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Washington Post: Why I Published Those Cartoons

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on Feb 23, 2006; 5:19pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Washington-Post-Why-I-Published-Those-Cartoons-tp521395p521422.html

Mohammed --

Thank you a new simile for not getting it:  like preaching
vegetarianism to the Bedouin.

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On 2/23/06, Mohammed El-Beltagy <mohammed at computer.org> wrote:
> not carry the conversation further. He gives me an incredulous stare that
> reminds of one I saw a couple of years ago when I was out on a desert
> safari. It was the speechless reaction of our Bedouin guide when a European
> girl on our group was pontificating on the merits of a vegetarian diet
> (something that is impossible to do in the Sahara..unless your stomach can
> handle bush leaves).
>