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Egyptian Islamists Target Bikinis, Pyramids
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| Sept 01, 2011
| IPT news
Posted on 09/02/2011 8:57:43 AM PDT by bayouranger
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These comments follow a spate of dismal economic news including forecasts that Egypt's economy will contract by 3.3 percent this year, rather than the 2.5 percent estimated in February following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
According to EFG-Hermes Holding SAE, the biggest publicly traded investment bank in Egypt, the country's economy contracted at an annual rate of 4.2 percent in the first quarter.
Meanwhile, tourism revenue is projected to decline from $11.6 billion in 2009-10 to $10 billion in the fiscal year that began July 1.
Samy Mahmoud, a senior Egyptian tourism official, said no country seeking to promote tourism would impose restrictions such as a bikini ban. Mahmoud suggested the alcohol consumption curbs sought by the Islamists were anathema to potential Arab visitors. "Ninety-five percent of Arab tourists drink alcohol," he said.
The Brotherhood should create alternative jobs, he said, to support the people who would lose their jobs if the Islamists get their way. There are 1.8 million people working in the country's tourism industry, along with another 2.8 million people whose jobs are indirectly supported by tourism.
Some Egyptians believe the Brotherhood is taking the country down a dark road.
"This is how thinks began in Iran," Hani Henry, a psychology professor at the American University in Cairo, told The Media Line. "The moderate youth wanted to implement changes, but the mullahs hijacked the revolution. The same thing is happening now in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood."
FReepers called it 1st!
To: bayouranger
Cover pyramids and Sphynx with wax. Just wow.
To: bayouranger
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:05:18 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 952 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: FlyingEagle
To: FlyingEagle
We should not display any tolerance for these subhuman mongrels.
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:07:24 AM PDT
by
montyspython
(This thread needs more cowbell)
To: bayouranger
The Middle East hasn’t much to show for after 5,000 years. Don’t worry muslims, I won’t be visiting your toilet hole countries.
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:07:40 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Larry Lucido
Maybe the Sphinx needs a bikini wax.
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:08:24 AM PDT
by
montyspython
(This thread needs more cowbell)
To: bayouranger
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:08:24 AM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: bayouranger
Right off the starting line this regime is going to make sure they have utter economic failure. No one will want to vacation in Europe.
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:09:17 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(2012 can't come soon enough.)
To: montyspython
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:09:26 AM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: bayouranger
Mistake corrected: Right off the starting line this regime is going to make sure they have utter economic failure. No one will want to vacation in Egypt
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:11:04 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(2012 can't come soon enough.)
To: bayouranger
"Beach tourism must take the values and norms of our societies into account," FJP Secretary-General Muhammad Saad al-Katatny told Egyptian tourism officials Monday. "We must place regulations on tourists wishing to visit Egypt, which we will announce in advance." For their part, Egyptian Salafists (who advocate a form of Islamism more extreme than that practiced by the Brotherhood) aren't just troubled by alcohol and bikinis. Abd al-Munim A-Shahhat, a spokesman for the Salafist group Dawa, said that the Egyptian pyramids, the sphinx and other monuments should be covered up with wax because they are "religiously forbidden."
In other words, we have the intellect and mentality of cavemen, now lets start acting like it.
To: jonrick46
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:13:20 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 952 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: Larry Lucido
There goes the tourism to Egypt! So much for freedom. So, so sad!
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:14:06 AM PDT
by
Cricket24
(Proud to be a CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!!!!!!!)
To: Larry Lucido
Wouldn’t the wax melt in the heat?
To: bayouranger
Freakin’ lunatics. Will they decide to blow up the pyramids as they did the beautiful statues in Afhanistan?
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:23:42 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Apparently, there's no honor when it comes to someone else's retirement funds.)
To: Wyatt's Torch; bayouranger
Like I have said, the Jihadi's must be gay, Because why would you want to cover up Perfection?
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:25:59 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(If Sarah can't be elected in 2012, then Phase II will fall into place, may G-D have mercy on us all)
To: One_American
"In other words, we have the intellect and mentality of cavemen goat screwing pedophiles, now lets start acting like it."I don't think cavemen would have minded seeing half naked females......IMHO
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:28:50 AM PDT
by
sniper63
(If Obama pats himself on the back anymore, his shoulder will dislocate.....)
To: FlyingEagle
how long until they destroy those idols?
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:45:16 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: KC_Lion
She’s nice..but “perfection?”...come on dude..her legs are terrible...
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posted on
09/02/2011 9:46:07 AM PDT
by
ken5050
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