Egypt: 1 month before election

[ekrem]

Voting expected November, still no official date set by Government.
12 private Television channels closed, another 20 warned.
Earlier this month 5 channels already closed.
164 election workers from opposition arrested.

Egypt shuts down more private TV channels, arrests opposition - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review

 

[ekrem]

Your ally, whom you buy for 3 Billion $ a year so that border to Israel stays calm.
See, how easy it is to piss of many million people in Middle-East's most populous country and deprive them of their right for free and fair election?

 

[Kalam]

A 29 year-long "state of emergency" that allows you to make sure that your opponents don't gain political power - that's democracy at work!

 

[ekrem]

A 29 year-long "state of emergency" that allows you to make sure that your opponents don't gain political power - that's democracy at work!

There is a correlation between a) the democratic situation in Egypt and b) the USA.
Mubarak regime is in US's pocket, so there are no uncertainties and Mubarak regime acts in a pre-defined set of rules when it comes to Foreign Policy and its neighbor Israel.

Why make things uncertain by removing support for that regime? Even if that means putting support for democracy and insistence on contemporary style of government under carpet.

The situation is not much better in the administrations of Gulf countries, which are also allies of USA. In recent US media termed them being in the "Western camp" of Arab nations. Most of them are monarchies.

But Egypt is no monarchy. It's hi-jacked by a certain circle of persons and has all characteristics of a Dictatorship.

 

[Marc39]

A 29 year-long "state of emergency" that allows you to make sure that your opponents don't gain political power - that's democracy at work!

Islam is a fascist ideology that does not permit democracy. For this reason, there is not one democracy among 60 Islamic countries.

 

[Marc39]

A 29 year-long "state of emergency" that allows you to make sure that your opponents don't gain political power - that's democracy at work!

There is a correlation between a) the democratic situation in Egypt and b) the USA.
Mubarak regime is in US's pocket, so there are no uncertainties and Mubarak regime acts in a pre-defined set of rules when it comes to Foreign Policy and its neighbor Israel.

Why make things uncertain by removing support for that regime? Even if that means putting support for democracy and insistence on contemporary style of government under carpet.

The situation is not much better in the administrations of Gulf countries, which are also allies of USA. In recent US media termed them being in the "Western camp" of Arab nations. Most of them are monarchies.

But Egypt is no monarchy. It's hi-jacked by a certain circle of persons and has all characteristics of a Dictatorship.

Egypt is hi-jacked by Islam, a totalitarian cult. Deport the IslamoNazis and repopulate Egypt only with Christians.