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 FarBeyondDriven
Truthfully, I'm a bullshitter
 
Registered: 04/22/08
Posts: 13,834
Loc: Greenbow, Alabama
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Thebooedocksaint said:
my link above was talking about the president leaving for sure.
didn't read it. didnt even know you posted one actually 
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still beLIEve
State Property..Again
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 17,167
Loc: a world thats not my own
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The people of Egypt wanted a responsive non-military government, so Mubarak appointed military figurehead Omar Suleiman as the new president and hires the former chief of the Egyptian airforce Ahmed Shafik to form a new government. Governments will throw the people a bone, only if it's covered in shit and piss.
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niteowl said:
See, that term pedo gets thrown around a lot.
Is a 16 year old guy having sex w/a 16 year old girl a pedophile?
If not, then how is a 30 year old considered a pedophile for doing the same thing?
I think y'all need to look up the definition for pedophile.
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 Thebooedocksaint
Dead Dictator
Registered: 05/11/09
Posts: 5,725
Loc: Wild & Free
Last seen: 17 days, 12 hours
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still beLIEve said:
The people of Egypt wanted a responsive non-military government, so Mubarak appointed military figurehead Omar Suleiman as the new president and hires the former chief of the Egyptian airforce Ahmed Shafik to form a new government. Governments will throw the people a bone, only if it's covered in shit and piss.
Well, the military has largely been fairly neutral throughout the entire revolution.
Hell, the military even had meetings excluding mubarak and his vice president 2 days before he stepped down.
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"Je pense, donc je suis (I am thinking, therefore I am)." -Rene Descartes
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FurrowedBrow
Free yourself from yourself
Registered: 04/20/08
Posts: 12,041
Loc: Carpal Tunnel
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kyuzo
Stranger Than Fiction
Registered: 07/05/10
Posts: 981
Last seen: 11 years, 4 months
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 Re: Egyptian Revolution  [Re: Far Stox]
#527484 - 02/15/11 12:01 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Far Stox said:
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kyuzo said:
Al-Jazeera has good coverage. My fear, though, is a group like the islamic brotherhood coming to power, or someone even more fundamentalist
My understanding of the Brotherhood is that they have had their fundamentalist offshoots, but have cleaned up their reputation in Egypt over the last couple of decades in an effort to become a more legitimate political influence. But I still remain a bit skeptical of them anyways. What happens next with Egypt will certainly be interesting for sure, regardless of who comes to power next. 
The Brotherhood is most definitely a fundamentalist organization.
But I think you're confusing fundamentalism, and extremism. The brotherhood, in Egypt, disavowed extremism (suicide bombs, terrorism, etc), but still embrace fundamentalist principles like the stoning of adulterers and the killing of apostates, which is pretty common in the Islamic world (except in a few places like Turkey, which is more due to the how the ottoman empire met it's end.
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Far Stox
Higher Education
Registered: 09/19/10
Posts: 470
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Last seen: 11 years, 10 months
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Re: Egyptian Revolution [Re: kyuzo]
#527529 - 02/15/11 02:44 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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kyuzo said:
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Far Stox said:
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kyuzo said:
Al-Jazeera has good coverage. My fear, though, is a group like the islamic brotherhood coming to power, or someone even more fundamentalist
My understanding of the Brotherhood is that they have had their fundamentalist offshoots, but have cleaned up their reputation in Egypt over the last couple of decades in an effort to become a more legitimate political influence. But I still remain a bit skeptical of them anyways. What happens next with Egypt will certainly be interesting for sure, regardless of who comes to power next.
The Brotherhood is most definitely a fundamentalist organization.
But I think you're confusing fundamentalism, and extremism. The brotherhood, in Egypt, disavowed extremism (suicide bombs, terrorism, etc), but still embrace fundamentalist principles like the stoning of adulterers and the killing of apostates, which is pretty common in the Islamic world (except in a few places like Turkey, which is more due to the how the ottoman empire met it's end.
Yeah, I guess I generally lump the two of them together. Probably due to the fact that all of the other fundamentalist organizations I've heard of in recent memory are also extremists. 
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"When I awaken,
The first thing on my mind,
A little bit of cornflakes,
And a blunt that's all mine."-PUTS
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