Word: kareem
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...chill has just gone through the collective spine of the bloggers of the Middle East. On Thursday, Egypt sentenced Abdel Kareem Suleiman (a.k.a. "Kareem Amer" online) to four years in prison - three years for blog posts that insulted Islam and one year for similar writings that defamed President Hosni Mubarak. While bloggers have been harrassed and a couple arrested by Mideast governments in the past, this is the first time one has been sentenced to prison. Before Kareem's arrest and conviction, internet writing was considered a safe and open venue for many young men and women in the region...
...Kareem's blog posts would not have been that different. For example, he wrote about how he wanted to become a human rights lawyer working for the betterment of "Muslim and Arabic women." But his blog also condemned sacred Muslim rituals like fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. He mocked Islamic liturgies by saying "there is no God but the human being." He also posted his opinions on Coptic blogs - set up by the remnant of Egypt's pre-Islamic Christian community - which made him a target for accusations of heresy and apostasy. In November Kareem was detained, interrogated...
...site, Kareem introduces himself as a 22-year-old law student studying in Al Azhar University, one of the oldest colleges in the world, soliciting his readers help against all forms of discrimination. In truth, Kareem had been expelled from the university in 2006 after clashing with the school's conservative administration. Azhar officials considered his blog writings too critical of the school and its religious scholars. Kareem then had difficulty enrolling in another law school. Describing his distaste for his Al Azhar University experience he wrote last October about the religiously-run instution's "infiltration of public life...
Russell had Cousy. Kareem had Magic. And it was always Stockton to Malone.The deadly point-to-center combo historically produces basketball’s greatest.But a couple of guards from Harvard University are looking to change this fate.Meet captain shooting guard Jim Goffredo and sophomore point guard Drew Housman: the Ivy League version of basketball’s dynamic duo.With the captain knocking down threes while looking to lead the team in scoring, and the young point guard creating and distributing, the two seem poised to spark the Crimson—with backcourt dominance.“We potentially have...
...seem just to want their country back, from the insurgents and from the Americans. In the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, locals drove around as if the entire town were taking part in a wedding procession, putting flowers on their cars and thrusting guns into the air. Mohammed Kareem, 36, spoke of a simple hope--"to live a peaceful life." Despite al-Zarqawi's death, that aspiration, as even President Bush would concede, may take years to achieve. The challenge for Bush is to convince Americans as well as Iraqis like Kareem that patience deserves to be a virtue...