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Cairo (CNN) -- Islamist parties made dramatic advances in Egypt's parliamentary elections during the first round of voting for lawmakers this week, a result reflecting a growing embrace of religious-oriented sentiment across turbulent North Africa.
"We accept the results of the elections in any case because it's the will of the people, and our rivals should embrace it too because this is the true democracy we fought for and we wish our liberal brothers better results in the next two rounds," Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman of the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 40% of the vote.
Then so be it. They can and will govern themselves. We cannot nor should we try and do it for them. Empire building is never a good thing.
Among the potent symbols of the Arab spring is one that has been less photographed and remarked on than the vast gatherings in Tahrir Square. It has been the relocation of the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, the once banned party, now set to take the largest share of seats in Egypt's new parliament. Before May this year they were to be found in shabby rooms in an unremarkable apartment block on Cairo's Gezira Island, situated behind an unmarked door. These days the Brotherhood is to be found in gleaming new accommodation in the Muqatam neighbourhood, in a dedicated building prominently bearing the movement's logo in Arabic and English.
Welcome to the age of "political Islam", which may prove to be one of the most lasting legacies of the Arab spring. It is not only in Egypt that an unprecedented Islamist political moment is playing out. In the recent Tunisian elections the moderate Islamist Ennahda party was the biggest winner, while Morocco has elected its first Islamist prime minister, Abdelilah Benkirane. In Yemen and Libya, too, it seems likely that political Islam will define the shape of the new landscape. None of which should be at all surprising. Indeed, if elections in Egypt and Tunisia had been held at any other time in the past two decades, the same result would almost certainly have ensued, reflecting both the levels of organisation of Ennahda and the Brotherhood and the countries' cultural, economic and social dynamics.
"It was a change that was supposed to happen a long time ago," says Omar Ashour, who lectures on the subject of political Islam at Exeter University and is currently in Cairo. So what, precisely, does the rise of electoral Islamist politics mean for the Middle East and North Africa?
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Then so be it. They can and will govern themselves. We cannot nor should we try and do it for them. Empire building is never a good thing.
They will eventually govern you. Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. I've seen them both.
It is the will of the people. We want a world of democracy where the people decide and that is what's happening. The danger to America is not the election of Islamist's but the potential of radical Islamist's taking over the leadership and uniting these countries and calling for a Jihad against Christians and Jews and starting a religious war. This is the underlying threat to world peace that potentially could turn the southern part of Europe and Asia into a maelstrom of fire and brimstone.
The stage is becoming set. The World's superpower has reached its its peak and its decline is evident and the rise of Islam is apparent. The European bloc is in disarray and may fracture or coalesce under an Deutschland umbrella (the Fourth Reich) and the Russians are right now undergoing elections to determine their future. Things are moving fast and in this day and age Governments fall quickly (Soviet Empire) and the marginalization of the US may be but a few years down the road. Rumblings are being heard deep in China too and with the economic slowdown there change may be on the horizon.
This decade appears to be a decade of change. What will the world look like in 2010?
Then so be it. They can and will govern themselves. We cannot nor should we try and do it for them. Empire building is never a good thing.
They will eventually govern you. Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. I've seen them both.
Cairo (CNN) -- Islamist parties made dramatic advances in Egypt's parliamentary elections during the first round of voting for lawmakers this week, a result reflecting a growing embrace of religious-oriented sentiment across turbulent North Africa.
"We accept the results of the elections in any case because it's the will of the people, and our rivals should embrace it too because this is the true democracy we fought for and we wish our liberal brothers better results in the next two rounds," Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman of the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 40% of the vote.
Islamists fare well in first round of Egypt's elections - CNN.com
And yes, it can happen here. When there are enough of them. Anyone who thought 'Arab Spring' was about them wanting to be more like the US is crazy. Once all those countries vote in the muslim brotherhood and the unite, our interests in the middle east will be history.
Cairo (CNN) -- Islamist parties made dramatic advances in Egypt's parliamentary elections during the first round of voting for lawmakers this week, a result reflecting a growing embrace of religious-oriented sentiment across turbulent North Africa.
"We accept the results of the elections in any case because it's the will of the people, and our rivals should embrace it too because this is the true democracy we fought for and we wish our liberal brothers better results in the next two rounds," Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman of the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 40% of the vote.
Islamists fare well in first round of Egypt's elections - CNN.com
And yes, it can happen here. When there are enough of them. Anyone who thought 'Arab Spring' was about them wanting to be more like the US is crazy. Once all those countries vote in the muslim brotherhood and the unite, our interests in the middle east will be history.
Cairo (CNN) -- Islamist parties made dramatic advances in Egypt's parliamentary elections during the first round of voting for lawmakers this week, a result reflecting a growing embrace of religious-oriented sentiment across turbulent North Africa.
"We accept the results of the elections in any case because it's the will of the people, and our rivals should embrace it too because this is the true democracy we fought for and we wish our liberal brothers better results in the next two rounds," Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman of the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 40% of the vote.
Islamists fare well in first round of Egypt's elections - CNN.com
And yes, it can happen here. When there are enough of them. Anyone who thought 'Arab Spring' was about them wanting to be more like the US is crazy. Once all those countries vote in the muslim brotherhood and the unite, our interests in the middle east will be history.
I fear for the Christians of Egypt. Since Murbarak fell, they have been under constant attack by the Islamist. Now with the Islamist about to take over Parliament and the PM, the Christian population will be in for an unpleasant surprise like the rest of the Muslim countries.
Islamists fare well in first round of Egypt's elections - CNN.com
And yes, it can happen here. When there are enough of them. Anyone who thought 'Arab Spring' was about them wanting to be more like the US is crazy. Once all those countries vote in the muslim brotherhood and the unite, our interests in the middle east will be history.
I fear for the Christians of Egypt. Since Murbarak fell, they have been under constant attack by the Islamist. Now with the Islamist about to take over Parliament and the PM, the Christian population will be in for an unpleasant surprise like the rest of the Muslim countries.
Another reason why the crazy adventure in Iraq was such a mistake, christians in Iraq have essentially gone extinct since we invaded and helped put islam in their gov't.
Then so be it. They can and will govern themselves. We cannot nor should we try and do it for them. Empire building is never a good thing.
They will eventually govern you. Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. I've seen them both.
It must really be sad to live in such constant fear.
My pity truly goes out to you.
Cairo (CNN) -- Islamist parties made dramatic advances in Egypt's parliamentary elections during the first round of voting for lawmakers this week, a result reflecting a growing embrace of religious-oriented sentiment across turbulent North Africa.
"We accept the results of the elections in any case because it's the will of the people, and our rivals should embrace it too because this is the true democracy we fought for and we wish our liberal brothers better results in the next two rounds," Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman of the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 40% of the vote.
Islamists fare well in first round of Egypt's elections - CNN.com
And yes, it can happen here. When there are enough of them. Anyone who thought 'Arab Spring' was about them wanting to be more like the US is crazy. Once all those countries vote in the muslim brotherhood and the unite, our interests in the middle east will be history.
I fear for the Christians of Egypt. Since Murbarak fell, they have been under constant attack by the Islamist. Now with the Islamist about to take over Parliament and the PM, the Christian population will be in for an unpleasant surprise like the rest of the Muslim countries.
They will eventually govern you. Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. I've seen them both.
It must really be sad to live in such constant fear.
My pity truly goes out to you.
It must be really sad to live in such denial and ignorance.
My pity truly goes out to you.
They will eventually govern you. Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. I've seen them both.
It must really be sad to live in such constant fear.
My pity truly goes out to you.
It must be really sad to live in such denial and ignorance.
My pity truly goes out to you.
and when we force them to confront how dreadful Islam is, they will...over time...leave the religion.
