nomads walk around with their daggers (or sticks), Peasants suspiciously walk in groups, while City Boys walk alone..!!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Homo-Sapiens vs. Homo-Travaillus

Martouf sets out a number of arguments in favour of a basic income, as illustrated here


Switzerland: An Initiative to Establish Basic Income for All

Written by: Stanislas Jourdan
Global Voices

An initiative to establish a new federal law known as “For an unconditional basic income” [fr] was formally introduced in Switzerland in April. The idea, which consists quite simply of giving a monthly income to all citizens that is neither means-tested nor work-related, has generated commentary throughout the Swiss blogosphere.
The Swiss referendum process is a system of direct democracy that enables citizens to call for legislative change at the federal or constitutional level.
If the initiative to introduce a basic income gathers more than 100,000 signatures before October 11, 2013, the Federal Assembly is required to look into it and can call a referendum if the initiative is judged to be credible.

Pascal Holenweg explains what it's all about:
The grassroots initiative “for an unconditional basic income” proposes that “the establishment of an unconditional universal benefit” be written into the federal constitution which would “allow the entire population to lead a dignified existence and participate in public life”.The law will address financing and set the amount of the benefit (the proposers suggest around 2,000-2,500 Swiss francs per month (or 2,200-2,700 US dollars per month), which is about the same as the maximum current social security payment, but they have not written this into the text of the initiative[fr]). The basic income does not come with any conditions attached: it is not subject to any means testing. It is universal (everyone will receive it) and egalitarian (everyone will receive the same amount). It is also personal (it is paid out to individuals, not households).It is not income to replace a lost salary. Rather, it replaces all inferior income support (unemployment benefit, pensions, family allowance, student grants, disability payments). How will it be financed? Through direct taxation of income and wealth, indirect taxation on consumption (VAT), taxing financial transactions, and most especially through the reallocation of resources currently allotted to financing state pensions and unemployment payouts, social security and other welfare payments lower than the amount of the basic income.

Fred Hubleur makes the point:
The important thing is that this revenue is fixed for everyone without there being a requirement to work; that's right, it is income without employment. This might seem shocking. But at its heart it is an entirely defensible idea. On the one hand, we are fighting against poverty and insecurity, there will no longer be a need for social security to bolster other incomes, and dozens of different and unwieldy benefits. This unconditional income is equally good news for innovation and creativity. We have also made a paradigm shift that dyed-in-the-wool capitalists might find alarming: the liberation of working man, returning him to his status as homo sapiens over that of homo travaillus (ed's note: Homo travaillus is a play on word to describe the working man) which holds such sway in our society.

This new world vision has most notably been explored in the Helvetico-German film Basic Income: A Cultural Impetus, by Ennon Schmidt and Daniel Hani, two of the eight Swiss citizens founders of the initiative:



So here it is. You receive 2,500 Swiss francs every month no strings attached. Tell us how your life would change. Tell us how you would spend your time. What would you devote your life to?


The responses were varied. Antoine would set up a restaurant. Gaetane a farm.
Renaud would devote himself to music:

My first project would be to finish a musical instrument that I am in the process of creating and attempting to put it into production. At the same time I would offer lessons on how to play my favourite musical instrument, one which is not well known in this region.


User herfou70 would prioritise his family:
I am a father (3 children - 6, 11 and 14 years old) and I am the family's only earner. To have a basic income would allow me to devote more time to my children. My wife would also be able to do something outside of looking after our home, allowing her to grow and develop.



On Facebook, supporters of the basic income initiative have launched a competition called “star for life”. Visitors to the site are invited to take a photo of themselves as if they were sentenced to life.

A basic income will “do more harm than good”

But not everyone is convinced by the idea. According to Jean Christophe Schwaab, a member of Switzerland's lower house of representatives, socialists must not support the proposition, which he judges will “do more harm than good and be a disaster for employees”.

He gave the following explanation on his blog:
Supporters of a basic income claim that it must “free people from the obligation of earning a living” and lead to the disappearance of unstable or poorly paid employment, because, as this basic income guarantees a minimum living wage, no one will want these jobs. Now, it's more than likely to produce the opposite effect. As the low level of the payouts will not be sufficient to satisfy the initiative's primary objective, namely ensure a decent standard of living, the beneficiaries will be obliged to work anyway, depsite the basic income. The pressure to accept any available job will not go away.

Lastly, an unconditional basic income would, worst of all, permanently exclude a good number of workers from the job market (by denying their right to work): those who are judged to have insufficient earning potential (e.g. due to disability, illness or lack of qualifications) will just have to content themselves with the basic income.
His analysis is controversial, as can be seen from the comments thread under his post.
 
From a French perspective, Jeff Renault explained why the left are “dead set against” an unconditional basic income:

The left of the end of the 19th and the 20th centuries was forged on the values of work and defending workers. This fight centres around the never ending defence of the salaried worker and the Holy Grail of permanent, salaried contracts, even through this “status” only applies to the minority.

With the launch of the initiative, Hubleur hopes [fr] that a great societal debate will open up in Switzerland:

This will at least open the door to a great societal debate and the chance to reflect on what we want and to what kind of life we aspire. I've been following the idea of a universal benefit system (amongst other names) for a while. I remember talking about it in a class on instability and social ties a decade ago at university. The idea is frankly very seductive and deserves a closer look.When you look at the world created through the current capitalist, productivist model, you could easily end up longing for something else, for a world that gives everyone a better chance.