01-26-2015, 02:57 PM
(01-25-2015, 02:48 AM)Mohammed Wrote: That neighbour was the second in charge of your Embassy here.
Yes, I recall. If she still works there, your friend may be on sabbatical for a bit, my friend.
Today, the US launched a drone strike in Marib and announced the closing of the US Embassy in Sanaa for the immediate future.
It'll be interesting to see what goes down in the next few months with the changes in leadership in both Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
And, over in Egypt.........during a speech at the iconic university where Muslim clerics have trained for more than a thousand years, President al-Sisi really stirred things up earlier this month. He said: “Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!”
Al-Sisi urged a “religious revolution” in Islam, and called on imams to confront the strain of Islamic thinking that is “antagonizing the entire world.”
“The entire world is waiting for your next move,” he said, “because this umma [Islamic community] is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.”
Whole lotta shaking going on...