5 Sightings & 2 realizations
Those are things I saw yesterday in downtown cairo: 1) A new list of danish products getting distributed on the faithful to continue the boycott! 2) A big banner that informs the muslim population that Denmark- all of it apparently- are going to burn the Koran- yet again- this wendsday, and in retaliation we all should fast on Friday and then pray to god against them when we break the fast. (Not kidding!) 3) Two different editions of "Mein Kampf" translated in arabic and published by 2 different publishing houses being sold on the street. 4) "The Portocols of the elders of Zion" Book, translated in arabic of course, and being sold at Madbouly's Bookstore. 5) A car with a giant greenflag covering the back windshield that said "I would give my life for you dear Prophet of God" Realization # 1: We are screwed! Realization # 2: I need a digital camera!
posted by The Sandmonkey @ 2/13/2006 02:46:00 AM
31 Comments:
Sandy
1- Did you go to Madbuli to see the books yourself?
2- Why stress these books when Madbuli have other eye opening titles?
3- I need a digital camera too, any suggestions?
Both 1 and 2 are precient and correct in my view. Neither the demographics nor the ecomomic outlook bodes well for your area of the world in the near future.
I'm sorry but get out while you can,
thinker
Jokerman,
1)Yes!
2)Because those are books that are, well, kinda banned everywhere. Or at least not carried by respectable Bookstores anywhere else in the world. Plus, how funny is it that they have 2 translations and 2 editions of Mein Kampf? Why would they even have it? Who would buy it? Are we gonna have neo-nazis in Egypt soon? How would THAT work?
3) I am guessing anything 4-5 megapixels is good. I usually go for sony or HP. If you wanna be mr. super camera dude and have a good 400-500 dollars to waste, get the 7 or 8 megapixels cameras. They are good for even capturing the clogged pores on your face, well, if you have any!
Anon
It isgetting worse by the day & im sandy boy knows that.
The Protocol book is a load of rubbish yet many still release it. I guess it is due to the fact that they do not have to have permission or pay rights to publish it & so they make profits out of it while feeding on the political driven anti jewish trend.
I believe some countries can break out from the mould that many will be out into but they must do it now quickly or else get swallowed up.
With what sandy is doing, im afraid its in many ways futile, but one can only do their best, right?
Ah, at last a retaliatory cartoon. This was my first thought when this started - why don't they just draw cartoons back at Denmark? But it wouldn't work, would it? Europeans would probably just scratch their heads and think, 'that's supposed to make us angry?' Of course, if Arab papers made increasingly desperate attempts to piss us off with cartoons, then that might make us laugh. But it would not make us angry. I've just looked at Wikipedia's Holocaust Denial page. It has a holocaust denial cartoon. And I thought, 'Oh. Ok, then.' The point is, we are not that enamoured of death threats, executions and bombings in our streets. I'm sure Arabs understand. They would make a similar point about Palestine, Iraq etc. But cartoons we can live with. And where were the protests about the Iraq war in the Arab world? That might have been a good reason to boycott all American goods. Don't they realise what fools their leaders are making of them? What are they being told? 'We can't take on America, so we won't even try. But we, all - how many? 250 million? - of us, can take on Denmark. Well, not even Denmark - a few Danish companies, actually. But we might need some help from Pakistan and Indonesia.'
2: The Danish police have stated categorically that any attempt at burning the coran will be stopped immediately and the perpetrators brought to justice. Denmark is not an anti-muslim country. There is a blasphemy article in the penal code. Even the Jyllandsposten cartoons are up for scrutiny with the attorney general at the moment, and it cannot be excluded that there will be a court trial. Why doesn't all this distorted information about Denmark stop??
Sandy
Madbuli is a bookstore in cairo. How many books do they sell per month just to cover their costs? they need to sell books in order to stay in business, they are just being pragmatic in what they sell no matterhow much i detest that submental protocols that many intellectuals believe.
Madbuli published a few books by Dr.Nasr Hamed AbouZeid, dont you think that shows you something??
That bookstore has some very interesting books that will surely raise an eye brow or two if you looked carefully.
Well, regarding the Digital cameras, i would want to catch such ugliness but the 8 Mp would be exciting when taking shots in the wild, the resolution of it i still havent experienced but soon the 8 willl be old news, i can tell you my first Everex computer was 4 MB !!! 16 & 32 Mb computers was something in companies i was told & a mouse was an accessory, i wonder what next will hit the digital cameras, maybe instant 3D projection of the picture!?
I think its ironic (and scary) that Mein Kamp is the one book that was translated into Arabic!
More books have been translated in Spanish in ONE YEAR that all the books that have been translated into Arabic since the beginning of time!
I haven't read it myself, but as fascist propaganda goes, its not considered to be particularly good. It is available on Amazon, and as a Jew, I think it should be. We need to understand evil, not ignore it.
Those boks aren't banned, We value free speach more than that. My local library, which is government funded like any other library, has got mein kampf in both norwegian and german. It's a historic document.
I don't think the protocolls would be as easy to get a hold of, but then again I doubt most people would even have heard of them. They aren't banned at any rate.
i jut heard in the danish media that he egyptian people dont even know hat apologizes have been made by both the newspaper and the primeminister
so infact some danish companies, have paid lage sums to post the JP-letter, in major egyptian newspapers today.
I suggest you post this link:
http://www.drawings.um.dk/en
which is the foreign ministery website, with the drawings afair, with apologizes ,statements, qeustion and answers, well check it out.
ccn
1. And you just realized this now ?! If you took VC (Veil Count) as a measure of increase in conservatism, which with our education system easily translates into a measure of near fundamentalism, you'd realize that Egypt has been steadily going down since the eighties, but the rate of change has accelerated in the past 5 years, it loosely corrolates with the web pepentration rate in the US !:)
2. Get a phone with a decent camera, you don't want to be mistaken for a Khawaga at the wrong time :)
Great blog, can we clone a few -millions- more of you so I could go back to live in Egypt ? or is cloning considered flag burning worthy ? :)
@jordan
As far as i know its forbidden in austria to own the book - they call it "Wiederbetätigung" ahhhrgh need to improve my english...
But i don't think i could stand the whole book anyway. Must be some kind of throw-up medicine.
theDemon
Dear Cosmic Duck, this distorted information about Denmark won't stop because the muslim-country governors are quite interested in misleading population about relevant issues...
If this whole misunderstanding doesn't stop soon, there'll be a serious Islamophobia in the west. Some say that this already exists, but where I live it's far away from its conception (yet).
Peace and tolerance!
Instapundit is now on the case! Enjoy the digital camera!
"A new list of danish products getting distributed on the faithful to continue the boycott!"
Now don't call them "faithful". They are certainly full of it, but it's not "faith".
If they had faith they would not idolise Muhammed like they do. It's forbidden, and for good reason as we now learn.
On a different subject, I found that there are several suras in the Qur'an that say that the Jews were given the land of Palestine and will return to the land from all nations before judgement day.
My question is, if Israel would quote one of these suras on her flag, would it be forbidden for Muslims to burn the flag?
Offtopic: why is your Atom feed fscked up? Would be nice if it got fixed :)
Dear Phillip Krieg
You're quite right about the increased risk of islamopobia in Western countries. A recent opinion poll in Denmark has shown a marked increase in voter support for the xenophobic People's Party. There is bad media coverage on both sides. Conservative authoritarian governments in the Middle East can gain legitimacy from the religious populace when they confront people with the stories about the cartoons. That gives these rulers increased leverage domestically and perhaps in foreígn policy as well. This morning Danish newspapers Report from Iran that the Iranian police stood by when demonstrators attacked the Danish embassy in Teheran.
I think I'll support the Scandidate initiative. There must be some way out of this lunacy.
you may add this to your "The Sandmonkey in the Press" links:
http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=3548386/
On the subject of the Racial and Religious Hatred Law recently passed in the UK and which retained the right to ridicule religion, Rowan Atkinson (better known to many as Mr. Bean), said, prior to it's being passed:
"The freedom to criticise or ridicule ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is a fundamental freedom and a law which says that you can ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas, is a very odd law indeed. It promotes the idea that there should be a right not to be offended, when I think that the right to offend is far more important than a right not to be offended."
This was before the cartoon controversy. How many people in Europe who are now saying that 'freedom of expression does not include the right to offend'
would have agreed, before this controversy, that there can be no right not to be offended ? Quite a few, I suspect.
Why Denmark and why now instead of 7 months ago when the cartoons were first published?
Because Denmark is poised to assume the chair of the UN Security Council - which, of course, is the body that will issue sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
This whole mess isn't remotely religious below the surface. It's political - a well choreographed attempt by Iran to discredit Denmark and intimidate UN members.
I don't know why Denmark specifically. But this did not happen seven months ago, because, as the publication of the cartoons in Egypt in October and the ferry disaster show, offensive cartoons do not produce spontaneous demonstrations, or even much comment, whereas the loss of 1,000 lives can have such consequences. The alleged anger is bogus and intended only to intimidate.
Tobber,
With you every step of the way. What you wrote mirrors my anger in every way.
:o(. It sucks. All of it.
And on the subject of Mein Kampf, I do not know why many Arabs are such big fans of Hitler and his works. They are obviously only paying attention to what they want to hear. I don't think Hitler's 'Herrenrasse', 'master race' included Arabs. I don't imagine his meaning would be distorted that much if instead of 'Jew/Jewish' 'Semite/Semitic' were used.
"I think its ironic (and scary) that Mein Kampf is the one book that was translated into Arabic!"
The late Israeli author Ephraim Kishon once wrote a short story about the bald. He wrote it in German as he often did.
In it he argued that bald people are the source of all evil and blames them for nearly everything. He also points to the Bible as proof that the hairless have always been known to be evil.
The story was called "Mein Kamm" ("My comb").
Kishon was a genius.
I hit the tip jar for $10 for the camera fund.
Since you are about to get an indirect Instalanch I'm pretty sure the funds should be there soon for one.
Peace
I enjoy your blog
I am confused why I have read NOT ONE ARTICLE in the mainstream media reporting that the cartoons had been published in Egypt
Am i missing something.
Warm regards
Hey dude,
Okay, you just got $18 in the tipjar from me. Enjoy!
best wishes,
one of the Jews who buys you dinner
Dear fellow human beings from
the great 'slim culture, I would like to boycott your products too, but unfortunately there are no products 'Made in Arabia' in our supermarket shelves. Nor did I find any computers, coffee-machines, cars, etc. etc. 'Made in Arabia '
Gimme a hint ..
PS I dont count oil as a product
coz all you gotta do is pump it from the ground.
1938: Deutsche, kauft nicht bei Juden !
2006: Moslems, kauft nicht bei
Dänen !
I'm really amazed by their obsession with everything that is antisemitic. Guess they feel like someone to blame when they can't find a mirror. Saddening. Real saddening.
1) Important things first: Get the cheapest Digital Camera out there. It will be defect after 6 Months, because they are flimsily built - just like the expensive ones.
2) Possession of "Mein Kampf" is not illegal in Germany. Publication is illegal, because the State of Bavaria (heir to Hitler's copyright) won't allow it.
3) I don't know why I deserve this, but my phone number seems to be on all sorts of lists. All in all, I must have received 100 SMS now about the deeds of the Danish: Burning the Quoran, writing a new one, meet here, vote there, the Danish burn down mosques, the Danish stip little arab girls naked in school, blahblahblah. Dunia, will it ever stop? What messages did y'all get?
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