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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I was going to say that he can’t fix being half Jew and half Egyptian, but he could have kept his mouth shut about the gay thing.
Then I looked at his picture.
Yuri, Sharif’s son, right?
Sure you’re welcome. They’ll have a rock concert in your honor.
My all-time favorite movie. Dr. Zhivago
Sounds like an SNL skit setup.
“I write … for fear that Egypt’s Arab Spring may be moving us backward, not forward,” he wrote.
Well, DUH. The Arab Spring was/is a myth. Is this fool for real?
I used to watch Omar play bridge in Mallorca in the 70’s. Bridge is not the best spectator sport ever.
His religion is Islam. He almost lost his Egyptian citizenship because of his affair with Barbra Streisand, a Jew who was a vocal supporter of Israel.
Today he resides mainly in Cairo. He blasted U.S. policy during the Iraqi war......and said Americans are ignorant.
Leni
He meant to say he’s half-gay and quarter-Cherokee.
He’s welcome in San Fran, that’s fer shore!
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One of my favorites too.
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