On 23/02/2008, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sweet Christ, can anyone remind me how in the hell we
ever decided on
Egypt in the first place? Was that when the probability of being killed
by terrorists was equally rated with the desire to not host Wikimania on
the same continent two years in a row?
The Egyptian government is not going to allow tourists to get killed
by anyone. Have you any idea what it would do to their economy?
Face it, Egypt shares very little of the same values
that we do
(especially the whole "not censored" part). There is a significant
chance of violent protests breaking out, potentially bringing harm to
our conference and our participants.
In Egypt? Peaceful protests maybe. Wahhabism hasn't really caught on
in the Egyptian population and the government doesn't exactly support
it's growth.
Torino doesn't look so bad anymore, huh?
Because of course wikipedia has never done anything to upset the mafia
or the red brigade.
--
geni