Hundreds of people are feared to have died after an Egyptian ferry carrying about 1,400 people sank in the Red Sea. [Read full story]

It is indeed a sad day, may their souls rest in peace الله يرحمهم . I hope that authorities will investigate the tragedy and hold those responsible accountable for the horrific incident.

Hamzeh (The Scatter Load) wrote a very interesting post concerning our media and people’s reaction to the incident:

These are just three screen shots that I took right now while browsing the internet. The first is from the home page of Al Jazeera, the second is from the home page of Al Arabiya, and the third is from an online Jordanian forum for politics. Notice that none of these screen shots (taken just a few minutes ago today) mention the tragedy of the Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea yesterday while carrying more than 1300 people, more than 900 of which are now feared dead. [Continue...]

Sigh

I don’t blame the media when, as Hamzeh pointed out by giving a Jordanian politics forum as an example, people are so thrilled about the burnings of the embassy of the country in which a so called writer and artist, who is in fact nobody, said stupid things about the Prophet and Islam and drew few pictures (yup, a very long and undeserved description of a nobody who was made a freedom hero by some of us) as if the more we scare the hell out people and sound so pathetically aggressive the closer we are to God. Who told them God don’t care about his people??