Police Rescue Egyptian FM from Islamic Mob on Temple Mount

INN.com ^ | Dec 22, '03 | Staff

[veronica]

(IsraelNN.com) Israel Police spokesman Gil Kleiman reports that Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher was visiting a mosque on the Temple Mount when shouts of “Ala Akbar” (God is Great) where heard and Islamic worshipers began hurling shoes at him.

Jerusalem EMS Chief Yoni Yagudofsky reports the foreign minister is being treated by an advanced life support medical team and was complaining of “shortness of breath”. At this point, it remains uncertain if he will require transport to Hadassah Hospital according to MDA and Israel Police reports

[RonF]

I don't understand. What's the problem? Why were they throwing shoes at this guy?

[observer5]

"Islamic Mob"

How welll put!

[Jonah Hex]

Why were they throwing shoes at this guy?

Because he had no sole?

(crawling back into my bunker)

[Theo]

Those "Islamic worshippers" are demonized monkeys, leaping from branch to branch, swinging by their tails, chirping and chucking shoes. Little pestering monkeys.

[Cable225]

The first guy that can open a Foot Locker in the Middle East is going to make a fortune.

[r9etb]

Why were they throwing shoes at this guy?

As I understand it, shoes are dirty -- to be pelted by shoes is to be pelted by things that walk around in camel dung, and other assorted filth.

I guess they pelted this fellow because Egypt isn't as rabidly anti-Israel as they'd like it to be.

Personally, I think those PA morons just crapped in their own bath water....

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

The FM used good judgement, he left his IDF security behind, no Jews allowed on the Temple Mount you know.

Egypt's Maher assaulted in Jerusalem

Egyptian FM attacked by Palestinians in Al-Aqsa, rushed to Israeli hospital.

	Bodyguards carry shoes which were thrown on Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher as he is assaulted by Palestinians while praying in Jerusalem's Old City December 22, 2003. Radical Muslim worshippers assaulted Maher in the al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday and he was rushed to hospital, witnesses, police and security guards said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
	Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher is helped after he was assaulted by Palestinians while praying in Jerusalem's Old City December 22, 2003. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
	Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher is driven away in an ambulance after he was assaulted by Palestinians while praying in Jerusalem's Old City December 22, 2003. Witnesses said he fell unconscious after the attack but Israel's ambulance service said he was in good condition after being taken to hospital for treatment. (ISRAEL OUT) REUTERS
	Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher, right, shakes hands with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, Monday Dec. 22, 2003. Maher met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other senior Israeli officials during his first trip to Israel in more than two years. He was in Israel in an effort to restart talks on the stalled U.S.-backed 'road map' plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

[SJackson]

I don't understand. What's the problem? Why were they throwing shoes at this guy?

As you'll note in the bottom picture, he had the temerity to discuss possible peace negotiations with a Jew, of all things. He's lucky he wasn't hung.

[Brian Allen]

<< Police Rescue Egyptian FM from Islamic Mob on Temple Mount >>

What a pity!

[Breed, incite, enable, assist and facilitate anti-semite and anti-Israeli islamofascists?

Die by them]

[RightWhale]

Islamic worshipers began hurling shoes at him.

They weren't worshipping when they reached for the shoes. The shoes are over by the entrance.

[SJackson]

Egyptian FM returns home from Israel

CAIRO, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher returned home Monday evening after a short visit to Israel where hewas assaulted by Muslim worshippers at the Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem.

During the one-day trip, Maher met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on ways to break the deadlock of the Palestinian-Israeli peace track, the state-run television reported.

The top Egyptian diplomat was assaulted by Muslim worshipper at the mosque, Islam's third holiest site, when he visited the site. The Palestinian extremists threw shoes at him, a traditional Muslim insult.

Some witnesses said that Maher was slightly injured and was taken to hospital by Israeli police, while others claimed Maher was not injured in the attack.

Maher arrived in Jerusalem early on Monday for a one-day visit to help restart talks on the stalled US-backed roadmap peace plan. It was the first visit paid by a top Egyptian diplomat to Israel in about three years.

The visit was seen as a significant thaw in ties between Israel and Egypt.

Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, has been playing a key mediating role in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflicts.

But Cairo withdrew its ambassador to Israel soon after the eruption of the Palestinian intifada in September 2000 in protest at Israel's excess use of force against the Palestinians.

Bodyguards carry shoes which were thrown on Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher as he is assaulted by Palestinians while praying in Jerusalem's Old City December 22, 2003. Radical Muslim worshippers assaulted Maher in the al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday and he was rushed to hospital, witnesses, police and security guards said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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"Bodyguards carry shoes which were thrown on Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher as he is assaulted by Palestinians while praying..."

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Silly Palestinians don't even know their own religion well enough to know what the Koran says happens to people who interrupt praying Moslems...