Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on September 18, 2016
Travellers Reveal The Worst Places They’ve Visited
Dubai, UAE, was blasted as being ‘soulless, cultureless and artificial’
Venice in Italy was branded overrated and extortionately overpriced
Sihanoukville in Cambodia was labelled a ‘hole’ by several commenters
It’s easy to rave about the most amazing places we’ve been in the world, but you hear less about the worst.
Reddit users have taken to the online community to reveal their destination clangers, whether it’s because the cities were uninspiring, filthy, or overcrowded.
Some of them were surprising – Paris and Venice for example – and were declared overrated ‘tourist traps’; while others were locations more off the radar, with places like Little Rock Arkansas simply blasted for being dull.
Cairo – Egypt’s ancient capital – was panned by several Reddit users, with two labelling the people there ‘rude’.
‘The city is filthy and the people were just awful,’ one remarked. ‘Crooked taxi drivers that won’t run the meter and won’t take non-Muslims,’ another wrote.
Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur and Italy’s famed Venice were both mentioned as being extortionately overpriced.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on May 21, 2015
When an Israeli journalist secretly filmed himself walking through Paris dressed as a religious Jew – and recorded the abuse he received at the hands of mostly Muslim residents – the video went viral as a shocking illustration of the levels of anti-Semitism faced by European Jews.
That expose inspired a similar project by a British Jewish journalist, who filmed himself and other subjects walking around several major European cities, in some cases also resulting in hostile responses including verbal abuse, threats and spitting.
But how would they fare in the capital of the Arab world’s most populous country?
A group of Egyptian activists found that out while carrying out a social experiment of their own in Cairo, which involved donning a fake beard and peyot (sidelocks) and stereotypical Jewish garb, while wandering through the streets of the Egyptian capital.
The results, unsurprisingly, were fairly unpleasant to say the least.
Almost immediately upon walking outside, the “Jew” attracted wide-eyed stares from visibly shocked passersby.
But worse was to come. Upon stopping people to ask for directions, the activist was treated to nearly universally aggressive – in some cases violent – responses.
The video was first posted to an Egyptian social media site, and received mixed responses, with some commentators expressing sympathy for the anti-Semitism displayed but many decrying the “barbarism” and blaming “the mullahs” for “brainwashing” young Arabs.
Once home to a thriving Jewish community, Egypt today is home to just a handful of mainly elderly Jews – less than two dozen according to some estimates.
The country was home to around 80,000 Jews in 1948, but expelled most of them and seized their property as part of a wider campaign of ethnic-cleansing carried out by Arab states in “revenge” for the defeat of Arab armies by the nascent State of Israel in 1948.
Many Egyptian Jews were also murdered or executed by the government during anti-Semitic pogroms and purges.
Roughly one million Jews were expelled or driven from their homes due to violence and extreme persecution in Arab states in the decades following Israel’s War of Independence.
Speaking before Al-Azhar and the Awqaf Ministry on New Year’s Day, 2015, and in connection to Prophet Muhammad’s upcoming birthday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a vocal supporter for a renewed vision of Islam, made what must be his most forceful and impassioned plea to date on the subject.
Among other things, Sisi said that the “corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years” are “antagonizing the entire world”; that it is not “possible that 1.6 billion people [reference to the world’s Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live”; and that Egypt (or the Islamic world in its entirety) “is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.”
The relevant excerpt from Sisi’s speech:
“I am referring here to the religious clerics. We have to think hard about what we are facing—and I have, in fact, addressed this topic a couple of times before. It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma [Islamic world] to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction for the rest of the world. Impossible!
That thinking—I am not saying “religion” but “thinking”—that corpus of texts and ideas that we have sacralized over the years, to the point that departing from them has become almost impossible, is antagonizing the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world!
Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live? Impossible!
I am saying these words here at Al Azhar, before this assembly of scholars and ulema—Allah Almighty be witness to your truth on Judgment Day concerning that which I’m talking about now.
All this that I am telling you, you cannot feel it if you remain trapped within this mindset. You need to step outside of yourselves to be able to observe it and reflect on it it from a more enlightened perspective.
I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move… because this umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.
Note: It is unclear if in the last instance of umma Sisi is referring to Egypt (“the nation”) or if he is using it in the pan-Islamic sense as he did initially to refer to the entire Islamic world.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on June 27, 2012
My note: Western women, Feminist activists and the media are still silent and indifferent towards the plight of women in Muslim countries. It’s a puzzle to many that,some even go further by socializing and sympathizing with the enemies of women and humanity not wanting to face the reality, ignoring the obvious signs and warnings, This is a very sad story, but learning the hard way can be the best way.
The Islamist of Egypt are now in power, and their leader already are trumpeting loud barks: “Our Capital Shall Be Jerusalem”
That day is coming:
“For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.” (Zechariah 14:2)
British female journalist, 21, describes horrific sexual assault in Egypt’s Tahrir Square after election result
A British journalist was brutally sexually assaulted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as thousands of Egyptians gathered to celebrate the nation’s presidential election results.
Natasha Smith, 21, has detailed how she was violently attacked by a ‘group of animals’ who stripped her naked, scratched and clenched her breasts and ‘forced their fingers inside her’.
She only escaped by donning men’s clothes and a burka and being whisked away to safety by two other men.
Natasha Smith attacked by a ‘group of animals’ who stripped her naked
Only escaped after she was handed a burka and men’s clothes
‘I was tossed around like fresh meat among starving lions’
7/7 ‘white widow’ is hunted for grenade attack on Kenyan resort bar that killed three, including young boy
Samantha Lewthwaite, whose husband Jermaine Lindsay blew up a Piccadilly Line train, has been on the run since December when police foiled a plot to blow up Western hotels in Mombasa.
And officers say the Home Counties mother of three was spotted near the nightclub targeted in the Indian Ocean resort on Sunday night.
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