Sadat Nephew Urges Israel Postal Ban Over "Infidel"

AP via Yahoo! ^ | January 7, 2006 | AFP

[mcg2000]

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian MP Talaat Sadat, whose uncle became the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel, called for a boycott of all mail coming from the Jewish state in protest against a stamp deemed offensive to Islam.

The independent daily Nahdet Masr on Saturday carried a letter signed by Sadat and three other lawmakers urging the Egyptian government to file a request for Israel to withdraw the "infidel" stamp.

In the mouthpiece of Sadat's Ahrar party, the MPs explained that the stamp depicted a muezzin calling for prayer from the top of his minaret like a pop star singing to a crowd.

Talaat Sadat, whose illustrious uncle Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 before being assassinated two years later, is notorious for his headline-grabbing stunts.

In the summer, he mounted a short-lived challenge to his uncle's successor Hosni Mubarak in the country's first contested presidential election before eventually pulling out of the race.

In the parliamentary polls that wound up last month, he campaigned for re-election in his Menufiya constituency flanked by two live lions to match his campaign logo.

[MinuteGal]

It's difficult to comment without viewing a replica of the stamp. Anyone have a pic?

Leni

[DejaJude]

Talaat Sadat, whose illustrious uncle Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 before being assassinated two years later, is notorious for his headline-grabbing stunts.

Reminds me of Teddy.

[Paladin2]

These ROP adherents need to embrace and celebrate a little diversity.

[FreedomNeocon]

Meanwhile the paistinian TERRORISTS are blowing up Egypt's boarder walls and pouring into their country.

But this stamp... this is the important thing

[FreedomNeocon]

Considering past 'offensive to Islam' incidents, it can be a whinne-the-pooh stamp (with piglet on it)!

[Popman]

...stamp depicted a muezzin calling for prayer from the top of his minaret like a pop star singing to a crowd.

If the muezzin looks like Madonna, I could understand, but how................Oh' never mind. I forget Islam doesn't have anything to do with logic or common sense

They probably more upset that Jewish people licked the stamp than the image on it

[nmh]

I think the U.S. needs a terrorist stamp with WTC murderers on it and label the stamp "evil terrorists".
And I don't care if it makes people that are Islamists feewl bad.

[SJackson]

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