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Chau Doc

OBSESSION

This is an Anti-Jihad 12-minute film.  Made by American Jews living in Israel, it shows the Jihadist ambitions with little background to explain them.

Interestingly, the movie shows the Arab indoctrination of the young, but falls short when it compares the tactics with those of the Hitler Youth.

http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/12min.htm

DIVIDE AND CONQUER

As is the case with any blogger's arrest, Kareem's detention too brought

bloggers from Egypt and supporters from around the world to rally behind the

cause, creating an online war zone against the authorities known as Free Kareem!

According to supporters, Kareem's detention has been extended for another 15

days, with allegations against him summed up as follows:

- Spreading data and malicious rumors that disrupt public security

- Defaming the President of Egypt

- Incitement to overthrow the regime upon hatred and contempt

- Incitement to hate Islam and breach of the public peace standards

- Highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt and

spreading them to the public.

But not all bloggers are supportive of Kareem's plight. Fellow Egyptian Blogger

Ahmed Shokeir shows no sympathy for the arrested blogger. 

"Playing games with religion, whatever religion it is, is refused all over the

world and what this person writes does not fall within the parametres of freedom

of expression," he said.

Away from Egypt, which has kept us busy for three posts now and moving to other

topics, plans are well underway in the Arab blogosphere to have a common

platform for Arabic bloggers to express themselves - if only Arabs learn to

agree instead of disagree the whole time.

Haitham Sabbah, a Jordanian Palestinian blogger writing from Bahrain, writes

about the issue. 

"What I find funny and sad at the same time nowadays is all that I am hearing

about what is happening behind the scenes in the Arab blogosphere (especially

blogs written in Arabic) about the establishment of unions, groups and

federations for Arab blogs, and the demise of some of those gatherings and the

failure of others as well as accusations of plagiarism and the the formation of

unions which we don't know anything about, etc," wrote Sabbah.

Although Sabbah is one of the most savvy bloggers, he suggests organizing. This would ease the Police task to arrest them.