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Guest post by veteran Middle East publisher F. Najia
Tarek A. Alhomayed, editor in chief of the Saudi newspaper of records Asharq al-Awsat, Friday compares the continuing face-off between pro- and anti-Mubarak protesters in Egypt to one between a camel and Facebook .
He says whoever incited Mubarak supporters to gallop on camels and horses and charge into youths massing Tahrir Square “committed a deadly and unpardonable mistake against Egypt and President Mubarak in person…
“Is it permissible for this to mark the end of the Egyptian president’s regime? Shame!”
Instead of “camel,” Egyptian-born American scholar Dr. Mamoun Fandy, writes in the same vein on the same day in the same newspaper of “The Donkey versus Facebook .” He says “mule versus Facebook ” has been his answer to those asking him, “Where is Egypt heading?”
He says what caught his eye in the scenes unfolding on Tahrir Square was of a young man raising a placard where he had scribbled, “Time you [Mubarak] left… My arm is hurting.”
