I certainly hope so. Tariq Ramadan addresses this issue as polls in Egypt are now closed and results are starting to trickle in.
Tariq Ramadan was banned from entering this country by George W Bush because of his terrorist ties. As soon as Obama got in, Hillary Clinton removed the ban on him. More than likely, Ramadan is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, but he thinks the Mubarak candidate has a better shot of winning. And that would be good for the Copts, good for Israel, and good for America. It won’t be a good day for Barack Hussein Obama, however.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a Shafik win. If he wins, it will be a very long time before another ‘arab spring-type’ revolution will be held. They will have learned their lesson that islam is not peace and love but rather total submission.
I expect a lot of bloodshed from the islamists. That’s fine with me… the less, the merrier.
Amen! Egyptians, indeed! The old Egyptian “gods” heads are probably all spinning like Linda Blair’s in “The Exorcist” at the idea of these Arab “Shasu” calling themselves “Egyptians.” Ditto for all the pharhoas *sp?* of Egypt.
Shasu, by the way, is an ancient Egyptian term of derogation for desert-dwelling shepherds and nomads. Or so I’ve read….
DS, Egypt was a pretty advanced civilization until the muslims dumbed it down.
I know this.
So was Persia.
“More than likely, Ramadan is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood,”
More than likely? His grandfather started the MB – I’d say it’s a shoe-in…
the army is very aware what will happen if the m.b. wins !!!! ( once europe gets it house in order and it will !!! ,they will turn there attention towards the middle east and the idiot who unleashed this mess !!! guess who? )
Don’t underestimate the old guard. A lot of Egyptians like them. A lot of Egyptians want rationality.
The best solution for Egypt, would be for the army to take over because they would be less of a threat to Israel than the muslim culthood that is hated by the army. A good fight between the military and the muslim cult hood would keep the savages busy killing each other.
Egypt needs,like the whole Middle East,North Africa and South East Asia a new ALEXANDER the GREAT. He would bring them the end of orientalism and the end of mohammedan degeneration. Alexander the Great enforced Hellenism,so we need Americanism.(and when that isn’t possible we need a New Frontier,world-wide by all means and all over).
All what we need now is to get rid of the Muslim in Cief and clean the WH.
I wouldn’t necessarily compare the current Mohammedan world with the Achemenid (sp?) Persian Empire conquered by Alexander.
First, the ancient Persians were pretty much a “live and let live” so far as religion goes. Their quarrel with the Greeks (the Athenians in particular) was the result of an Ionian Greek rebellion in the Persian empire (supported mostly by the Athenians) that resulted in the burning of temples in Sardis by the Ionian Greeks around 500BC.
Second, Hellenism was enforced by the successor states to Alexander’s empire, most notably the Seleucids. In fact, it was the attempts by the Greek Seleucid ruler Antiochus to force the Jews of Israel to bow to the Greek as a god that resulted in the Maccabee Revolt and liberation (Alexander, himself, left the Jews to their own God, thinking that it couldn’t hurt to have EVERY deity on his side). In Egypt, on the other hand, the Hellenism was pretty much confined to Alexandria and the Greek settlements. They mostly either left the native Egyptians to their religion (the ancient Greeks being quite religiously tolerant in Egypt, at least *no small thanks to Alexander’s actions while in Egypt and the Egyptian gratitude for Alexander’s freeing them from the taxes the Persians imposed*) or took up some of the Egyptian gods and looked on some of them as forms of their own Greek gods.
*shrug*
despite the Muslim brotherhood candidate declaring vidtory what are the REAL results?
Soft peddle the full truth until ready to spring into action. This is one of those sleight of hand things. Keep a real close eye on the Egyptian Brotherhood. They have been a leader in its creation.