Many of the readers and commenters have been complaining about malicious comments posted by a small number of commenters and such comments (usually with offensive language or contain a lot of hatred and racism) result in disrupting the discussion and we end up going in off-topic sterile loops of rhetoric.

So in order to keep the comment section of this blog as a healthy environment for civilized and productive discussions we would need to keep an eye on the section and remove harmful posts but since neither I or Mohammed have enough time to do this and because of the time difference with the majority of the readers who live across the Atlantic, we have sought help from some of our friends and they have accepted to give us a hand, and for that we are grateful.

This trusted group of people will have the authorization to delete harmful comments and in some cases ban the ones who posted them and according to the following rules:

1.There are no limitations on number of comments but if someone repeatedly posts the exact same comment more than once then the duplicate posts are to be removed.

2.Comments that show an opinion different from that of the moderator and/or that of the author of the blog will be tolerated and should not be removed.

3.Comments that criticize policies and/or politicians should be tolerated.

4.Posts that contain vulgar/abusive/sexist language should be removed and those who post such comments are warned by a warning posted within that same comment box, if they then continue posting similar comments, they should be banned.

5.Comments that praise, applause, support the ideology and/or the doings of terrorists will be removed with or without warnings and their posters could be banned.

6.Comments that contain clear messages of hatred, racism, discrimination or contain direct threats to other posters are to be warned with a warning posted within that same comment box, and the original comment removed. Should their posters persist they will be banned.

7.Comment spammers will be reported as spam, deleted and banned.

Comment deletions and bans will be dealt with discretely, and bans will not be imposed on a permanent basis. Endeavoring to encourage thoughtful debate and civil discussions through this policy is the intention and implementation of moderators.

Thank you for your cooperation and respect of these rules and guidelines as set out by the site owners.