On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Pharos
<pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brotherhood person: Egyptian libraries are full
of Israeli books!
Culture Minister: No they're not!
Brotherhood person: Yes, they're full of them.
Culture Minister: There isn't one Israeli book in an Egyptian library.
If any are found, I'll burn them myself!
To sum it up, he expresses basically the opposite of what Wikimedia stands for.
To be fair, again, I don't read Arabic, and this is just my best guess
of the gist based on my reading comprehension of the google
translation.
He stresses that he was not actually proposing book-burning, but
rather emphasizing that Israeli books are banned from the libraries.
Also, he talks about restoring historic synagogues and the Cairo
Geniza. I think they're also something about translating Egyptian
books into Hebrew for the benefit of Arabs in Israel, but the
translation isn't very good at that point.
Thanks,
Pharos