Bored is dangerous.
Here in KSA, there is a saying "Bored is dangerous"Really there isnt a saying like this, but there should be. To many silly things are done by people here for no sane reason except for being bored. For example read this story: A number of Saudi Arabians have questioned a decision by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs to take action against an imam who delivered his Friday sermon using his laptop, reported Arab News. The imam brought his laptop to the mosque in Sarat Abidah in Asir province, much to the consternation of the congregation. -ameinfoOk I am confused, which is nothing new because I am usually confused about most things in this life, but this story doubly confuses me. Is the Ministry of Islamic Affiairs just bored or something? Are the pen pushers have now become in this government department become so tired with playing Solitair or Freecell on their PC's at work that they have decided to pick on this Imam for bringing his laptop to Juma3h prayers? While the Christian church deals with real issues such as gay clergy and sex abuse etc, our Ulemah are debating whether it is haram to bring a laptop to the masjid. This story is like one of those tales you hear, about some explorer going to some remote place and lighting a lighter and then being accused of being a witch because he made a flame majically appear out of nowhere instead of using two sticks to rub together.To the religious 'egg heads' I have a message:Wake Up people... we have more serious issues to be dealing with. Stop critizing people for not growing a beared long enough or for not wearing the kandoora short enough or wether or not they are praying in the Masjid or in their house. Deal with the real issues! Educate people on whats in the Heart of Islam(the true Spirit of Islam) not just the outwardly things on the face. Please your "Holyier than Thou" attitude just shows you up on how uneducated and illiterate you really are.
Celebrity
Supermodel Naomi Campbell will reportedly celebrate her 36th birthday at the Burj Al Arab Hotel next week with an incredible three-day party.
-Gulf NewsWhy do we still take gleeful pride whenever a major western celebrity comes to Dubai, even if they are of the camp National Enquirer excrement smeared tabloid toilet paper variety?Yes that’s too you Ms Naomi (cant walk down a runway without falling over even if it was to save your live because you are so fuel up on meth, heroine and weed to see straight) Campbell. I'll be sure to travel back to Dubai quickly just too warmly welcome your arrival… before I throw an unexpected haute couture fit on your skinny little butt and knock you around with my wife's expensive Italian gear right there in front Airport Security…just so you can feel at home.But the story gets worse…
Footballer David Beckham and his Spice Girl wife Victoria, as well as supermodels Eva Herzigova and Linda Evangelista, are set to be at the partyWaaw. It looks like Dubai will be getting five queens for the price of one this summer! And we are getting the one's of the most trashiest kind, the ones that can represent the dubai expat community to the 'T'..: Classless, trashy, nouveua rich type that have no style whatsoever. I am sure after wasting how many millions to stay at the Burj they will proberly waste a few more with a big villa in one of the new Emaar developments that is based on a theme or something.
Yes Mr Omar Ayesh from Tameer or Mr Mohamed Ali Alabbar from Emaar, here is a new themed idea for a city. Dubai Model City. It can be made out of real plastic and we can put all the Super Models and fake assed celebrities who come to Dubai there, because it is 'the next cool and happening destination' in this place. We can have it built in time for next summer, have its occupancy filled quickly (because everyone is dying to come to Dubai to be cool)…. and then burn the place down, House of Wax style…so yeah we can throw Paris Hilton in there too.
Officials at hotel owner Jumeirah have refused to confirm if the hotel has been booked for the £1 million (Dh6.9 million) once-in-a-lifetime get-together.
Please let this be true Jumeirah… so we can burn the Hotel down once they are staying there. Wait! Scratch that idea… the NSA could be monitoring this blog for illegal terror activity and being the super intelligent guys they are, may take this post seriously, so I was only kidding guys…Instead lets just quarantine the place once all those celebrities are in there, so they can't leave, ever. Then the Burj Al Arab can get a new lease of life as the literal Star Attraction of Dubai. People can come here just to take pictures of the new celebrity prison. Naomi's boyfriend of eight months, Badr Jafar, is said to be hosting the party, which begins on Sunday with the theme "All White".
Is'nt that like a gay thing? Wait! Don’t want to be accused of being homophobic again.The fun continues on Monday, which is Naomi's birthday, when a "Hip Hop" day is planned, while the party rounds off on Tuesday with a day dedicated to Brazilian Samba.Wait a second Gulf News… All this information after Bill Walshe, chief marketing officer for Jumeirah said "We never make any comment on any aspect of our guests' stay.
"The privacy of our guests is of the utmost importance and we never say whether we are having a particular guest to stay."But yet we have the day of the party and the theme of the party and the guest list of the party and even the color of the clothes the guest are meant to be dressed in. How did you get this information?Please tell me you made this up or that its just a marketing ploy to get Burj Al Arab back into the news because the international media are beginning to forget their existence.Opps wait a second that name, Badr Jafar??? Is that an Arabic name I smell, ??? How did I miss that? Oh now the plot thickens…Yet perhaps its another too rich too dumb Gulf National trying to make a name for himself here. He probably put out a press release (Nomaadic I hope you didn’t write this) just to get some fame. Well Whatever GCC country spewed you out Mr Jafar I hope they are punished severely by Allah All Mighty. *shuts eyes tightly and prays he is not Emirati*
I Propose: Vocational Education
One thing that I notice is common across the GCC is the substandard level of education. Ok, so the rumor might be true that perhaps 20-30% of all of Dubai's taxi drivers (just a random made up statistic) may have a degree in Law or in Accounting, but the only way they can make money quickly is to come to the UAE so they can feed their family back home…
And it might be true that that Filipino hair dresser might be skilled in C++ and speak about 50 other different computing languages but still all he does is cut hair on the weekdays and blow ****s on the weekend just to get money and a little bit of extra wasta, so it makes me want to know what is the point of higher education and why does it become irrelevant in the Gulf?
Everyone knows the saying 'a mind is a terrible thing to waste' but so is 'time' and it is clear that a normal bachelor degree doesn’t benefit a person except that he has to have extra bills to pay and less free time to have. No? And what is the point of studying, getting highly educated and then coming to the UAE just to work in shitty low wage job. Ya3ny AED 1000 dihrams a month doing data entry despite being trained to run an entire human resources department is embarrassing.
Plus on another point, there is no point to these degrees if you have no wisdom on how to use it, so as a result we have some people *Coughs 'Locals'* who are too dumb too stupid who earn double some asian expats do but are only half as educated. I think the education system is very lacking and you can feel how bad it is when you deal with people on a professional level everyday. It doesn’t matter if they are expats or locals it seems that knowledge is nothing without wisdom.
I propose that unless you are going to take your education to the next level (like yours truly) and get a Masters or Phd and make some real benefit then don’t do a degree…just get some vocational training because a) that degree isn’t helping you in your current career and b) vocational training will actually make you better at your job. No?
Example: Customer services in the government sector work are poor. Vocational education is needed here. Ya3ny whether it is here in Saudi or in the UAE you should be trained to know that when the phone rings you pick it up. Yes I know I know… it is a radical idea to actually answer phones instead of letting them ring and ring while you file your nails or fix your hyjab for the 100th time or just talk to your girlfriends on the Messenger or mobile phone; but you are getting paid for the 3 hours that you are at work. Plus, when you answer it should be 'saba' or 'misa'khair' or 'salam'u'laikum' not 'Aaaaaaa?' Like we interrupted you from something more important like your gossiping. So damn unprofessional.
But it's not just the Locals. It’s the expats aswell. Ok I know you have a First Class IT degree from Bombay University but does it makes sense when you are packing my bags in Spinnys to give me 50 different bags for each individual item??? Have you ever heard about saving the environment?? Two big bags can be enough…not one bag for drinks, one bag for tined food, one bag for chips and chocolates, one bag for vegetables, one bag for everything else etc etc Khalas. Vocational education for how to pack bags is necessary because I cannot count the amount of times I have stopped the bag packer from doing his job and done it myself because his way of doing it was taking too long. Besides the last thing I need when I got home is another 50 plastic bags from Spinneys to add to my collection of 3 thousand bright yellow bags we already have stored in the cupboard.
Emiratisation will continue to be a joke if some basic logical concepts in good training are not applied. Let us stop the buying of degrees and the importing of so many expats and start training our nationals in skills they really need, whether that be in top government positions or 'low' shop service skills.
The Missionary Position.
They are here. I have been telling people for years but no one would listen. It was like 'oh Jaseem you are exaggerating, can't you ever be serious?'
Or
'oh Jaseem, they can never do any real damage here, leave them alone.'
Or
'Look at their numbers and look our numbers, we are surely winning. No?'
Fine. Well my last friend is correct and yes we are winning, BUT that is not the issue here. The fact is that there is a secret war going on in the Middle East that not much people know about and I am sure secret casualties are being taken without anyone noticing. What am I speaking about? Missionaries.
This is a cross post with Secret Arabian I, where nomadic wrote about the 10/40 Window and their activities here in our part of the world. Him, Emirati and even Gulf News all beat me to this post that I was planning to write since a long time ago .. but ok, it doesn’t matter, this is now going to be an old school Local Hero rant.
I see you all, you damn diggly do Flanders type characters driving around Dubai with your fish symbol on your bumpers and your crucifixes hanging on your dash-boards. I have no problem with Christians, I used to work with a few back in Dubai… and I even encourage them to go to their Friday morning church thing because I am open minded like that.
I don’t have a problem with you, and you can have your churches and synaqouges because despite what you see in South East Asia, it is haram to decapitate people simply because they are Christians and burn their churches down. Back in the days of our Prophet (sws) he protected the Churches and the temples because they were part of our faith and today we should do the same and condemn those who do the same to day…
But when it comes to trying to take people away from our religion, then we are talking about a different subject.
Unlike Muslims who openly talk about Islam and inform non Muslims about our religion, Christians have to do it a subversive manner. Fine I get it. The Muslim world is not the safest place for Christians to openly talk about their religion…so what is you afraid of? Death? If that’s the case then you are hypocrites and your faith and conviction is nothing but words on your tongue.
So what are the means of taking someone out of their religion? How bout lies, propaganda divisiveness and more lies.
Let's get out the 10/40 map and look at how they operate.
Mis-direction , food and aggressive friendship:
First let's start of in LH favorite vacation spot. The Magrib and lets see what the missionaries are doing there. Poverty is a big problem all over Morocco, so what do you do…in the left hand you have some food, clothes and toys and in the right hand you have a bible.
Hey look at me…starving Moroccan dude. I have a choice of converting out of the religion and filling my stomach or starving to death and perhaps seeing my maker as someone who held strong to their believes.
Starving Moroccan Dude: Err Mr Evangelist Man…I think I'll choose door number 1. Food, clothes etc.. What's the pay of?.
Mr. Evangelist Man: Here is a bible translated into Arabic, all you have to is renounce your faith and I can become your best friend who might even throw in an American passport for you in the end.
Starving Moroccan Dude: *Thinks twice, and remembers that life is just temporary, patience is a virtue and circumstances can even change* : You can keep the bible, but I'll take the food:
Mr. Evangelist Man: Thinks to himself. Hmm plan A isn’t working…switch to plan B, divide and conquer.
Scene switches to Algeria:
Mr. Evangelist Man: You may look like an Arab. Talk like an Arab, and I'll say it darn it, even smell like an Arab, but you are not an Arab my brother. You are a Berber, subjugated, persecuted and denied.
Ignorant Algerian Dude: Yes I am oppressed.
Mr Evangelist Man: We can bring you what you need, just take this bible from us and learn how and remember that I am your best friend…
Ignorant Algerian Dude thinks… scene fades to black, while it gets repeated in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Sudan (wherever there is a big enough minority to a Muslim Arab majority)
Another approach: Look at my pamphlets that explain your religion.. Filled with half truths and lies. But hey! You don’t know religion anyway. And probably half the stuff you do is wrong anyway! So what do you have to loose?
King Abdullah meets with Bigger Richer Mr. Evangelist Guy. Morris Cerullo. King Abdulla sees the meeting as an opportunity to bridge the world between Christianity and Islam and create better understanding... Mr. Cerullo sees it as an opportunity to spin the meeting as Evangelical work making inroads to the heart of the Middle East with the potential off converting one of its leaders. Today he is photographed shaking hands with the Royalty, but yesterday he was talking about how the Prophet Mohamed (sws) was a violent monster, and how he (sws) his followers mercilessly killed 'Infidels' (popular American term for describing a Muslim, describing a Christian) and then day after of the photo-op he is talking about how the spirit is going to transform the middle east and people will convert from Islam…(see here is a picture I took with Prince Abdulla to prove its happening) Fcukin hypocrite.
Now back in the Gulf, what do we have. Churches springing up, in Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah… but that’s ok. The guys need to pray somewhere…right? But is it just praying that they are doing…
Someone needs to keep an eye out on the activity going on here. Apostasy cannot be tolerated, especially by those who lie and cheat their way into other people's lives hearts and souls with semi-psychological bullshit designed to take people away from their faith.
Its like tag team effort. Take away societies morality (Islam) slowly over time…and replace it with your own morality. Unfortunately people have become to ignorant of their own faith and understanding of it…that’s whey he have terrorists' coming up on one side, and people so stupid and ignorant of their own faith that they feel conflicted on whether terrorism is right or wrong.
Poverty and ignorance of people of their own faith is a rife breeding ground for evangelists…cue the hot chick and his leaflet.
Taking Responsibility
The French national of Moroccan origin got life today, and for that I say 'good'. The wannabe terrorist claims that he was fighting for Allah and today I saw his mother saying that she supports her son for standing by what he believes in. Selective editing of the news courtesy of EuroNews just to make her look deranged? I don’t know.But the comments that were made were that of a stupid woman. Aicha El-Wafi, your son claims that he was training to fly a 747 aircraft into the White House and wished that more Americans were killed during the 911 attacks. For that I say there is loyalty that can be respected and then there is stupidity. You are stupid.If any of my brothers committed a serious crime that resulted in someone getting hurt or killed, even if was by accident, I would stand up and let the justice system take care of them. This is an example of real love. And even if I became too weak to hand them over to the police I still wouldn’t condone their actions by saying I support them only because they were my brothers (even in the matter of principles).But there is a bigger issue of responsibility here. That French guy of Moroccan origin committed an act that did not come out of a vacuum and although responsibility lays with him for attempting to commit murder we have to question if any one nation should also take responsibility, after all this is the American model for retribution : Afghanistan got bombed into nothingness because the Taliban (who used to be fcuk buddies of America back in the days when Communists were still the international villains) wanted to stick to their principles and protect Bin Laden.While everyday some American somewhere talks about 15 out of the 19 hijackers had held Saudi passports, so obviously this makes Saudi Arabia to blame for the attacks and of course most recently the controversy concerning the US Ports deal, where American opponents state that two of the 911 terrorists were Emirati so that means handing over their ports to us would be the equivalent of handing over their ports to terrorists.Where am I going with this? Oh yes that’s it…collective responsibility does not benefit anyone in times of international crisis but individual responsibility does. KSA looks bad because several of their national's committed a nasty act, but does that mean the Saudis should be demonized? No and neither should the UAE. If we take this approach to justice then that 'French national of Moroccan origin' should have his nation countries dealt with a similar manner. Bomb the Eiffel tower and embargo Morocco why don’t you?Maybe Saudi Arabia is to blame for the 911 attacks. Not because of the extremist interpretation of Islam that is perhaps originating from some of your schools but because you are to blame that a certain segment of your population are so alienated from society that the only way they feel that they can get back at what they think is the bad guy is (Israel and US) is through acts of terrorism. I don’t have the answer and it is not for me to give my opinion, I just want to say that responsibility should be taken for our own actions and not scapegoats being made._____________________________________________________________Oh Mr Moussaoui, your American defendants saved your ass from the Death penalty (which I don’t think you deserved anyway) but remember there is judgment day and that insanity argument just wont cut it with the ultimate Judge who is going to be doing the judging.What needs to be done on our side as Arabs is to question why have we so failed in our understanding of Islam, that a small group of extremists (even if it was just one person) can believe that this is the correct way for fighting Jihad. Responsibility not only lies with us as a community but also with our teachers, and most importantly with ourselves.
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A friend in the real world asked me why my blog was not on 'toot'.I punched him the nose for asking such a stupid question.
