[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

[Mathias Schindler]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Robert Stojnic <rainmansr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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)

http://www.egynews.net/wps/portal/!ut/p/c0/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3hzMxMjkwAXIwMDbx8jAyNLQ8egYBNzo2ATE_2CbEdFANYT_Ag!/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/migration/ertu/news_knowledge_art/2008052117542404901321


> 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...

The article mentiones a parliamentary debate from May 10th in which
the statement was made - apparently in response to some statement from
the "Brotherhood".