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2004-08-30 Israel-Palestine
Jerusalem WiFi has turbans in a twist
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Posted by Seafarious 2004-08-30 2:10:49 PM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 That popping sound you hear is the sound of narrow Paleo minds exploding all over the city after their first viewing of free, uncensored, un-Islamified information for the first time.
Posted by Dar  2004-08-30 2:43:39 PM||   2004-08-30 2:43:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 From Google:

The name, “Al Kuds” is a Hebrew name, taken from the Jewish name for Jerusalem “Ir Ha Kodesh” (the Holy city). Ha Kodesh has “Ha” as an article (in English “the”) and in Arabic “Al” and “Kodesh” which means “Holy” in Hebrew and was adapted as “Kuds” in Arabic. The reason the Arabs adopted the Hebrew name “Al Kuds” is that the first Khalif after the prophet Mohamad, Abu Bakr Al Saddik, who was a Jewish convert, (Saddik is a Hebrew name which means righteous) ordered Khalid Ibn Al Walid to liberate Jerusalem from the Byzantines at the request of the Jews and thus he called it Al Kuds as he was accustomed to call it in Hebrew.

Posted by RN  2004-08-30 2:46:20 PM||   2004-08-30 2:46:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL It's really about access to information. The sad butt wipes in the too tight turbans know to keep the "faithful" on the reservation they got to filter the information. What "international law" does WiFi violate again? Internation Law the refuge of the clueless.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-30 2:50:50 PM||   2004-08-30 2:50:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Oops--guess 'first' was a little redundant.

Does Google say anything about Al Kali, Al Aska, or Al Abama? ;-)
Posted by Dar  2004-08-30 2:51:23 PM||   2004-08-30 2:51:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dar, I think they were the muslim navigators on the Ninja, the Piña Colada, and the Heidy Ho III.
Posted by Seafarious  2004-08-30 2:56:35 PM||   2004-08-30 2:56:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Al Kali = When zinc is dangled in Dead Sea to produce a tingling in one's didgets.

Al Aska = Italian for a technique used in interrogation...but only once.

Al Abama = Previously used to describe a college football power.
Posted by RN  2004-08-30 2:56:36 PM||   2004-08-30 2:56:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 actually it's named after Kudos - the third holiest snack in Islam
Posted by Frank G  2004-08-30 2:57:12 PM||   2004-08-30 2:57:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Um - Because of the homicide dupes who do Yessir-Your-a-fart's bidding, every Isralei Jew has a cell phone. Wireless internet? {snicker}

Can you say Homicide Bomber Alert Blog, monitored by the cops?
Posted by BigEd 2004-08-30 2:59:39 PM||   2004-08-30 2:59:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL - too funny, folks.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-08-30 3:01:41 PM||   2004-08-30 3:01:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 LOL--Where does Al Mond Joy fit in that list, Frank?
Posted by Dar  2004-08-30 3:03:06 PM||   2004-08-30 3:03:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Wot about Al-Abama?
Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-08-30 3:04:12 PM||   2004-08-30 3:04:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL Frank that was good. I don't think this will help or hurt with dupes. They (Paleos) are constantly seeing LLLs from the west and they are the only ones that go there. China's Internet hasn't brought it down and they have complete access (the state blocks some sites). I had a friend that went there recently and they are well informed.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-08-30 3:12:23 PM||   2004-08-30 3:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The name, “Al Kuds” is a Hebrew name, taken from the Jewish name for Jerusalem “Ir Ha Kodesh” (the Holy city). Ha Kodesh has “Ha” as an article (in English “the”) and in Arabic “Al” and “Kodesh” which means “Holy” in Hebrew and was adapted as “Kuds” in Arabic. The reason the Arabs adopted the Hebrew name “Al Kuds” is that the first Khalif after the prophet Mohamad, Abu Bakr Al Saddik, who was a Jewish convert, (Saddik is a Hebrew name which means righteous) ordered Khalid Ibn Al Walid to liberate Jerusalem from the Byzantines at the request of the Jews and thus he called it Al Kuds as he was accustomed to call it in Hebrew.


It is correct that kodesh means holy in hebrew, and quds means holy in arabic, but that does NOT validate the rest of the story. Ive never heard that Bakir was a jew - or that he was called Tsaddik (which does mean righteous or just in Hebrew)- he IS associated with the title Saqifah, a kind of hut, where he first converted to Islam - sounds like folk etymology to me. Please give a source - note well, Google is NOT a source, its a search engine that links you to other sites with which Google has no connection.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-08-30 3:14:40 PM||   2004-08-30 3:14:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Link for Al Kuds info/history

http://www.dangoor.com/75045.html

Posted by RN  2004-08-30 3:17:52 PM||   2004-08-30 3:17:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 (feeling similarly chastised)
al Kali
al Aska
al Abama
al Mond Joy
Posted by Dar  2004-08-30 3:25:55 PM||   2004-08-30 3:25:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 dangoor is a journal founded and edited by the grandson of the Chief rabbi of Baghdad. While im sure hes a terrific guy (never met an Iraqi Jew I didnt like :)) but im not sure his status as an authority on islam. The particular item you quoted is sourced to "Professor Heskel M Haddad, New York " - not sure who he is, where hes a prof, etc.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-08-30 3:28:53 PM||   2004-08-30 3:28:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 turns out hes a medical doctor, NOT a professor, though he IS published on the history of Jews in Arab countries, especially Iraq, and on the history of their descendants in Israel and the US. No particular expertise in early Islamic history. Just a nice guy, doing a folk etymology, as far as I can see.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-08-30 3:31:34 PM||   2004-08-30 3:31:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Left out what used to be my favorite place:
al Kahal
Posted by Pappy 2004-08-30 10:23:41 PM||   2004-08-30 10:23:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 What about everyone's favorite mullah, Al-Bundi?
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-08-30 11:37:31 PM||   2004-08-30 11:37:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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