Just after the revolution I was in Egypt and the guys at the dive camp were showing a placard around that they had made. There were several names printed prominently on it so we naturally asked if those were the names of the guys who started the revolution. No, in fact they were the names of the guys who made the placard. LOL. That kind of humor is priceless.
I know I'm not American and I don't automatically make them suspicious but even the Americans I know who have traveled in Egypt have never told me that they got a poor reception. Incidents will always happen but they are incidents and I'd wager that even Americans are statistically safer walking around the streets of Cairo than they would be walking around the streets of New York.
There *are* people on Scubaboard who I would advise not to go to Egypt, not only for their own good but for the good other other tourists who follow them. They know who they are. They post almost exclusively in the PUB and they turn on the Fox channel before they eat breakfast in the morning. Mentality and respect count for a lot when you travel abroad. If you're a racist, loud-mouth, boor then, yeah. Stay home because you're going to get a dose of karma at some point.
I hate media scaremongering but I understand it. Rule #1 of propaganda is that if you make people afraid then they'll believe anything you tell them, which is what Bush wanted after 9-11 and it would appear that the American media are now stuck playing that card over and over again. If you want facts, then don't listen to the media. Really.
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I know I'm not American and I don't automatically make them suspicious but even the Americans I know who have traveled in Egypt have never told me that they got a poor reception. Incidents will always happen but they are incidents and I'd wager that even Americans are statistically safer walking around the streets of Cairo than they would be walking around the streets of New York.
There *are* people on Scubaboard who I would advise not to go to Egypt, not only for their own good but for the good other other tourists who follow them. They know who they are. They post almost exclusively in the PUB and they turn on the Fox channel before they eat breakfast in the morning. Mentality and respect count for a lot when you travel abroad. If you're a racist, loud-mouth, boor then, yeah. Stay home because you're going to get a dose of karma at some point.
I hate media scaremongering but I understand it. Rule #1 of propaganda is that if you make people afraid then they'll believe anything you tell them, which is what Bush wanted after 9-11 and it would appear that the American media are now stuck playing that card over and over again. If you want facts, then don't listen to the media. Really.
R..