Al Jazeera English just reported (0730 GMT), with film, that Gaddafi's Eastern European 'nurse/personal assistant' was seen at the airport, about to board a flight for Kiev. How much longer can Gaddafi hold out following such a desertion?
Christians regularly get targeted by the Egyptian government as a means of 'unifying' the nation, ie finding a trumped-up issue to pander to the more extreme Muslim elements in Egyptian society. Remember the glee with which the government ordered the slaughter of all pigs in Cairo on the pretext that they might harbour swine flu? This would incidently wipe out a major economic asset of the Christians. Unfortunately it would also throw a large spanner in the garbage disposal system, because many pigs graze on (and thus reduce the volume of) Cairo's garbage. Against such a background of denigration, abuses of minority individuals become inevitable.
It's painful seeing demonstrable ignorance like this getting paraded in the media. Such comments might just be getting trotted out for domestic consumption, but as Christina says, they will get used to degrade credible criticism on other issues.
Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for 'It ain't necessarily so'. Given the song's open doubting of the Biblical record, wouldn't Ms Glick have to class Ira as a self-hating Jew?
Al Jazeera English just reported (0730 GMT), with film, that Gaddafi's Eastern European 'nurse/personal assistant' was seen at the airport, about to board a flight for Kiev. How much longer can Gaddafi hold out following such a desertion?
Christians regularly get targeted by the Egyptian government as a means of 'unifying' the nation, ie finding a trumped-up issue to pander to the more extreme Muslim elements in Egyptian society. Remember the glee with which the government ordered the slaughter of all pigs in Cairo on the pretext that they might harbour swine flu? This would incidently wipe out a major economic asset of the Christians. Unfortunately it would also throw a large spanner in the garbage disposal system, because many pigs graze on (and thus reduce the volume of) Cairo's garbage. Against such a background of denigration, abuses of minority individuals become inevitable.
It's painful seeing demonstrable ignorance like this getting paraded in the media. Such comments might just be getting trotted out for domestic consumption, but as Christina says, they will get used to degrade credible criticism on other issues.
Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for 'It ain't necessarily so'. Given the song's open doubting of the Biblical record, wouldn't Ms Glick have to class Ira as a self-hating Jew?