Mubarak Pushed Out in Coup?

big government ^ | 2/10/11 | ap/publius

[Nachum]

President Hosni Mubarak will meet the demands of protesters, military and ruling party officials said Thursday in the strongest indication yet that Egypt’s longtime president may be about to give up power and that the armed forces were seizing control.

Gen. Hassan al-Roueini, military commander for the Cairo area, told thousands of protesters in central Tahrir Square, “All your demands will be met today.” Some in the crowd held up their hands in V-for-victory signs, shouting “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” a victory cry used by secular and religious people alike.

[P-Marlowe]

I think the military will maintain order.

Maintain?

Or do you mean "regain"?

[montag813]

Al Jazeera is positively giddy over the road to the Caliphate. Check out the headline below on live coverage:

[Allegra]

Interesting. This could go Islamic or Secular.

And I'm reasonably sure that the vast majority wants secular.

[Lurker]

And I'm reasonably sure that the vast majority wants secular.

I'm reasonably sure that what the vast majority wants won't matter a whit.

L

[blackdog]

From now until November 10, 2012 is the community organizing period. The networks, reporting functions, payrolls, lines of communications, databases, and installation of operatives in all the municipalities will be accomplished. Until then, no actual actionable event will be undertaken. Then as you said, Iran will call them into force right after the electins here. If Obamma loses, watch the calamity explode. If Obamma wins, watch the calamity be reported as "winning the future with democracy".

Either way, the outcome is the same.

[Yooper4Life]

If I recall right, Obama and his radical, leftist, globalist evil ilk OPPOSED the constitutional removal of a leftist leader in Honduras not so long ago, and now they are supporting what appears to me to be an unconstitutional radical, leftist takeover.

Scary stuff if one can see the big picture in all of this.

[P-Marlowe]

....shouting “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” a victory cry used by secular and religious people alike.

Right.

Secular people are always shouting "Alluah Akbar."

Kind of like when secular abortion doctors yell "Praise Jesus" when they successfully do a partial birth abortion.

Who writes this nonsense?

[blackdog]

Shia v. Sunni paradox. We want Sunni brand of Islam to be the force d’jour.

[Peter from Rutland]

Basis for this?

[AliVeritas]

I haven’t read aboutthe Copts killed during this protest. The caliphate trumps it, of course.
/s

[SE Mom]

whoa...

hope your sources are wrong .. (no offense intended)

[DrC]

“The only chance that Egypt has of avoiding becoming an Iranian satellite state is the army.”

Ain’t that the truth. This is very good news for the U.S. and Israel. Obama dodged a bullet.

[wmfights]

Who writes this nonsense?

The same people who thought a well organized radical group of clerics in Iran were going to reform that country when the Shah was deposed. In the end the military will be compromised by the authority of the radicals that will take over the country.

The military has already shown they are compromised to some extent in their refusal to take any physical action against the protesters. The inability to segregate the radicals from the mainstream will be the undoing of Egypt.

[blackdog]

The administration has been sending people over there since obamma took office. Labor unions / organizers and Bill Ayeres are a sampling.

[Peter from Rutland]

Yeah, I remember reading that. From this it looks like they didn’t anticipate the military moving in.

Oppsy!

[blackdog]

Don't be fooled by the MB (fake)outrage over the military taking over. They are not stupid. Transition periods are full of bumps in the road and disappointment. The MB would rather have the military own those issues.

It also buys more credibility for the MB, who will step in as a policing force and social services network.

The crazy stuff comes later.

[xzins]

"Alluah Akbar."

wonderful...now we know where to send US Army psychologist Major Nidal Hassan, formerly of Ft Hood, who also likes that particular praise song.

Isn't it wonderful when these religious people get together?

/sarc

[wmfights]

Isn't it wonderful when these religious people get together?

Frightening!

If history is a guide (I believe it is) I don't see how a representative govt guaranteeing individual liberty, freedom of association, property rights and freedom of religion comes out of this. The people who would seek these things are usually the educated and mild mannered. The people who want Sharia Law to govern the people will kill any who oppose them.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

There are reports of Christian services being conducted on Tahrir Square as we speak.

When the young man who helped to create this overthrow as Egypt’s head of Google, Wael Ghonim, a MUSLIM, says his heroes are Zuckerberg and Gandhi, a JEW and a Hindu, we should recognize that something significant is going on and we shouldn’t dismiss it outright.

Here’s Ghonim’s interview last night on CNN. It’s impossible to watch it and not come away thinking we are watching something historic. Certainly the rest of the muslim Middle East must be terrified this could happen to them.

God willing, it can.

http://parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/09/wael-ghonim-im-ready-to-die/

[blackdog]

Remember, Hezbolah, the PLO, and Arafat were offered everything they asked for when Clinton was working his last attempt at a peace deal under his presidency. Arafat, hezbolah, and the plo all walked away from the deal when they discovered they could have all that they asked for. Clinton was furious.

Islam is all about using the fight to govern. If there is no fight, they have no ability in their game to govern. It's a foreign condition to their ruling culture.