After less than 8 months of Adnan Badran’s goverment being formed…

Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit and his 23-member Cabinet — mandated with political and socio-economic reform as well as a tougher anti-terror fight — were sworn-in Sunday before His Majesty King Abdullah.

Also Sunday, a Royal Decree summoned Parliament to convene in an ordinary session on Thursday, December 1st.

The two events set the stage for long-awaited action by the executive and legislature on advancing the country’s democratic process and energising its economy.

The new government, as constitutionally stipulated, will first have to seek a vote of confidence by the 110-member Parliament, which has been on a summer recess.

The Cabinet, a mixture of technocrats and politicians, includes nine ministers who served in the former Cabinet of Adnan Badran, four public figures who previously held ministerial posts and 10 newcomers representing public and private sector as well as the civil service.

Key appointments indicate that the government’s list of priorities entail overhauling the public sector and pushing forth with the country’s National Agenda, that is to set the course for the Kingdom for the next 10 years.

It is also seen as one that will protect the country from terror attacks, in the wake of the November 9 triple bombings that rocked Amman and killed 60 people.

“The evil terrorist attacks on our beloved capital Amman will increase our determination to move forward in our preemptive war against terrorism and the culture of apostasy,” Bakhit, 58, said in a letter to the King following the swearing-in ceremony.

Source: JordanTimes

I got this by email earlier today and I thought it’s definitely worth blogging. Someone gathered a list of webpages with The Holy Qur’an in 9 non-arabic languages. While I may not be sure of how accurate these translations are, I think it is quite good work by whoever collected the list.

• English Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• French Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• German Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• Italian Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• Japanese Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• Russian Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• Spanish Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• Finnish Translations of The Holy Qur’an
• Dutch Translations of The Holy Qur’an

“Saying something is easy, but being heard is the challenge!”, I just made this up by the way!
I think this is what huda tv is all about. I really enjoy their 100% english spoken live shows. It’s a great new Islamic channel; it’s different from anything else you see today.
Good news for muslims whom their kids speaks little arabic!

To visit Huda TV’s new website Click Here

To watch huda tv, below is it’s frequency and information:

TP 11747 Vertical
SR 27500
3/4
Nilesat

*** We are not Huda tv staff…

Good shot taken for the real Zarqawi..

credits to mahjoob.com

And, The Search Engine with the Best Results is … Hey, why don’t you see for yourself? I thought this was really cool and worth sharing, the results you see on that website are not pre-judged by specific search results, they’re judged by people’s votes.

We’ve received many requests to add the video for the song -Ya 3amman- here in JordanFirst.com. So, here it is everyone.
I want to thank the makers of the song Ya 3amman, it’s a great song done in a very short time!! good job guys, really well done!

High Quality Video 5.9 MB
Low Quality Video 3.9 MB

The family and tribe of al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, disowned him Sunday in a large newspaper advertisement.

Local Jordanian newspapers published a large advertised statement addressed to King Abdullah II and signed by 76 members of the Khalayleh family of the prominent Bani Hassan clan, from which Zarqawi hails.

The statement, which included the signature of Zarqawi’s brother, Sayel Fadeel Nazzal Khalayleh, and his cousins, pledged allegiance to the Jordanian monarch and denounced “all terrorist acts claimed by Ahmad Fadeel Khalayleh,” Zarqawi’s real name.

It added the Khalayleh family renounces him, his acts and statements, insisting that “anyone who dares to carry out such acts against our Jordan has no links to Jordan and did not drink from its water; therefore, we disown him until the day of judgment.”

The statement came two days after an audio-tape attributed to Zarqawi’s voice on an Islamic website threatened to strike against Jordan and its king again, warning Muslims against going to “immoral hotels,” foreign embassies and military installations.

Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for suicide attacks in three Amman hotels on Nov. 9 that killed 59 people and injured 100 others.

Zarqawi’s Bani Hassan clan, one of the largest Jordanian tribes, disowned him two years ago as he was being tried in absentia for terror-related activities in the kingdom, in which he was sentenced to death.

Source: United Press International

Jordanians disowned him, his own family disowned him, it’s time for the rest of the world to wake up and disown him as well, and that by refusing all forms of terrorism. Do NOT wait until terrorism hits your life, do NOT think it’s too far from possible, I know some Jordanians thought it was, but I believe most Jordanians are now convinced that we have to fight back terrorism.

Thousands of Jordanians meet again, now in downtown Amman.

Click here to see pictures taken minutes ago, from JTV

The mother of the bride, whose wedding was devastated in the Amman suicide bombings, died of her wounds in a coma on Thursday.

Hala al-Faroukah died due to severe injuries to her spinal cord, which stopped her respiratory system from functioning, said a doctor at Amman Surgical Hospital, speaking on condition of anonymity. She was in her late 50s.

Her death brings the number of people killed in the November 9 attacks at three Amman hotels to 62, including the three bombers. Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terror group led by the Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Al-Faroukah was wounded in the attack at the Radisson SAS hotel where an Iraqi, identified as Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, walked into the ballroom during a wedding party and detonated a belt of explosives. The blast killed her husband, Khaled al-Alami, immediately, and caused the greatest number of casualties of the three hotel bombings.

The bride and groom, Ashraf and Nadia Akhras, survived the explosion without injury. But 17 relatives of Ashraf were killed, including his father, and Nadia lost 11 family members, including her parents.

Ashraf Akhras said Thursday that al-Faroukah had been in a coma since she was admitted to the hospital shortly after the attack.

She died at dawn Thursday, he told The Associated Press. He and his wife had visited her in the hospital Wednesday night.

The Radisson hotel bomber’s wife, Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, was arrested Sunday. She confessed on television that she tried to detonate her own explosives belt, but it failed and she fled the scene.

Source: Associated Press

A tribute to all those who died in Jordan’s 9/11, I’d like to say that We will never forget you… May God bless your souls and let you rest in peace.

Download the flash movie.

Today, the tear I thought that dried, came out again, I was watching mbc, they were broadcasting a program about late Mustafa Al-Akkad, listening to him while he was speaking about his dreams, I was deeply touched and saddened.

Mustafa Al-Akkad as most of you know was working on making a high budget hit movie about SALAH-ADDIN, the reason that he chose SALAH-ADDIN is because he wanted to show the world that Jerusalem is an Arabic city 100%. Such films can be a very straight to the point shortcut for all Muslims and Arabs to prove a point for the west. The movie that never saw the light I believe was a chance that we might never get again to prove for the west that Jerusalem is an Arabic city, period.
Making a movie is much different than writing a book, because let’s say that a very distinguished author wanted to write a book about Jerusalem. Who will read it? Only those who are either interested or curious about the History of Jerusalem or SALAH-ADDIN will read the book! Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t underestimate the value of books, because in this case eventually the movie will tell the story that this presumed book wanted to tell! So, late Mustafa Al-Akkad wanted to combine the power of the story with the power of movies. Then not only those who are interested or curious in Jerusalem’s history & SALAH-ADDIN will see the movie, the movie will be seen all over the world! The story that we wanted to tell will be heard by millions all over the world. Too bad this will not happen.

What did those murderers, those bastards achieve, or want to prove?!!
Only blinds can’t tell white from black!

May peace be on your soul Mustafa Al-Akkad, a true Muslim, a true Arab hero! A real Arab knight!! May God let you rest in peace and live forever in heaven.

Click on the image below to watch or download the last video part of the program about late Mustafa Al-Akkad.

For all the people who watched the news & never visited Jordan, I’ve arranged 3 links for you to see the Satellite Latest Images of the three hotels in Amman which were targeted with the Bombings last wednesday.

In order for the following satellite images to be viewed, you need to have Google® Earth installed on your PC:

Radisson SAS Amman Hotel

Grand Hyatt Amman Hotel

Days Inn Amman Hotel