Posted on 02/11/2011 2:41:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
In July of last year, the University of Maryland commissioned Zogby to poll the people of Egypt. Here are a few of their findings:
The Zogby poll results back up a similar project conducted by Pew in April and May of last year. Among Egyptian Muslims polled, 85% felt that Islam’s role in politics was a positive one. In a struggle between modernizers and Islamist fundamentalists, 59% of Egyptians who foresaw such a conflict stated they would side with the Islamists, while only 27% stated that they would side with the modernizers.
Another Pew poll last June revealed that only 17% of Egyptians hold a favorable view of the United States, while 20% hold a favorable view of suicide bombing. Yes dear readers, Egyptians like suicide bombing more than they like you.
Pew also revealed that 82% of Egyptian Muslims support stoning human beings to death for having sex outside of marriage and that 77% of Egyptian Muslims support public whippings and cutting people’s hands off for theft. In addition, a terrifying 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for anyone who has the good sense to leave the religion of Islam.
As much as we may not like Hosni Mubarak, there are many worse people who could be in power in Egypt — and they are very likely to be in power before the end of the year. We would all like to believe that the protesters in the streets of Egypt are all fighting for freedom — but that is not what they say about themselves. By their own admission, they prefer Islamic fundamentalism to modern civilization by more than 2 to 1. They don’t want a modern democracy; they do want to murder people for having sex outside of marriage. They don’t want freedom of religion — in fact 84% of them want to establish the death penalty for it.
What does this sound like? It sounds a whole lot like Iran in 1979. Westerners with common sense should be leaving Egypt as quickly as possible, with no plans to ever return. We would like to hope for the best, but we must plan for the worst.
Between the Egyptian military and the Islamists, I don’t see anything like a democratic republic on the horizon for Egypt.
Zogby’s Special Sharia Sauce!
I liked the remark by the Donald at CPAC as to why we keep sending billions to countries who all they want to do is screw us. The man has a way with words!
Did they poll males only?
We only have 5,113 nuclear warheads, according to the figures released last May. Will that be enough to kill as many as you think need to be eliminated?
I think the Free World is pretty much history at this point, given that the most stupid people in the world voted in B. HUSSEIN Obama as POTUS which then sent a message to the "muslim world:" Green light.
Huh? Go ingest DUmmy excrement.
Correct. Egypt and the universal rights of women
You will not see or hear any of the above in the MSM.
The naive fools over at Kos are trumpeting the 'RAT view with this headline:
Egypt just gave us al Qaeda's worst Nightmare
Neville Chamberlain has been outdone.
why are we helping our enemies?
Hatred of America - It looks like the Egyptians have something in common with obama voters.
It will be interesting - in the chinese curse “may your live in interesting times” sense of the word, to see which way the Egyptian army breaks.
one more thing....if Israel is ever physically threatened by Egypt...the Suez Canal and the Nile basin wouldn’t be able to handle a row boat and maybe, following the example set by the taliban blowing up those statues in Afghanistan, the sphynx and the pyramids would become so much demolition debris....sad but possible....people are fighting for their existance here
And they are mostly stupid. If America is gone the world falls into crap.
bm
one more thing....if Israel is ever physically threatened by Egypt...the Suez Canal and the Nile basin wouldn’t be able to handle a row boat and maybe, following the example set by the taliban blowing up those statues in Afghanistan, the sphynx and the pyramids would become so much demolition debris....sad but possible....people are fighting for their existance here
whoops...double posted somehow
I wasn’t polled. I demand a recount.
Probably be smarter just to fry the cellphone and wireless networks, send in a couple of botnets, and end their power to communicate with anybody *anywhere.*
A bunch of guys with AK-47s, or even Stingers, aren’t going to be able to foment much “worldwide jihad” when they are stuck in caves or tents with no electricity.
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