Veil row round up

OK this is a round up of the row caused by the minister of culture's words against the veil.

- Apparently what happened last week in the parliament represents a direct breech to the Egyptian constitution as it states that any minister is only to be questioned by the parliament in matters of his/her official duties as a minister and to answer only to his/her policies and decisions in regard of how his ministry is performing.
So that makes last week's session in the parliament completely bogus and leaves the house speaker A.K.A. Mr. Fathy Sorour A.K.A. the biggest asshole of the day, to answer how he allowed this to happen, not only that but how could he state that any official wishes to express his views to relief himself from formal duties, I mean it turned out that what he said is not in the constitution so it qualifies as a personal view, so shouldn't he practice what he preach and relief himself? I don't think so.

- Yesterday, there was demonstrations everywhere mostly by veiled women to protest what's happening in Iraq after 202 people were killed by insurgents and also what's happening in Lebanon with a civil war on the brink, and no one mentioned anything about Mr. Hosni's remarks!!

- Today, the grand sheikh of Azhar stated that the veil is not up for debate and not something that one expresses opinions about!................ hmmm interesting.

- Three cases were filed at the public prosecutor's office against Mr. Hosni in contempt to Islam, one was filed by a Muslim cleric and two by lawyers.

- The biggest insult for the veil in my opinion came from Mr. Kamal Elshazly when he stood up in the parliament and proudly announced that his wife and daughter are both veiled, to all of you who don't know, the guy represents a symbol of corruption in Egypt and he's detested by everyone. But no one saw the irony in a corrupted man defending the veil.

- There are some voices who spoke in support of the minister but unfortunately they are few and not loud enough as they are mainly highly mannered voices that believe in a decent way for debate and can not be heard amongst the screaming and wheeling voices from the other side.

- There is a new motto for the NDP party, it goes like this: " If you can't beat them, Join them".

Waldorf.