The never ending Islamic rage machine rolls on. ISLAMABAD (AP) — More than 30,000 Islamists rallied against the U.S. in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday, demanding Islamabad cut off ties with Washington following NATO airstrikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The protest highlighted the ability of hard-liners to bring their supporters
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The Egyptian elections have resulted in a rout for the throngs whose springtime hopes for freedom are facing the prospect of a nuclear winter at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow Salafists. These Islamists appear to have garnered at least 60 percent of the seats in the …
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The New York Times : CAIRO – Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the most significant step yet in the religious movement’s rise since the start of the Arab Spring. The party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, appeared to have taken about 40 percent of the vote, as expected. But a big surprise was the strong showing of ultraconservative Islamists, called Salafis, many of whom see most popular entertainment as sinful and reject women’s participation in voting or public life. Analysts in the state-run news media said early returns indicated that Salafi groups could take as much as a quarter of the vote, giving the two groups of Islamists combined control of nearly 65 percent of the parliamentary seats. That victory came at the expense of the liberal parties and youth activists who set off the revolution, affirming their fears that they would be unable to compete with Islamists who emerged from the Mubarak years organized and with an established following. Poorly organized and internally divided, the liberal parties could not compete with Islamists disciplined by decades as the sole opposition to Mr. Mubarak. “We were washed out,” said Shady el-Ghazaly Harb, one of the most politically active of the group. The Twitter feeds of liberal-minded Egyptians have made for grim reading in the past few days. “The Big Pharaoh,” an Egyptian who gained a following in the mid-2000s libertarian-conservative English-language blogosphere writing under that pseudonym, has been tweeting things like this : We’re convincing a friend who doesn’t drink alcoholic beverages to do so. “Try before it’s too late” we said. I now know why my mom is so paranoid after the revolution. She had a lot of Jewish friends back in the late 50s. But the crucially important thing to understand about this moment is in this pair of tweets : Victory of Islamists is a direct result of Mubarak’s rule and his habit of crushing any alternative to the Islamists. Will never forgive him If you’re even thinking that Mubarak was better, remember that such results are a direct outcome of his failed rule.
The New York Times : CAIRO – Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the most significant step yet in the religious movement’s rise since the start of the Arab Spring. The party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, appeared to have taken about 40 percent of the vote, as expected. But a big surprise was the strong showing of ultraconservative Islamists, called Salafis, many of whom see most popular entertainment as sinful and reject women’s participation in voting or public life. Analysts in the state-run news media said early returns indicated that Salafi groups could take as much as a quarter of the vote, giving the two groups of Islamists combined control of nearly 65 percent of the parliamentary seats. That victory came at the expense of the liberal parties and youth activists who set off the revolution, affirming their fears that they would be unable to compete with Islamists who emerged from the Mubarak years organized and with an established following. Poorly organized and internally divided, the liberal parties could not compete with Islamists disciplined by decades as the sole opposition to Mr. Mubarak. “We were washed out,” said Shady el-Ghazaly Harb, one of the most politically active of the group. The Twitter feeds of liberal-minded Egyptians have made for grim reading in the past few days. “The Big Pharaoh,” an Egyptian who gained a following in the mid-2000s libertarian-conservative English-language blogosphere writing under that pseudonym, has been tweeting things like this : We’re convincing a friend who doesn’t drink alcoholic beverages to do so. “Try before it’s too late” we said. I now know why my mom is so paranoid after the revolution. She had a lot of Jewish friends back in the late 50s. But the crucially important thing to understand about this moment is in this pair of tweets : Victory of Islamists is a direct result of Mubarak’s rule and his habit of crushing any alternative to the Islamists. Will never forgive him If you’re even thinking that Mubarak was better, remember that such results are a direct outcome of his failed rule.
