Rantings of a Sandmonkey: Boycott Egypt

Rantings of a Sandmonkey: Boycott Egypt
I ran into this one from a friend Dinah Lord.
This is classic. It's a good example of timing. when this published in Egypt in 2005, it was no big deal. Now, its embasy burning time...

From the Sand Monkey:

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Boycott Egypt

Freedom For Egyptians reminded me why the cartoons looked so familiar to me: they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not a single squeak of outrage was present. Al Fagr isn't a small newspaper either: it has respectable circulation in Egypt, since it's helmed by known Journalist Adel Hamoudah. Looking around in my house I found the copy of the newspaper, so I decided to scan it and present to all of you to see.

This is the original Cartoon printed in egypt:




















Cartoons | Islam | Mohammed | overreaction