Here's How Arab Papers Reacted to the 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre. If you thought the Arab world celebrated the attack on Charlie Hebdo as a blow against blasphemers, some Arab-language newspapers tell a different story.
Many newspapers across the Arab world have published cartoons expressing solidarity and support with the French satirical newspaper, much those published by Western cartoonists just hours after the attack. But cartoonists find themselves in a difficult position: Despite the alleged wave of democratization that swept the region during the Arab Spring, free expression is still very much in danger across the region.
"Nearly four years later, many people are still watching their step," Israel's YNet newspaper writes. "Authoritarian rule has returned to many Arab countries while the rise of Islamic State militants who have seized large areas of Iraq and Syria also poses dangers to anyone who dares to debate religion. " Friends: Chandler, Joey, Ross, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe—which friends were closest on the sitcom? The One Where Slate Runs the Numbers on Friends Click a Friend to Add or Remove 9.5 percent of all scenes (280 total) had all six friends in them.
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Monster 15-inch rat terrorises Swedish family after chewing through CONCRETE wall. A 15-inch 'Viking rat' caught in a suburb to the Swedish capitalFamily got suspicious when their cat refused to go into the kitchenGiant rodent had gnawed its way in and was living behind the dishwasher By Sara Malm Published: 11:54 EDT, 26 March 2014 | Updated: 13:09 EDT, 26 March 2014 A Swedish family suffered the shock of a lifetime when they discovered that the 'kitchen mouse' that had their cat running around in circles was in fact a gigantic monster rat.
The Bengtsson-Korsås family first noticed something was wrong when their cat Enok refused to enter the kitchen in their flat in Solna, north-west Stockholm. The rat measured 15 inches, without its tail, and had made it into the family’s flat by gnawing a tunnel between a wooden panel and concrete. If the Moon Was Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system. Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto(we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Everything Wrong With America In One Simple Image (INFOGRAPHIC) When a country places more importance on sports than on academic achievement, its decline is inevitable.
The American Decline is real and this is where it comes from. America The Stupid courtesy of WTHR-TV This is why intelligence and knowledge is disparaged in the country that reached the Moon. These days, intellectuals are mocked as “faggy” and unmanly as if brute strength somehow contributed to the technical prowess, economic agility and innovation that made America a superpower. This is why our politics are a disaster.
This is where the Steubenville and countless other sports town rapes comes from, the vast majority of which are covered up and ignored. Bread and Circuses brought Rome to its knees.
Snus. Global Internet Porn Habits Infographic. Norwegian Newspaper Dagbladet Sparks Outrage with 'Blood Libel' Cartoon. "Blood libel" cartoon in Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
Photo: Dagbladet. Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet, has sparked outrage after publishing a cartoon “blood libel” Tuesday. Norway’s third largest newspaper, published the cartoon, in which a modestly dressed woman can be seen holding a blood soaked book and telling law enforcement officers: “Mistreating? No this is tradition, an important part of our belief”! A bearded man wearing a hat and black coat on the left holding another book, has stabbed a child in the head with a Devil’s pitchfork while another hand is cutting off the toes of the child with a wire cutter, apparently mocking the practice of circumcision.
The officers who are present, appear to be permitting the ritual to continue. “We call upon Norway’s leaders to denounce this incitement to hate and especially urge the Ombudsman for Children’s Rights to denounce this outrageous denigration of a core Jewish rite dating back to the biblical times of Abraham,” Cooper added. Kelvin Okafor Art.
Morsomt. Astrobiologists discover fossils in meteorite fragments, confirming extraterrestrial life. Researchers in the United Kingdom have found algae-like fossils in meteorite fragments that landed in Sri Lanka last year.
This is the strongest evidence yet of cometary panspermia — that life on Earth began when a meteorite containing simple organisms landed here, billions of years ago — and, perhaps more importantly, that there’s life elsewhere in the universe. In December 2012, a fireball was seen over the skies of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Over the following few days, fragments of the fireball were collected and sent to Sri Lanka’s Medical Research Institute, where initial microscopic analysis revealed siliceous microalgae known as diatoms.
As you can imagine, with this being the first ever evidence that life might’ve arrived on Earth via a meteorite, the scientific community was skeptical of the results — and so some fragments were sent to Cardiff University in Wales for further analysis.