Posted on 03/19/2012 4:54:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The grandson of two-time Golden Globe winning actor Omar Sharif "hesitantly confessed" in an article published Sunday that he is gay and half Jewish, and worried about being welcome in Egypt.
Omar Sharif Jr. wrote in The Advocate, "I write this article in fear. Fear for my country, fear for my family, and fear for myself. My parents will be shocked to read it, surely preferring I stay in the shadows and keep silent, at least for the time being. But I can't."
Sharif expressed his disappointment at the recent parliamentary elections, writing that the revolution gave him hope for a "more tolerant and equal society," but now he is not as hopeful.
"The vision for a freer, more equal Egypt - a vision that many young patriots gave their lives to see realized in Tahrir Square - has been hijacked. The full spectrum of equal and human rights are now wedge issues used by both the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Islamist parties, when they should be regarded as universal truths," Sharif wrote.
"I write … for fear that Egypt's Arab Spring may be moving us backward, not forward," he wrote.
The Jerusalem Post noted that Sharif's mother is Jewish, making him fully Jewish according to rabbinical tradition.
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What a tool. He probably supports Obama.
“..fear that Egypt’s Arab Spring may be moving us backward, not forward,”
He hadn’t noticed how muzzies treat Jews and homosexuals? What a maroon.
The grandson of two-time Golden Globe winning actor Omar Sharif "hesitantly confessed" in an article published Sunday that he is gay and half Jewish, and worried about being welcome in Egypt.Oh, don't worry, I'm sure they'll have a very special welcome for ya.
How can there be a Omar Sharif Jr as a grandson?If he is junior to his dad’s name then his father is junior and he is the III.
At least he also notes the plight of the Coptic Christians and women.
You’re reading about a gay, half Jewish Arab revolutionary and that’s your question? :)
Sure he’s welcome in Egypt . . . to go there and be beheaded.
He’s incompetent.
He should NOT attend gay parties in Saudi Arabia... no siree.
LLS
If you have to ask... (eye roll)
Like many militant homosexuals, he’s just drawing attention to himself. Trust me, he has no intention of going to Egypt to test his coming out.
His father’s name is Tarek El-Sharif.
He appeared as Yuri in Dr. Zhivago.
Why do we have to here about these peoples sex lives? I don’t care. He should try e-harmony if he’s looking for a date, instead of announcing it to the world. These people are so full of themselves.
No, it wasn't hijacked. Omar made the same mistake the Western media did. They thought the secular university kids in Cairo somehow represented the majority of Egyptian opinion, they don't.
Man, Omar is in a real bind.
“Do I have a death wish???”
[snort, snort!]
“Do I have a double death wish???”
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