And then are fit for ridicule.

The US position was a travesty.

adamakary Interesting that PopeShenouda chose to be buried at the same place he lived in house arrest under Sadat for almost 4 yrs, Pishoi monastery

It became a sharp ethical difference, which could no longer be bridged with humour or even sarcasm.

Egyptian Ibrahim Elgarhi takes the opportunity to poke fun at his country's own president saying

To say that rice is worse than sugar is simply ludicrous.

Many Egyptians used the opportunity to joke about their own revolution, like Gepril Thuwaiba who tweets

Egyptian netizens would not let the opportunity slip without poking fun at the poster bonanza.

which is ridiculous, of course, but that's one of the excuses that managers give.

Ironically, Bob Hoffman, the owner of York Barbell, had been a long time adversary of the sport.

The hypocritical and shameless attitude of this Government, which claims to be the champion of anti terrorism, is laughable.

Adding substance to their mockery are allegations that the photograph of a monkey that Iran supposedly sent into space is also a fake.

When Anonymous International hijacked Medvedev's Twitter account, it lampooned precisely this pipe dream.

The lives of those people had become a metaphor, as well as a reality, of misery and injustice, in which the concept of home was a travesty.

Investors naturally respond to unsustainable debt by selling bonds until interest rates become ridiculous.

Others believed that Banksy sided with Assad, and condemned him for mocking a resistance that began with freedom graffiti.

And the ironic thing about it is that they are not staving off the aquatic theory to protect a theory of their own, which they've all agreed on, and they love.

Nothing reflects this better than how protection and protectionists have become terms of derision.

And of course, looking at this lion paw that has been skinned, it eerily reminds me of a human hand, and that's ironic, because their fate is in our hands.

That the advocates of unconditional privatization are now crying out for state support would be cause for cynical laughter if the danger were not as big as it is.

These two events have rendered Putin s regime not only illegitimate, but also ridiculous.

Ironically, the Public Order Act was a piece of legislation that the Zambian President had to contend with as an opposition leader.

Vestiges of these markings remain Ajax of Amsterdam is still taunted by provincial opponents as the Jew club.

Rajib blogged under the alias Thaba Baba on various blogs, including one which satirized religion.

Other actors have played the character in fan created media, and the character has been the subject of multiple spoofs and satires.

It seems to me to be such a plausible, natural extension of the democratic principles we already have, that I'm shocked to think anybody would find that just ridiculous.

Australia s great drought this past year has similarly made a mockery of Howard s dismissive attitude toward climate change.

Praying over a destroyed Russian tank is funny but it carries a bitter metaphor about the Afghans and their perception of the Soviet War in Afghanistan.

The authors state that Maria on several cases came home from school and said that she had been teased because her family did not believe in God.

Already, Libya s leader, Muammar al Gaddafi, and Qatar television preacher Sheikh Qaradawi have been ridiculed for putting an Arab or Islamist spin on events in Tunisia.

If this rhetoric sounds familiar, it's because it has affected the old continent, when in times of crisis, in a cyclical pattern for centuries.

It is monumentally ironic since the Pope did not come here to see only true, the good and the beautiful . The Pope came here to hear about the problems of the poor and marginalized.

Park claimed his retweets were a joke made to lampoon the North Korean regime and explained that the misunderstanding rose from reading his tweets out of context.

When French and German leaders complained that the sprawling and unregulated tentacles of new finance posed huge risks to the global economy, they were derided as sore losers.

As president and especially as prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev has been the butt of many jokes in Russia, where political observers have predicted his resignation since he took office. Medvedev has a reputation for clumsy, sometimes even foolish public appearances.

One gets the impression that some ruthless force from outside the city very cynically exploited the pro Russian Odessans, using them not so much as a human shield as cannon fodder. Outsiders.

The fact that science is finding connections between women s sexual experience and their emotions and perception should not be cause for mockery, but for curiosity and respectful investigation of the facts.

As there is not much space in such thinking for individual moral action, social critics are often ridiculed as naive moralists or elitists.

Various fake Twitter accounts of Mubarak, his family (Suzanne Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak and his wife Khadija), and his regime (Fathi Sorour, Safwat El Sharif and Ahmed Nazif) have also been created to make fun of them.

While many Iranians (possibly including the military) have taken to Facebook to excitedly promote the Qaher 313, many bloggers view the image as an opportunity to mock the Tehran regime.

The Museum of Bad Art happens to embody this trend, and further illustrates its central aim to mock the judgment system by which people identify what is bad from what is not.

Confronting the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991, former EU Council President Jacques Poos made his famous but now derided statement This is the hour of Europe not the hour of the Americans.

In a united effort, a major crisis that would have openly divided the Union for years to come and which would have made Europe a global laughingstock was averted.

In these circumstances, ridiculous results flow from a failure to recognize the applicability of LOAC IHL, at least where the State has not derogated.

Then there was the Palestinian election of 2006 Promoting democracy generates ridicule when it extends only to elections that produce palatable winners, as Gaza s vote for Hamas did not.