CAIRO: Social networking websites in Egypt are being filled with criticism and irony over the latest TV interview with the newly appointed minister of information in which he called the female announcer “hot”. Minister Salah Abdel Maqsood was interview by the Dubai Satellite channel by Lebanese host Zina al-Jarhi and during the beginning of the interview he said “I wish your questions are not as hot as you are,” in which she quickly replied: “my questions are the hot factor.” Activists went into a sarcastic spree, asking “what is wrong with our government” when the head of the state “adjusted himself” during a meeting with the Australian Prime Minister and now the media minister tells a host she is hot. The video shows him saying, “Hope your opinions are not hot,” then he repeats the same sentence without the word opinion, simply saying “she is hot.” The sarcasm stems from the Islamization of the government as the new minister is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
