We at PC towers always wondered if the Arab Spring might turn, without any summer, into a long winter, and maybe, just maybe, we are seeing the first signs of things turning sour.
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| The Salafists Are Democrats - Who Believe In The Civil Society!! |
In Egypt, the ultraconservative Islamists, known as Salafists, have emerged from the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary election as a powerful political force.
These are violent men who attack Christians,
and believe in the 'Mad Mullah' school of politics.
They took 24% of the party-list vote in Egypt, second only to the mainstream Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) which took 36%. The core of their support comes from the illiterate and poor, who identify strongly with conservative religious values, and leaves the Islamists with 60% of the votes.
Time will tell, but we may be seeing the end of the middle class dreams in Egypt and elsewhere, and the start of a Sunni Theocracy like the Shia's in Iran. The Second Caliphate may be taking its first faltering steps.
Time will tell, but we may be seeing the end of the middle class dreams in Egypt and elsewhere, and the start of a Sunni Theocracy like the Shia's in Iran. The Second Caliphate may be taking its first faltering steps.
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