Vodafone Puppet Accused of Inciting Terrorism in Egypt
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Vodafone is threatening to take legal action to defend its reputation after the marketer was accused of using a sock puppet to send encrypted messages inciting terrorism in Egypt.
The video ad in question features Abla Fahita a gossipy widow who has been a popular social media character in Egypt since 2011 — and her daughter Karkoura. Together they are searching for Ms. Fahita’s deceased husband’s SIM card, enlisting the help of a sniffer dog in a mall.
Youth activist Ahmed Spider, convinced that the dog and the mall referred to a bomb plot, filed a complaint with Egypt’s prosecutor general. Mr. Spider also claimed that the Christmas ornaments in the background were deliberately made to look like bombs, and that the branches of a cactus, also in the background, formed the “rabaah,” a hand gesture used among Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
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