Do you think the 20-year-old daughter of that Egyptian man has a choice? No! If the shoe thrower, Muntdhar al-Zaidi, accepted the man's offer, the man's daughter will have no choice but to marry his father's hero -- whether or not she loves him. The man told the Gulf Daily News "this is something that would honor me." Yesterday we heard that Muntadhar al-Zaidi asked for a pardon for his "ugly act" for insulting a foreign leader.
The Scotsman wrote:
There's a repressed glee in the many demonstrations across the Middle East in support of him, a sense of pride that an ordinary Arab furiously expressed the disdain and anger that many feel toward the U.S. President for his calamitous legacy in the Middle East. And that al-Zaidi did so using his shoes - an insult of choice in the Arab world - makes it even more delicious for many.
The Scotsman wrote:
There's a repressed glee in the many demonstrations across the Middle East in support of him, a sense of pride that an ordinary Arab furiously expressed the disdain and anger that many feel toward the U.S. President for his calamitous legacy in the Middle East. And that al-Zaidi did so using his shoes - an insult of choice in the Arab world - makes it even more delicious for many.
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