Facebook Insulting Islam?!

Facebook is a cool international community where friends can meet and catch up ... Where people from all walks of life can get to know each other and make friends ... but what happens when religious issues pop up?
It's ok, as long as each keeps his/her limits ... respects all religions and all beliefs ... but when people start insulting each other and coming up with groups targeting a certain religion, that's when it all crosses the red line!
It becomes a bigger problem when this happens on one of the fastest growing social networking websites like Facebook!

Where Are The Real Arabs?

I usually write to inform you about the latest celebrity news. However, after the both overwhelming and disgusting response to yesterday’s article about Star Academy contestant Shatha Hassoun, I think a history lesson is in order.

After the collapse of the last great Islamic Empire (which while called Islamic was home to Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians also), what remained of the crumbling Umayyad Empire fled to Cordoba, in Spain. The Mongols had Arab nation with deep divides, and easily defeated them. But the Arabs in Spain; for 150 years there was a golden age in which Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arab scholars lay down the basis of the math that we use today (Algebra, etc.) and translated the lost works of Ancient Greece. However, just like the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in Baghdad, the emirs of Arab Spain (Al Andalus) began to quarrel and split up Southern Spain into little kingdoms.

We are Time Magazine's Person of The Year!

Congratulations! We are Time Magazine's Person of the Year! Yepee!
We at Waleg.com are part of the ever growing community of 'Citizen's of Digital Democracy'.
We use the web everyday, we create content & we send messages across to the whole world by clicking! ... Working hard has actually paid off!
And You ... Yes, You are also part of this fantastic community ... You might not be adding to the content of the web but you are using it in your daily life ... Thus, you are also Person of the Year! Congratulations!

WALEG is For Everyone

In the past few days, some of WALEG readers particularly Lebanese were posting irrelevant comments on articles that have nothing to do with the sad incidents that are currently taking place in Lebanon.

Despite our sadness and all our emotions that go out to the Lebanese people, and our admiration to our Lebanese readers patriotism to their country; WALEG.com remains a website for everyone covering news from all over the world. We are not a Lebanese website neither are we based in Lebanon.

Our articles about American news weren't published with an intention to promote America. They're in the news and there are many readers out there -Americans and non-Americans alike - who are interested in them.

Thank you for your understanding.

Arab Students Abroad

In the past few days, we were really busy and we couldn’t publish new articles on a daily manner as we usually do… and today, checking first emails and recently posted comments, we were really shocked by a comment posted by an Arab student in Canada, specifically in Quebec studying in the University of Laval. The language this student used is an extremely low & obscene language which was directed to us, & was full of swears in Arabic language.

I was once a student who lived outside my country of origin and I was totally comfortable with myself and I spent almost 8 years away from home, during which I never used any such low language towards anybody. However I did meet a number of students who have also traveled away from their countries for the purpose of studying, some of these students were full of rage and anger… they had some trouble like making new friends, passing their exams successfully, etc. Unfortunately, many of them went back home full of disappointment and increased rage and anger after they failed to achieve their goals.