[Foundation-l] FYI: Welcome to this years Wikimania site: Egypt, the land with cultur ministers with special taste in history, culture and all the good things

[Robert Stojnic]

I find a couple of things fishy about this news:
1) it seems to be published by israeli media only (no other major news 
agencies)
2) it seems to be from a person who from previous statements (which where
in other major news) seems to be rather moderate, and even pro-western,
e.g. he oposed banning western movies proposed by some radical group,
and opposed veils

I wonder if someone arabic speaking can verify that he really said that, 
and if it meant "burn down all books", or "burn down israeli anti-arab 
propaganda books" which could be part of rethoric speech.... In any 
case, I would take this news with a large quantity of salt...

r.

Mathias Schindler wrote:

>http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5160.3423.0.0
>
> This is why the Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni's comment,
>that he "would burn Israeli books himself if found in Egyptian
>libraries," is so disturbing. Hosni made the statement at a conference
>held in the Egyptian parliament earlier this month.
>
>
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