With a totalitarian party to vote for;
Although it hasn’t yet gotten wide attention, this announcement that a leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood plans to run for the presidency as an independent candidate is important. Up to now, it’s been assumed that the Brotherhood would not put up a presidential candidate, leaving Amr Moussa the likely victor in a presidential election. That, in itself, would be bad enough, given possible Islamist domination of parliament. […] Maybe further developments will show this to have been a false alarm. But it could well be a disturbing sign that the Muslim Brotherhood is within reach of controlling both parliament and the presidency in a new Egypt.
Nice to see democracy in action!
Does Egypt have any oil?
Too funny . . . Egypt is so screwed. What is it with middle eastern countries . . . all the ones that are arab/muslim are brutal dictatorships that murder their own people.
Is it a cultural phenomenon?
Maybe we should send Justin Trudeau over to teach them multiculturalism.
No matter what happens in the land of Allah you can count on Barack Obama to continue to fund and supply their various militarys.
I mean to say … how can you have a war if the other side has no damn guns.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Seems to be raining on the Arab spring. Unfortunately the shoots aren’t flowers, but bullets!
Just curious why my comment was deleted.
Israel….keep your heads down and your powder dry,thank god you have a friend called USA…oh wait.
Isreal is not a destabilizing influence…it is THE stabililizing influence.
I have a sneaking suspicion the Brotherhood will get its historic share of the vote … somewhere around 5% in other Arab/Muslim jurisdictions.
Having a peek at some Egyptian-based blogs (sandmonkey, for one), it seems the young people are fed up with all totalitarian permutations, including what the Brotherhood espouses.
The Muslim “religion” BTW puts Arabic as the superior language and the only language that can interpret the word of their god of violence.
In any event, it just struck me that the Brotherhood would be front-and-centre for proportional representation, just like any other lunatic fringe party.
The Mosks will step up their anti-Israeli rhetoric, the MB will step up their anti-Israeli rhetoric, both spiels will sound pretty much the same, and the Mosks will tell their congregations to get out and vote MB.
That’s how it works in the middle east.
(do I need to mention that many Muslims attend Mosk 5 times a day every day?)
If I whee Israel, it would beprudent to prepare for war.
Mosque
Oz,
“do I need to mention that many Muslims attend Mosk 5 times a day every day?)”
Where do you get these goofy ideas? The devout(fanatical?) pray 5 times a day but attend the mosque once a week on Friday. People who have jobs to do are no more likely than devout Christians to interupt their days by praying.
How do I know? I used to live in Morocco where I managed a project employing Muslim Arabs and Berbers. I also spent a month in Yemen where most of the people are Sunni fundamentalists. Same story.
So none of them ever go to the Mosk to have their daily prayers.
Good to know.
That can be your little secret./sarc
-The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration. The word “mosque” in English refers to all types of buildings dedicated for Islamic worship, although there is a distinction in Arabic between the smaller masjid dedicated for the daily five prayers and the larger masjid jāmi (مسجد جامع) where the daily five prayers and the Friday congregation sermons are held with a high volume of attendance.
emphasis mine
http://tinyurl.com/epqlg
yet everyone trumpets the overthrow of the various ‘dictators’ in the ME as a ‘triumph for democracy’ when those countries will soon be lightyears further from democracy than they were before…quaddafi’s bad, yes, but what’s going tgo replace him is far, far worse and it seems as if NATO and the UN are deliberately assisting al-qaeda and the rest of the hardcore jihadists in taking over the entire ME and if they keep going down that road, will probably be starting airstrikes against Israel when the unguided rockets start raining down at random on Tel Aviv citizens and Israel dares to fight back with precise measured strikes against the lauchers conveniently and cowardly hidden in or near mosques, hospitals and schools.
semi-unrelated, but I had to share this one…..
“Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. It’s the guy cooking the burger that should get the credit, not the clown.”
Summary of election 2011:
http://www.ctv.ca/mini/election2011/polltracker/index.html
37.1% for Conservative
31.6% for NDP
20.5% for Liberal
5.7% for Bloc-Quebec
3.5% Green
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Leadership of
Steve Harper: 94.5%
Jack Layton: 80.5%
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This is fact came out of May 1, 2011 election
Conservative and Harper is smart enough to lead Canada as PM and hold more power
conservative got 37.1% and close rate with Jack Layton it means people of Canada went toward left more than right
or we can say almost 63% of Canada do not like right wings in Canada as number proof that
They see Liberal did not do any good job to shit and support left wing in past two years and that is reason Michael Ignatieff doing his homword was done but it was too late and he did not do good job during all term he was working and instead he missed so many absent in HOUSE and not care on time enough and last work did not change first influence of people to vote for him liberal are out of picture and only way they must work in Quality because they do not have qunatity now
Green is up because so many water flood and other environment are ignore and neglected and her view is need to hear and that is reason people like to hear Mr.May opionion in environment she came up.
Block Qubec is out or small voice because speak french do not give value added to becom PM for Canada and seperate idea are not welcome in multiculture Canadian who most of them speak two language
some percentage did not care or did not vote because do not trust or like any of leader they think all has talk lack of unification and united Canada and more power and money game not people profit in public
Finally Jack Layton came up to use more younger people to be ready for next election to run more show and they get mature enough in next 4 years to do some job for old and poor and low income and disable and univeristy student and health care and pension and small business and Muslim and other minority group to take care of thier interest and pull more support that area that was neglected by Liberal over few years past
while he Jack did not have experince team and nor he is ready to fight strong to get all but what priority still unknow for himself too. The group who cover by NDP cover majority of people now by add Liberal included with different culture but still same aims
Harper know if he needs to keep his job after 4 years he need to work in center line and listen to Jack Layton and Canadian people and he must get united Canada and think about majority and minority together and not neglect minority for beneifit of majority or vice versa
new. How do you know what Harper thinks?
Are you a mindreader?
Gifted people know better in most of case but not understood and like by normal people.
They are able sometimes predict future,if they show interest in certain subjects
It means before other normal people can feel or see it they can see it in most of time.
You need to have 96% to 98% grade point averge in school to go Harvard
and your fees is mostly get free too.
I feel sorry for Mr. Ignatieff
he told the truth and he likes public and human right but nobody listen to him not even his own party liked him. I am not his fan too ONLY because he was lazy but smart and slow in his job as people get older their concentration get slower.
http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&rlz=1R2ADSA_enCA361&biw=1003&bih=487&q=harvard+permissions+for+gifted+people+with+98%25+Grade+point+average+or+marks&oq=harvard+permissions+for+gifted+people+with+98%25+Grade+point+average+or+marks&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4125l23484l1l46l46l5l40l0l0l219l219l2-1&fp=5a87185da9a042ba
oz at 4:10
Ah yes, Wikipedia,the font of all knowledge/sarc.
Where did I say that “nobody” does the 5 a day bit?
Put it this way, normal business and office activities take place throughout the day, just as in the west, because most enterprises couldn’t possibly function if their employees were buggering off every few hours to visit a mosque that might be a ten minute walk away. If I had had such a problem I would have fired a few asses. Of course, a lot of my people were on exploration or drill crews miles away from the nearest mosque. A few guys (very, very few) had little prayer mats that they’d roll out at what they estimated to be the correct time, and I turned a blind eye to that.
The only place that I ever saw any significant effort to abide by the rules was in Jeddah in the nutty Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where shopkeepers would answer the call and hustle over to one of the ubiquitous nearby mosques. An interesting sidelight to that was that they didn’t lock their shop doors. Try that in any North American city!
We have it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLYN6Sky54
R is correct.
This is my vision by our intelligent AND pragmatic and world leader;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLYN6Sky54
The devout(fanatical?) pray 5 times a day but attend the mosque once a week on Friday.
~Zog
That there “but” juxaposes praying “5 times a day” with the “once a week”.
Learn the meaning of what you write.
My original comment says “do I need to mention that many(not mean all) Muslims attend Mosk 5 times a day every day?”
Zog-“Where do you get these goofy ideas?”
From reality Zog, from reality.
In fact you can find Muslims in Canadian Mosks every day for the 5 daily prayers too.
And yes, wiki has been known to be biased on certain Leftist hotbutton issues.
Why exactly would you think they would be biased about the daily function and services at Mosks?
Hi; it is nice to read comments about the so-called Arab Spring and results of Canada’s elections – I just wish that members of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Sk, Canada, would get a fair and honest election. The incumbent is back-in after the Electoral Officer (EO)who was picked by the incumbent refused a recount (though there was only a nine vote margin) and issues of bribery of voters and double – voting we appealed to the PBCN Appeals Committee but were refused. The EO was in and out of the meetings all day long but other candidates were not though the EO’s actions were at the heart of the appeals. People in Canada and the world need not look far for a one-party corrupt system and incompetence – they only need to look at PBCN. For more information please go to http://www.vote4harold.com, Thank You, Bob