Young Man Wisdom

  Two days ago I heard in the news that someone managed to throw a shoe on the Sudanese president Mr. Al Bashir. He did not manage to hit him with the show as BBC Arabic revealed. At first, Sudanese officials tried to deny the whole story but later on they admit incident had happened but stated that the person who throw the shoe is not insane. While many people and commentator believe this is not the case, I believe the guy is insane. No one would risk throwing a shoe on a middle eastern President unless you are insane. What happened in Iraq by Montazir Al Zaidi is different, he throw his shoes on President Bush, not Al Maliki. This reminded me of the popular joke in the middle state which say  An American said to a guy from the middle east “ we have freedom of speech in the state and you do not have that in ME” to prove his point, the American went to the white house infront of G.W. Bush and start shouting “Down, Down Bush”. The Middle eastern guy replied “ who told you that I

The last couple of weeks were very exciting in Sudan now that the elections are just around the corner. The main headlines in Sudan are about parties nominations for the presidential elections. The National Congress Party candidate was well known for everyone from the beginning! The surprise is when Omer Albasher had to resign from heading the Military, which personally I did not expect him to comply with changes implied by the election committee. This puts Silva in a corner, as he would not leave the SPLM Army at any circumstances specially with the current tribal conflict in the South. This could be the reason why SPLM put forward Yassir Arman as its candidate for the presidential elections. This means SPLM still interested in politics of the north and not only south Sudan. by choosing Arman(Arab northern) it applies to most of the base in the north and the south at the same time. It is better not to have an Arab Muslim Candidate(Bashir) vs Southern Christian Candidate(Silva) wh