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“What are you doing bringing me this weird guy?”

- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to former Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Mohammed Bassiouni, after the latter brought Shas’ spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to meet Mubarak

3 men - and 3 women - paying the ultimate price.
But who cares - Arabs killing civilians isn’t news! There are no UN observers or holidays dedicated to the plight of these people, no people protesting how they are treated by Egypt, none of the lobbyists and very few bleeding heart liberals who care enough to notice that Egypt has a policy to shoot and kill civilians wandering in its territory trying to find a job or food.

And notice these black Africans aren’t trying to get into modern Egypt, but rather into the racist Zionist entity.

From AP:

Egyptian border police shot and killed an African woman Sunday who was trying to cross illegally into Israel with a group of other migrants, a local medical official said.

And, from Amnesty International last week:

Egyptian security forces shot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross into Israel on Tuesday. A total of five African migrants have now been killed crossing the border so far this year.

Security officials said 50-year-old Ermeniry Khasheef was shot in the back after he ignored orders to stop as he attempted to cross barbed wire near the border town of Rafah.

An Eritrean woman, Mervat Mer Hatover, was shot dead three days earlier, after she ignored orders to stop as she was attempting to jump over the barbed wire in the El Kuntilla border region. According to security officials, Mervat Mer Hatover and her two daughters, aged eight and ten, were among a group of Africans who paid smugglers to help them cross into Israel. All were arrested.

Two migrants from Ivory Cost were shot and killed on 30 January trying to cross the border south of Rafah. According to the Egyptian security forces, a 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman bled to death before an ambulance could reach them. Six Eritreans and two Ethiopians were also arrested.

M&C reports:

Egyptian security forces found a cache of explosives near the border with the Gaza Strip in the Sinai peninsula, security sources said Tuesday. The cache, which contained 250 kilos of TNT, was found in a secret depot in Masura in Rafah, three kilometres from Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.

Palestine Press Agency adds that these explosives were found in a cemetery:

The source said that “explosives were seized inside the cemetery, packed inside seven plastic sacks,” and added that security forces received information from confidential sources is the fact that some smugglers conceal explosives inside abandoned graves.

“Abandoned graves” must mean wither their occupants found a better place to stay, or these holy explosives smugglers are discarding bodies to hide their product.

(cross-posted at Elder of Ziyon)

Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has criticized Hamas for firing rockets at Israel.

Because they haven’t actually hurt anyone.

The Egyptian foreign ministry on Thursday criticized Hamas for its “cartoonish and comical” attacks on Israel and reiterated his warning to Palestinians not to provoke the Egyptian soldiers positioned on the Gaza Strip border.

Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in comments carried by
the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) on Thursday that Egyptian efforts were continuing with Israel and the European Union to re-open the Rafah border crossing “in a legal way.”

Aboul Gheit blasted Hamas for recent fighting with Israel that it called “cartoonish and comical”.

He said Hamas rockets that were “lost in the sands of Israel” were simply prompting Israel Defense Forces to strike at Gaza, causing harm to Palestinians.

Of course, the Qassams are deadly, and are no laughing matter. It is only luck Divine protection that has prevented more Israelis from being killed by them. For instance, just today, two rockets landed near a school, and several people suffered shock. Hardly comical.

But the real issue is not the accuracy of the Egyptian Foreign Minister’s statements. It is the fact that he made them at all.

Good peace partners are just so hard to find.

From Al-Arabiya:

Religious scholars in Egypt are outraged by a lesbian scene in a new movie, telling audiences to stay away from the sinful flick and calling for the director and actresses to be prosecuted.

Preacher and Islamic Studies professor at Cairo University, Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin accused the new movie, Hina Maysara (Until Further Notice), of spreading homosexuality and promoting debauchery.

He called on authorities to prosecute the director of the movie and the two actresses, Ghada Abdel-Razeq and Sumaya Al-Khashab, who enacted the lesbian encounter on the big screen.

Shahin claimed the movie is part of “a Zionist and American conspiracy” which uses this sort of movie to destroy the moral fabric of society.
Islamic scholars at Al-Azhar University also expressed their indignation at the movie and supported Shahin’s call for a clampdown.

Preacher Youssef Al-Badri told the Kuwaiti paper Al-Ray that the lesbian scene is proof of the moral disintegration of Egyptian cinema. He appealed to Al-Azhar to toughen censorship on art and media outlets, saying “This is its role, and it gave it up.”

Professor of Islamic Law at Al-Azhar Elwi Amin said watching sex scenes — whether gay or heterosexual — in movies is considered a sin. Amin claimed there is no lesbianism in Egypt and said there would never be.

“Many people in Egypt do not even know what the word ‘lesbianism’ means. This is the influence of immoral Western culture which controls the media.”

Those cunning Zionists, finding the weak spot in Islamic society that can destroy it!

It’s interesting that Al-Azhar University’s job is censorship for the nation.

The Egyptians, deeply offended by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s recent accusation that they are doing a ‘terrible’ job of securing the border, have shown just what a good job they are doing - by allowing hundreds of palestinian pilgrims (including terrorists) through the border, contrary to understandings between Israel and Egypt.

That’ll prove Livni wrong.

Hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims made their way back into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday after being stranded on Egyptian soil for almost a week following their return from the haj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, according to Palestinian sources.

The circumstances that allowed for the return of the pilgrims remain unclear, although unidentified sources in Gaza said the pilgrims did not employ force and their passage was coordinated with Egyptian authorities.

Among those returning to Gaza are dozens of senior Hamas political and military figures. Israel claims that some of the returning Palestinians raised millions of dollars for Hamas while in Saudi Arabia and Israel also suspects that some underwent military training in Iran.

Unnamed State sources in Jerusalem said that opening border crossings without inspecting those going through them “constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Egypt.”

Despite the tensions between Israel and Egypt regarding recent Israeli accusations that its southern neighbor is not doing enough to combat smuggling from Sinai into Gaza, the two states were able to negotiate a solution for allowing the pilgrims back into the coastal strip.

Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority reached an agreement last Sunday to allow the Palestinians to return to their homes in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources claimed that the agreement stipulated that Egypt would check the Palestinians and report any suspected smuggling incidents to Israel.

Hamas had demanded that Egypt reopen the Rafah crossing to allow the pilgrims to pass directly into the coastal territory rather than force them to pass through Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border crossing.

Israel and Egypt both insisted however that they all pass through Israeli security checks, fearing Hamas militants hiding among them would try to smuggle in large sums of cash into Gaza.

Hamas had rejected the Israeli-Egyptian understandings and insisted that the pilgrims should not be subjected to Israeli scrutiny.

At this hour, Hamas-controlled media outlets are celebrating what they describe as a “victory for the resistance.”

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh appeared on television on Wednesday and blessed the Palestinian returnees on their victory. He said that their return through Rafah is indicative of the “victory for our path, a respectable path, and for the resistance and for the adherence to Palestinian principles.”

Haniyeh also blessed the Egyptian government for their decision to allow the return of the pilgrims through Rafah.

“We thank Egypt for not bowing to the extortion that was used against it and the pressures – especially the pressure and the threats that Israel hurled at the Egyptian foreign minister – and enabling the return of the pilgrims,” Haniyeh said.

Many people here are willing to live with a cold peace. The problem is the frostbite is setting in.

News from across the border:

An Egyptian man has been charged with fatally stabbing his wife on their wedding night when he decided she was not a virgin.

Ibrahim Ali and Hoda Salem were married in the village of Al-Quba in the Nile Delta. On their wedding night, residents heard Salem screaming and found her on the floor, al-Arabiya reported.

Salem said that her husband had stabbed her. She died at the hospital.

Ali, after his arrest, said that he was unable to break his wife’s hymen on the wedding night, leading him to conclude that she was sexually experienced, the report said.

In a similar recent case, an autopsy found that the bride was a virgin. Gynecologist Naglaa Ahmed said that in many cases new husbands are unable to break the hymen on the wedding night because of nervousness. In other cases, women have unusually tough hymens, requiring surgical intervention.

My guess is Mr Ali is going to be stabbing many more women until he gets himself some viagra.

Which is becoming increasingly difficult in Egypt, considering the country’s supplies are mysteriously diminishing (hat tip: Isaac).

Meet the Egyptian version of the Hatfields and McCoys.

Two families in the Upper Egyptian Qena province decided to settle a feud with blades, but no lives were lost in the cutting that followed.

Instead a family in Mahrousa village in western Qena held hostage a member of its rival family, shaved his moustache, beard, hair and eyebrows, then set him free.

Shortly afterwards, the family of the shaved man kidnapped a member of the other family and did the same to him. Then they celebrated their revenge by firing gunshots in the air.

A fight broke out between the two families until the police stepped in, arresting people and confiscating weapons.

The situation was resolved only when Qena governor, senior police officers, public leaders and parliamentarians interfered to bring about a reconciliation between the two sides, fearing the situation would have deteriorated.

Banners later appeared in the region with the slogan, ‘Take care of your moustache!’ In Upper Egypt, men consider their moustaches a mark of manhood and pride.

I guess in Upper Egypt, they haven’t yet been introduced to Hummers.

Egyptian blogger Alaa has been freed, after being detained last month by Egyptian police while demonstrating peacefully.

According to Sandmonkey, he endured quite an ordeal, being abused and beaten. But it was the power of the people which helped secure his release.

Congratulations, Alaa!

The Danish government ignored several offers from Egypt to help it avoid a full-blown crisis over cartoons of Prophet Mohammed first published in Denmark, media in Copenhagen quoted Egypt’s foreign minister as saying on Thursday.

 

“I said that we were approaching something that was very dangerous. The contents of this case risked causing serious consequences,” Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Abul Gheit told the Politiken daily, describing discussions with Danish authorities in the months before the row over the Mohammed drawings escalated into violent protests in many Muslim countries.

 

The row, he had warned his Danish counterpart Per Stig Moeller, “could cause problems for your country with the rest of the Arab-Muslim world. I warn you, we must find a solution before these problems arise.”

 

Despite several phone calls with Moeller, Gheit said that his warnings were not heeded.

 

“The [Danish] foreign minister’s message was ‘no, no and no. If this is a case for you, you should pursue it in court’,” Gheit said.

 

Moeller denied, however, on Thursday having had any phone conversations with Gheit on the issue.

 

“It is not true that the Egyptian foreign minister called me several times on the phone. He never called me once,” he told reporters.

 

The 12 drawings of Mohammed, which first appeared in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten last September, have over the past month sparked violent protests in Muslim countries against Denmark especially, as well as against other European countries where the cartoons have since been reprinted.

 

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has refused to apologize for the publication of the cartoons, insisting that his government has no sway over what appears in the media in Denmark, where freedom of expression is fundamental.

 

In the Politiken interview, however, Gheit claimed that Egypt had stated in letters and phone calls to Danish authorities and international bodies last year that an official stand against offending religious beliefs would be enough to defuse Muslim tensions, and that Copenhagen would not have had to compromise on its support for freedom of expression.

 

“I did not want the Danish prime minister to stop Jyllands-Posten … All I wanted was a stand [on the issue]. I wanted to know if an offense had been committed or not and if this was acceptable,” he said.

 

In a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, dated November 23, 2005, Gheit even insisted that “We do not expect any country to take punitive or disciplinary action against a newspaper.”

 

He went on, however, to say that “we had expected an official Danish statement that would emphasize the necessity and indeed the obligation for respecting all religions and refraining from offending their followers with a view to avoiding escalation [of the conflict] that could entail serious ramifications.”

Cairo traffic police have launched a crackdown on joyriding wedding convoys they say add to the already considerable perils of the Egyptian capital’s streets.

 

 A police official told AFP Saturday that traffic agents had been posted at strategic spots across the city to catch offenders and strip them of their licenses.

 

“Over the past two days, 300 driving licenses have been confiscated and the judiciary will decide whether or not to apply permanent driving bans,” he said.

 

Interior Minister Habib al-Adly was quoted as saying in the top-selling state-owned daily Al-Ahram that such measures was required against the convoys “who disrupt the traffic and put citizens’ lives in danger”.

 

Many Cairenes celebrate weddings by hiring cars and motorbikes to tear around the capital’s streets in often ragged convoys, blaring horns and disrupting traffic.

 

Several of these convoys, which often involve hanging precariously from car windows, have ended in tragedy in a city of 17 million where the streets are notoriously dangerous and traffic law rarely enforced.

An Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancee of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil.

 

The 26-year-old groom-to-be, Tamer Shehata, was notified by a female guest attending his wedding that his would-be wife was a man in women’s clothing.

 

When Mr Shehata confronted his fiancee, he broke down and revealed that he was actually an 18-year-old man called Ahmed Abo Zeid.

 

Mr Abo Zeid confessed that he had tried several times to undergo a sex change but had failed to secure doctors’ approval.

 

Mr Abo Zeid, whose face was obscured to Mr Shehata by a niqab or burka (face veil) said he had intended to tell after they were married, and had hoped to convince Mr Shehata to consummate the marriage.

Several Egyptian newspapers asserted that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, constituted a warning to the United States and Israel.

 

“By handing the prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its boss, the Nobel committee wanted to send a message to the entire world that nuclear weapons were and still are a threat to the whole of humanity and need to be opposed by any means,” the state-owned Al-Ahram daily said.

 

“The specific choice of ElBaradei is an implicit message, notably to the United States and Israel,” the top-selling newspaper went on, quoting the Nobel committee as describing the laureate as “unafraid” in his advocacy of new measures to prevent nuclear proliferation.

 

The independent Al-Masri Al-Yom entitled one its editorial “ElBaradei, the embodiment of impartiality”.

 

“Despite his placid character, the man is solid … and while subjected to intense pressure, notably from the United States and Arab commentators, he pressed on without making any concessions, displaying true professionalism and commitment,” editorialist Alaa al-Ghatrifi wrote.

 

“His impartiality on all issues earned him huge popularity on the board” of the agency, he explained.

ElBaradei, 63, received his prize on Friday and became the fourth Egyptian Nobel laureate in history.