but but but Dumbo said, he said.....that things are better now..
go eat sand
Yeah we want ‘secular’ democracy. Idiotic statements by Red Blue in PA.
There is alot more than meets the eye.
Ladies - time to break out those burkhas
Guys - hide that whiskey!
Girls - put down those books
Boys - Uncle Achmed is coming to visit, and he wants to see YOU!
Islamofascism: Romantics in Western media expect "democracy" to flower from the anti-Mubarak rioting in Cairo. But polling shows Egyptians actually seek strict Islamic rule.
According to a major survey conducted last year by the Pew Research Center, adults in Egypt don't crave Western-style democracy, as pundits have blithely trumpeted throughout coverage of the unrest.
Far from it, the vast majority of them want a larger role for Islam in government. This includes making barbaric punishments, such as stoning adulterers and executing apostates, the law of their country. With the ouster of their secular, pro-American leader, they may get their wish.
Among highlights from the Pew poll:
• 49% of Egyptians say Islam plays only a "small role" in public affairs under President Hosni Mubarak, while 95% prefer the religion play a "large role in politics."
• 84% favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim faith.
• 82% support stoning adulterers.
• 77% think thieves should have their hands cut off.
• 54% support a law segregating women from men in the workplace.
• 54% believe suicide bombings that kill civilians can be justified.
• Nearly half support the terrorist group Hamas.
• 30% have a favorable opinion of Hezbollah.
• 20% maintain positive views of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.
• 82% of Egyptians dislike the U.S. — the highest unfavorable rating among the 18 Muslim nations Pew surveyed.
This empirical evidence refutes the sympathetic narrative broadcast as a continuous loop in the media over the past fortnight. Even after getting beat up by anti-American mobs, CNN's Anderson Cooper portrayed rioters as largely secular yuppies yearning for modernity and the triumph of human rights over martial law.
He and other media elite have it exactly backwards: Egyptians are revolting against Western-style democracy. The Pew poll reveals they do not, in fact, value our principles of individual freedoms, human rights and separation of religion and state.
It is plain they do not want what we want. They want an Islamic theocracy.
And it's highly irresponsible for pundits to assume they want what we do. This is serious business, and we need to deal with facts and reality on the ground and not project our values to make ourselves feel good. The media fatuously whipped up support for a "revolution" at odds with our values and interests.
Now, with a U.S. ally expected to step down, the damage may already be done. The well-organized Muslim Brotherhood, previously outlawed by Mubarak, is in the best position to take advantage of the prevailing sentiment recorded by Pew.
Thanks for posting this important information.
Hmmmmmm....take the percentages above and average them. Then nuke exactly that percentage of Egypt.....lets do this on a land mass basis. Let’s start with Cairo, Alexandria, the Nile Basin, and the like, the rest of the desert we can count as the ‘untouched’ part.
Until we elect a LEADER as President none of this matters.
There’s an easy 100 billion of cuts to our budget. No point in sending aid to a nation that hates us.
They will starve in the dark, enslaved by the Musim Brotherhood. They have jumped off of a cliff, their timing is awful, and I seriously doubt the Saudis are doing to step in and save them.
I wonder how one goes about getting a valid polling result in a dictatorship?
When these morons get a taste of Iran-style rule by clergy, they’ll change their tune. By then, of course, it’ll be too late.
Congratulations, fellahs; in future, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.
and 100% of Egyptions “LOVE” the billions of dollars the USA gives them every year!
I know a few Egyptians right here in America.
In fact they own a restaurant in Collegeville, Pa, and their hatred and disdain for America & Americans is thinly disguised and quite apparent.
People are surprised the Egyptians in Egypt don’t like us?
P.S, you can’t beat something with nothing. They do have something...
Bet they don’t hate our money.
Egyptians Hate America and Want Islamic Rule
They have so much in common with our dear leader. Little wonder they’re all so giddy at the White House.
Almost nobody here has any confidence in the US govt (including me), but now suddenly everyone does.
What a strange thing to watch.
Thanks for posting this. It’s pretty much as I suspected. I think the entire free world will rue this day.
So - Community Organizers been community organizing over there for a while. I’ve heard Code Pink and Wm. Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn were a presence over there in recent months???? Now Obama thinks he’s pulling the wool over our STUPID eyes with his recent show of moderation and religiosity. Oh, and yeah, Uncle Sucker keeps coughing up the foreign aid, but he’s hated for it. Israel can’t get a break either. If the imams take over, it’ll be a case of “if Egyptians think they’ve seen oppression, they ain’t seen nothing yet”.
And we give them - what? A billion or so for this? Time to save some money...