Egypt

[Gorth]

I don't know if anybody has been following the news in Egypt recently. I know we had a 'Syria' thread, but couldn't really find anything about Egypt.

 

Egypt opposition leaders face 'incitement' probe

 

'...and so it begins'

 

I suppose few people are truly surprised. The old dictator is gone and a new dictator starts consolidating power by persecuting the opposition leaders and removing them.

 

Question is, are islamist dictators an improvement over secular dictators? I would put my bets on 'Not'.

 

Will Egypt become the next Iran? I suppose the only thing preventing them from joining forces is the insurmountable barrier of their differences (Shiite/Sunni).

[AGX-17]

I don't know if anybody has been following the news in Egypt recently. I know we had a 'Syria' thread, but couldn't really find anything about Egypt.

 

Egypt opposition leaders face 'incitement' probe

 

'...and so it begins'

 

I suppose few people are truly surprised. The old dictator is gone and a new dictator starts consolidating power by persecuting the opposition leaders and removing them.

 

Question is, are islamist dictators an improvement over secular dictators? I would put my bets on 'Not'.

 

Will Egypt become the next Iran? I suppose the only thing preventing them from joining forces is the insurmountable barrier of their differences (Shiite/Sunni).

 

I think it's a given to Westerners that Islamist dictators are worse than secular dictators, but I doubt much of the Muslim Brotherhood shares our concerns. The irony, of course, being that it was Mubarak's Western-backed regime and oppression of the Muslim Brotherhood that drove them to extremism in the first place. Yes, they were a conservative muslim group before, but after they got secret-police'd and tortured in Mubarak's prisons they tended to come out a lot more inclined to violence than when they went in. al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian physician when he went in and a ripe recruit for al-Qaeda when he came out.

[obyknven]

Everything as planned. Considering Muslim Brotherhood as example of Islamic faction is not correct. They are backed by Nazi during World War II and fully controlled by MI6/CIA after war.

http://youtu.be/9vwc-_ITIKQ

Their Islam is so Islam.

[johnkempok]

thumb up guys

[Rosbjerg]

Will Egypt become the next Iran? I suppose the only thing preventing them from joining forces is the insurmountable barrier of their differences (Shiite/Sunni).

 

Interesting question.. But I think it's more than that, Egypt has since the 1880's developed a more and more distinct (and often western'ish) culture, ranging from liberalism to Nasserism/Arab Socialism. Religion is simply the only thing the opposition had in common during the dictator years, but now they're in power it's not going to take much of a push before the brotherhood splinters into several smaller factions. They've never had power since their inception in the '20s and their political platform has only recently been established - and that's starting to show as it's about as vague as centrist trying to talk to both right and left wingers at the same time

[HoonDing]

Gonna be a hoot when they'll try to blow up the pyramids.