She Missed The Art Appreciation Class

The Telegraph reports an attack on the villa and museum of Egyptian sculptor Hassan Heshmat. Three pieces of art were damaged by a black clad and veiled woman screaming, "Infidels, infidels! Obviously, she is a little more than just an outspoken art critic.

Indeed, this just seems to be another example of religiously motivated violence and destruction so common in that part of the world and a "cultural treasure" they would like to begin exporting to the West.

The attack followed a fatwa by the Grand Mufti of Cairo, Ali Gomaa, which banned all decorative statues of living beings.

Quoting the article:

"We are seeing an increase of conservative, Islamist feeling," said Nabil Abdel Fatah, from the Al Ahram centre for Political and Strategic studies in Cairo.

"The Islamisation of Egyptian society is happening from the bottom up, and now it has reached the middle classes - the doctors, the lawyers.

"Over the next few years political Islam will grow and grow," he added. "The duality between secular and religious is very dangerous and will lead to a very serious conflict in Egyptian society.

We are already seeing terror attacks. And we will see new radical groups who will want to change the state in the most basic way - by suicide bombs and assassination."

If Egypt falls to these philistines, not only might we lose some of the greatest art treasures known to mankind, but the threat of islamofascism to the civilized world will be greater than ever before.

As they have elsewhere, they are trying to use the election process in Egypt to gain the upper hand. Although, critics in the West love to refer to any democratic steps in Egypt as a charade would it be better to have a Hamas style victory by the Muslim Brotherhood?

The truth is, when open elections are held in that part of the world, it becomes painfully obvious that the so called peace loving majority is non existent and it is the fanatics that carry the day. When the majority of your eligible voters are violence dependent street rabble, it is difficult to justify a democratic process.