Tuesday, January 31, 2006

It's like being invaded by the Three Stooges


Egyptians are so offended by the cartoons of Mohammed that Egypt refuses to take money from Denmark; but not to be outdone, Saudi Arabians are refusing to take insulin. Boy, that'll show those Danes.
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The Egyptian parliament's Economic Committee refused to discuss a $72.5 million loan from Denmark to Egypt, with newspapers quoting lawmakers as saying they do not want to cooperate with a country that has insulted the prophet.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_prophet_drawings_5

Hardest hit by the boycott was Danish-Swedish dairy product maker Arla Foods, with annual sales of $487 million in the Middle East. The world's biggest maker of insulin, Novo Nordisk, also said it was affected.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3688AD34-7D10-4CBC-8460-40C60A0A869B.htm

2 comments:

elmers brother said...

Hahahaha these are great Dag!

Dag said...

Thanks to those who sent things in. There are more to come. I'm not always identifying contributors for obvious reasons. Me? I must be bullet proof or stupid.

Yeah, I'm bullet proof. That's it.