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To: SmoothSail who wrote (1735)	9/12/2011 6:58:30 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	5 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

I'm done. it's a one way conversation. He asks many questions, but answers none.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (1735)	9/12/2011 7:53:37 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

These Egyptians actually do go around banging their head against the floor... Egypt’s Botched Revolution September 11, 2011 - 10:15 pm - by Michael J. Totten The regime is an Arab Nationalist one, but radical Islam has been gaining in strength ever since Nasser squelched Egypt’s liberalism. The overwhelming majority of women throughout the country wear headscarves now whereas few did in the first half of the last century. A startlingly large number of men sport bruises on their foreheads—acquired by hitting their heads on the floor during prayer—to show off their piety. I see more men with bruised foreheads in a single day in Cairo than in all other Muslim-majority countries I’ve visited in my life put together. Muslim Brotherhood executive bureau member Esam El-Erian with his pious bruised forehead