You've got to hand it to them: those hidden Zionist conspirators are thorough. Not even the fenugreek is safe from their wiles. Somewhere in the Grand Conspiracy Headquarters is a Fenugreek File on someone's desk with all the nefarious plans.
Once again, conspiracy theories are handy for Islamic governments and societies, where they tend to thrive, because they deflect responsibility, and they don't have to make sense as long as they pin the blame on one scapegoat or another and reinforce a sense of righteous victim-hood to at once distract and unite the populace. "In new Egypt, old conspiracies live on," by David E. Miller for The Media Line, July 20:
When a European laboratory announced two weeks ago that an infected shipment of Egyptian fenugreek seeds was the source of an E. coli epidemic that killed 48 Germans and a Swede, the Egyptian agriculture minister didn’t apologize, nor did he call for an investigation into the matter.
The problem had nothing to do with Egypt, the minister, Ayman Abu-Hadid, told Egyptian press.
"Israel is waging a commercial war against Egyptian exports," he explained, and with that the case was closed.
Abu-Hadid isn’t the only minister in Egypt's post-revolutionary government to blame Israel for his country's woes. In June, Deputy Prime Minister Yehia El-Gamal told the Lebanese news site Al-Nashra that Israel was inciting sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians in the country.
“Israel understands that a strong Egypt is a danger for them and they want to make Egypt weak,” El-Gamal said. "Nothing breaks or weakens Egypt more than sectarian tension or clashes between Muslims and Christians.”
Conspiracy theories – with Israel fingered as the power behind the scenes – were common currency in the years Husni Mubarak ruled Egypt. Many Egyptians expected that with the transition to a more open, accountable and democratic society, the politicians and press would no longer need to point to cabals to explain away problems.
Egypt’s press today is freer than any time in the last half century, but the government remains in the hands of the Mubarak-era army leadership, and the cabinet, even after this week’s reshuffle, is made up of veteran politicians. And, even though Egypt and Israel are formally at peace, many Egyptians remain hostile to the Jewish state. Travel, commercial ties and cultural links are minimal.
"Conspiracy theories are part of the texture of our culture," Hani Henry, a psychology professor at the American University in Cairo, told The Media Line. "Even if we have a democratic government, the problem will not go away."
He says blaming Israel for Egypt’s problems could be both a cynical attempt by politicians to distract the public or an honest belief that Israel is constantly conniving against Egypt. In either case however, conspiratorial thinking was deeply ingrained in Egyptian thinking.
The Egyptian government, nominated and directed by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), is struggling with soaring unemployment, a sharp decline in tourism and inflation of nearly 12%. Given these troubles, it is much easier to blame an outside enemy than take responsibility and face public rage, experts say.
The arrest in mid-June of Ilan Grapel, a 27-year-old American-Israeli law student, on charges of spying for Israel and stirring social unrest in Egypt was viewed by many Egyptians as a government ploy to deflect public attention from its shortcomings. Grapel traveled to Egypt as part of his work for a charity helping African refugees. His family, as well as the Israeli government, deny he was involved in espionage.
Then there were those oddly tattooed Mossad guys.
"Those scoundrels want to occupy the people with the spy so that they don’t talk about Mubarak and the gas [exports to Israel] …Come on, it’s the same old regime, nothing has changed," one Facebook commentator wrote.
When protesters and police clashed at Cairo’s Tahrir Square at the end of June, leaving 1,000 injured, SCAF announced that it was all part of an “organized plan” to destabilize Egypt.
“Here we come to the question that blew off the lid of Pandora’s Box: Who sent the thugs? And all kinds of answers start popping up, and with each answer an entire world of sneaky intrigues and mischievous plots reveals itself to an audience yearning for an action-packed story that absolves them from blame and holds some invincible power accountable for their misery,” wrote Sonia Farid, who teaches English literature at Cairo University, on the Al-Arabiya television website.
It's always someone else's fault:
Ishaq Ibrahim, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a Cairo human rights organization, says that decades of Western failure to address the Palestinian issue has caused Egyptians to become bitter and suspicious of the West. However, he added, that doesn’t exempt them from examining their own mistakes.
"I don't like hearing about conspiracy theories," Ibrahim told The Media Line. "Even if we assume there was external intervention, someone from the inside must have contributed."
While he understood why simple Egyptians would blame the Israelis for the E. coli epidemic, Ibrahim says that such statements from an educated government official are unacceptable.
"The government is placating the sentiments of the masses," Ibrahim said. "Rather than leading the way and enlightening the people, they are feeding their fears."...
Muslims have a track record of contaminating infidels' food, see links under TOXIC JIHAD at http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2011/03/many-faces-of-jihad.html
You've got to hand it to those Israelis - they'll stop at nothing. They'll leave no stone unturned in the quest for The Evil Jooz to control the world.
In Western Civilization the it-wasn't-me or "a big boy did it and ran away" excuse stops being tolerated when a child is between six or seven. By their early teens most kids have got it that such excuses don't work; those that haven't cottoned-on by then generally becoming career criminals (or politicians). In the Islamic world however, where lying is acceptable providing it's done for Allah, children instead learn that rather than having to fess-up all they need to do is blame the right "big boy" - and because of Islam's eternal anti-Semitism, the default position is always the Jews (and/or the Zionists, or Israel). If there are no Jews around, no matter, Allah knows how sneaky the they are, and how they can be in many places at the same time.
Boycott products from All mohammedan countries, especially food products.
Did you know that Islam is a Zionist plot designed to hold back the economic and social development of countries that adopt this so-called religion?
Destroy it now and release yourselves from the Zionist grip of this false religion! Don't let the Zionists fool you, they're using Islam as a trojan horse to take over the world.
Only the Jews could be so devious and clever.
:))
Of course it was the Jews...Allah would never poison a food supply, so it has to be Jews...No Mahoundian would do it would they??? So Jews are the likely culprits...The AM is right on top of it...He knows that every dastardly deed that has ever been done, was done by Jews...Zionist fingerprints are all over it...Obviously the 'capital of dastardly deeds', Israel, should be destroyed, and Allah re-established as the only God...Only then will the Jewish dastardly deeds cease...
Israel didn't exist as a country in Mahound's time, but he knew of the dastardly nature of Jews and warned against them...He tried 'solve the Jewish problem' way back then when Allah revealed Quran 5:82, where he declared Jews the enemy, and was so enraged he turned some of them into apes and pigs...
It's only because Allah is merciful that he doesn't turn some of them into apes and pigs today...But Allah's patience is not unlimited...He see's the dastardly deeds and is writing down names and addresses...If the populations of apes and pigs suddenly increases we will know that Allah is at work on the 'Jewish problem'...
Or so Abdullah told me...
Hey, I LIKE that!
Make no mistake about it...along with nuclear weapons developement, the Muslims are working very hard on chemical and biological weapons...Their chemical and biological laboratories are quite elaborate and operational...
just a reminder.
Well, of course it had to be a Mossad operation. After all, sanitation standards in Egypt are second to none and E. Coli is virtually unknown there.
.''Conspiracy theories are part of the texture of our culture'' said Hani Henry, a psychology professor at the American University in Cairo. Well, Hani, to be quite frank with you, that is a rather sad reflection on the state of your society and it really doesn't say much for your 'culture' either, for that matter. Could it be the Islam getting in the way of progress prehaps? Would you dare think such a henious thought 'professor'?
Everything that goes wrong is always Israel`s fault according to muslims, arabs especially!
It`s just another way to demonise the Jews for muslims!
Best to take with a pinch of salt!
Why is such islamic Nazi antisemitism tolerated by the West? Caliph Hussein Obama, that suspected agent and Trojan horse of the Muslim Brotherhood, even want to send more weapons to this savage Muslim country, Egypt! See - http://europenews.dk/en/node/45496
Allen West: No Tanks to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood
Sunshine State News 20 July 2011
U.S. Rep. Allen West says a planned sale of Abrams tanks to Egypt could play into the hands of radicals and further destabilize the region. In a letter to Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon on Monday, West wrote:
"It has come to my attention that the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress on July 1, 2011 of a possible foreign military sale to the government of Egypt for 125 M1A1 Abrams tank kits for coproduction and associated weapons, equipment, parts, training and logistical support.
"One of the greatest threats to Egyptian stability, as well as to regional stability, is the growing prospect of a new Egyptian government under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. If given control of the country, the Muslim Brotherhood would nominate its own candidates and turn Egypt into a radical Islamic state.
Like it, LIKE IT!
It's deja ju all over again.
I googled 'fenugreek' - Fact: NYC strange odors cause concern of a possible terrorist attack back in 09. (it turns out, it was a perfume factory processing fenugreek) - and the company's HQ, yep in Israel!
of course the jews did it! it is not the fault of thier pathetic state of the country, so it has to be the jews!!
From this article and the one that follows -- about sorcery in Saudi Arabia --it's clear what happened: Zionist necromancers put a spell on the Egyptian fenugreek crop. So what the Egyptians need to do is bring in some imams skilled in the black arts to exorcise the crop. Of course, a large fraction of the crop -- say 1/4 -- will have to be destroyed to make the exorcism effective. But that's the price that has to be paid. And since the Hebrew mages are unlikely to stop with just the fenugreek crop, all the Egyptian crops will have to be similarly cleansed, and all the herds and flocks. It will mean serious food shortages for Egypt, but I'm sure the oil-rich Persian Gulf countries will generously buy food on the world markets to feed their Arab brothers.
The "Egyptian Minister of Conspiracies" sets us straight on every score:
http://www.youtube.com/user/dobiim4444#p/u/6/tHNtjppvWTs
The rub is that Minister Majnoon's claims have all found real-time currency in the Arab and Muslim press.
Islam is a Zionist Plot
What a great T-shirt slogan!
Wage Shit Jihad on the Euro-dhimmies ... and blame Israel. I guess, a Jew ran accrooss the border from Israel and pooped on the Egyptian seeds. Earler, Egyptian Muslims (university professors ! ! !), accused Israel of exporting to Egypt chewing gum that turns "shy Muslim girls" into raving nymphos sexually attacking men. Egypt is obsessed with sex, because it is both sexually repressed and hate possessed, as are other Muslim nations. Hence, the draw of the suicide bombing, with its promise of 72 virgins in paradise. According to a recent poll, 98 percent of Western women visiting Egypt have been sexually harrassed. And the CBS reporter Lara Logan was forcibly ceised and brutally crowd-raped for over 40 minutes by the jubilant Egyptian revolutionaries celebrating the downfall of Mubarak on Feb. 11, even as Logan lavished praises on them, calling them "heroes of freedom".
About a decade ago there was another flare-up of Egyptian intellect, as a group of intellectuals started another hysteria, claiming that Israeli-grown bananas are causing impotence and baldness in Muslim men, to make them unattractive to Muslim women.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
I would like a T-shirt with that slogan too, where to buy it?
We want t-shirts for all the pets, too.
Like this one:
http://www.cafepress.com/+dog_tshirt,107154308
Hey, Buraq, nice one :)
A separate line of t-shirts and burkas could be fashioned for Muslims:
"I am a VICTIM of Islam, the Worldwide Zionist Conspiracy"
Fenugreek is a supplement used by women to increase their milk supply when they're lactating.
You'd think the Muslims of Egypt would be all about keeping that crop clean, for the sake of all the adult male suckling that needs to happen so society can be, like, better and more Islamic and all.
Also, it has a really maple syrup kind of smell, which would go great with pork, bacon, sausages.....mmmmmm.
I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog. Once the American left helps them kill all the Jews in Israel, who will they blame for everything? Oh, yeah, the Jews in America.
Robert A. Hall
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
(All royalties go to a charity to help wounded veterans)
I think we have a classic jihad watch t-shirt in the making, here.
I think we should do Arabic and Farsi versions too :-)
Their brains would go into meltdown, mind you that's when they are most dangerous, when they're confused they explode.
Business as usual, blame the Jews, that's how Mohammedans think.
An interesting article that appeared in Australia's ABC four years ago.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/09/2027857.htm?section=world
'The art of Middle Eastern conspiracy theories'
By Middle East correspondent David Hardaker.
"The reporter's job is to get the facts. Sounds simple enough, but try doing that in the Middle East...