Barry Rubin: The Social Networking Revolution Meets Islamists with No Sense of Humor

Barry Rubin's posts now appear on Pajamas Media:

The Social Networking Revolution Meets Islamists with No Sense of Humor

By Barry Rubin

Naguib Sawiris is an Egyptian business tycoon. He’s also the founder of the new, liberal Free Egyptians Party. He also tweets and has an Internet site. He’s also in big trouble. For something he posted. Pictures of Muhammad founder of Islam? Anthony Weiner type photos? No. Cartoons of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Read on.


His Mickey Mouse was wearing a beard, Minnie had on a veil, and both were wearing the kind of fashions favored by Islamists. The caption: “Mickey and Minnie after.” After what? After the revolution? After the Islamists take power? About the same time that the Western world discovers that—Surprise!—the Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist and really means what it has been saying for decades, even if the Western media doesn’t report it and Western experts say that it hasn’t been calling for Jihad, killing Americans, wiping out Israel, and similar things?

Continue reading The Social Networking Revolution Meets Islamists with No Sense of Humor

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan). His latest book is Israel: An Introduction, to be published by Yale University Press later this year. You can read more of Barry Rubin's posts at Rubin Reports, and now on his new blog, Rubin Reports, on Pajamas Media

Technorati Tag: Egypt and Mickey Mouse.