Saturday, December 03, 2011
Thought of the Day
In 1923, its finance minister was a man called Joseph Cattaui, a member of parliament, and a Jew. Couldn’t happen today. Mr. Cattaui’s grandson wrote to me recently from France, where the family now lives. In the unlikely event the forthcoming Muslim Brotherhood government wish to appoint a Jew as finance minister, there are very few left available. Indeed, Jews are so thin on the ground that those youthful idealists in Tahrir Square looking for Jews to club to a pulp have been forced to make do with sexually assaulting hapless gentiles like the CBS News reporter Lara Logan. It doesn’t fit the narrative, so even Miss Logan’s network colleagues preferred to look away. We have got used to the fact that Egypt is now a land without Jews. Soon it will be a land without Copts. We’ll get used to that, too.
Mark Steyn, being even more gloomy than usual, if that were possible.
Mark Steyn, being even more gloomy than usual, if that were possible.
Labels: Mark Steyn quote; Egypt; Juden- und Christenrein
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 9:04 AM 
