"Well of *course* we're mainstream!"
Posted on 04/02/2011 11:03:10 AM PDT by mojito
Abboud al-Zomor — the former intelligence officer who supplied the bullets that killed President Anwar el-Sadat and is Egypt’s most notorious newly released prisoner — waxes enthusiastic about ending the violent jihad he once led.
“The ballot boxes will decide who will win at the end of the day,” Mr. Zomor said during an interview in his large family compound in this hamlet on Cairo’s western edge. “There is no longer any need for me to use violence against those who gave us our freedom and allowed us to be part of political life.”
In its drive to create a perfect Islamic state, his Islamic Group and other groups like it were once synonymous with some of the bloodiest terrorist attacks in Egypt. But they are now leaping aboard the democracy bandwagon, alarming those who believe that religious radicals are seeking to put in place strict Islamic law through ballots.
The public approval of the constitutional amendments on March 19 provided an early example of Islamist political muscle, the victory achieved in no small part by framing the yes vote as a religious duty. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Islamist campaign was the energy invested by religious organizations that once damned the democratic process as a Western, infidel innovation masterminded to undermine God’s laws.
Mr. Zomor, 64, with his bushy gray beard and nearly 30 years in prison, has emerged as a high-profile spokesman for that sea change since he was released on March 12.
He and other Salafis, or Islamic fundamentalists, rhapsodize about founding political parties and forging alliances with the more mainstream Muslim Brotherhood to maximize the religious vote.
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Egyptians are throwing off one set of enslavers for another.
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis will make them *their* slaves, just as assuredly as the Mullahs of Iean, enslaved the people, and as Al Quada and the Taliban did to the Afghani people.
Egyptians, slaves forever.
They didn't need to be. They were already organized. The youth and their modern secular friends were not.
Unsurprising that many of those youths now feel betrayed as the Muslim Brotherhood has a higher place within the counsels with the current Egyptian leaders than they do.
The youth, common folks and secular Egyptians created the mobs in the street that “made the revolution” in Egypt, but it will be hijacked right out from underneath them.
"Well of *course* we're mainstream!"
“Egyptians are throwing off one set of enslavers for another.”
That’s right, and it will be even worse than it was.
Christians will suffer even more than they have been.
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