Posted on 02/11/2006 10:19:06 PM PST by Tom87
CAIRO
EGYPTIANS were hardly astonished when a ferry packed with more than 1,400 passengers sank in the Red Sea. Anyone who has struggled to navigate daily life here knows safety standards are virtually nonexistent, and the value of human life is often overlooked by a government widely considered to be driven by corruption and favoritism.
But the loss of the ferry, Al Salam, on Feb. 3, and the government's delayed and limited response to the emergency, have implications that extend beyond the scope of the disaster, and beyond the borders of Egypt.
The calamity speaks directly to the slow burn that consumes many Egyptians — and many other Arabs — who live under governments that rule with virtual impunity no matter how bumbling, incompetent or abusive they are. Similar frustrations, if over other issues, play out around the region, in places like Syria, Jordan, Yemen, and among the Palestinians.
It is difficult to draw an absolute link between the ferry disaster and the violence that exploded across much of the Muslim world last week in response to Danish cartoons that had lampooned the Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims feel it was blasphemous to draw the Prophet at all, let alone in a mocking manner.
But in the coincidence of the two events, there is a clue to a dynamic that has played out in this region for many years: Leaders often call attention to external enemies — most often the Israelis — as a device to allow their own subjects to blow off steam. The anger itself is almost always home grown . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I want a Mohammed blow up sex doll. I can get stupid and be complemented too!!
Had to keep reminding myself that this piece wasn't about Louisiana.
Bread, circuses, soccer games, cartoons. Anything for a distraction from the reality of the failure of their religion, their government, their economic (or non) system and their POS countries.
More DRECK from the NYT.
Disregard all you see here.
Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:
No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Then, there is this little matter still on the books, waiting to be settled. The account is still open:
Where It's 9-11 All the Time...Click the picture...
I'm think a Mohammed blow up sex doll and some sheep instead of a creche next Christmas. Just kidding. Though I wonder how that NY art museam that ran the Virgin Mary made out of Cow dung a couple of years ago would like to see a Islamic "creche" with some homicide bombers lined up to gang rape virgins and Big Mo getting it from the rear by a camel? Would that offend them?
Bob, this is the thread for you!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576927/posts
Amen. Good comment.
Get me one! I have a secret plan for this. April 1st is coming up. I can act stupid and look innocent at the same time. I have a PhD in this stuff.
YEEHAA! That's the one I was searching for over 2 days! It just had to be here somewhere! Thanks and may your lunch become a pig-out!:)
From Mark Steyn
From Europe's biggest-selling newspaper, the Sun: ''Furious Muslims have blasted adult shop [i.e., sex shop] Ann Summers for selling a blowup male doll called Mustafa Shag."
Not literally "blasted" in the Danish Embassy sense, or at least not yet. Quite how Britain's Muslim Association found out about Mustafa Shag in order to be offended by him is not clear. It may be that there was some confusion: given that "blowup males" are one of Islam's leading exports, perhaps some believers went along expecting to find Ahmed and Walid modeling the new line of Semtex belts. Instead, they were confronted by just another filthy infidel sex gag. The Muslim Association's complaint, needless to say, is that the sex toy "insults the Prophet Muhammad -- who also has the title al-Mustapha.''
Link-http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn12.html
LOL, glad I could help!
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