At Rantings of a Sandmonkey, we discover that swastikas are trendy in Cairo. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.)

Two weeks ago, while riding in a car with a friend, I saw something that made my mouth drop in awe. I saw this guy on a motorcycle who was wearing a black Jacket that had a big Ginat Swastika on the back of it. By the time I reached for my camera phone, the dude was gone in Cairo’s traffic. I didn’t want to mention it because 1) I had no evidence and 2) It could be just one guy, and I don’t want to be crying wolf over egyptians wearing swastikas when it’s only one ignorant jew-hating guy. Egyptians may hate jews, but they are not Nazis, and I said to myself it’s probably just this one guy.

And then a week later I saw another one in downtown Cairo.

And now Jimmy has a picture of another dude wearing a Swastika and had this conversation with him.

As expected, the guy didn’t even know what it meant, or understood that Hitler would’ve slaughterd arabs as equally as he did jews. He just knew it was Hitler’s sign, and that he hated the jews, so I guess he wore it in solidarity or something. What did the jews ever do to him? Don’t ask. He just hates them. They do, after all, control the world and the reason for all of his problems. After all, this is what his parents, his teachers and the local imam tell him.
sigh …

Egypt has a long way to go man. A long way to go.

The United States gives Egypt more than $2 billion a year in foreign aid.