Morsi wins in Egypt

[GarroHorus]

Bad news. The Muslim Brotherhood is in charge now.

[handmade34]

1. ??

one man's bad news is another's good...

[PCIntern]

2. Also heard that in 1932. Nt

[morningfog]

3. What do you expect the ramifications will be?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

5. Not much.

The military will be running the country.

[B2G]

6. Sharia law

Strictly enforced.

[GarroHorus]

11. Military rule

That's never a good thing. The military will rule to keep the Muslim Brotherhood in check.

I think Egypt is going to go from bad to worse.

[morningfog]

13. I don't think the military was going to give up power regardless of the election results.

[IDemo]

4. Was there a Lesser of Two Evils in this election?

Not sure that the alternative would have been that great, either.

[BOG PERSON]

9. it was either him or the secret police guy

[Iggy]

7. Why is this bad news?

Sorry, I stopped drinking the "all Muslims are terrorists/extremists" Kool-Aid
long ago.

[B2G]

8. Do some research on the MB

I think that will answer your question.

[Iggy]

10. I Already Have

they've made some changes.

Look, I'm not buying into the anti Muslim hysteria. let the MB rule for a year and let's see
what happens before those of us w/ a "better" government judge them.

[B2G]

14. The MB is not representative of all Muslims

and I'm not even close to implying that. They are a fundamentalist sect of Islam. Every religion has fundamentalist group and none of them are good.

We'll see who's right soon enough.

[BOG PERSON]

17. they're not a sect, they're a political party

a sect would be something like sunnism, shiism, etc.

[B2G]

18. They're a political party filled with fundamentalists

potato, potahto

[Iggy]

20. The Democratic Party

is not representative of _all_ democrats, either. that might be why so many don't bother to
show up to vote on election day. this hardly means non voters are "anarchists" or some other such
baloney.

again, Teh Fear. just because the MB won doesn't automatically mean they are going to "rise up and
invade Israel"... or sharia law is next.

[B2G]

21. I sincerely hope you're right, but I have my doubts.

It's a big gamble and the loser will be women, gays and anyone else the MB decides to persecute.

[Iggy]

25. Thx, But Please

gays and women do NOT have full rights, right here in the good ol' US of A.

Let's fix that problem first, prior to passing judgement on other cultures and their elections.

[GarroHorus]

12. Because the military will be the real power

To keep the MB in check, the military will be the real power. That's never a good thing.

[malaise]

15. Isn't Morsi an American trained

Engineer - didn't he spend a lot of time in California?
Aren't his children Americans?

[Avalux]

16. If you're going to make such a statement, back it up with reasons why. n/t

[bemildred]

19. Good.

it was going to get real ugly fast if that other guy got selected. This way things might calm down.

[ArcticFox]

22. A ridiculous post.

First, the Muslim Brotherhood is not in power. You must have missed the recent military coup.
Second, why is it bad? Is democracy only good when it picks the "right" leader?

[GarroHorus]

24. So if the GOP wins in the US it's not bad news?

I don't get you.

[ArcticFox]

26. Ok, but that didn't seem to be the tenor of your OP

The OP seemed more ominous.

[sadbear]

23. There will be growing pains

Democracy, or what is called democracy, can be and often is messy. Just look at the U.S. in 2000 and 2004. And then 2008.

[AJTheMan]

27. The military is in charge. They recently stripped the presidency of all powers.

On the night of the election, the military stripped all the powers away from the President. The head of the military declared himself to be the one who writes the constitution. The freely elected parliament was dissolved by a pro-military court. I applaud the fact that this was indeed a fair and free election but Morsi can only do so much. Most of his powers have been stripped by the military. Since the military has the final say in how the constitution is written, who is to say that the Constitution will give the President any powers at all? It very possibly could be a pro-military sham constitution, just like the one we have in Burma. In Burma, elections have been held many times and yet everyone recognizes who is really in power -- the military.

See, at one time, this was a free Democracy. For a very short period, we had the fact that the constitution would be written by the legislature with advice from the soon to be elected President. Now that the ball is in the military's court, who knows how they will write it? The military has already set up a national police force with very liberal policies in detaining anyone they see fit. I worry about the authenticity of this Egyptian Democracy because now we have a power hungry military with all the power and they do not worry about human rights.

Look, it's great that Morsi was elected but as of now, he is only a symbolic head of state, not unlike Queen Elizabeth is symbolically the leader of the United Kingdom. Tantawi is pulling the strings of the government.