This is what we are good at
Sadat's nephew and current MP wants Egypt to boycott Israel's mail in protest of a stamp he deems to be offesnive to Islam. Seriously.... The independent daily Nahdet Masr on Saturday carried a letter signed by Sadat and three other lawmakers urging the Egyptian government to file a request for Israel to withdraw the "infidel" stamp. In the mouthpiece of Sadat's Ahrar party, the MPs explained that the stamp depicted a muezzin calling for prayer from the top of his minaret like a pop star singing to a crowd. And we have no other pressing matters in Egypt than a Israeli stamp apparently. I love our politicians.
posted by The Sandmonkey @ 1/08/2006 01:22:00 PM
4 Comments:
actually you can print any photo you like on a special barcoded US Postal service stamps.
I don't know if other countries do this. But this simply means that you can print satanic logos, massonic messages, arabic curse words or may be some anti-mubarak messages.
I agree with you all that we have some serious wackos among us (with higher concentration in the people's assembly, i'll give u that) but we should give it to those guys at FLAME for making the stupidics competition even more competitive. Link
Tomanbay:
Actually it's true:
There are plenty of links but here is one for starters
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php
TomanBay, the problem is that our wackos look and act like wackos, that you would be able to figure they're wackos before they even open their mouths, making discrediting them a child's play. But with Flame, man those guys are so clever, they present their propaganda as indisputable academic historical facts, dismissing any kind of palestinian history or rights, as just propaganda hyped myths, that if you didn't know better, you'd definitely fall completely for their ad. Also, I don't think that their choice of the Nation was random, I was so surprised to see it on last week's issue, but what bigger effect would they have, to place it in a right wing publication whose readers' already don't have much sympathy for the palestinians (that would be preaching to the choir), or place it on the most liberal and fair magazine in the US, thus winning new anti palestinian converts who'd definitely be on the palestians' side had they known better.
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