CAIRO — Anger has erupted online after the former vice president of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court refused to take off her shoes while passing through security at Cairo International Airport. The incident led Tahani El Gebali to cancel her trip to Beirut. El Gebali told that media that she found the security procedure inhuman, and that she had already passed by all the airport's checkpoints. After being questioned on television what she would do if she was asked to remove her shoes at a security checkpoint in another country, El Gebali said: "I would do the same thing, I'll not accept to take off my shoes and I'll go back to my country on the first return flight." During the same interview, Egyptian TV presenter, Mofed Fawzy, said to El Gebali: "I appreciate you, and consider you one of the most important people in the Egypt, but you became an ignorant without any introductions." Fawzy said El Gebali she was a patriot but that she'd refused to be like other citizens and travelers who accepted security procedures. "You must have been a model for people to follow. It has nothing with dignity. We all pass by these procedures when we travel through airports," he said.
