A hymn chanted out of place

On wednesday last week, a group of Egyptian bloggers and activists, partly from the Muslim Brotherhood, held a conference and demonstration in favor of online press freedom at the Press Syndicate in Downtown Cairo. Read more about it here.

It seems that at a certain moment the Muslim Brothers started to sing the Muslim Brotherhood hymn. I don't know what that is like, but I can imagine that the other participants weren't really enthousiastic about this. I mean, it's like only singing the Belgian national hymn at the start of a game between Belgium and the Netherlands (random pick). Really stupid.

If I would have been at the site, I surely would have started chanting the Internationale (preferably in Arabic). Not that I'm a socialist, no I just like annoying and provocating others in such situations!

By the way, check out this Arabic version of the Internationale. They play it with the oud! Hah!

Ah, almost forgot to say! You can find pictures of the conference on Hossam el-Hamalawy's blog.