- Joined
- Mar 11, 2009
- Messages
- 41,104
- Reaction score
- 12,202
- Location
- South Carolina
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
Gheeze, we didn't see this one coming right?....Oh wait, we did too...In fact it is exactly what we said would happen. What a mess. Funny how the Islamist group MB sounds just like liberal progressives here in America doesn't it?Using a crisis to grab power, changing their name to soften the appeal to the masses, etc....j-macA spokesman for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood which now dominates parliament called on Thursday for the caretaker cabinet to be sacked and replaced with a Brotherhood one after deadly football riots.The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, which won almost half of parliament's seats in elections over November and December, had said it would work with the military-appointed cabinet for a transitional period.But the Brotherhood's spokesman Mahmud Ghozlan said the February 1 riot at a football stadium in the Mediterranean town of Port Said, which left more than 70 dead, showed that the government had failed to manage the country.Egypt's Brotherhood says it should govern - Yahoo! News
Gheeze, we didn't see this one coming right?....Oh wait, we did too...In fact it is exactly what we said would happen. What a mess. Funny how the Islamist group MB sounds just like liberal progressives here in America doesn't it?Using a crisis to grab power, changing their name to soften the appeal to the masses, etc....j-mac
Why the hysteria? Nobody has seized anything. They called for change, but nothing has, yet. The army still controls Egypt, like they did when Musharraf was their front man. At best the army let the riot happen, at worst they triggered it. As for changing their party name, that's what it's called, everyone in Egypt knows who they are and what they stand for, and a largely Muslim population voted for a Muslim party. Why is anyone shocked or surprised?
The MB has much more in common with the Repubs these days. Conservative religionists? Doesn't sound liberal to me.
You wanted a caliphate? You got it.
Next up....Syria, the entire northern African coastline, and eventually, Turkey.
And then....it's on.
There won't be another Caliphate...... The last guy who proclaimed himself Caliph was in the 1920s and he was chased out of town within a couple of weeks.
Well, soon, the Brotherhood will control the entire southern coastline of the Mediteranean Sea, and is working on the easterncoastline, too.
Israel will be completely surrounded, soon enough, with Brotherhood-run countries. This will be the bloodiest war ever.
I doubt it.. Israel just isn't that important.
Gheeze, we didn't see this one coming right?....Oh wait, we did too...In fact it is exactly what we said would happen. What a mess. Funny how the Islamist group MB sounds just like liberal progressives here in America doesn't it?Using a crisis to grab power, changing their name to soften the appeal to the masses, etc....j-mac
So your answer is, just let them be slaughtered?
So your answer is, just let them be slaughtered?
Slaughtered by who exactly?
Seriously? You don't think much of that region is counting the days until they have the technology and might to finish make a Hitler-esque rampage through Israel? Especially if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over all of these fallen nations?
Seriously? You don't think much of that region is counting the days until they have the technology and might to finish make a Hitler-esque rampage through Israel? Especially if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over all of these fallen nations?
Erod...
Israel has been surrounded since it's inception, so that's not much of a point you made earlier.
Egypt is poor as ****, they're econony has taken a dive, the military is not even 25% as powerful as the Israeli military.
Fear mongering crap.
Because someone said "Muslim"Why the hysteria? [...]
I didn't say Egypt is going to attack Israel today. But if an entity like the Muslim Brotherhood can gain CONTROL of all the land surrounding Israel - who's to say Jordan might not fall eventually to as this is all the rage - then nations like Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Turkey, and whoever else, could pool together and have instant access to Israel's border, and collectively, they are a threat.
Especially if you project to a decade from now.
I am half Egyptian and I visited Cairo a few weeks ago. I had the opportunity to have a great insight in the way the people there think, and especially what's going on there... My dad voted for the Liberty Party, and so did many people in his neighbourhood. The truth is, the Muslim Brotherhood has most support in the countryside, where the people aren't as educated, and think of elections as an opportunity to get payed to vote for a certain party. The second Mubarak left, the MB went to these "poor" farmers and started advertising their party as being the right way forward for Egypt. As the MB is the only party that has been around for hundreds of years and has a lot of charity work, the people are already accustomed to them. This results in people voting for what they know... You can't expect people to vote for something that's only been around for a few months.
As i was driving through Cairo's chaotic traffic, i saw a modern-looking shop with a great lot of people inside. I asked the driver what it was, and he said it was a new shop the MB had established that sells items extra-cheap, bought of local Egyptian producers. This is the reason why the MB is so successful, it responds to the basic needs of the people which is cheap clothing items etc. In my opinion, it will take approximately 8 years until the entire country is educated on democracy, and true democratic votes can be held.
The Liberty Party my dad voted for, obtained approximately 8.9%. This in my opinion, is good, as now nothing can be kept secrete from the public or at least nothing that happens in parliament.
Yes, Yes, Yes.
Of course Erod.
Have fun in your bizarro universe, where a member of NATO (Turkey) would attack Israel.
You've gone off the deep end.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?