With a totalitarian party to vote for.
“We are all worried,” said Amr Koura, 55, a television producer, reflecting the opinions of the secular minority. “The young people have no control of the revolution anymore. It was evident in the last few weeks when you saw a lot of bearded people taking charge. The youth are gone.”
h/t Oz
Who’d have thunk it….
George Soros would be pleased.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is also regarded warily by some religious Egyptians, who see it as an elitist, secret society.”
The Democratic Party in the USA is also regarded warily by some freedom loving Americans as an elitist secret society. Can’t say much else about the GOP. A Plutocracy at worst and an Oligarchy at best. Either way we are as screwed as the Egyptians.
“It is also clear that the young, educated secular activists who initially propelled the nonideological revolution are no longer the driving political force”
They never were the driving force,useful idiots to be sure, but the whole Mideast doesn’t “rise up in a cry for democracy” except in the minds of the terminally naive.
Add to this the Libyan rebel leader’s admitting that Al-Quaeda is involved with “some” of his people and it gets easier to connect the dots.
And this is all going on since Obama has demonstrated what a weak and naive President he is.
One more term for The One and the whole effing ME should be in Islamist hands.
All of the above!
dmorris, exactly, useful idiots is right. Add to that the useful idiots in the West aiding and abetting Iran.
We expected something else. Iran has been quite busy undermining the stability of the Middle East region.
I said this was going to happen, but my liberal betters assured me the Mohood was a non-religious secular group. Oh sure baby, Hamas and Hezballah are both arms of the Brohood and they govern like Islamofacists religious nutjobs. Libya under Alquacka, also an arm of the Broohood.
I think if Harper gets a majority then he should hire Kate, Levant, Steyn, and a whole bunch of the “I told you so” conservative/libertarian bloggers as Foreign Policy advisors.
The proof is in the pudding.
I’m lost! Revolt in Syria. So the Bathist who rule there are actually a Shia sect which explains being in cahoots with Iran. SO the majority is Sunni thus a revolt. Where does that leave Hesbollah?
Ultimately methinks Islam is a governing tool used by those in power or those who want to cease it. The Egyptian military thinks they have the most guns so at the end of the day they can shoot the MB is necessary. It is a struggle between those who can feed themselves and those that cannot.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!!! This is going to come as a shock to a great many in the West. The same people that think we can all live tohgether in a multicultural society with respect and tolerance for all. As we have just seen this past week in Canada the ones that espouse tolerance and working together are the first ones to pounce when they think the moment is right, and the herd that elected them are the useful idiots. Fortunately the youth of the ME have perhaps learned a lesson here that the Lib and Dipper followers have not and we have to go to the polls for another exercise in futility. The Dippers didn’t get enough of their wants fed to satisfy them,(Flash there will never be enough to satisfy them) and the Lib party holds the whole of Canada in contempt because we took away their “Right to Govern” the party that sent our Forces off to war after evicerating the CF budget so much that our men had to borrow desert gear from the country that the Libs despise, the party that introduced attack adds through the Barney toy and the idiot mittens, the party whose one time leader wore a German army helmet in Montreal and did a pirouette behind the ruling Monarch’s back. And so we go to the polls. Surprise, not much!!!
To be filed under No Sh!t Sherlock ….. the New York Times … at the forefront of cheerleading for for their ideological brothers …. damned slow to figure out the consequences of their crusades.
Not going bankrupt fast enough.
BTW … did anyone look at that link to the op-ed on Wisconsin efforts to force State universities to comply with FOI requests?
“Expert” on Deutsche Welle last night assuring the newschick that reports stating Al-Qaida et al were active in Libyan revolution was nothing but “fear-mongering.”
“Nothing but people wanting liberty” he said.
Check out sda archives for February.
When it started to hit the fan in Egypt, Kate was, with numerous post, warning us that the Muslim Brotherhood was on the move. The Lame Stream Media’s take? Apologetic as usual. The White House? Secular types.
This Brotherhood guy got one thing right;
[“Don’t trust the intellectuals, liberals and secularists,” Mr. Erian said. “They are a minor group crying all the time. If they don’t work hard, they have no future.”]
Oh wait, I thought he was talking about climate alarmists, heh
@dmorris
The ME will be islamist by the end of his first term, Europe by the end of his second.
Yep, clearly democracy sucks. Shall we turn Canada into a dictatorship, then?
Shall we turn Canada into a dictatorship, then?
You and your tapeworm can try.
Egypt is a reminder that it isn’t the cutting edge that determines what a sword does, it’s whose hand holds the grip.
Sorry to hear you won’t be joining us, Oz. At least I know I have Kate’s support!
Some of the problem with Islam right now include:
– it is the circuses part of “bread and circuses” for some of the ME dictators,
– it is being used a unifying force by terrorists and anti-westerners, anti progressivesto justify evil acts
– no one is pushing to have its fringe elements excluded from the dogma
– no one is pushing to have its fringe elements excluded from the dogma
~rroe
The so-called “moderate Muslims” are the fringe elements and I assure you that the fundy Muslim dogmatists are pushing to exclude them.
Egyptians want the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of them, just like the Palestinians who vote for Hamas, they know it will lead to violence and suffering and war – but that’s what they want if it means they can make others suffer more than they do.
Naive Westerners jumped to the conclusion their ‘revolution’ was pro-democracy.
Am re-reading Mme Jehan Sadat’s memoir “A Woman of Egypt”. It’s really interesting, especially in light of recent events.