Muslim 'Moderates' And Terrorism

NY Sun ^ | July 28, 2005 | FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN

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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - The poor people dressed in Islamic garb or in dirty blue trousers and T-shirts sitting in 118-degree heat in the hall of the Sharm el-Sheik Hospital were either the brothers, the cousins, or the friends of the people wounded in the terrorist attack of the day before. Just plenty of desperate young people.

No women were there, no mothers, or sisters, or wives. Egyptian women almost don't live in Sharm. The family and children of the workers are in the villages near Cairo, and their beloved men come to visit for one week once a month. Sharm is inhabited by a couple of thousand military people and public officials that President Mubarak, just like President Sadat, keeps as a defense vanguard near his own villa; or by poor workers, waiters, drivers, plumbers, and cooks - lots of day laborers that serve the enormous tourism business. Only a large group of very poor workers, the other face of the holiday town of Sharm el-Sheik, have been the killed and the wounded here.

[agere_contra]

Wow. Good post.

[Lee'sGhost]

I love being right. Awesome post.

[Noumenon]

Denial - it's not just a river in Egypt.

[sure_fine]

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future...But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education." - Ibrahim Hooper

http://www.anti-cair-net.org

[SunkenCiv]

thanks for the ping.

[null and void]

"It cannot be a Muslim, it's certainly the Israelis and the Americans."

They'd fit right in at WMAL

JWR Columnist off the air after ABC/Disney is intimidated by CAIR