Posted on 01/31/2011 3:49:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Cairo's Tahrir Square, where protests have been centered, is visible from his high-rise apartment and helicopters buzz overhead.
"They want the president to step down. This is the first thing. After that, they do not know what they want," he told The Associated Press on Monday. "I personally don't know what they will do afterwards. Who will they bring, who will take his place, who will be in charge of the country?"
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...reportedly blasted U.S. policy in Iraq and said Americans are ignorant. According to The Middle East Media Research Institute, Sharif said the "East" will never have a democracy because people like him "prefer to go to the neighborhood sheik." ... "I lived in America for a long time. Only 10% of all Americans have a passport. In other words, 90% never left America," said Sharif. "They don't know anything."
Actor Omar Sharif told a French radio station on Monday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should resign... said that Mubarak failed in his attempts to raise the middle class' quality of life, and that he fears the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sharif, 78, is currently living in Alexandria.
Wasn’t the gulf spill a concern just a year ago? Wasn’t North Korea a concern some time ago? Wasn’t Iran a concern a minute ago? This is just manufactured nonsense that will ultimately make Obama look good and everyone is falling for it.
Most analysts say that if free and fair elections were to be held, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood would win, easily. Officially illegal but largely tolerated by the Mubarak government, the Brotherhood boasts thousands of grassroots members. It won one-fifth of the seats in parliamentary elections in 2005 -- half of those it contested -- with its members running as independents. "The Islamists have not shown their real face yet. They are still playing a low profile. They want the liberals to damage the regime, and then they will come to light for real business," one analyst told CBS News on condition of anonymity.
Different galactic plane entirely.
Why the concern Òmar ? Your bank accounts in switzerland are safe. Your house in Monaco is paid for...and you don´t live in Egypt.
Why do actors feel they have to give thir opinions when they have no ideas how real people live`? shut up omar, keep gambling and drinking.
The only way this will make Obama look good is if he winds up nuking a Muzzie country off the map. So far Zero looks like the incompetent bungler he is, and it worsens by the day.
He’s the best-known actor from the Arab world, but his famous roles were forty years ago. People know who he is, so naturally he was sought out for his opinion by the drive-by media.
The meme-building going on with NPR (including in their version of the AP story) and the usual cast of leftist shills is that the Moslem Brotherhood is nothing to worry about, that they just want to grow trees that sprout candy canes. The big emphasis has been on his “Mubarak must go” statement, and not on his “I don’t wanna see the MBs in charge”.
:’)
Unfortunately he’s correct. The country will be up for grabs and the losers will be those who truly seek freedom. I suspect there will be multifactional fighting before all is said and done.
Kinda like Lebanon in the 70s
Nack in the late 70’s my girlfriend’s sister went to Paris with their dad where he had to give a talk on nuclear energy. At a bar, the sister met an Egyptian man and wanted to go live with him in Egypt. The dad gave his permission on the condition that the guy send his daughter back home (first class) when she was ready to leave (which he did).
Anyway, when she returned, her big claim to fame was that she got to sleep with Omar Sharif while there. She was a very beautiful gal, and definately a wild-child type... I wondered if she gave him any “souvenirs” in the process.
!Hes the best-known actor from the Arab world, but his famous roles were forty years ago. People know who he is, so naturally he was sought out for his opinion by the drive-by media.!
Yes, that is why I think the old man should shut up. Amazing that the media always find a old has been to lecture us,
Omar shariff spend millions of dollars in french casinos over the last 40 years. He should have spent that money in helping the poor in egypt.
He has a vacation house in alexandria but spends most of his time in Europe. He will be the first one out of egypt when things go sour.He will be safely back in Monaco.
Cheers.
As much as I love Julie Christie, it is more important that he did a love scene with Barbra Streisand. I’m old enough to remember how the Muslims were outraged at this and threatened to kill the poor man. Ms. Streisand also received death threats from Palastinians when she did her free Central Park concert back in the 60s. But, being Barbra, she has swallowed this horror to remain faithful to her hateful Democratic bosses. Sad.
Your post really needs pictures. Honestly.
Omar needs to rewatch Doctor Zhivago to find out what is going to happen.
Cedric ... "You dropped your phony dog poop."
Unknown Spy ... "What phony dog poop?"
SunkenCiv posting a......wait a minute,.....
I knew Omar was old, but I didn’t think he was THAT old!.......
Hey, hey....he also does Bridge!!
Sharif don’t like it... . . .
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