Mubarak stepping down

[seekerz]

Here is a poll Zogby taken this year:

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On the role of clergy in government: 65% agreed with a statement that “clergy must play a greater role in our political system.”

huffingtonpost.com/john-zogby/polls-egypt-obama_b_818192.html

We might get similar results asking the same question on this forum, regarding our own clergy. Is Islamic clergy mostly radical/extremist? If not, I don’t really see how this is pertinent.

Anyone suspicious or fearful of another can find something to criticize, though unless that criticism is pertinent to the situation, one has to question what the point is. As long as we remain earthbound, all our houses are made of glass…

 

[gilliam]

How many people were surveyed in all? How was the sample selected? How many peopel were in the subgroup you present? In how many of those countries is Sharia law actually practiced? Are there any differences in how it is practiced? Those are the questions that occur to me at first glance.

Different survey companies are getting the same results in different years. I think we can rely on the results as being representative of what Egyptians believe.

The hope, if there is one, is that they will radically change their beliefs by September or that they will not vote their beliefs (not likely). There is an old saying in Egypt, “the poor don’t vote against Allah.”

 

[RACJ]

Can not be good? The jubilant :extrahappy: Egyptians don’t appear to agree.

Remember, Matt, the streets were jubilant after our Trade Centers were destroyed and 3000 people were killed. :confused:

 

[Robert_Bay]

The future of a democratic Egypt

By Condoleezza Rice

Interesting read:
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021506024.html

 

[steve44]

Mubarak and the Fall of the Zionist Running Dogs!

youtube.com/watch?v=ok_ITfeUEY8

 

[Ridgerunner]

Different survey companies are getting the same results in different years. I think we can rely on the results as being representative of what Egyptians believe.

The hope, if there is one, is that they will radically change their beliefs by September or that they will not vote their beliefs (not likely). There is an old saying in Egypt, “the poor don’t vote against Allah.”

it has seemed to me that this “Caliphate” business is a heady sort of mixture of both a more radical form of Islam laced with a vague socialism. One could naturally expect the poor (of whom there are many in most Muslim states) to be attracted to it in the same sort of way they were once attracted to the notion of “workers’ paradises”. Those in the petro states ought to be wary of the whole idea, (whose wealth do they think is going to be spread around, after all?) but then, neither were many in the occidental middle classes when socialism was at the height of its popularity in the west. Many in the west still think of socialism as an earthly nirvana.

I’m not a biblical scholar, but as I recall God placed an angel with a sword of flame at the gates of Eden, barring our return. We in the west have seen plenty of that flame when people tried to recreate an earthly Eden. One suspects the Muslims will find plenty of flame in their efforts to establish what they think of as “the Caliphate”. But there’s nothing we in the west can say to persuade them of that. After all, despite the horrors of the 20th Century, many in the west still believe in “Caliphates” of a more morally libertarian sort.

 

[CMatt25]

Remember, Matt, the streets were jubilant after our Trade Centers were destroyed and 3000 people were killed.

I don’t know which Egyptians were jubilant or not then. I just know the latest jubilation was from those celebrating the potential of the rise of a democracy for their nation. And it didn’t even take us invading their country. Peace.