Posted on 12/20/2018 6:50:55 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
DURING Friday prayers the congregation of Muhammad Yousef, a young puritanical preacher in the Egyptian town of Mansoura, once spilled out into the alleys surrounding his mosque. Now Sheikh Muhammad counts it a good week if he fills half the place.
In Cairo, 110km (68 miles) to the south, unveiled women sit in street cafés, traditionally a male preserve, smoking water-pipes. Some of the establishments serve alcohol, which Islam prohibits. “We’re in religious decline,” moans Sheikh Muhammad, whose despair is shared by clerics in many parts of the Arab world.
According to Arab Barometer, a pollster, much of the region is growing less religious. Voters who backed Islamists after the upheaval of the Arab spring in 2011 have grown disillusioned with their performance and changed their minds. In Egypt support for imposing sharia (Islamic law) fell from 84% in 2011 to 34% in 2016.
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Supposedly European muslims are becoming less secular. Perhaps they will be seeking an influx of europeans.
We need more secular despots. Unfortunately, our swamp people have been fighting on the other side for the past hundred years and more.
Well said. That distills the results a lot of history.
No doubt calling Sisi a despot.
That headline from the communist Economist makes it sound like it’s a bad thing.
Now if it was Christians who were becoming more secular they would be cheering.
While Democrats are pushing the Arab world to become more Jihadi, especially in America.
Know Islam, No Peace
No Islam, Know Peace
Islam cannot, WILL NOT, coexist.
Sure.
To try to fake out the rest of the world so the rest of the world stops rejecting islamists and allows them to infiltrate.
They they will no longer be secularized, they will show their true colors in typical ruthless islamist fashion.
Always, just as soon as there are enough of them. They can afford to wait while they lull us into complacency and a false sense of security because they have been (more or less) behaving themselves.
The more they get away from that aatanically-percerted murder cult, the better for all of us!
Egypt and other muslim countries are wise enough to know that have to monitor and restrict what Imams preach and teach in the mosques.
The West, including America, let the worst radicals freely indoctrinate vulnerable populations of muslim immigrants.
The great bulk of muslim immigrants are looking for a more prosperous and safer life in the West, but the professional organizers paid to operate out of the mosques have sophisticated sales pitches to sucker them in through the door (like teaching the kids to read and write in their home language), and bring them over to radical interpretations gradually, like boiling a frog.
That is why the muslim population in the West is getting more strict and radical, while the muslim populations in Egypt and other muslim countries is getting more secular.
The mosques and the preachers need to be monitored and restricted.
“Monitoring” isn’t working. Ask Bostonians who participated in their Marathon.
Very Interesting caption ! UK paper known to advance socialist causes places in effect a target on Egyptian Moslem president because he’s moderate.
So it’s despotic for Muslims to be more secular.... Hokay
“The most remarkable, albeit nascent, transformation is in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, where Muhammad bin Salman, the young crown prince, has curbed the religious police, sacked thousands of imams and launched a new Centre for Moderation to censor “fake and extremist texts”. Women will soon be allowed to drive cars and enter sports stadiums. They are already encouraged to work. Now Prince Muhammad wants to create a new city, Neom, that seems modelled on freewheeling Dubai. Its promotional videos show women without headscarves partying with men. “We are only returning to what we used to be, to moderate Islam, open to the world and all religions,” he told foreign investors in October.”
It must kill the economist to point out this truth.
And hence the useful idiots in the Senate try to take him down. Morons. Some here, too.
Being on welfare gives them time to listen to imams. Islam is, to a large degree, incompatible with holding a real job.
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is not despotic...
It depends on the despot, but Saudi Arabia and Egypt are both headed in the right direction. Yemen is not, but that's because of the non-Arab mullahcracy (unless one counts the thousands of foreign, mostly Arab, thugs who prop the regime) of Iran. The same applies to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Turkey is, on paper, not a despotate, but as long as he's got the votes -- and is breathing -- Erdogan will continue to push Islamofascism (again, not an Arab country, although it has a good-sized Semitic minority population).
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