Revolt/Revolution in Egypt

[Lemur]

I know this is not a big deal, but really, how do newsrooms make this sort of mistake?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well you are talking about the same channel that let Glenn Beck on air. I mean, you would've thought that was a mistake, too.

[PanzerJaeger]

I know this is not a big deal, but really, how do newsrooms make this sort of mistake?

You would think that they would have a stock 'Middle East' graphic, but I guess they type in country names each time they make one because I've seen the same type of graphic on Fox with the countries correctly labeled.

[Fragony]

lololol the socialists once again just can't control it http://www.geenstijl.nl:80/mt/archie....html#comments

Hellowwwwwwww it's Egypt. Not Israel

nothing ever really changes

Where did we see him again http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven...staakt_di.html

The one on the right is kinda family, her dad married my grandma and she was my mom's nanny. All Dutchies know her. We don't really get along

[Fragony]

The brotherhood is in, excellent eyes Hax. Amazing.

[Hax]

The brotherhood is in, excellent eyes Hax. Amazing.

What's your problem with the Muslim Brotherhood anyway? They probably won't get a majority in a parliament, nor are they of the violent Islamist type.

[Furunculus]

What's your problem with the Muslim Brotherhood anyway? They probably won't get a majority in a parliament, nor are they of the violent Islamist type.

while the MB have said some 'pleasingly' moderate things it has also been utterly cretinous by blaming the church bombing on israel; "because only the zionists have an interest in a divided egypt"!

if a british politician said something that idiotic he would be reviled, and i would expect everyone else in the country to hold the same opinion, so his chances of office would be zero.

question - do i hold a double standard and expect better from british politicians than i do from other politicians?

if yes - is that racist or realist?
if no - do i condemn them utterly even tho there might be no better alternative?

[Hax]

Tell me, would you rather establish dialogue between the Muslim Brotherhood or al-Qaeda? I think we have to accept the fact that

1) Egypt is an Islamic country
2) Egypt has an amount of citizens that would like a (moderate) Islamist state.

That means that in a democratic society, to which Egypt is moving, there will be certain elements in parliament that call for an Islamic state. We have a party in the Netherlands called the SGP, or the "Staatskundig Gereformeerde Partij (Reformed Political Party) that basically want the Netherlands to become a theocracy.

Do we have to take them seriously? Yes, because people vote for them.
Are they a real threat to the Dutch secular state? No, not really.

I would expect roughly the same (although the Muslim Brotherhood has more influence in Egypt than the SGP has in the Netherlands.

[Fragony]

What's your problem with the Muslim Brotherhood anyway? They probably won't get a majority in a parliament, nor are they of the violent Islamist type.

Not that violent anymore, but they are still the same thing, you know I dispise the Islam how could I ever not have a problem with the brotherhood

You are holding a snake to your chest way too closely, it's a vicious creature, nothing but poison

[al Roumi]

afaik, in Egypt, what is happening is not about the MB or Islamism. It's all about getting rid of Mubarrak.

Western media are hugely over inflating the importance of the MB and Egyptian public desire for an Islamic state.