I say it looks good on them.
I'm not particularly concerned or even interested.
It's not like Egypt is going to turn into a democracy or anything remotely close to a democracy. This turmoil is going to lead to a Muslim brotherhood state. Yes-you read that right, another radical Islamic state in the Middle East, right beside Israel and with lots of oil revenue at its disposal.
The Muslim Brotherhood does not seem to me as much of an existential threat to Israel as Iran (with nukes). They are not the same brand of Shiia-12th Imam crazy as Eichmedinejad.
I think they will quite enjoy being Islamic fat cat royalty, just like the many princes of the Kingdom of Saud.
They will fund terrorist operations and radical mosques everywhere, and then they will start to eat their own people alive-such as dictators and radical terrorist thugs are wont to do.
Have you noticed any women on the streets? Fat chance. This is another symbol of what is in store for the people of Egypt.
Sorry to say that I'm thinking the same thing about Tunisia.
I don't particularly care about them either.
I'm also pretty sick of mealy mouthed supposedly "conservative" people waxing on about how it's not like Islam cannot be compatible with democracy ('look at Turkey'). Sorry-Turkey is not a democracy. Or they site good old "moderate" Malaysia as an example. Give me a break. Some of the wackiest Islamic fatwas of the past decade have come out of Malaysia. And Turkey is turning into an Islamic dump that will soon rival Pakistan.
These mealy-mouthed "conservative" remind me of the idiot faux socialists who still claim that communism and socialism are wonderful systems "in theory", but 'they just don't work in practice'.
If it doesn't work in practice, as all scientists know-you have to go back to the theory-which is faulty.
It is the same thing with Islam in democracy. In theory-in some far off utopia, there will be an Islamic democracy, in some Neverland where unicorns fart natural gas and you always get free stuff forever or something like that.
I have seen absolutely no evidence to suggest that Islam is compatible with democracy. In fact, there is more evidence to indicate that being a believing Muslim creates direct conflict with democratic Western living. In those cases, the devout unabashedly side with Sharia.
What are we to make of that?
Could it not be that there is a reason why we have yet to see an Islamic democracy is as simple as the fact that there cannot be such a thing?
It is not that some people living in Sharia countries do not want freedom-many might, but allegiance to Sharia is not compatible with allegiance to the democratic rule of law. Look at the UK.
Many immigrants from Muslim countries want Western conveniences and toys but still to be governed by Sharia. We have better stuff and a better life, but the reality of Muslim demographics could really change our way of living.
Look at France. How long do you think it will be until the French Muslims demand Sharia enclaves (official, not the unofficial ones they already have). How long do you think it will take before they just vote in enough people to enact that legislative change by themselves? It would not be the first time in recent history that democratic institutions were used to usher in totalitarianism. It is happening before our eyes.
I'm much more sympathetic to Iran, where I think that democracy is a real possibility. The Shiia crazies are not the majority of the people and the thugs are ever more nervous about going down. The young people are gutsy, still taking risks every day.
Unfortunately, the Iranians have no Reagan in the US right now. They have a Carter II (or worse).
Us haters will still continue to sound the alarm bells.
We who object to the voluntary Islamification of the world are vilified and ostracized, but I plan to continue to take my lumps and call it as I see it.
2 comments:
Wow, when you do a rant, you really do a rant!
Egypt does not have oil in the quantities Iran does - its economy is very dependent on tourism and the billions of dollars that have been pumped in by the USA since 1979. I don't disagree that an Islamic government is likely to take control, but economic necessity will probably mean that it will have to be a lot more Western-friendly, at least on the surface, than the oil-rich mullahs of Iran.
Pattyjean, the same arguments you make in favor of the proposition that Egypt will have to remain--at least superficially--friendly to the West are akin to those that were made circa 1960 to demonstrate that the Castro regime in Cuba could not possibly defy the U. S. and align itself with the Soviets.
The reality is that ideologically--or theocratically--driven ruling parties are quite willing to inflict extreme hardship on their people in order to pave the way for a "worker's (or a shariah) paradise" in the indefinite future. And they generally have the ruthlessness to stay in power in spite of said extreme hardship. The mullahs in Iran, though greatly despised by a large proportion of the population, have nevertheless hung on to power by sheer dint of their willingness to pile up corpses in the streets and in the dungeons. Hitler had to be defeated by the concerted effort of nearly the rest of the civilized world. The Communist Party still runs China. And the Castro brothers have been ruling Cuba as their private desmene for better than 62 years.
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