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Egypt Islamists Take Two-Thirds Of 2nd-Round Vote
Reuters ^ | 24 Dec 2011 | Sherine El Madany

Posted on 12/24/2011 8:30:46 PM PST by edpc

(Reuters) - Egypt's two leading Islamist parties won about two-thirds of votes for party lists in the second round of polling for a parliament that will help draft a new constitution after decades of autocratic rule, the election committee said Saturday.

The party list led by the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 36.3 percent of the list vote, while the ultra-conservative Salafi al-Nour Party took 28.8 percent, pushing the liberal Wafd party into third place.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; islam; middleeast; muslimbrotherhood
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Analysts say poor coordination among non-Islamist groups has divided the liberal vote, sometimes handing the majority to an Islamist by default.

Meet the new boss......much worse than the old boss.

1 posted on 12/24/2011 8:30:50 PM PST by edpc
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"If you don't vote for me, it's a sin." — the Islamist candidates
2 posted on 12/24/2011 8:34:00 PM PST by Olog-hai
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The pattern has been the same since at least the Iranian Revolution of 1979 --

The leader is bad! Maybe it's the Shah, maybe it's Mubarak -- he's bad! Inhuman! Those poor people!
Yay! The people are rising up! Chasing away the bad leader! Now maybe things will get better for those poor people!
Oh! Look! Those poor people are actually violent religious fanatics who want to live in the 7th century! They hate us and have no tolerance for anyone who diverges from their hate-filled worldview!
What a shock!

3 posted on 12/24/2011 8:36:56 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war. It's coming.)
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And if you don't blow the Sphinx and the Pyramids to Kingdom Come, thats a sin too.

Islam - The Religion that refreshes!

4 posted on 12/24/2011 8:40:39 PM PST by warsaw44
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Egyptians are like the Left...they choose slavery and self extermination...So be it.


5 posted on 12/24/2011 8:43:03 PM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi)
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“Inspiring.” — not my words.


6 posted on 12/24/2011 8:49:48 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: edpc; Olog-hai; ClearCase_guy

Things are going very well for those who planned and executed the coup.

Our FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT supported this revolution, remember?

Our FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT used the US Military to overthrow a government in Libya, remember?

It may be a big surprise to you but it shouldn’t have been. Obama Osama is doing everything he can to hurt America economically, socially, militarily, and in foreign policy too. Obama could NOT be this stupid, he’s doing it on purpose but as long as the media and Hollywood are in the tank for this clown, America let’s him continue his destruction of the country.


7 posted on 12/24/2011 8:49:52 PM PST by politicianslie (plug in RADICAL MUSLIM into Obama's idiotic actions and you can figure out his next moves)
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Well, the vast majority of muslims do not agree with the extremists, you know. Islam is a religion of peace, nyuk, nyuk...


8 posted on 12/24/2011 8:53:43 PM PST by LibWhacker
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My prediction for some time has been that Obama will win a second term and that he will declare himself a Muslim early in that second term. And then he will really start messing with us.


9 posted on 12/24/2011 8:56:15 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war. It's coming.)
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POTUS Obama, the America hater & destroyer and “his” Muslim Brotherhood” have won!!! Egypt is now in the murdering hands of the true “Hate America” crowd, thanks to the swift guiding hand of America Traitor, POTUS Barack Hussein Obama. Oh......yes, Libya is not far behind. Bad days ahead for the American nation, courtesy of POTUS Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party!!!


10 posted on 12/24/2011 9:05:52 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: edpc

Time for the Egyptian Army to start planning for a coup.


11 posted on 12/24/2011 9:22:11 PM PST by Shadow44
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If these folks elect murderous criminals and warmongers I'll not fret too much.

At least then we'll know who we're shootin' at.

12 posted on 12/24/2011 9:53:16 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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A lot of firsts to celebrate.

Yep, with our new leader we have gone from hating our 9-11 attackers to embracing them.... and even making them our new allies and partners in Libya! Now the Talban are our friends!

FUBO

Silly thing though, none of this does not deal with what is in the tube for future surprises!

All I know this is 100% contrary to America.


13 posted on 12/24/2011 9:56:50 PM PST by himno hero (Obamas theme...Death to America...The crusaders will pay!)
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Oh! Look! Those poor people are actually violent religious fanatics who want to live in the 7th century
. . . apart from having nukes, that is.
14 posted on 12/24/2011 10:30:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
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Here’s your ‘democracy movement’ at work. Recall that Obama turned on Mubarak saying he ‘must go now, and now means now’.

Pray for Israel.


15 posted on 12/25/2011 5:52:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: LibWhacker

I can’t wait for the day when “the vast majority of muslims” means no more than five of them...remaining.


16 posted on 12/25/2011 6:06:45 AM PST by MarineDad (Wherever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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17 posted on 12/25/2011 6:40:18 AM PST by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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Hey Barry, how’s that “Arab Spring” working out for you?

Considering you lit the match under this tinderbox with your infamous “Cairo” speech, I guess a lot if the blame falls squarely on you.
Just like the rise of an Islamic State in Iran falls on your fellow quisling appeaser and commie sympathizer, Jimmy Carter.


18 posted on 12/25/2011 10:15:19 PM PST by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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This really is Jimmy Carter’s second term.


19 posted on 12/25/2011 10:34:33 PM PST by gogeo
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Anyone not a total idiot (or Democrat or Obamaite or RINO or Liberal—but I repeat myself) would have known this is how things would end up.
So will also go Iraq and Afganistan.
Duh?

Actually probably no surprise to Obaba, just what he hoped for most likely.


20 posted on 12/25/2011 11:27:12 PM PST by OldArmy52 (Obama, the most corrupt and incompetent President since Carter.)
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