Word has come down that Canadian radical activists John Greyson and Tarek Loubani, currently imprisoned in Egypt, have been accused of murder.
I find it hard to believe those two nitwits would actually have killed anyone.
They did, however. decide to go to a violent demonstration that the Egyptian authorities declared illegal. In what strains credulity, they claimed they were just going to check out a protest on a Muslim Brotherhood declared "Day of Rage," which invariably meant that the recently outlawed Islamist organization was planning violent attacks on the government.
That degree of idiocy from Greyson and Loubani is something I can believe. Doing that as foreigners and expecting to be able to use their Canadian passports as a "get out of jail free" card demonstrates a degree of arrogance and stupidity that is quite typical of our country's self-entitled activists.
But this time it backfired big time.
Greyson and Loubani originally went to Egypt to use it as a transit station to enter the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Gaza strip. If the duo's past is any guide, their purpose was to lend tacit support to Hamas by depicting Gaza's population as oppressed victims. However the territory they intended to support has been used in recent weeks as a launching pad for terror attacks against Egyptians.
It's hardly surprising that Egypt's government was less than sympathetic to foreign meddlers in their internal affairs. Particularly ones who, even with what may have been good intentions on the part of Loubani, by their own admission provided support to a banned group.
It is possible that Egypt has decided to use Greyson and Loubani as examples to dissuade other foreign agitators from interfering in their internal politics. Right now, thanks to the thoroughly inept diplomacy of Barack Obama, the US and westerners in general are more despised in Egypt than ever. Egypt rose up as never before, even under the rule of Hosni Mubarak, to rid themselves of the oppressive yolk of the Muslim Brotherhood's rule. Obama's ill-informed, equivocal statements that seemed to support the Brotherhood generated thorough contempt, not only for him, but for all outsiders in Egypt.
Greyson and Loubani do indeed deserve contempt for their useful idiot enabling of terrorists, their arrogance and their stupidity, but they do not deserve to die.
Unless there is genuine evidence of their guilt, Egypt would serve its own purposes better by deporting Greyson and Loubani and never allowing them back, rather than handing them a victory by turning them into undeserving martyrs.
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Although I wouldn't put much credence into anything that I heard from the likes of these two clowns, I'm not in the habit of believing much from a military semi-dictatorship either. Including one that overthrew a democratically elected government that strongly appeared to be planning to turn the country into a full dictatorship. Lucky Egypt.
The "charges" do appear bogus, so I agree the clowns should be released. But with their luck, the Canadian government will give them the full Bill Sampson treatment and they'll be back home in around five years. And then they'll blame Israel for everything.
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