Korba Peace Festival

Korba!

Always so much fun!

Korba is one of the oldest districts in Heliopolis. All these gorgeous old buildings. Sadly, it’s become extremely crowded and annoying, but on one day every year, it becomes a pedestrian street, and it’s true beauty shines through.

All the cafes set their tables outside, bands entertain us up on a stage, kids draw on the street with chalks, and companies fall all over themselves to market their products in the most innovative ways. Entertainment is varied: the traditional tanoura/ oriental dances, and then guitar/ jazz bands. It got way crowded at night, but still vairy fun,

Loves it.

I then went and caught the late screening of Angels and Demons. Neither it or nor the Da Vinci code are my favorite Dan Brown books (that would be Deception point), but it was interesting to see how it played out on screen.

The best part? The fact that the terrorist was no longer an Arab Muslim who hated all Christians and loved raping and killing white western women (real subtle of you there Dan). Instead, he was a Dane. Two thumbs up.

Loser that I am, I decided to google and see what people thought of this. And I came across this delightful piece by anti-Muslim zealot Debbie Schlussel:

“Over the years, I’ve written about the many movies in which Hollywood changes the villain or the terrorist in the original script or novel from a Muslim to something else out of politically correct deference to Islam, the religion of whiners (and ultimately, murderers). Now, Hollywood continues in this tradition. … I’m already learning that ['Angels and Demons'] has been ‘disinfected’ by Islamopanderers (director Ron Howard) not wanting to upset our dear friends in the ‘Religion of Peace,’ who might do something ‘peaceful’ if the movie had stayed true to the book.”

Sigh.