Bob thought he might be a pretty good egg, based on his having studied at USC. I wasn't aware that he had and looked him up this morning.
He received a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in engineering from Cairo University in 1975 and 1978, respectively. He then received his PhD in engineering from the University of Southern California in the U.S. in 1982. He was an Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge from 1982 to 1985. In 1985, he returned to Egypt to teach at Zagazig University. Two of his children are U.S. citizens.
I understand Bob's optimism, an engineering type, schooled in an enlightened country like America, we got nothing to worry about, right?
I admit that I can be ultra sensitive about certain matters pertaining to the mid east and was tempted to give Mohammed Morsi the benefit of the doubt until I heard his first pronouncement. He wants the United States to release blind terrorist sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the architect of the first World Trade Center bombing and other islamic terrorist detainees that have been convicted in the United States. For humanitarian reasons.
Rahman is serving a life sentence for his role in a plot to blow up the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the United Nations and other targets in the 1990s. He was heavily involved in the first World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than a thousand. Morsi thinks that some other group was actually responsible for nine - eleven, the terrorist detainees mere pawns. Must be the zionist entity, I just know it. He wants to be a fierce defender of the Palestinians and I have no problem with that. He also has stated that no women or christians will ever have a place in his government. Interesting.
Morsi's spokesman says that people need to chill about the request to free Rahman and the other detainees. We are told he was just playing to the crowd. But I think we have reason to worry as does Egypt's neighbor Israel. I can understand why the muslim brotherhood was banned in Egypt for so long. And why Israel's border was breached by terrorists in the first week of his reign. Maybe it is time to get the Sinai back. It will be interesting to see how things play out and if the new leader of Egypt will continue to advocate for terrorists or let his country become a base for state sponsored terrorism.
"Jihad is our path. And death for the sake of Allah is our most lofty aspiration. Rejoice and rest assured that this people will not accept a text that does not reflect the true meaning of the Islamic shari’a as a text to be implemented and as a platform. The people will not agree to anything else."
Mohammed Morsi - May 12, 2012
2 comments:
As usual informative and enjoyable.....encourage all to look at that piece of art in front of the store disguised as a tree....W
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