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Tahrir Square, Europe

May 18, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

The Egyptian revolution spreads north:

About 2,000 young people angry over high unemployment have spent the night camping in a famous square in Madrid as a political protest there grows. […] The nature of the peaceful protest, including Twitter messages to alert supporters, echoed the pro-democracy rallies that revolutionised Egypt.

Now for the franchise to be completely realistic, the spanish police will need to move in and start killing them left and right. If that didn’t work, they can try sending in some camel-mounted baltagiyya..