Posted on 08/16/2013 7:06:35 PM PDT by Nachum
The following text is an excerpt of photojournalist Aymann Ismail's first-hand account, "This Is What It Looks Like Just Before the Muslim Brotherhood Jumps You."
All I smell is sweat and spray-paint. All I see are fists. I’m thinking of last year, watching protesters pull a riot cop out of Tahrir Square into an alley and telling Bucky, “That guy is dead.”
Now I’m thinking, “I’m that guy.”
That night, I was planning on going to my cousin’s wedding. I spent the last five days of Ramadan with my family in Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city, then went to my aunt’s in Cairo. At 4pm, near El-Hegaz Square, a Muslim Brotherhood-organized protest marches past her balcony.
Illegal and underground for sixty years, until the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood decried the ousting of Egypt’s first democratically-elected president Morsi as a coup. The whole trip, my family was trying to scare me from going near protests. They said I’ll get attacked or robbed. But from the balcony, I can only shoot crap photos, so I grab my mom’s phone and a Canon 6D and head out onto the streets. I’ll “be back in a minute.”
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Crazy.
Just a nice bunch of guys having fun with a day on the town. /s
FYI in case you missed this.
Just a nice bunch of guys having fun with a day on the town. /s
Another Saturday night and I aint got nor morals
I got some spray paint cause I just been lootin
Oh how I wish I had a Christian to slaughter
I’m in that Muslim way!
Ha..good one.
Just some good ole boys, never meanin no harm...
Useless without and audio clip of “allahu FUBAR”
I can tell you how it works with actual cameramen. My son is a director of documentary films and has been in some dangerous places. When you are behind the camera, what is in front of you seems to be somewhere else - you are filming but not a part of it - you feel as though you are distant from it.
He changed his attitude when he filmed in Bosnia when that war was going on. His documentary film there was about orphans, made orphans by that war. He and another man were out in the area and there was war going on a short distance from them. They hid behind what they could to get closer to film it.
Son said it dawned on him that people would see this film, then get up and go to the kitchen or the bathroom and he (son) could be dead, getting shot doing the filming. He decided his life was worth more than someone seeing it and then going to the kitchen or bathroom, not concerned that someone died filming it.
During his years of filming, he and his crew were kidnapped in an African country and a helicopter pilot had to fly in and they ran for the helicopter and got out before they were killed.
The news that comes to you from dangerous places means some film crew took a chance they would live through making that film. Sometimes they don’t live.
Obamas sons.
Just a bunch of guys with rockets, grenades and sundry other weapons to kill anyone who doesn't adhere to Sharia law.
12-year olds believe they are immortal.
IIs spray Paint covered under Sharia Law?
how dare they adopt the TOOLS of the INFIDEL!??
This is the kind of post that makes FR so valuable. Sadly there are not enough of these kinds of first hand insight on here anymore. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks...we have it all back thread including the real story...the guy who took the photos...his brother is MB and via a phone call they let him loose....with a smile saying why didn’t he tell them in the first place who his brother was.
Well duh.
Is that Mike Tyson?
I wish we had the guts to remove the Brotherhood from our government.
Your son sounds like a brave and dedicated newsman. Fascinating experiences, is he still filming wars?
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