Archive for November, 2003

War of the stickers

Copts and Muslims battle it out with car bumper stickers in Egypt:
First came the fish bumper stickers, imported from the United States and pasted on cars by members of Egypt’s Coptic minority as a symbol of their Christianity. Before long, some Muslims responded with their own bumper stickers: fish-hungry sharks.

Likudniks target campuses

Salon.com is running an interesting article on how Likudnik activists are targeting Middle Eastern Studies departments that receive federal aid to impose their own views, and ultimately, academics who share their extremist views.
The article shows that the usual anti-Arab suspects — Martin Kramer, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, Stanley Kurtz — are supporting or leading advocates [...]





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