[Brad from Tennessee]

Welcome to the 8th Century.

[winner3000]

Poor non-Muslims in their midst.

[Just mythoughts]

As moderate Islamist leaders in all three countries begin to craft post-revolutionary constitutions, the Salafists in their midst are pushing — sometimes at the ballot box, sometimes at the point of a gun — to create societies that more closely mirror their ultraconservative religious beliefs and lifestyles.

So what exactly are these liberals trying to say? Bad stuff is on the horizon and it is the ultraconservatives fault? This is the phrasing used by liberals against the 'TeaParty and other law abiding conservatives' day in and day out.

[bronxville]

Brad, from your great article:

“Before the revolutions of the Arab Spring, Salafists like Chaouachi say they had little room to breathe. The repressive regimes of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, and Moammar Gaddafi in Libya tightly regulated religious expression and routinely harassed and imprisoned those who appeared outwardly pious, especially men with long beards. That made it impossible to gauge the strength and popularity of Salafist ideology.”

“Mohamed Tolba, a Salafist activist in Egypt, said he was detained 22 times under Mubarak’s regime, and that police would harass him if he walked by the tourist hotels or museums, taunting him and speculating aloud that he was a troublemaker or a terrorist. “Before, for the Salafists, it was not our country. We lived in a bubble,” he said. “Now we are leaving it and getting involved in society.””

Which is why they needed dictators. Obamist and Hillary have done a Jimmy Carter - we’re fated for very big trouble.

[BunnySlippers]

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[ronnie raygun]

Get ready ladies good things are coming your way, oh but dont count on code pink and the other female driven rights groups to help you they’re to busy working for your future slave masters.

[1010RD]

What can you expect from the Washington Post? Moderate Islamists are a non-entity. “Puritannical” beliefs are another abuse of Chrisitianity. If only Salafists were Puritans, then they’d be at peace.

Puritans weren’t religious nuts. This is a lie the authors were taught by some anti-Western Marxist professor. It simply doesn’t hold up to historical fact.

[a fool in paradise]

Nothing “conservative” about Islamist theocratic political rule.

The presstitutes need to stop lying about Islam. It’s a political system of rule established by a dead conquering warlord. It dresses itself as a religion as then Left has a collective orgasm while they also cheerfully fund works like Piss Christ.

Screw the Left.