Iraq holds own beer festival

[maximus otter]

A restaurant owner in Northern Iraq has held his own version of Munich's Oktoberfest.

German-born Gunter Voelker, who runs the Deutscher Hof Erbil restaurant in Kurdish city Irbil, explained that the beer festival aimed to bring people together and shift perceptions about Iraq's suitability as a holiday destination.

He said: "We can make this festival with Iraqi people, Turkish people, Kurdish people, American people, German people, with [people from] all over the world in peace and in a real good mood."

The party, which ended yesterday, included waitresses wearing dirndls as well as beer steins, sausages and an oom-pah band.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a132533/iraq-holds-own-beer-festival.html

maximus otter

 

[ramonmercado]

Great news! A blow for secularism.

 

[goth13girl666]

Exactly just cause certain people or groups in Iraq go around killing innocent people, does not mean we should judge the rest of the country on that, its the same where ever you go no country is perfect.

 

[ramonmercado]

I do actually know something about Iraq, honestly. I do solidarity work for groups in Iraq who oppose both the US/UK Occupation and also oppose Islamic Fundamentalists.

Heres the blog of an Iraqi socialist feminist: http://houzanmahmoud.blogspot.com/

Heres the site of the Iraq Freedom Congress
http://www.ifcongress.com/English/index.htm

Worker-communists
http://www.socialismnow.org/index1.html

 

[bazizmaduno]

Excellent - It's only a matter of time 'til they join the Eurovision song contest - YEH!!!

 

[ramonmercado]

Will they sing The Mullah Kintyre?

 

[bazizmaduno]

COAT!!!

 

[SoundDust]

Damn, missed it

 

[goth13girl666]

Excellent - It's only a matter of time 'til they join the Eurovision song contest - YEH!!!

No for the love of god not the eurovision song conteset there is not a more depressing programme than that :lol: