And I don't have to tell you about the notion of the shoe in Arab culture. Do you know that the caliph Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah once killed one of his lieutenants because he entered Cairo with his foot on his camel's neck where the bottom of the shoe was visible to Al-Hakim? It is true: read about it in the book on Al-Hakim by Muhammad `Anan.
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Hitting the correspondent of Syrian regime TV with a shoe
And I don't have to tell you about the notion of the shoe in Arab culture. Do you know that the caliph Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah once killed one of his lieutenants because he entered Cairo with his foot on his camel's neck where the bottom of the shoe was visible to Al-Hakim? It is true: read about it in the book on Al-Hakim by Muhammad `Anan.
