The Fallen Leaves (of Arab Spring) Drift by My Window...

[4est_4est_Gump]

Egypt's Stillborn Democracy
Sarah N. Stern
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/egypts_stillborn_democracy.html
January 5, 2013

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While many of us were enjoying our winter holidays, Egyptians went to the polls and voted for a Shariah based, Islamist constitution, which passed by 63.8 per cent. Egypt, the largest populated country in the Arab world with a population of 82.5 million people, has been left badly polarized. Coptic Christians, seculars, liberals, and leftists have been rendered powerless as they have watched the march of Islamist ascendency and the slow steady erosion of the liberties.

Morsi's critics have complained that this constitution does not represent all Egyptians, and that it allows imams to interfere in legislation, while it offers little or no protection to women and minorities.

This is just one of many freedoms that the Egyptians have been watching erode. The secular tyranny of Hosni Mubarak has simply been replaced by the Islamist tyranny of Mohammad Morsi.

As soon as Mohammad Morsi came into power, he took over the media, the fourth estate, sacking the secular communications director and replacing him with a Muslim Brotherhood member. He then proceeded to purge scores of newspaper publishers and editors.

In August, when Islamists attacked Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai -- which as some have taken as a pretense to force Egypt into a confrontation with Israel -- Morsi used this instance as a smokescreen to replace Mohamad Hussein Tantawi, the secular head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, (SCAF), and Army Chief of Staff Sami Enan, to replace them with Muslim Brothergood member, Abdal Kahlil Fatah a- Sisi. (So much for the popular argument in Washington that we have to support the Egyptian military because it is the "most western of institutions").

When Morsi sacked Tantawi and Enan, he used that occasion to grab control of all the legislative authorities, promising that this was only going to be until a new, draft constitution could be voted upon. This constitution, which was voted upon on December 25th, makes Islamist clerics the arbiters of human rights and sets up Saudi style "religious police".

The constitution allows for Muslim clerics to segregate the sexes, much as they do in Saudi Arabia, and to impose strict Islamic codes of dress and Sharia punishment for theft, (amputation of the hand), and for adultery, (the stoning or whipping to death of women).

As Sheik Yasser Borhami, an ultraconservative Egyptian cleric, gleefully boasted, "This constitution has more constraints on rights than ever existed before in any Egyptian constitution. This will not be a constitution that allows what God forbids, or forbid what God allows."

Borhani also added that by using the political system of "democracy and the Shura, (Islamic religious consultation), the constitution prevents what he refers to as an "American or European democracy", that "gives the power of legislation to people and not to God."

Although the fig leaf of democracy should have totally been dropped by now, there are still many in Washington who fervently cling to the belief that because Mohammad Morsi came in through a process of democratic elections, this "Arab Spring" has summoned the birth of democracy in the Arab world.

Just as the Nazis came into power claiming to clean up the corruption of the Weimar Republic, and Hamas came into power in Gaza claiming to clean up the corruption of Fatah, Mohammad Morsi came into power cleaning up the corruption of Hosni Mubarak.

Democracy in the Arab world has been stillborn. If you have any doubt about that, just ask the Coptic Christians and the scores of other people who have been detained without trial, tortured and murdered for protesting the new constitution in Egypt.

The "radical" racist religious redneck right-wingnuts say,

"WE TOLD YOU SO!"​

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Are their azaleas blooming?


Mine always look so nice in Arab Spring.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My Jasmine got nipped by Missourah Winter just a scant two weeks ago...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

We've only had frost a few times this winter.


My old furnace is appreciating the light duty.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The fireplace has been nice...


Reminds me of the Camp David Accords.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

*choke*





Okay, I'm going to try this banana bread now.


*braces for impact*

 

[Byron In Exile]

Frosties to y'all.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Are the libs still in that overused and over wrought state of DeNile???
__________________
It's in the writings and the life of he who cannot be depicted.

When weak, be nice loving and tolerant.
When you get a little stronger, start asking for special privileges.
When you get them and are a little more numerous, demand them and threaten violence.
Once you are in the majority, everyone else must convert, submit, pay a tax and be invisible, or simply be killed.

How hard can it be for people to not get Islam? Take the Jews of Medina, in Saudi Arabia, for example, first they sheltered he who can not be depicted, and now they can't even board a Delta flight...
A_J, the Atheist

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Howdy, Byron.


How the longboat-on-wheels coming along?





We need to plunder something . . . soon.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Frosties to y'all.

Apple Jacks!



A_J, the Wicked (Who Ruled his World)

 

[mercury14]

Every morning AJ and Wat take their flirting just a little but further. Today they're cuddling by the fireplace, tomorrow it will be footsies under their snuggle blanket.

 

[miles]

Are the libs still in that overused and over wrought state of DeNile???
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As usual, they were wrong, but will never, ever admit it. Instead they'll deflect the issue, make fun of you, or pretend the whole thing never happened.

Next!

 

[miles]

Every morning AJ and Wat take their flirting just a little but further. Today they're cuddling by the fireplace, tomorrow it will be footsies under their snuggle blanket.

See what I mean?

 

[Byron In Exile]

Howdy, Byron.

How the longboat-on-wheels coming along?

We're putting it together.

We need to plunder something . . . soon.

I've a line on a thing. Best be quiet right now.

Else, we'll look like total bitches.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Every morning AJ and Wat take their flirting just a little but further. Today they're cuddling by the fireplace, tomorrow it will be footsies under their snuggle blanket.

Oh look!!! A homo-erotic implication . . .


from he who resents same when cast in his direction.


I know, it's good for the goose and good for the other goose.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

We're putting it together.

I've a line on a thing. Best be quiet right now.

Else, we'll look like total bitches.

Let the plunderage begin!!!


When it makes sense, of course . . .


and as long as it isn't too costly.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

As usual, they were wrong, but will never, ever admit it. Instead they'll deflect the issue, make fun of you, or pretend the whole thing never happened.

Next!

See what I mean?

The facts and reality are not on their side.

I about split a gut yesterday listening to the Liberal News media crowing about this robust economy of theirs...

If that is all the most honesty that you can share with yourself, then you have a green light to say anything you want about any one else.



Daddy didn't give attention
To the fact that mommy didn't care
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today

 

[Byron In Exile]

See what I mean?

Oh, so now, Miles be stepping up on shit he don't get?

Who in the fuck of Seven Hells invented this Chihuahua.

When silly little dogs bit at my ankles, I kick them.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Let the plunderage begin!!!


When it makes sense, of course . . .


and as long as it isn't too costly.

I'll hit the museums, you take on the Pyramids along de Nile...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh, so now, Miles be stepping up on shit he don't get?

Who in the fuck of Seven Hells invented this Chihuahua.

When silly little dogs bit at my ankles, I kick them.

__________________
"Ceterum autem censeo, Liberalismum esse delendum"
A_J, the Stupid

 

[miles]

The facts and reality are not on their side.

I about split a gut yesterday listening to the Liberal News media crowing about this robust economy of theirs...

[/I]

They sound like news broadcast from former Soviet Union. You want pair Levis?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The Poodles just want to be petted . . .


or kicked . . . .


I have discovered the wonder of cnc-porting on cylinder heads. The power increases are phenomenal.

 

[miles]

Byron - always the wit.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh look!!! A homo-erotic implication . . .


from he who resents same when cast in his direction.


I know, it's good for the goose and good for the other goose.

...

Funny how the guardians of tolerance and diversity so quickly go to the negative stereotype of those whom they defend...

While you're at it, could you come up with a plan to cancel out America's nigger amnesty policy? And who gave Pocahontas and her drunk-ass tribe citizenship?

... but the Muslim Brotherhood is just a bunch happy-go-lucky secular community organizers and all the right-wing does is fear all that it does not understand while we here in the enlightened Left know that just a little love, a turned cheek and some shared "sacrifice" will make the world love us and want to be just like us, the sick horse...

The Pale Nightmare.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They sound like news broadcast from former Soviet Union. You want pair Levis?

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