R4BIA Weirdness At The Mandela Memorial Service

I just clicked on a live link to the Mandela Memorial Service in Soweto from the Times of Israel website while I was at work and to my surprise, I saw a familiar image in the background behind the speakers. Check this out:

Mandela R4BIA

To the right of Thanduxolo Mandela (over his left shoulder) is an R4BIA poster (for more R4BIA coverage on Israellycool see here, here, here and here). Here’s a clear image of the symbol:

r4bia

For several minutes I sat there and watched a couple of guys behind the speaker at this solemn occasion trying to draw attention to this symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood. There were a couple of them and they were also wearing the black image on their yellow T-Shirts. This went on for about 10 minutes until someone came and made them move – obviously explaining to them that such behaviour was inappropriate on such an occasion.

That transmission is going out to tens of millions – perhaps hundreds of millions of people around the world. I predict we’ll be seeing it a lot more R4BIA posters and T-Shirts at the upcoming World Cup in Brazil next summer, and in all sorts of other places. Put it in the red book.

4 thoughts on “R4BIA Weirdness At The Mandela Memorial Service”

  1. So the four fingers represent Egypt, Syria, Palestine (as if) and the rest of the Islamic world. Then Israel must be represented by that part of the palm under this Muslim Brotherhood guy’s thumb.

  2. Yes, I noticed the same thing when the live broadcast was on. Brought to mind the following…

    Starting in the early 1990’s, at the WACA in Perth, there was a group of tireless and well paid people who, at every AFL game being broadcast from there on television, would hold up “Crazy John” advertising cards whenever a point or goal was scored. It was annoying at first but then you just got used to it. Maybe some Egyptians were at these games and had kept the idea up their sleeve for a rainy day. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, nu ?

    P.S. How many of the MB activists support the Eagles I wonder.

    What an interconnected world we live in…

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