I got this message from a BBC source:
A team from BBC Arabic was in Cairo to record a big prog about elections, with audience and invited parliamentary candidates, including MB of course. They agreed with a local video company, booked studio and in the last minute .. guess what? The company got a phone call , and the whole thing was canceled on spurious grounds of course. now they are coming home empty-handed.
if any further evidence was needed for the govt growing paranoia …
But when it comes to the racist Danish cartoons, it’s freedom of speech, eih?
I don’t understand why the Western MSM refers to the Al-Azhar as the “most prestigious religious institution in the Muslim World.” The institution is co-opted by Mubarak’s regime, which appoints the Grand Sheikh. The institution is full of medieval theologians, like the so-called “Al-Azhar Scientists Front.” And the new Grand Sheikh starts his tenure by lobbying for more censorship…
I wish to see this institution dissolved…
Mubarak’s interior minister, Habib el-Adly…
…has called for states to close down websites hosting material connected with terrorist activity.
The call was made during the 20th INTERPOL African regional conference, hosted in Cairo from July 7-9.
I agree, and let’s start by shutting down this terrorist website…
Vimeo censors Al-Masry Al-Youm’s pigs’ slaughter video…
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
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