"Festival Of Insults" For Saudi King On Twitter

Did you hear about the festival of insults directed at Saudi’s King on Twitter? Well, even if you can’t read Arabic (Twitter will translate as best it can) – check THIS out.

According to the Angry Arab blog, there was a whole day campaign of solidarity by young Egyptians and their Arab supporters on Twitter to generate an avalanche of insults to the Saudi King using this hashtag: #طظ_في_ذاتك_الملكية_طال_عمرك

Why? Well, ABC News tell us that a prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer, Ahmed el-Gezawi, was arrested upon his April 17 arrival in the Saudi port of Jiddah.

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