Saturday, August 04, 2007

Muhammad George Bush. The Hariri candidate in Beirut is named Amin `Itani. Al-Afkar magazine reported that the Hariri electoral apparatus decided to use his name as Muhammad Amin `Itani in order to stimulate sectarian sentiments among voters. (As is well-known, Anwar Sadat started to refer to himself as Muhammad Anwar Sadat--and only in Arabic--once he decided to sponsor the fundamentalist camp in Egypt. I would not be surprised if the Hariri family starts referring to Bush as Muhammad George Bush.)