Egypt

Into the past with pain...XXVII

SCENE…..XXVII
Prof Dr Colonel K Prabhakar Rao ( Retired)

( M K Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru are seen sitting in a room that is poorly lit and furnished. Atmosphere is grim and both appear to be serious. In the corner of the room a she goat is tied and it is found bleating occasionally)

Jawaharlal. Bapu. Why have you tied the goat here?

Gandhi. Look! I need goat’s milk in the morning. I milk it myself. So it is here.

Jawaharlal. Ohf. What type person you are!

Gandhi. Jawaharlal. Leave the goat now. You know! Last week I met General Washington in New York. He was telling that Pakistan was likely to fall to Taliban and Al-Qaida.

Jawaharlal. Oh God Great Scots! The inevitable is finally happening

Gandhi. How sad and how dangerous now for India!

Jawaharlal. True

Another inch on the path towards equal employent for women in traditionally male-dominated fields. I don't even know if any of the government-appointed madrasah-graduated qazis of Bangladesh are women. Somehow I doubt it.

The draft law would establish a new national agency to issue all broadcast licenses, and to regulate and censor all forms of broadcast media. It defines broadcast media very broadly to include the internet and all other forms of communicating text, video or audio. It also defines prohibited content incredibly broadly, as anything which negatively affects social peace, national unity, the principle of citizenship, public order or public ethics. In short, the proposal would grant the Egyptian government near-totalitarian control over all forms of media.

In his latest attempt to prod me into action, Ali E sent me this link to a post from the Infidel Blogger Alliance. It’s a sad day when the opposition doesn’t have to reach anywhere for material, and this is such a day: while I haven’t independently confirmed the virulently anti-Jewish remarks of Egyptian TV host Sheikh Muhammad Sharaf ed-Din, I would not be at all surprised to find they were true. Anti-Jewish sentiment is so rampant in Egypt that using the word ‘rampant’ is almost redundant; it’s sufficient to say that anti-Jewish sentiment Is. With the exception of the rare self-educated individual, it’s difficult to find an Egyptian under the age of about sixty-five or seventy who does not openly pine for the days when Rommel sunned himself on the beaches of Alamein.