Muslim Brotherhood to regulate foreign tourists

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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/08/26/muslim-brotherhood-foreign-tourists/#more-765568

"Beach tourism,” said Mohamed Saad al-Katatny from the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, “must take the values and norms of our society into account. We must place regulations on tourists wishing to visit Egypt, which we will announce in advance.” He’s proposing a law that would ban the wearing of shorts and bikinis on Egypt’s beaches. Tourists should, of course, respect the local sensibilities in the places they visit. Conservative dress codes, though, are set aside on beaches all over the world, even in Muslim countries. That, however, is too much for al-Katatny. For him, the code must be enforced everywhere and by law.

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It gets even worse. Some Salafi nut wants to cover up the Sphinx and ancient statues with wax to hide them!


"Without alcohol and bathing suits, no tourists will come and we will loose $13 billion a year," Hussam A-Shaer, head of the tourist company association, told Al-Masry al-Youm.

But bathing suits are not the only worry of Egypt’s Islamists. Abd Al-Munim A-Shahhat, a spokesman for the Salafi group Dawa, has said that Egypt's world-renowned pharaonic archeology – its pyramids, Sphinx and other monuments covered with un-Islamic imagery – should also be hidden from the public eye.

"The pharaonic culture is a rotten culture," A-Shahhat told the London-based Arabic daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday, saying the faces of ancient statues "should be covered with wax, since they are religiously forbidden." He likened the Egyptian relics to the idols which circled the walls of Mecca in pre-Islamic times.

source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235687