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| Irish Nationals Arrested after Cairo Mosque Standoff | ||
| 2013-08-18 | ||
[An Nahar] Two Irish women were placed in durance vile... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Saturday after being trapped with hundreds of people in a Cairo mosque surrounded by Egyptian security forces, one of them told Irish state broadcaster RTE.
Omaima Halawa, 21, and her sister Fatima, 23, were taken into custody by the Egyptian security forces when they left the mosque. Although their mobile phones were taken from them, they managed to borrow one and called relatives in Dublin saying they had been arrested, RTE reported. The whereabouts of their sister Somaia, 27, and brother Ibrihim, 17, are unknown. Omaima earlier said that security forces had thrown tear gas at them inside the building. "We are surrounded in the mosque both inside and outside," she told RTE. "The security forces broke in and threw tear gas at us." The four had gone to Egypt with their mother for a holiday while their father, Hussein Halawa, remained in Ireland. Another of the family's children, Nasaybi, said from their home in Dublin that her siblings were enduring a horrifying experience and she felt helpless. She said: "We are really worried. We do not know how to help them. We are just trying to support them by calling and giving them some hope that they will get home safely." A front man for Ireland's foreign ministry said embassy staff had contacted the four and were working with the Egyptian authorities to try to secure their safety. Egyptian police cleared Islamist protesters from the mosque on Saturday after a standoff that included exchanges of fire, as the corpse count from four days of violence surpassed 750. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 #5 thanks, Zenobia Floger6220 You're most welcome. One of my favorite tunes. Thought I might piss people off with this one. I'm not the sharpest judge of humor in person, let alone in writing, so I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one to get a laugh out of it. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2013-08-18 23:24 |
| #7 Looks like that Mosque back in Eire should get a raid too. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-08-18 18:06 |
| #6 We've been having a regular songfest this week, Canuckistan sniper. Page back through the archives and enjoy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-08-18 17:16 |
| #5 I SO much wish that I had written that. Many thanks, Zenobia Floger6220, for the biggest laugh I've had all week. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2013-08-18 16:50 |
| #4 Omaima O'Halawa, tell me why you hurry so Bismillah, hush and listen, and her cheeks were all aglow (Though of course I couldn't see 'em, there beside the peaty dune, For all of her besides her eyes was hid by a cocoon.) [Chorus:] By the rising of the moon, by the sigh of the simoom, For the scimitars must glitter by the rising of the moon And do tell, Hussein Halawa, where the gatherin' is to be At the mosque down by denial, quite well known to you and me Allah' akbar for the signal, whistle out some Um Kalthoum, With your powder in your drawers, by the rising of the moon [Chorus:] By the rising of the moon, smite the infidel baboon With your powder in your drawers, by the rising of the moon Out from many a shuttered harem eyes were watching through the night Many a manly heart craved one last buggery before the fight Muezzins sang down the valleys like the banshee's lonely croon As the faithful stuffed their underwear with stuff that goes kaboom [Chorus:] By the rising of the moon, by the sigh of the simoom And the faithful stuffed their underwear with stuff that goes kaboom By that ululating river that black mass of men was seen High above their shining scimitars flew Al's beloved green Death to every pig and monkey! Let our martyrdom be soon Inshallah, me boys, for freedom, when our drawers go kaboom [Chorus:] 'Tis the rising of the moon, soon we'll sigh like the simoom And hurrah, me boys, for freedom, when our drawers go kaboom |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2013-08-18 14:49 |
| #3 Bringing the secret of the potato boom to the ME should be considered traitorous. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-08-18 11:17 |
| #2 If I was Ireland I doubt I would try hard to get these people back Oh, but they will, Glenmore. They will... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-08-18 09:01 |
| #1 Since the Irish Halawa women were arrested in the company of a number of hardcore Muslim Brotherhoodlums, would it be a good guess that their home mosque in Dublin, where their Daddy is imam, is also home to hardcore Muslim Brotherhoodlums? Like maybe Daddy and brother Ibrihim? If I was Ireland I doubt I would try hard to get these people back. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-08-18 08:55 |