{"id":672,"date":"2005-03-29T22:13:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T04:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=672"},"modified":"2005-03-29T22:14:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T04:14:14","slug":"egyptian-stabs-kissing-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Stabs Kissing Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Methinks here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1856&#038;ncid=723&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/cpress\/20050329\/ca_pr_on_wo\/egypt_tourists_attack\">person that needs to be locked away<\/a> and fast.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Egyptian stabbed a Hungarian man and woman, slightly wounding them, after the couple kissed while pausing for a photograph near a mosque at Cairo&#8217;s popular tourist bazaar, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hesham Mohammed, 36, apparently was upset by the kiss Monday in front of Al-Hussein Mosque, a security official said on customary condition of anonymity. The mosque is adjacent to the Khan el-Khalili market where foreign tourists flock to buy souvenirs and locally made crafts.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarians, who were not identified, were treated at a nearby hospital for minor wounds, the official said, and Mohammed was being questioned. He was described as unemployed and suffering from severe depression.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism is Egypt&#8217;s top foreign-currency earner, bringing in more than $7 billion Cdn last year and providing an estimated 2.2 million jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First off, knifing foreign smoochers is not an economically sound practice for the Egyptians to adopt as a regular practice.  Second, it would be quite safe to say the unemployed Mohammed is severely depressed.  I would also guess that he&#8217;s either a freakin&#8217; loon, bitterly single, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methinks here is a person that needs to be locked away and fast. An Egyptian stabbed a Hungarian man and woman, slightly wounding them, after the couple kissed while pausing for a photograph near a mosque at Cairo&#8217;s popular tourist bazaar, police said Tuesday. Hesham Mohammed, 36, apparently was upset by the kiss Monday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-general","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}