Opponents vote to send Egypt’s Morsi into space
EGYPT: Opponents of Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi are voting to
send him where no Islamist leader has gone before: outer space. Morsi on
Saturday was leading the field in Egypt in an online contest sponsored
by deodorant makers Axe to send a lucky few on a shuttle operated by
space tourism company Space Expedition Corp.
Egypt’s opposition movement April 6 entered Morsi into the
competition.
“With God’s help, and under His care, Morsi will soon be launched to
the moon,” the group said on its Facebook page, along with a picture of
the president in a spacesuit.
The presidency has not responded to the campaign on behalf of the
former engineer and self-professed “Planet of the Apes” fan.
But his opponents have enthusiastically embraced the possibility. “I
just voted for Morsi to go to space. Proudest moment in voting history,”
one of them wrote on Twitter.
Trailing far behind Morsi’s almost 22,000 votes, Egyptian mountain
climber Omar Samra said he selected Morsi even though he himself dreamed
of going into space. “That awkward moment when you’re confused between
fulfilling your dream to go to space and sending your president into
orbit,” he wrote on Twitter.
Twenty-two winners from around the world will be trained for the trip
at a camp in Florida, United States, before they board the shuttle to
take them 103 kilometres (64 miles) above the Earth.
AFP
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