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How Egypt's privately owned "independent" press celebrated the terrorist attacks against the U.S:
"Millions across the world shouted in joy: America was hit!"
wrote Al-Maydan (an independent weekly) columnist Dr. Nabil Farouq.
"This call expressed the sentiments of millions across the world, whom the American master had treated with tyranny, arrogance, bullying, conceit, deceit, and bad taste ... like every bully whom no one has yet put in his place.
True, thousands of innocents became victims... among them Egyptians who had immigrated to the U.S. in search of opportunity and [a better] life; but what can a person do when the neighborhood bully gets [a blow] from behind that shakes his very existence, insults his dignity, and humiliates him? Obviously [the person] is glad, even if it is wrong to rejoice.."
The Egyptian opposition press continued its open rejoicing at the American disaster. Al-Ahrar (an Islamist opposition daily) columnist Salim Azzouz compared Bush to Hitler:
"He declares that anyone who does not support him supports terror, and woe betide anyone who supports terror. This kind of declaration can come only from leaders of Hitler's ilk..."
The next day, Azzouz declared,
"If Osama bin Laden is proven to be involved in the attacks on the U.S., I will make a statue of him and set it in my home; I will also hang his picture in my office. Because he has proven to us that the U.S., which we thought was an undefeatable force, can be humiliated."
Said Sh'eib, columnist in the Nasserist weekly Al-Arabi, also became enamoured of bin Laden after seeing him in an interview on Al-Jazeera television. He wrote:
"I loved Osama bin Laden's face, because it inspired confidence. I was amazed by his total belief in what he says... I very much admired this man, who chose ... and I am not addressing the quality of the choices he makes ... to leave a life of luxury, to take up arms against who he considers to be the enemy, and to go down in history as a man who shook the greatest empire in history."
Retired general Sallah A-Din Salim, advisor at the National Center for Middle East Studies, wrote in Al-Ahrar:
"Although some were sorry about the killing of innocent Americans in Washington and New York, most of [our] people derived satisfaction from the insult to the American pride, and from the shaking of the faith that the American cowboy, Little Bush, places in the intelligence apparatuses and their agents throughout the world.
There was nearly an Egyptian consensus on the matter, except for a few ministers who, in their hypocrisy, rushed to the American Embassy to ostentatiously offer their condolences."
More demonstrations of jubilation appeared in the journal of the Muslim Brotherhood, Afaq Arabiya. Dr. Ahmad Al-Magdoub wrote:
"As a lawyer, I say to Suspect No. 1, as the American government calls him: Oh Osama... you are a hero in the full sense of the word. [You possess] all the manly virtues, those [virtues] lacking in the half-men who control the Muslim and Arab resources (i.e. Arab rulers). For this reason, you will continue to live in our hearts and in our minds...
Allah's peace, mercy, and blessings upon you; no peace, no mercy, and no blessings on the traitors and cowards who have been blinded to the truth by the pleasures of domination. May you eradicate America and its 'infinite justice'; victory to Islam and the Muslims."
This Is My Post Let's See The Fun HappenI wonder if they delete it?
How Egypt's privately owned "independent" press celebrated the terrorist attacks against the U.S:
"Millions across the world shouted in joy: America was hit!"
wrote Al-Maydan (an independent weekly) columnist Dr. Nabil Farouq.
"This call expressed the sentiments of millions across the world, whom the American master had treated with tyranny, arrogance, bullying, conceit, deceit, and bad taste ... like every bully whom no one has yet put in his place.
True, thousands of innocents became victims... among them Egyptians who had immigrated to the U.S. in search of opportunity and [a better] life; but what can a person do when the neighborhood bully gets [a blow] from behind that shakes his very existence, insults his dignity, and humiliates him? Obviously [the person] is glad, even if it is wrong to rejoice.."
The Egyptian opposition press continued its open rejoicing at the American disaster. Al-Ahrar (an Islamist opposition daily) columnist Salim Azzouz compared Bush to Hitler:
"He declares that anyone who does not support him supports terror, and woe betide anyone who supports terror. This kind of declaration can come only from leaders of Hitler's ilk..."
The next day, Azzouz declared,
"If Osama bin Laden is proven to be involved in the attacks on the U.S., I will make a statue of him and set it in my home; I will also hang his picture in my office. Because he has proven to us that the U.S., which we thought was an undefeatable force, can be humiliated."
Said Sh'eib, columnist in the Nasserist weekly Al-Arabi, also became enamoured of bin Laden after seeing him in an interview on Al-Jazeera television. He wrote:
"I loved Osama bin Laden's face, because it inspired confidence. I was amazed by his total belief in what he says... I very much admired this man, who chose ... and I am not addressing the quality of the choices he makes ... to leave a life of luxury, to take up arms against who he considers to be the enemy, and to go down in history as a man who shook the greatest empire in history."
Retired general Sallah A-Din Salim, advisor at the National Center for Middle East Studies, wrote in Al-Ahrar:
"Although some were sorry about the killing of innocent Americans in Washington and New York, most of [our] people derived satisfaction from the insult to the American pride, and from the shaking of the faith that the American cowboy, Little Bush, places in the intelligence apparatuses and their agents throughout the world.
There was nearly an Egyptian consensus on the matter, except for a few ministers who, in their hypocrisy, rushed to the American Embassy to ostentatiously offer their condolences."
More demonstrations of jubilation appeared in the journal of the Muslim Brotherhood, Afaq Arabiya. Dr. Ahmad Al-Magdoub wrote:
"As a lawyer, I say to Suspect No. 1, as the American government calls him: Oh Osama... you are a hero in the full sense of the word. [You possess] all the manly virtues, those [virtues] lacking in the half-men who control the Muslim and Arab resources (i.e. Arab rulers). For this reason, you will continue to live in our hearts and in our minds...
Allah's peace, mercy, and blessings upon you; no peace, no mercy, and no blessings on the traitors and cowards who have been blinded to the truth by the pleasures of domination. May you eradicate America and its 'infinite justice'; victory to Islam and the Muslims."
