Bedouins issue death fatwa on Amr Adib

The name of Amr Adib may be familiar to some of you. He came to my attention earlier this year, when he broadcasted to the Egyptian world that a group of elderly Jews were coming from Israel to supposedly reclaim properties abandoned after the Second Exodus, when all they had wanted to do was remember their roots.

Amr Adib endeared himself to me for the rest of his life, especially after I had the pleasure of listening to his tirade in arabic, which I didn't understand, but which was translated for me. It is no wonder that the people involved in the hospitality part of the trip became fearful and could not guarantee the safety of the travelers.....

It seems now that Bedouins have a bone to pick with Mr. Adib. I wonder if his foot accidentally found its way  into his mouth again. Fatwas are serious: whose skirt will Mr. Adib find under which to hide?

Let's check the news:

CAIRO: Bedouin tribes in Sinai have issued a death fatwa on famed television presenter Amr Adib for comments he made about them after recent clashes in Sinai between them and security forces.

The decision was reached at a meeting of the popular campaign for citizen rights in North Sinai last Wednesday, where a council of various tribes issued a fatwa on Adib after the comments he made on his show, North Sinai Tagammu party member Hussein El Qayem told Daily News Egypt.

Adib, who hosts the popular Al-Qahira Al-Youm talk show on Orbit satellite network, is alleged to have insinuated that the Bedouins of Sinai were more partial to an “enemy” country, meaning Israel, than Egypt. He is also meant to have accused the Bedouins of wanting to secede from Egypt, and warned them that if they didn’t like their circumstances, they could go live in that “enemy” country. (the man seriously is intellectually challenged when it comes to Israel). more>>