Seeking longterm partnership + university website (Russian companies) | Elance Job
We are a digital agency located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We are looking for a website development company who will handle all our future web development projects here on. We already have a long track record on Elance for a variety of projec…
Category: IT & Programming > Website Design
Type and Budget: Fixed price (Not Sure) Escrow
Time Left: 59 d, 22 h (Ends Feb 21, 2013 15:44 pm ET)
Start Date: Dec 23, 2012
Proposals: 0
Client: uday05 (75 jobs posted, 35% awarded, $6,036 total purchased, Payment Method Verified)
Client Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Preferred Job Location: Russia
Desired Skills: HTML PHP WordPress
Job ID: 36269062
Seeking longterm partnership + university website (Belgium companies) | Elance Job
We are a digital agency located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We are looking for a website development company who will handle all our future web development projects here on. We already have a long track record on Elance for a variety of projec…
Category: IT & Programming > Website Design
Type and Budget: Fixed price (Not Sure) Escrow
Time Left: 59 d, 23 h (Ends Feb 21, 2013 15:45 pm ET)
Start Date: Dec 23, 2012
Proposals: 0
Client: uday05 (75 jobs posted, 35% awarded, $6,036 total purchased, Payment Method Verified)
Client Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Preferred Job Location: Belgium
Desired Skills: HTML PHP WordPress
Job ID: 36269085
Seeking longterm partnership + university website (Jordanian companies) | Elance Job
We are a digital agency located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We are looking for a website development company who will handle all our future web development projects here on. We already have a long track record on Elance for a variety of projec…
Category: IT & Programming > Website Design
Type and Budget: Fixed price (Not Sure) Escrow
Time Left: 14 d, 23 h (Ends Jan 7, 2013 15:45 pm ET)
Start Date: Dec 23, 2012
Proposals: 2 (High $450, Low $450, Avg $450)
Client: uday05 (75 jobs posted, 35% awarded, $6,036 total purchased, Payment Method Verified)
Client Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Preferred Job Location: Jordan
Desired Skills: HTML PHP WordPress
Job ID: 36269120
Twitter Gives Muslims A Voice, A (Seriously) Funny Voice #MuslimRage
I’m having such a good hair day. No one even knows. #MuslimRage
— Hend (@LibyaLiberty) September 17, 2012
Muslims found an unlikely opening to voice their opposition to mainstream stereotypes, exploiting a social media misstep by Newsweek‘s inflammatory cover on Muslim violence. In response to Newsweek‘s call to discuss the problem of violent muslim intolerance through the Twitter hashtag, #muslimrage, clever users flooded the discussion with (hilarious) parodies, like this gem: “Lost your kid Jihad at the airport. Can’t yell for him. #MuslimRage.” The now viral parody has punctured the mainstream wall of negative press to give an otherwise silent majority a (seriously) funny voice.
After widespread violent protests throughout the Arab world sparked by an offensive YouTube video of the prophet Muhammad, op-eds began pouring out of the nation’s pre-eminent media outlets questioning whether Islam was compatible with democratic tolerance. Op-eds ranged from the transparently hawkish Fox News (“It’s Time To Wake Up And Smell The Global Jihad“) to the historically nuanced Washington Post (“Why Is The Arab World So Easily Offended?”).
Newsweek attempted to capitalize on the discussion with an over-the-top all-caps cover, “MUSLIM RAGE”, but the overwhelming hilarity of the tweets broke Newsweek‘s grip on their own conversation.
Welcome to the new digital age @newsweek. Your attempts to use #MuslimRage to discuss your foul cover has become funniest joke on twitter. — Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) September 17, 2012
The unmistakably 21st century coup reveals that every-so-often social media can be far more representative than the traditional media outlets historically charged with reflecting a nation’s voice. For kicks, we’ve included a few more priceless #muslimrage tweets below:
Orders pancakes at IHOP, came with a side of bacon. #MuslimRage — Hamza Giron (@HamzaGiron) September 17, 2012
When there’s no prayer room in a mall #MuslimRage — S.Amirah (@MirCaius) September 17, 2012
Finding out marshmallows aren’t halal then questioning every rice krispy treat you ever ate. #MuslimRage — Meg Hixson (@MegHixson) September 17, 2012
Television ‘experts’ saying Iran is an “Arab” country.#MuslimRage — Juan Cole (@jricole) September 17, 2012
The Dark Knight Rises came out in Ramadan #muslimrage — Fatima(@oh_my_golly) September 17, 2012
When a “female assist” is called before I even walk through the metal detector. #muslimrage
— Dalia Mogahed (@DMogahed) September 17, 2012
The rest is here: Twitter Gives Muslims A Voice, A (Seriously) Funny Voice #MuslimRage
Radical Transparency 1, Britain 0: Assange Granted Asylum
Techno-anarchist Julian Assange has been granted asylum by Ecuador, guaranteeing his bleak safety in their dark UK embasssy against British authorities who are salivating to extradite the Wikileaks editor to Sweden where he faces charges of sexual assault. Despite threats to be raided by British authorities, Ecuador remained defiant in their defense, which has caused it to become the epicenter of a political carnival outside their humble embassy. “We remind the public that these extraordinary actions are being taken to detain a man who has not been charged with any crime in any country,” they said in a statement. “We further urge the U.K. government to show restraint, and to consider the dire ramifications of any violation of the elementary norms of international law.”
Being public enemy number 1 has its downsides: Assange is held up in the back of the embassy as security guards eagerly wait to arrest him as soon as he steps foot outside the legal boundary between Ecuador and the UK. “He can’t get outside to see the sun,” said his mother, Christine Assange, in a heartwarming interview that shows mothers will be mothers, whether it be in the face of a teenage breakup or an international political standoff , “I’m worried about his health, as I would be for anybody who is having to stay indoors and not get exercise and have sunlight.”
Wikileaks has faced serious setbacks, losing top employees and its ability to easily collect donations. The latter is especially important, as Assange claims he needs a whopping $3.5 million to run the site. Other media outlets, such as the Wall Street Journal, have attempted to build their own leak sites, with little success.
To some, Assange is a hero of transparency who helped spark the Arab Spring, a string of Middle-East revolutions resulting in political coups in Tunisia, Egypt, Lybia and Yemen. Famed hacker contingent, Anonymous tweeted:
#BREAKING: Ecuador has accepted Julian#Assange‘s request for asylum. |#Wikileaks |#OpProtectAssange— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) August 16, 2012
To others, he’s a vigilante undermining diplomatic efforts and endangering covert intelligence sources. Whatever your position on Wikileaks, today’s ruling is a step towards a more open world. Radical transparency 1, Britain 0.
Original post: Radical Transparency 1, Britain 0: Assange Granted Asylum