Cultural Invasion of Egypt: Nile Brides, Islamic Pleasure Tourism, and Monuments in Danger
“These marriages have accelerated in recent years in several cities and provinces of Egypt……the Egyptian People’s Assembly had announced its intention to study this phenomenon during its next session….”
This explains the recent series of fatwas by various Egyptian muftis sanctioning such imported abominations as tourist (summer) marriages (like the messayer, preferable among Saudi men).The Arab tourists have always been there, in fact many are (were) just families enjoying summer on the Nile. But this new emphasis of changing the laws and distorting the faith to allow pedophilia and human sex trafficking under the guise of Islam is new in Egypt. This is all part of a cultural takeover that is changing the face of Egyptian society in cities and towns. I hate to say it again, but say it I must: it is a cultural invasion of a once cosmopolitan and tolerant society.
In fairness, I have seen in Thailand planeloads of German and Japanese tourists, almost all of them men, landing at Bangkok. I don't believe these men were there to explore monuments either.
“Luxor- Egypt warns pharaohs' tombs could disappear- “Royal tombs at risk due to hordes of tourists. The ornate pharaonic tombs in Egypt's Valley of the Kings are doomed to disappear within 150 to 500 years if they remain open to tourists, the head of antiquities has warned.“Zahi Hawass said humidity and fungus are eating into the walls of the royal tombs in the huge necropolis on the west bank of the Nile across from Luxor, which is swamped daily by several thousand tourists…….”
One thing you can say for Arab tourist: they ar not contributing to this damage to the historical sites.
Cheers
mhg
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