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Egypt - an erudite 12 year old's thoughts.
Free Arabs channel ^ | 03/21/2013 | Free Arabs channel

Posted on 07/10/2013 4:22:03 AM PDT by Vanders9

This 12 years old boy is just stunningly, incredibly smart. Listen to him as he excoriates the Muslim Brotherhood, relentlessly dissecting their power grab for Egypt.


TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: egypt; islamism; society
I don't agree with everything he says, but it's heartening to see that the islamists do not have a monopoly on political thought in the Middle East. You cannot control all information in the modern age.
1 posted on 07/10/2013 4:22:03 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9
At first I thought he was reading from a script. I hope there are many like him there. I see this was from last March. I hope he is still OK.
2 posted on 07/10/2013 4:39:24 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: Vanders9

This boy is clearly amazing and, for this I have no doubt, exceptional. I hope he is safe in expressing his views in a country where the Muslim Brotherhood still holds so much power.


3 posted on 07/10/2013 4:44:27 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: stayathomemom

No, it didn’t look like he was reading it or even like he was spewing it rote.

He knew what he was talking about and spoke with conviction.

I wish I could meet an American kid that age with as much ability to articulate and as much understanding of what is going on.


4 posted on 07/10/2013 4:45:41 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Vanders9

I was skeptical at first, then amazed as he stated forcefully and intellectually confident his list of wrongs.


5 posted on 07/10/2013 4:48:23 AM PDT by Usagi_yo
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To: Vanders9

I would hate to read about this intelligent youngster ending up headless in a Cairo gutter.


6 posted on 07/10/2013 4:49:15 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Vanders9
Muslim Brotherhood ... power grab for Egypt.

The problem here is that the Egyptian people voted, by a landslide, for Islamist rule.

They've got buyers' remorse for their electoral decision, not democratic resistance to a power grab.

7 posted on 07/10/2013 4:53:43 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: luvbach1
Well, lets hope he is not that exceptional. It would be amazing if there were lots like him.

Sometimes I think we would do better supporting folk like him, rather than the pseudo-conservatives who claim to be representing us.

8 posted on 07/10/2013 4:57:13 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: SMARTY
The first few seconds of the video he is looking to his left and I THOUGHT he could be reading something. It became obvious after being questioned, that his answers were his own and came from the heart.
9 posted on 07/10/2013 5:03:02 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: IbJensen

You can bet he will be a future leader and an enemy of the MB. He is wise beyond his years. I give his parents a virtual standing ovation.


10 posted on 07/10/2013 5:04:50 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Vanders9

Frightening! This could lead to violent attacks on our embassies around the Arab world. This kid needs to be in prison. /S


11 posted on 07/10/2013 5:07:52 AM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: Sherman Logan
I'm not so sure. Obama won the last election in the US very handily, and yet polls clearly indicate that the majority of Americans identify themselves as being conservative. The real problem is that democratic expression is very complex and covers myriad topics, but electing a president and a government crystalises all that into one decision. There are probably an awful lot of Egyptians who are opposed to many or even most of the objectives of the islamists, but agree enough with one or two aspects to give their vote. And that is without having to consider the effects of intimidation, bribery and extortion. The muslim brotherhood is a large, powerful organision with a lot of money. They make bad enemies.

Much like the Democrat party in the US in fact. They are an immensely powerful movement and lets give the devil his due, they have a lot of very dedicated supporters and they are very well organised. Moreover, in spite of all their whining about "1% ers" and "the rich influencing elections" the simple fact is that the Democrats have far more resources than the Republicans. They certainly spent more last time - to the point where you could consider they almost bought the election.

So I'm more optimistic about the state of democracy in Egypt. There are a lot of protestors out, and as the old aphorism goes, if one person is saying something probably a hundred are thinking it.

12 posted on 07/10/2013 5:12:09 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: SMARTY
I wish I could meet an American kid that age with as much ability to articulate and as much understanding of what is going on.

It's true and very sad. I met the 9 year old child of an Indian co-worker a month ago. The child was here in the US visiting from Mumbai. This child spoke like someone out of a Dickens novel. I was completely engrossed in what he was saying and how he said it.

When I spoke to his father at work the next day, I asked him why he hasn't brought his family to the US from India. He told me (paraphrasing), "In India, the education of our children is paramount to parents and is not something taken lightly. In America, our education system is a 9-month-long daycare where the children are indoctrinated but not educated."

"The entire world is laughing at us" is essentially what he said.

13 posted on 07/10/2013 5:22:30 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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I think he is right about our ‘system’ of education.

It is broken and no one has the will to make necessary changes.

Big Labor has destroyed it the same way they destroy everything they touch.

The education of children had become incidental to educators and their contracts.


14 posted on 07/10/2013 5:27:44 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Sherman Logan
"...the Egyptian people voted, by a landslide, for Islamist rule."

Where in the world did you dream up such fantasy???

What "landslide"????

There was never ever any "landslide"!!!

Here, even Aljazeera can tell you Morsi won with just barely 51 per cent of the vote!

15 posted on 07/10/2013 5:48:34 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Vanders9

Wow! Very well spoken.


16 posted on 07/10/2013 6:22:33 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: SMARTY

They’d prolly be an Indian American.


17 posted on 07/10/2013 7:03:57 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Vanders9

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18 posted on 07/10/2013 8:13:49 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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