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2006-06-13 Africa North

Egypts Muslim Brotherhood says tourists can drink

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Posted by Steve White 2006-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The leader of Egypts Muslim Brotherhood said in an interview that tourists could drink alcohol inside their hotels
Rantburg Translation Service: It's OK for tourists to drink alcohol and it's also OK for us to kill them.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-06-13 08:35|| 2006-06-13 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Translation: Many of us 'brothers' are making money of liquor sales and tourism. Besides, if nobody comes, because nobody can drink, where will we get fresh targets?

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-13 08:49|| 2006-06-13 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Note

Theyd still make it illegal for muslim egyptians to drink. Theyre just trying to make it clear they dont want to kill one of Egypts few viable industries.

Question - would they allow native Egytian Christians (Copts) to drink?

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-06-13 09:46|| 2006-06-13 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4
My cousin (waste water engineer) spent 2 years in Egypt. He says that fruit juice, sugar and yeast are QUITE popular there.

Seems a LOT of Egyptians make their own hooch!

-M

Posted by Manolo 2006-06-13 10:31|| 2006-06-13 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember also that Egyptians like to think of themselves as the most cosmopolitan of Moslems.

Doing things like this is a big reason that the MB hasn't been labeled a terrorist org itself, despite having official cred for having spun off a dozen or more clearly terrorist orgs.

They still understand the importance of making a deal, doing business, and the value of now and then taking a more liberal view of Koranic scripture.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-13 11:39|| 2006-06-13 11:39|| Front Page Top

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