Muslim Brothers make major gains in Egypt vote

AFP ^ | 11/16/05

[one more state]

Maybe it won't be too bad being Muslim, if you're a guy.

[oldleft]

[ncountylee]

Not a good direction.

[river rat]

"Islam is the solution"

If THAT's their solution, the bastards don't understand the problem..

Semper Fi

[Borges]

[PsyOp]

It should have read:
"Islam is the FINAL solution"
Truth in advertising and all...

[PsyOp]

Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003415/posts

[Argus]

the legislative polls are a very local and personalised affair where votes are lost and won with promises for micro-projects, jobs and bribes.

So in other words, the Muslim Brothers are typical Democrats.

[sam_paine]

campaigning under the banner "Islam is the [final] solution"

[Nachum]

This is EXACTLY what the Nazi party did in Germany. They used democracy against itself to bring themselves to power. We are dealing with our generation's Nazism. The Nazis even had the support of the majority of Germans.

There was only one answer to the Nazis, invasion, total destruction, and re-education. No mercy. No compromise. No negotiation.

[rhombus]

This may also be a bit of scare mongering. "Oh no, what if they elect maniacs. Hitler was elected, ya know." Yeah that's true but it also says people can't govern themselves (or at least "those" people). Coincidently this was one of the main Democrat arguments against kicking Saddam's butt...better to have a "strongman" in charge because they're not ready to rule themselves. Sounds kind of racist from our friends across the aisle with the welfare plantations.

Republican democracy is the worst thing going but still ahead of everything else. Here it is: While the presidential election triggered an unprecedented national debate on reform, the legislative polls are a very local and personalised affair where votes are lost and won with promises for micro-projects, jobs and bribes.

[Irish Rose]

"Islam is the solution"

To what? That overpopulation problem academics have been lecturing us on all these years?

[rickmichaels]

..."Islam is the solution"...

...to the question of what looks and stinks like sh*t.

[livius]

Muslim Brothers...Is that like the Blues Brothers - or maybe the Three Stooges?

Seriously, though, you're absolutely right. ME guys get all the women (and young boys) they want, spend much of the day smoking hash or chewing qat, have zero productivity, and are basically living the hippie's dream.

Actually, this isn't true - because of polygamy, some Muslim men get no women at all. Women go to the man who can afford them and then can be his slaves and brood mares alone. This is probably one of the reasons for offering men who want to kill themselves those 72 white raisins in Paradise.

[Tamar1973]

...banned but tolerated...

If they are banned, how can they even appear on the ballot? Egypt is run by some pretty stupid people for allowing a group directly involved in the assassination of Anwar Sadat to be involved in the political mainstream.

[USF]

The Brotherhood puts itself forward as a moderate movement seeking the establishment of an Islamic state.

BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Sorry... when i stop laffing i may be able to type (just barely):

"Using-the-tools-of-the-kuffar-to-undermine-them" PING

[ValenB4]

...better to have a "strongman" in charge because they're not ready to rule themselves. Sounds kind of racist from our friends across the aisle with the welfare plantations."

For the most part, Muslim peoples are not ready to rule themselves. They're not even capable of burying Arafat without a hysterical mob having to be dispersed with gunfire. This is a cultural problem, not a racial one.

If you want to see Muslim countries that are moving in the right direction economically and culturally, take a look at places like Dubai and Qatar, which are monarchies. Reforming the Muslim world, if it can be done, will not be because of democracy. It will be because of far sighted leaders who know how to implement policies that actually work.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Only if your problem is life.

[sirjohn]

Voting means the people are in charge of their own destiny. They when they try to take over the world and get bombed back to the 9th century they have an opportunity to reflect on how to live responsibly. It's a long process.

[conservativecorner]

Muslim Brothers = Blood Thirsty Islamo-Fascists BUMP!