Posted on 01/29/2006 6:24:33 PM PST by Pikamax
Hamas' conservative brand of Islam stirs worry among Palestinians
By Dion Nissenbaum
Knight Ridder Newspapers
JIFNA, West Bank - For more than 40 years, Michel Tabash has made a living selling whiskey, beer, vodka and wine at his small family restaurant nestled in this Christian town between olive groves and a Palestinian refugee camp.
The restaurant has survived war, Israeli occupation and the economy-draining Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which forced the family to shutter its doors for nearly four years. Now, 18 months after reopening, Tabash is worried that he may be forced out of business again - this time by the new Hamas-dominated government. After decades of secular leadership under the late Yasser Arafat, many Palestinians are bracing for a seismic social shift as Hamas' new legislators propose imposing conservative interpretations of traditional Muslim values, including no alcohol, separation of the sexes and veils for women.
"I'm worried, and I'm not the only one," Tabash said Sunday as he smoked cigarettes in his nearly empty cafe. "I have nothing but this restaurant."
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Are you talking about the MSM reporter that equated Hamas with conservatives, or about the idiots that elected Hamas to power, or about the Hamas themselves. I accept an "all of the above" answer.
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3321
"[The Hamas electoral victory:] Democracy's bitter fruit"
by Daniel Pipes
National Post
January 27, 2006
After decades of secular leadership under the late Yasser Arafat, many Palestinians are bracing for a seismic social shift as Hamas' new legislators propose imposing conservative interpretations of traditional Muslim values, including no alcohol, separation of the sexes and veils for women.The people get the government they deserve.
They made their bed. Now they get to sleep in it.
It's harder to rule than critique. Revolutionaries seldom make good rulers. Popcorn anyone?
In MSMspeak, "Conservative" simply means "Bad Guys." Thus, Ayatollah Khomeini was a "conservative." Now you would think that might make The Shah a "liberal." But no, it doesn't work that way. He was a "conservative" too, because they didn't like. In the same way, Mao and Brezhnev and Stalin were "conservative" Marxists (yes, normal people realize how stupid that is, but not reporters.)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Conservative is not noun, but adjective describing a trait. It is a being traditional, not accepting change(any change, good or bad).
Koran literalists are conservatives. They aren't radicals at all. Calling them radical Islamist is a misnomer. They don't shift from Koran at all.
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