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Islamic party poised for power in Egypt nine months after ousting of Hosni Mubarak
Daily Mail ^ | 28th November 2011 | Sam Greenhill

Posted on 11/28/2011 9:56:23 PM PST by george76

Egypt is poised to lurch towards Islamic rule as the first free elections in 30 years get under way today.

Islamic parties are set for a democratic coup as Egyptians go to the polls nine months after ousting dictator Hosni Mubarak.

The main losers are likely to be the ‘Facebook revolutionaries’, who were hailed as the democratic future of the Middle East when the Arab Spring uprisings began in January.

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Today’s election is the first of three rounds of voting spread over two months.

But voters face the choice of a bewildering array of 6,000 candidates and dozens of parties and coalitions.

It is expected to be dominated by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood. Analysts think they could win roughly a third of votes, likely to be far greater than the hundreds of small parties who will each get only a fraction of the vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: egypt; mohammedanism; moslems; muslimbrotherhood; sharialaw

1 posted on 11/28/2011 9:56:27 PM PST by george76
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‘Facebook revolutionaries’

A perfect characterization to capture the fatuous, classic, useful idiot heroes of the weaselly western Left.

2 posted on 11/28/2011 10:00:33 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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I wonder if the jackass is still inspired.


3 posted on 11/28/2011 10:01:28 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: george76

I wonder if Alec Baldwin is still proud of the way Obama handled the Arab Spring?


4 posted on 11/28/2011 10:06:01 PM PST by GR_Jr.
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To: GR_Jr.

I wonder if Alec Baldwin is still proud of the way Obama handled the Arab Spring?


I am sure he is very proud. The Islamists hate the west as much as Baldwin.


5 posted on 11/28/2011 10:18:42 PM PST by volunbeer (Keep the dope, we'll make the change in 2012!)
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To: george76

“It is expected to be dominated by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood. Analysts think they could win roughly a third of votes, likely to be far greater than the hundreds of small parties who will each get only a fraction of the vote.”

The middle east is lost. And we are leaving Iraq and the only
truly strategic and logical place we could have built a base. This is so disgusting we elected Hussein at this point in history there are no words...


6 posted on 11/28/2011 10:31:16 PM PST by jessduntno ("They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong." - RR)
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To: george76

“The plan” proceeds on schedule.


7 posted on 11/28/2011 10:32:10 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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8 posted on 11/28/2011 10:51:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: george76

Not to blow one’s own horn (well, maybe a little), but there were those of us who said many months ago that the world would be weeping for the return of Mubarak and other leaders - Muammar Gaddafi comes immediately to mind - who have been displaced by all this childish Islamic Summer nonsense.


9 posted on 11/29/2011 12:10:55 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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