Suleiman just made a 10-second statement to this effect. Pandemonium in the square. Congratulations, Egypt.
Suleiman just made a 10-second statement to this effect. Pandemonium in the square. Congratulations, Egypt.
For real this time?
I think it was worth him having floated the trial balloon he did, however.
There was a chance, and it seems to have cost him nothing personally, although it probably cost Egypt millions of dollars for another day's lost tourist revenues, all other things being equal.
Now we will get great leadership in Egypt! I can't wait until the freedom loving Muslim Brotherhood takes control and runs Egypt with loving hands for all and peace and love for America. The muslims will get it right. I am so excited.
Goodie! wrote:
Now we will get great leadership in Egypt! I can't wait until the freedom loving Muslim Brotherhood takes control and runs Egypt with loving hands for all and peace and love for America. The muslims will get it right. I am so excited.
So you think it getting rid of the oppressive dictator was a bad thing? You, my friend, are an idiot.
Whad I say?!!!???!!! I'm an idiot? What did I say???!!! You call me an idiot!!! What man calls another a name when he is hiding behind his computer! The future will show that I am right. The wonderful change to the Muslim Brotherhood will bring such wonderful things to the world. You will see. Read your Koran. I do!
Goodie! wrote:
Now we will get great leadership in Egypt! I can't wait until the freedom loving Muslim Brotherhood takes control and runs Egypt with loving hands for all and peace and love for America. The muslims will get it right. I am so excited.
The Muslim Brotherhood accounts for 100,000 of the 80,000,000 people in Egypt. 1 tenth of 1 eightieth of the population are active members of the Muslim Brotherhood. They've been completely sidelined in Egypt's authoritarianly secular system (which is, honestly, as religiously oppressive as any Muslim dictatorship; it's a theocracy as well, just a theocracy the religion of which is atheism), so the massive presence of their members in the protests makes sense: they have as much or more to gain than any other particular cohort in the country. So they're going to press for religious freedom and the right to be democractically represented in the government--similar to those Puritans who came over to North America. Their endorsed candidates managed to get 20% of the seats in Parliament in the last election in '05, so yes they do have wider support among the Muslim population of the country, but in a Muslim country you're going to have Muslims in power--same way that in a Christian nation like the U.S. you're going to have openly, vociferously conservative Christians in the U.S. Congress. I don't see a problem there. The Brotherhood poses minimal threat of Egypt becoming a Muslim theocracy, and in fact has spent the last ten years as one of the most active pro-democracy advocates, because they want their own religious voice to be heard.
What, you hear the word 'Muslim' and you immediately think Paki/Afghanisan/Iran-style religious autocracy? You dolt.
Oh, and I'm about as atheistic as it gets, I just happen to be willing to think thoughtfully about global politics, and to be willing for the religious nutjobs (read: anyone who thinks there's any spiritual presence of any kind in the universe) to have their voices heard in government and to practice their religion freely.
Suleiman is another Israeli puppet sellout and will be much worse than Mubarak if he is allowed to remain.
They need to get rid of him and put in a completely new government, consisting of Egyptions not Israelis.
What! what did I say! I have 4 members of my family who live in Egypt! YOU FREAKIN FOOL! You have no idea what you are talking about...you think you do but you are dead wrong. Go there and live there and find out. I know which candidates got on where for the last two decades you fool. As I said Egypt will show the world wonderful things. You will see tough guy.
Cairo was starting to look like the Kip Litton thread.
Awesome. This reminds me a lot of Tienemen Square (w/ a different ending) and the fall of the Berlin Wall after that. I remember reading an article at that time of E. German Olympic Champions saying that it was unquestionably the greatest days of their life which I thought was a remarkable statement.
bobby e. wrote:
For real.
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/