Islamist Morsi wins Egypt

[pbel]

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's election commission has declared Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt's first free elections by a narrow margin over Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

The commission said Morsi won with 51.7 percent of the vote versus 48.3 for Shafiq.

A huge crowd of Morsi supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in cheers and dancing when the result was read out on live television.

 

[MJB12741]

Thanks Pbel. We really care.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's election commission has declared Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt's first free elections by a narrow margin over Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

The commission said Morsi won with 51.7 percent of the vote versus 48.3 for Shafiq.

A huge crowd of Morsi supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in cheers and dancing when the result was read out on live television.

 

[docmauser1]

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's election commission has declared Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt's first free elections by a narrow margin over Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

Oh, guess, another señor for life.

 

[Mr Natural]

Geez, what a surprise. A Moslem winning in a Moslem country.

 

[waltky]

What's his mandate and agenda?...

Egyptian president's aims unknown
27 June`12 – Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's new president, received his doctorate in engineering at the University of Southern California. Two of his five children are U.S. citizens.

But his years spent studying in America have not dissuaded him from the most doctrinaire beliefs of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has called for religious law, segregation of the sexes and scorns the influence of the West and Israel, experts say. "If you look at his public statements over time, he tends to say provocative things about the U.S. and Israel," says Shadi Hamid, an expert in Islamist political parties at the Brookings Doha Center. "Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt."

Morsi, 60, took office this week as president of Egypt, having defeated the former prime minister of the dictator Morsi helped overthrow, Hosni Mubarak. Though he campaigned for months, his speeches gave few specifics of his plans and his background as a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood offers little evidence of how he may deal with the United States and its aims. The Brotherhood is clear on its goal of a global Muslim caliphate in which the Quran is the source of all law. Now that one of its own has attained a presidency, what that means for Egypt is unclear.

Khair Abaza, a former official in the liberal Egyptian Wafd party who is an analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, says Morsi's recent statement that he will include liberals and Christians may show he is evolving in his political beliefs. "Morsi said we are a creature of peace and we want peace with everybody," Abaza said.

The son of a peasant farmer, Morsi was raised in an area north of Cairo called Sharqiya in the Nile Delta. He studied at Cairo University and earned a Ph.D. in engineering at USC in 1982. He taught at the University of North Ridge in California. After Morsi moved back to Egypt, he continued to work in education and ran for parliament in 2000 and served until 2005, heading the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc. He joined an anti-Israel group, the Committee to Resist Zionism.

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[Two Thumbs]

Sweet!

Just what we need, another theocracy.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Sweet!

Just what we need, another theocracy.

The same way Israel is a Jewish Theocracy?

I just so enjoy reading Hypocritical comments about democratic elections some do not like the outcomes of.

At least I hear noone speaking about Apartheid in Egypt, certainly they, the Egyptians, are light years ahead of one of their neighbors, at least regarding the Apartheid card!

Sherri

 

[Roudy]

Sweet!

Just what we need, another theocracy.

The same way Israel is a Jewish Theocracy?

I just so enjoy reading Hypocritical comments about democratic elections some do not like the outcomes of.

At least I hear noone speaking about Apartheid in Egypt, certainly they, the Egyptians, are light years ahead of one of their neighbors, at least regarding the Apartheid card!

Sherri

What are you babbling now? Israel is not a theocracy you idiot. And as far as apartheid is concerned almost every Muslim country practices state sponsored persecution of its minorities. Egypt included. Egyptian Christian Copts will testify to that.

Ignoramus.

 

[High_Gravity]

Sweet!

Just what we need, another theocracy.

The same way Israel is a Jewish Theocracy?

I just so enjoy reading Hypocritical comments about democratic elections some do not like the outcomes of.

At least I hear noone speaking about Apartheid in Egypt, certainly they, the Egyptians, are light years ahead of one of their neighbors, at least regarding the Apartheid card!

Sherri

What a load of horse shit, Egyptians are chasing their Christian brothers and sisters into the streets and butchering them, so much for that theory.

 

[Lipush]

What an Arab thing to do. to fight for a revolution, only to go 1000 years backwards.

LOL.

 

[Lipush]

Sweet!

Just what we need, another theocracy.

The same way Israel is a Jewish Theocracy?

 

[High_Gravity]

What an Arab thing to do. to fight for a revolution, only to go 1000 years backwards.

LOL.

Thats what they want, let them have at it.

 

[Roudy]

What an Arab thing to do. to fight for a revolution, only to go 1000 years backwards.

LOL.

Very true. Muslims seem to be a dysfunctional bunch don't they.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's election commission has declared Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt's first free elections by a narrow margin over Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

The commission said Morsi won with 51.7 percent of the vote versus 48.3 for Shafiq.

A huge crowd of Morsi supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in cheers and dancing when the result was read out on live television.

pbel,

And the newly elected President is preparing to set up his government, a landmark event, the formation of a new government by the first democratically elected Egyptian President. I wish them well.

"Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, is preparing to select his new cabinet amid deep political divisions in the country.

Morsi held talks with the country’s military rulers on Monday as he attempts to coax a mistrustful army into relaxing its grip on power.

The winning Muslim Brotherhood candidate has started moving into the presidential palace and has already begun talks to appoint his new cabinet, days before the military is scheduled to transfer power, a campaign spokeswoman said.

"He has already started, with a list of names he is considering. He says he will declare the cabinet soon," Nermine Mohammed Hassan, said.

State television showed images of Morsi sitting at a desk in the presidential palace, and others of the 60 year old sitting next to military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi during a visit to the military's headquarters.

Egypt's Morsi begins forming new cabinet - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Sherri

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Sweet!

Just what we need, another theocracy.

The same way Israel is a Jewish Theocracy?

I just so enjoy reading Hypocritical comments about democratic elections some do not like the outcomes of.

At least I hear noone speaking about Apartheid in Egypt, certainly they, the Egyptians, are light years ahead of one of their neighbors, at least regarding the Apartheid card!

Sherri

What are you babbling now? Israel is not a theocracy you idiot. And as far as apartheid is concerned almost every Muslim country practices state sponsored persecution of its minorities. Egypt included. Egyptian Christian Copts will testify to that.

Ignoramus.

Roudy,

The point I was making is Egypt's President was elected in democratic elections, he is not the product of a theocratic appointment. So, if elections in Egypt give him power, he is no more a leader of a theocracy than a Jew in Israel being elected in democratic elections there is the leader of a Jewish theocracy.

Apartheid is a legal practice made unlawful by international law, and only Israel practices it.

A human being supporting Apartheid in Israel exposes to the world and shows us all the depravity man is capable of supporting and embracing. Thanks for illustrating that principle so vividly.

Sherri

 

[docmauser1]

And the newly elected President is preparing to set up his government, a landmark event, the formation of a new governmnet by the first democratically elected Egyptian President.

Ain't they all "democratically" elected?

 

[High_Gravity]

The same way Israel is a Jewish Theocracy?

I just so enjoy reading Hypocritical comments about democratic elections some do not like the outcomes of.

At least I hear noone speaking about Apartheid in Egypt, certainly they, the Egyptians, are light years ahead of one of their neighbors, at least regarding the Apartheid card!

Sherri

What are you babbling now? Israel is not a theocracy you idiot. And as far as apartheid is concerned almost every Muslim country practices state sponsored persecution of its minorities. Egypt included. Egyptian Christian Copts will testify to that.

Ignoramus.

Roudy,

The point I was making is Egypt's President was elected in democratic elections, he is not the product of a theocratic appointment. So, if elections in Egypt give him power, he is no more a leader of a theocracy than a Jew in Isreal being elected in democratic elections there is the leader of a Jewish theocracy.

Apartheid is a legal practice made unlawful by international law, and only Israel practices it.

A human supporting Apartheid in Israel exposes to the world and shows us all the depravity man is capable of supporting and embracing. Thanks for illustrating that principle so vividly.

Sherri

How much you wanna bet now that the MB has power that there won't be anymore elections in Egypt?

 

[Lipush]

What are you babbling now? Israel is not a theocracy you idiot. And as far as apartheid is concerned almost every Muslim country practices state sponsored persecution of its minorities. Egypt included. Egyptian Christian Copts will testify to that.

Ignoramus.

Roudy,

The point I was making is Egypt's President was elected in democratic elections, he is not the product of a theocratic appointment. So, if elections in Egypt give him power, he is no more a leader of a theocracy than a Jew in Isreal being elected in democratic elections there is the leader of a Jewish theocracy.

Apartheid is a legal practice made unlawful by international law, and only Israel practices it.

A human supporting Apartheid in Israel exposes to the world and shows us all the depravity man is capable of supporting and embracing. Thanks for illustrating that principle so vividly.

Sherri

How much you wanna bet now that the MB has power that there won't be anymore elections in Egypt?

 

[Hollie]

From the perspective of most Westerners, representative elections which include virulently hateful Islamo-supremacists /terrorists seems absurd. From a Western perspective, you need the antecedent respect for individual choice, democratic ideals, respect for constitutional process and the conviction in the common people that one person one vote is the way to break the tribal rivalries, petty differences, ethnic hatreds and paranoid suspicions so prevalent in Arab/moslem culture and the maturity to accept the result when it goes against you.

Does anyone see those attributes prevalent anywhere in the Arab/moslem Middle East?

 

[Jos]

From the perspective of most Westerners, representative elections which include virulently hateful Islamo-supremacists /terrorists seems absurd. From a Western perspective, you need the antecedent respect for individual choice, democratic ideals, respect for constitutional process and the conviction in the common people that one person one vote is the way to break the tribal rivalries, petty differences, ethnic hatreds and paranoid suspicions so prevalent in Arab/moslem culture and the maturity to accept the result when it goes against you.

Does anyone see those attributes prevalent anywhere in the Arab/muslim Middle East?

Does Israel?