Ask About Life, Blogging and Linux in the Middle East

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 28, 2006 @04:00AM from the get-the-local-scoop-by-talking-to-the-locals dept.

Isam Bayazidi is about as far from the current U.S. media stereotype of an Arab as you can get. He's worked on the Arabeyes (Unix/Linux in Arabic) project, helped start the Arabic Wikipedia, co-founded the Jordan LUG, is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), works as a senior software developer for Maktoob, an online community that boasts more than four million members, and created Jordan Planet, a blogging community whose members have many different religious and political viewpoints. Isam is also a long-time Slashdot reader, so he's the perfect person to ask what's going on in the Arab (cyber)world today. One question per post please. Isam will answer 12 of the highest-moderated questions. We'll run his answers verbatim as soon as he gets them back to us.

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question by Adult+film+producer · 2006-02-28 04:06 · Score: -1, Troll

Does the muslim/arabic edition of wikipedia include an article with the mohammad/allah cartoons? (pics included.) Shouldn't there be a research/educational clause in that whole 'we can't depict images of our gods' rule or are all muslims/arabs completely irrational? There are athiest arabs right?