{"id":387,"date":"2013-11-09T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/the-fate-of-egypts-john-stewart.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T22:12:15","slug":"the-fate-of-egypts-john-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/the-fate-of-egypts-john-stewart.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of  Egypt&#8217;s John Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEO2Rd3sJbA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This summer John Stewart appeared on Egypt\u2019s political satire show called Al Bernameg. It\u2019s absolutely hilarious and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/06\/25\/jon-stewarts-brilliant-appearance-on-egypts-version-of-the-daily-show\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Max Fisher observes in his story about the appearance<\/a>, only John Stewart can make a Jewish joke in Egypt and get a lot of laughs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since Stewart\u2019s appearance in June, Egyptian authorities have taken \u00a0the show off the air presumably because the show\u2019s anchor, Bassem Youssef, has made a few jokes about Egypt\u2019s military leadership. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/08\/world\/middleeast\/the-fate-of-egypts-jon-stewart.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;smid=tw-nytimesworld\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New York Times has an excellent cli<\/a>p about the decision.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a clip from ABC News about the decision to take Youseef off the air.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"279\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"background\" value=\"#333333\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50144351&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-202_162-57609461\/complaints-claim-egypts-jon-stewart-defamed-military\/\"><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\"><embed width=\"425\" height=\"279\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" background=\"#333333\" flashvars=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50144351&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-202_162-57609461\/complaints-claim-egypts-jon-stewart-defamed-military\/\" salign=\"lt\" scale=\"noscale\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer John Stewart appeared on Egypt\u2019s political satire show called Al Bernameg. 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