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Subject: Protesting U.S. War With Cakes, Biscuits Author: Anonymous [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 21:22:23 04/09/03 Wed Protesting U.S. War With Cakes, Biscuits By Hossam Abdul Qadir, IOL Correspondent ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, April 8 (IslamOnline.net) - Biscuits and cakes became the brand-new method to protest the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in the Egyptian Mediterranean seaport of Alexandria. An Alexandrian chef cooked a tank and warplane of cake and wrote on one side “Allah Is Greater” and on the other “No to War on Iraq” while drawing the Iraqi flag at the bottom. “My colleagues and I are sharing the Iraqi people the same feelings of disappointment and depression because of the current events in Iraq and the incessant aggression on Arabs and Muslims,” Abdul Bar told IslamOnline.net on Tuesday, April 8. “Unfortunately, we have nothing to do for Iraq, which is in a pressing need for weapons and materiel to combat the invasion…That’s why we decided to make weapons of cake and biscuits as a simple token of our solidarity with our brothers in Iraq and as a way to vent the feeling of injustice that stirs up in our hearts,” he asserted. Abdul Bar hoped that such symbolic models would be real ones to help the Iraqis in their uphill struggle against the U.S.-led troops and defeat them. The chef said he is not an expert in politics and does not know much about what is going on on the political arena, but feels humiliated by a foreign invasion of a brotherly Arab country. “Arabs are sitting in the audience and have done nothing…Shaban Abdul Raheem (a famed Egyptian pop singer) was right when he sang ‘I hope that just one Arab summit would prove successful someday’,” Abdul Bar recalled. He also added that he has been working as confectionery cooker for more than 30 years, noting that he used to make cakes of different shapes for various occasions. “But this time I was moved by a patriotic feeling to make the warplane and the tank and no one asked me to do so but my conscience…In my humble opinion, if every Arab followed his/her his conscience, we would see dramatic changes in the Arab world,” he stressed. http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/08/article19.shtml [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]