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In reply to the discussion: CNN: Mohammed Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) declared Egyptian Presidential winner [View all]clang1
(884 posts)141. All that we can say, and we need to support them and the
Egyptian people. I think that this is all that is being asked of everyone in this affair..... We need to support democracy.
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CNN: Mohammed Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) declared Egyptian Presidential winner [View all]
hlthe2b
Jun 2012
OP
There may still be hope for Egypt. The military was unable to stop the vote nor could they cheat.
nanabugg
Jun 2012
#84
That is the problem with a Draftee Army, it takes a professional army to do a proper coup
happyslug
Jun 2012
#111
When bushie started the 2 wars they talked about how this was going to result in a lot of ME states
jwirr
Jun 2012
#36
He was thinking that Nebraska is in the center of the USA. Protected on all sides. However given the
jwirr
Jun 2012
#105
There hasn't been any "barbarism" -- there has been an election, and that's what democracy is about.
The Stranger
Jun 2012
#135
Sure it is, but we get what we vote for. Now, it'll be hell trying to vote those fundamentallist
demosincebirth
Jun 2012
#49
Under sharia law in Iran, homosexual teens are hanged in town squares from drott cranes.
MADem
Jun 2012
#134
re: it is still a place, and places don't feel things. It's a place full of people
clang1
Jun 2012
#54
So true."Europe" is often used here as a stand-in for all that is good and worthy of emulation
entanglement
Jun 2012
#90
No it isn't. If they step over the line, there's a lot we can do about it. Our opinion is not
MADem
Jun 2012
#91
Yeah the civil war implications are concerning. Very worrisome for women, glbts, Copts
riderinthestorm
Jun 2012
#59
There's gonna be a whole lot of "Those People don't *deserve* democracy" around here for awhile.. nt
Posteritatis
Jun 2012
#18
The biggest option that he has is to close the American WALLET. We give them a fortune every year.
MADem
Jun 2012
#93
Oddly enough there's a whole continuum of Muslims, of which the Taliban are just one extreme. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jun 2012
#32
Probably best to just assume that the religious fundamentalists taking charge will be a *good*
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#107
I grab dinner on my way home from this pizza place, the owner and his wife are from Alexandria.
crimson77
Jun 2012
#81
He just did it highlevel is how I interpreted it (thought it was rough reading that post)
clang1
Jun 2012
#83
Whether you were a Shafik supporter or Morsi supporter, in the end, the real winner is the military.
AJTheMan
Jun 2012
#78
If you do not understand the history and culture, you do not understand the people.
MADem
Jun 2012
#96
It is as relevant as the work of our founding fathers is to our national character.
MADem
Jun 2012
#100
Her mother has my deepest sympathies. You just can't tell 'em when they Know It All.
MADem
Jun 2012
#139
You don't have to be an Islamophobe to fear something called the "Muslim Brotherhood"
KamaAina
Jun 2012
#114
How many people here would complain if there were? I seriously wonder that myself n/t
clang1
Jun 2012
#126
If it were a Christian nation and an overtly Christian organization took control
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#115
That's quite a turnaround from Morsi's statement that the Coptic Christians should either
totodeinhere
Jun 2012
#131