ALEXANDRIA,
Egypt, April 8 (IslamOnline.net) - Biscuits and cakes became the
brand-new method to protest the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in the
Egyptian Mediterranean seaport of Alexandria.
An
Alexandrian chef cooked a tank and warplane of cake and wrote on one
side “Allah Is Greater” and on the other “No to War on Iraq”
while drawing the Iraqi flag at the bottom.
“My
colleagues and I are sharing the Iraqi people the same feelings of
disappointment and depression because of the current events in Iraq and
the incessant aggression on Arabs and Muslims,” Abdul Bar told
IslamOnline.net on Tuesday, April 8.
“Unfortunately,
we have nothing to do for Iraq, which is in a pressing need for weapons
and materiel to combat the invasion…That’s why we decided to make
weapons of cake and biscuits as a simple token of our solidarity with
our brothers in Iraq and as a way to vent the feeling of injustice that
stirs up in our hearts,” he asserted.
Abdul
Bar hoped that such symbolic models would be real ones to help the
Iraqis in their uphill struggle against the U.S.-led troops and defeat
them.
The
chef said he is not an expert in politics and does not know much about
what is going on on the political arena, but feels humiliated by a
foreign invasion of a brotherly Arab country.
He
also added that he has been working as confectionery cooker for more
than 30 years, noting that he used to make cakes of different shapes for
various occasions.
“But
this time I was moved by a patriotic feeling to make the warplane and
the tank and no one asked me to do so but my conscience…In my humble
opinion, if every Arab followed his/her his conscience, we would see
dramatic changes in the Arab world,” he stressed.
