The Islamic Brotherhood Wins the Vote

Kimo, are they going to censor your Internet too? If so, then that should be a sign for you to just pack your bags and leave, if all of this is not enough... I hate hearing about this and I pray to God that my country, the United States of 'Merica does not get involved...we can't afford another war in the Middle East.

I remember from the first time I was familiar with the Muslim Brotherhood by researching them when Hosni Mubarak was dictating and this was to be predicted to happen not until next year at the most. I'm sorry to hear this, I wish the best for you and I hope you find either a better place to live or await some other political entity to change the tables once again.

The one thing that makes me cringe is the conservative view that radicals such as the Brotherhood share (On Women's Rights/segregation, just all the discrimination in general.) Excuse me for my assuming, but, I have no doubt that there are already political activists trying to override them, as we can all hope so. Another thing that makes me cringe is that their priorities are totally messed up. Ugh...

What I meant by U.S. intervention is a reference to the Gulf Wars, and the recent attack on Libya from both U.S. and the U.K., etc. And a thought I have been pondering on is what type of regime would work best for Egypt? You are currently under an Islamic Republic, a Theocracy, which is never good news. I had in mind any sort of Socialist state, or maybe a more Liberal state with edits to your constitution could handle decent stability. What's your thoughts Kimo?

Oh and a quote from New York Times:

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The Brotherhood has pledged to respect basic individual freedoms while using the influence of the state to nudge the culture in a more traditional direction. But the conservatives who will become its coalition partners, the Salafis, often talk openly of laws mandating a shift to Islamic banking, restricting the sale of alcohol, providing special curriculums for boys and girls in public schools, and censoring the content of the arts and entertainment. -New York Times

As I see it, they're raging hypocrites. Hold on as I go pick up my personal Qur'an and try to find something that supports women's rights.

Yeah, 2011 was a time of bloodshed in many countries. I hope you can get through it :/

I can only hope that other countries don't intervene, and that if anything the people don't like happens, I'm sure that the people will change it as well.

I never liked what was going on in Libya, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, but I'm sure it can all work out.

Also, like Digi said, if the US intervenes, prepare for a new world. Whether it's right or wrong, they tend to force their culture upon us (trust me, I live in Canada).

The U.S. does not intervene because of a difference in culture, they intervene purely because of financial interests, so long as Egypt continues to serve the real free market and allows it self to be abused for profit in accordance to those laws all countries are made to abide too they will be a-ok, you'd be surprised by how many dictatorships the U.S. supports because they serve their interests, our own 7 years of dictatorship back in 1967 was made in U.S.A. after all.

If I've learned something from seeing incompetent or profit-serving politicians is not to blame only the politics, blame those who vote and support them first and foremost, we don't get the responsibility we have otherwise, and that IS the majority of the citizens of a nation, if your elderly alone were enough compared to the rest of the population to elect a government you must have some serious issues with pensions.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if the ideals backed purely by profit are worse than ideals backed by a bit of profit, a bit of trust and mostly a dead unmoving mind, you have to give a bit of respect, in comparison to the latter, to those who abuse you for money, even if they are what is truly wrong they are human beings with rational thought acting towards a real interest, sometimes I think one should have more hatred towards the ones who abuse you for a vague purpose and hardly rational thought, there is not reason and not much gain behind it so it's a "why?" to kill for.

Btw, how cute, pyro believes what politicians say.

Kimo Force wrote:

Confound these religious buffoons who believe that religion is what runs a democracy in the 21st century.

Oh come on, Kimo, religions like the islam and christianity all talk of, hail and revere kings, the old religions said kings are gods, but the modern ones say gods are kings. And what's more democratic than a king, right?

But I understand why there is so much unrest about this, religion based policitcal systems naturally oppose democracy by definition, hinder the advance of human culture and of course are abandoned by all modern and advanced nations, not to of course condemn religions, but also to respect them, it is a person's free choice and should not be in the structure of a nation itself, for both the nation and religious beliefs to function properly, right?
"One nation under GOD..."

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Yeah, I might have been a bit sarcastic in this last paragraph