Balkan or Greek? All having fun.
CEVRİYE HANIM - YENİ TÃœRKÃœ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTRK78x9tI

Next time you ask where the moderate Muslims are, be careful, you may be a Colonialist â„¢. In case you had the niggling feeling that "Those women who voluntarily choose the veil are different. They seek to provoke, to intimidate," put it on pause. Be doubly careful if the following sounds like having a ring of truth:
" Muslim women who veil in Western societies violate all these norms. They are being immodest and invasive. They will succeed only in creating hostility. To every woman who decides to walk out the door looking like Batman and then complains of being ridiculed, I say, you are inviting it. Bear it or shed it."
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2007/08/be_careful_you_just_might_be_a_colonialist.php


Muslim-Refusnik= Young Canadian Muslim woman Irshad Manji leds discussion groups

AZRA AKÅ AMIJA


http://www.mit.edu/~azra/Weavings.htm

So called "dress mosque" Dirndlmoschee from German newspaper DIE ZEIT
Dirndlmoschee [ Dirndl Dress Mosque ]

Based on the concept of the Nomadic Mosque (see Nomadic Mosque project description) the premise the Dirndlmoschee is the nomadic principle of assimilating certain characteristics of a place into one’s own context, whereas a mutual enrichment is achieved. The Dirndl, a traditional Austrian dress, is still worn in the every day life in some places in Austria, such as in the little town of Strobl at the Wolfgang Lake. The Dirndlmoschee can be transformed into an Islamic prayer environment that provides a prayer space for three people. The dirndl’s apron is made out of a water-resistant material that can be unfolded into three connected prayer rugs. In the mosque configuration, the traditional shoulder scarf opens up into a veil. The silk decoration at the scarf edge playfully references a person’s hair, which is actually hidden by the veil. The belt carries a compass with a carabineer attached, from which prayer beets on ropes are hanging. The prayer beets are decorated with Swiss knifes, locally found souvenirs from which the crosses were not removed, but re-symbolized as a decoration. The project involved a prayer performance in various public spaces, as well as a communication with local Turkish immigrants. Although not willing to participate in the prayer, the Turkish women showed interest in the Dirndlmoschee as a product. The project video documents my daily prayer at the symposium site, - unfolding of the wearable mosque and the prayer on the pre-existing landscape sculpture in shape of concentric circles, which can be understood as a reference to Mecca. I juxtaposed this situation with the scenes of the famous unfolding renaissance Pacher Altar located in the neighborhood town of St.Wolfgang, which I filmed during a rare closing procedure for a church concert.






http://blog.zeit.de/joerglau/2007/11/02/die-dirndlmoschee-ist-da_874

was a chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, exhibited from 1770 for over 84 years, by various owners, as an automaton but later explained in January 1857 as an elaborate hoax. Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress the Empress Maria Theresa, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard once and only once.

Publicly promoted as an automaton and given its common name based on its appearance, the Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to operate the machine. With a skilled operator, the Turk won most of the games played during its demonstrations around Europe and the Americas for nearly 84 years until its destruction by fire in 1854, playing and defeating many challengers including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/12/turk-chess-automaton-hoax.html

Libralady, thanks for sharing such a nice article!!

TRT-TSM-Koro-Akşam olur sabah olur yar gelmez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcZEJ0WKlnQ&feature=related

Like to know,thanks.
Uşşak Oyun Havası-Beste:ŞÃ¼krü TUNAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqgSIDyRYI&feature=related

Truly sentimental:

Yahya GEYLAN-Gittiğin günden beri


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxMD88jIqDE

I am outraged. How is this possible, a country (USA) who used to say that a person was innocent until proven guilty.
Al Jazeera International comes from England, the TV station is available in all of Europe, but evidently not in the US. Freedom of press, freedom of speech... And the country which imprisones innocent people for years, under torture, has the nerve to critisize others about "human rights".


An Al Jazeera cameraman held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay for six years without charge has been released, the network said on Thursday.

Sudanese-born Sami al-Haj, who suffered health problems after a long hunger strike, arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum early on Friday aboard a U.S. military plane, the Qatar-based broadcaster said.

The Pentagon was not immediately available for comment, but a senior U.S. defense official in Washington speaking on condition of anonymity said: "He's not being released. He's being transferred to the Sudanese government."

Al Jazeera said Haj was seized by Pakistani intelligence officers while traveling near the Afghan border in December 2001, despite holding a legitimate visa to work for Al Jazeera's Arabic channel in Afghanistan.

Haj, who had been accused of making videos of Osama bin Laden, was handed to the U.S. military in January 2002 but was never charged or brought to trial, the network said.

"His detention for six years, without the most basic due process, is a grave injustice and represents a threat to all journalists working in conflict areas," said Joel Simon, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

Hunger strike:

Al Jazeera said Haj had been on a hunger strike since January 2007 and had been force-fed through his nose twice a day while strapped down.

Sudan's Justice Minister Abdel Basit Sabderat said Washington had already had enough time to produce any evidence against Haj and that Khartoum had no plans of holding him.

"As minister of justice I am not aware of any accusations against Sami al-Haj ... that would stand between him and his freedom," he told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera showed footage of Haj being carried to hospital in a stretcher and said two other Sudanese were also released.

"We have to be happy but also sad over our brothers (still being held)," Haj told Al Jazeera by telephone. He accused Guantanamo authorities of repeated violations of the Muslim prisoners' religious sensitivities.

Haj's attorney, Zachary Katznelson, said: "We don't believe there is any reason that would justify detaining Sami in Sudan even for one single day."

Wadah Khanfar, Al Jazeera's director general who is in Khartoum to welcome Haj, accused the U.S. military of urging the cameraman to spy on the operations at the network.

"We are concerned about the way the Americans dealt with Sami, and we are concerned about the way they could deal with others as well," he said in a report on the Al Jazeera website. "Sami will continue with Al Jazeera."

BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped and held for months in the Gaza strip, wrote to Haj last year to express his support and thank the cameraman for an appeal he made to the Gaza kidnappers to release him.

Haj made a public appeal to Johnston's kidnappers in March last year, saying: "While the United States has kidnapped me and held me for years on end, this is not a lesson that Muslims should copy."There are several hundred detainees at Guantanamo. The first prisoners arrived nearly six years ago after the United States began what U.S. President George W. Bush called a war on terrorism in response to the Sept. 11 attacks by bin Laden's al Qaeda network in 2001

Thousands more deaths expected in Myanmar
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/05/asia/cyclone.php

http://www.medievidenskab-odense.dk/index.php?id=56