Posted on 04/04/2011 11:44:11 AM PDT by kristinn
Officials of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's leading Islamic group, have called for the establishment of a Saudi-style modesty police to combat "immoral" behavior in public areas in what observers say in another sign of a growing Islamic self-confidence in the post-Mubarak era.
In the political sphere, the Brotherhood led a successful drive to get voters to approve a package of constitutional amendments. On the street level, at least 20 attacks were perpetrated against the tombs of Muslim mystics (suffis), who are the subject of popular veneration but disparaged by Islamic fundamentalists, or salafis. After some initial hesitation, Islamic leaders have publicly praised the revolution.
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Issam Durbala, a member of the Brotherhood's Shura council, told the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Youm on Sunday, that he supported the establishment of a virtue police, or Hisbah, which had existed in medieval Islamic societies to oversee public virtue and modesty, mostly in the marketplace and other public gathering spaces.
But he seemed to stop short of advocating a force along then lines of that which operates in Saudi Arabia today under the auspices of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. It enforces a dress code, separation of sexes and the observances of prayer times.
"The new police must have a department with limited authorities to arrest those who commit immoral acts,” Durbala told the newspaper.
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Sa'id Abd Al-Azim, a leader of the salafi movement in Alexandria, attacked Egyptian "liberals" for waging a media campaign against his movement.
"Despite the attacks against the salafi movement, it is constantly advancing – untouched by the attack," Abd Al-Azim told Al-Masry Al-Youm. "If the Christians want safety they should submit to the rule of God and be confident that the Islamic sharia [law] will protect them."
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Hmmm, things don’t seem to be going the way the NY Times, Katie Couric and the rest of the lib establishment said it would. What a shock.
The brotherhood, were is that wonderful democracy some of you nuts were posting about.
They are that nice secular group I have been hearing about, right?
I remember when this was all going on that someone interviewed a “30 yr old female lawyer” who supported the ouster of Mubarik and replacing him with Muslim Brotherhood and thought it would make Egypt a better place. I wonder what she thinks now. What a sucker.
Islam is leading us into the new dark ages. Liberals and greens are their useful idiots.
Okay with me, because it is their country, and apparently a lifestyle the majority there will ascribe to. We need to get out of the entire middle east. AND then, when the arab/muslims here don’t want to be citizens of the USA (sharia mosquers), ship them back to arabia. When any arab attacks our citizens ANYWHERE, we bomb the friggin hell out of their country.
Okay with me, because it is their country, and apparently a lifestyle the majority there will ascribe to. We need to get out of the entire middle east. AND then, when the arab/muslims here don’t want to be citizens of the USA (sharia mosquers), ship them back to arabia. When any arab attacks our citizens ANYWHERE, we bomb the friggin hell out of their country.
Yeah, they’re just being “brotherly”.
I hate Muslims, Islam, Sharia, governments which promote Sharia and pandering freaks like Lindsey Graham who don’t think I have a right to burn the Quoran anytime I want.
Man, they’re gonna love sharia law in San Francisco. Especially when they have their queer parades.
And will tourists be exempt from that or can we see canings and whippings of British middle aged females in the streets of Cairo and at the pyramids?
These are the guys who go around and rape Women if they can see a glimpse of their skin.
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