"The one who leaves things to the 11th hour, dies in the 12th."
This is the moral of a short film I watched a while ago. It was about a young Muslim and the difficulties he faced as...a young Muslim. Eventually, with the help of his practising flat-mates, he becomes a better Muslim. The only thing I dislike about it is the britney spears song in one of the scenes..it can be watched online - s'called '11th Hour'.
In other news, I just read this:
Oh What a Lovely Jail
Source: Guardian
Brian Whitaker
Thursday December 16, 2004
Al-Qaida supporters detained in Saudi Arabia have appeared in a television documentary about al-Haer jail, 25 miles south of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and delivered rave reviews of life inside.
"I swear to God, they [the jailers] are nicer than our parents," said Othman al-Amri, once No 21 on the kingdom's list of most-wanted terror suspects.
The programme, broadcast on Saudi television late on Monday, included brief footage from inside the jail, showing clean facilities and beds lined next to one another.
It signalled a new effort by the authorities to encourage militants to give themselves up and to allay suspicions that they would be ill treated if they did so. But persuading them to opt for al-Haer may prove difficult.
In September at least 67 prisoners died and 20 others were injured, along with three guards, when fire swept through part of the jail.
Five British expatriates were detained in al-Haer after being wrongly accused of causing explosions in 2000. The men gave televised confessions, which they later said were extracted after days of sleep deprivation and beatings.
Amnesty International, which has been denied access to Saudi Arabia for years, said it could not be certain about conditions in al-Haer, but "this does on the face of it look like a public relations exercise".
"Reports of torture in Saudi prisons and police stations are common," a spokesman said.
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Rubbish. And even if it isn't, its probably one of few jails in Arabia where the jailers don't torture you on mere suspicion. No no, lemme rephrase, there IS no jail in Arabia where 'militants' are treated like human beings. If you have a firm stomach, you can read about the torture in Saudi prisons and realise the true nature of this 'war on terror'; it ain't only non-Muslim countries who fighting this war.
(The last link's a cached page...highly annoying, I understand...so until I find another link to the same thing, it'll stay..).
This is the moral of a short film I watched a while ago. It was about a young Muslim and the difficulties he faced as...a young Muslim. Eventually, with the help of his practising flat-mates, he becomes a better Muslim. The only thing I dislike about it is the britney spears song in one of the scenes..it can be watched online - s'called '11th Hour'.
In other news, I just read this:
Oh What a Lovely Jail
Source: Guardian
Brian Whitaker
Thursday December 16, 2004
Al-Qaida supporters detained in Saudi Arabia have appeared in a television documentary about al-Haer jail, 25 miles south of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and delivered rave reviews of life inside.
"I swear to God, they [the jailers] are nicer than our parents," said Othman al-Amri, once No 21 on the kingdom's list of most-wanted terror suspects.
The programme, broadcast on Saudi television late on Monday, included brief footage from inside the jail, showing clean facilities and beds lined next to one another.
It signalled a new effort by the authorities to encourage militants to give themselves up and to allay suspicions that they would be ill treated if they did so. But persuading them to opt for al-Haer may prove difficult.
In September at least 67 prisoners died and 20 others were injured, along with three guards, when fire swept through part of the jail.
Five British expatriates were detained in al-Haer after being wrongly accused of causing explosions in 2000. The men gave televised confessions, which they later said were extracted after days of sleep deprivation and beatings.
Amnesty International, which has been denied access to Saudi Arabia for years, said it could not be certain about conditions in al-Haer, but "this does on the face of it look like a public relations exercise".
"Reports of torture in Saudi prisons and police stations are common," a spokesman said.
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Rubbish. And even if it isn't, its probably one of few jails in Arabia where the jailers don't torture you on mere suspicion. No no, lemme rephrase, there IS no jail in Arabia where 'militants' are treated like human beings. If you have a firm stomach, you can read about the torture in Saudi prisons and realise the true nature of this 'war on terror'; it ain't only non-Muslim countries who fighting this war.
(The last link's a cached page...highly annoying, I understand...so until I find another link to the same thing, it'll stay..).
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