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Muslim Brotherhood Reveals Plans for Egypt: ‘A Nation of the True Islam’

Muslim Brotherhood Reveals Plans for Egypt: ‘A Nation of the True Islam’Editor’s note: the following is a profile of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt conducted by the Associated Press.

CAIRO (AP) — The night breeze blew foul wafts from a nearby canal black with garbage and pollution. The streets jammed with trucks and motorized rickshaws were so shattered that they hardly seemed paved at all.

It was to Cairo’s slum of Munib on a recent evening that the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s biggest Islamic group, brought its election campaign message: The country must turn to Islam to rebuild.

“Muslims around the world expect great things from you,” Essam el-Erian, deputy head of the Brotherhood’s new political party, told supporters crowded into a tent, with men across the aisle from women in headscarves or black veils. “We have to build a nation of freedom and equality, a nation of the true Islam.”

The scene, like many in Egypt now, was inconceivable before President Hosni Mubarak’s Feb. 11 ouster. Under Mubarak’s autocratic regime, the Brotherhood was banned. Tens of thousands of its members were arrested, many tortured, and its gatherings were held largely behind closed doors.

Now, with Mubarak gone, the Brotherhood is storming into the open, appealing to religious voters and trying to win over Egypt’s poor. It is likely to be part of Egypt’s next government, with a hand not only in ruling but also in writing a new constitution. And its strength has fueled fears among many Egyptians that it will turn what began as a pro-democracy uprising in the Arab world’s most populous nation into Islamic rule.

But the Brotherhood’s own identity is on the line, and there is pressure from inside and out for it not to go down a sharp-right Islamic road. Internally, Brotherhood moderates – many from a younger generation – are resisting control from hard-line leaders, in a struggle that could fragment the group. And from the outside, a budding democracy is pushing the Brotherhood, at least in public, to present a more liberal face.

Muslim Brotherhood Reveals Plans for Egypt: ‘A Nation of the True Islam’

How the Brotherhood deals with its new status will be a major test of whether Islamists and democracy can be compatible in the wake of the Middle East’s wave of revolutions. With the Brotherhood involved in protests in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Jordan, the answer here could be a model across the region.

“We’re not ready for power, we don’t have the flexibility,” said Mohammed Osman, a 29-year-old pharmacist who counts himself among the Brotherhood’s new generation. “To go from prison to power, that could be extremely dangerous.”

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In one of Cairo’s most prominent mosques, the Brotherhood’s top leader, Mohammed Badie, paused in the combination sermon-campaign speech he was delivering from an ornate niche marking the direction of Islam’s holy city of Mecca. A child next to him, with a green Brotherhood sash across his chest, took the cue to break in with a chant.

“God is great!” the boy piped up. The crowd of more than 1,000 men, seated on the carpets of the Amr ibn al-As Mosque, echoed back, “God is great, God is great!”

“Egypt’s revolution was produced by none other than God Almighty,” Badie resumed. “The days of ‘no religion in politics and no politics in religion’ ended long ago.”

The image recalls the nightmares Mubarak’s regime often evoked. Without Mubarak’s iron grip, his officials warned, the Brotherhood would seize power through the mosque. Women would be forced to wear the headscarf, clerics would hand out punishments like amputations for thieves and whippings for adulterers, and Egypt’s large Christian minority would be consigned to second-class status.

It’s an image the Brotherhood is trying to shed as it adapts to the demands of a democratic system.

As Egypt races toward its first free and open parliament elections, planned for September, the Brotherhood’s power in the new Egypt comes down to a raw count: How many seats it wins. In this country of 80 million, Egyptians are expected to vote in unprecedented numbers. Their preferences have never been measured before.

The 90-year-old Brotherhood, with its hundreds of thousands of activists, has a leg up on more secular activists scrambling to form parties from scratch. For the first time, it has formed a political party, holding rallies nationwide, from rural towns to urban slums.

It has revved up social services that long helped build its following. In the city of Alexandria, young Brothers clean streets and fill potholes. In Kafr Mit Fatek, a tiny Nile Delta farming village, a traveling clinic of Brotherhood doctors gives families free dental work, checkups and gynecological exams.

In a sign of confidence, the group has opened a prominent new Cairo headquarters in a luxury office building proudly emblazoned with its emblem, crossed swords under a Quran with the word “Prepare.”

Brotherhood leaders say the new Freedom and Justice Party will run for only half of parliament’s seats so it cannot gain a majority – they predict 30-40 percent. Nor will it field a candidate in November’s presidential election. It is also trying to form coalitions with other parties, including liberals.

El-Erian, the party’s deputy head, says parties must work together for several years to entrench a democratic system.

“Maybe after that, everyone can compete without any problems,” he told The Associated Press.

Many Brothers style their party in the mold of Turkey’s Islamic-based Justice and Development Party, which has held power for nearly a decade by improving the economy without aggressively pushing a religious agenda.

The vision they have for Egypt: a “civil state with an Islamic basis.”

It’s a vague formula, and the Brotherhood is under pressure to make clear what it means. Decades of oppression provided the group an odd luxury: Barred from state-dominated media, it rarely had to sell positions to the public. It could tout broad slogans, like “Islam is the solution,” and draw support from resentment of Mubarak.

Now Brotherhood officials on TV talk shows are questioned whether they will ban alcohol or implement Islamic punishments. Their answer: It is not the time. The time may never come, they say, and if it does it will only be with voters’ consent.

In a draft, the party’s vision for a new constitution mirrors that of most liberals, a parliamentary system with limited powers for the president and guarantees of personal freedoms – a radical change to ensure that no irremovable “pharaoh” like Mubarak can rule.

Absent are past Brotherhood ideas, such as a panel of clerics to advise the government.

“We are for freedom of expression for all, even if it’s a communist, a leftist or a secularist,” says Aly Khafagy, a 29-year-old party organizer. “Ultimately, the street is the one that rules. If the street is the one that can put us in, it can also put us out.”

And “the Islamic basis”? Khafagy depicts it as a democracy that “respects Islamic values,” in the vein of U.S. conservatives who talk of America’s “Judeo-Christian heritage.” But from others it sounds far stronger.

“The Brotherhood won‘t stop and won’t be silent and won’t accept anything but the complete implementation of Islamic Shariah law,” Sobhi Saleh, a former parliament member and now one of the Brotherhood’s most active campaigners, told a crowd at a rally in Cairo’s Matariya district.

At another rally weeks later, he proclaimed that the Brotherhood “doesn’t recognize liberal Muslims or secular Muslims” and vowed that the next government, “God willing, will be Islamist.”

The comments raised an uproar. Even some Brotherhood leaders distanced themselves. Opponents warned this was the true Brotherhood – intolerant, convinced it alone represents Islam and determined to rule.

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For Mohammed Osman, the pharmacist, Tahrir Square during the days of the anti-Mubarak uprising was a “Utopia.”

He and other young Brothers were in the square alongside liberal and secular protesters, in what he calls the spirit of openness of the new Brotherhood generation.

It’s in contrast to the older Brotherhood leadership, bred on secrecy and tight control. Their attitude is typified in the group’s central tenet, “Listen and obey”: Once leaders make a decision, members have a near-religious duty to follow.

The rifts within the Brotherhood point to troubles in keeping together a movement that covers a range of Islamist ideologies, from the moderate to the deeply conservative. The tighter the leadership tries to control, the more moderates filter away. That could make the movement more hard-line, hurting its broader public support.

Under Mubarak, unity was considered necessary for a movement under constant threat. As a result, the Brotherhood has been like a tribe.

“These are your colleagues, you study with them, you work with them, you get arrested with them. You marry from among them,” says Osman, a Brother since high school.

But it can’t work that way in politics.

Osman worries election victory could bring out the worst in the Brotherhood – a domineering side, willing to go it alone. Already, he says, the group’s leadership is trying to overly control its own party.

“It’s as if they are pushing us to leave the Brotherhood,” Osman says. “But I can’t do that. I want to remain a voice of conscience within the movement.”

Despite pledges of independence, the Brotherhood has appointed the three top officers of its Freedom and Justice Party from within its own echelons. The group also prohibits Brothers from taking part in any other political party.

For Osman and some in the new generation, it felt too much like the old ways. They have decided not to actively participate in the party. A few have broken to join competing parties, or are trying to influence the party from within.

In a Nile-side social club, party members from Cairo’s sister city, Giza, gathered to elect their local chair. The candidates making their way to the microphone reflected the movement’s professional roots – engineers, a surgeon, a urologist, a factory owner, a female lawyer. Several candidates were in their late 30s.

As they spoke of their goals, few mentioned Islam. Instead, they spoke of “bringing the youth into the leadership,“ ”building a modern Egypt“ and ”working with other parties on national goals.”

Osman‘s ultimate concern is that the Brotherhood’s old mindset could wreck chances for a broad-based government Egypt needs. Some Brotherhood leaders have spoken of an alliance with Egypt’s most ultraconservative movement, the Salafis, who reject anything they feel contradicts Islamic law.

The worry was palpable at the first gathering of four new secular-leaning parties. Among the crowd of over 2,000 at a luxury hotel ballroom, the top question was whether the parties can compete with the Brotherhood.

“The time frame is frightening,” admitted Naguib Sawiris, a Christian businessman and chief founder of the Free Egyptians Party. “How do we start up a party in 90 days? I don’t sleep at night.”

The only guide to the Brotherhood’s polling strength is from 2005, when it won 20 percent of parliament despite ruling party rigging. The assumption is it would do better in a fair race.

But after the revolution, that is far from certain, argues columnist Wael Abdel-Fattah. The Brotherhood has lost “the glamor of oppression and the protest vote,” he says. More Egyptians are politically engaged, including Christians, large parts of the middle class and business interests who worry about economic damage from a Brotherhood win.

It will likely come down to Egypt’s silent majority.

“The vast majority of the population, say 70 percent, have nothing to do with Islamists and nothing to do with secularists,” Osman says. “Whoever wins them will be the ones who rule Egypt.”

Comments (147)

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:22pm

    Libya and Yemen will be the next two Islamic governments.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:15pm

    Yes– Rebuild through destruction. Ask any Iranian if life under the Shah was better! This is where the Mideast is going, and this is why they will have Millions to recruit and blame the great Satan for.
    Installing Islamic fundamentalists as Carter and the Democrats allowed and encouraged in Iran has paid great dividends for the progressive and Anti-American cause.. Chaos, hate, division and a large community to organize as unwitting progressives.

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  • liberalsarealiens
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:15pm

    The Brotherhood won‘t stop and won’t be silent and won’t accept anything but the complete implementation of Islamic Shariah law,”

    Well, there you go! War is comming and we will be the target along with Israel. Never trust a Muslim, Never! Never trust Obama!

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  • Erabin
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:11pm

    Look at how crazy these people are:

    “PALESTINE (AFP) – A Palestine islamic court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court’s judges 20 years ago, Al-Jazeera website reported Friday.

    According to Al-Jazeera, the large dog made its way into the Monetary Affairs Court in an ultra-Orthodox Muslim neighbourhood in Palestine, frightening judges and plaintiffs.

    Despite attempts to drive the dog out of the court, the hound refused to leave the premises.

    One of the sitting judges then recalled a curse the court had passed down upon a secular lawyer who had insulted the judges two decades previously.

    Their preferred divine retribution was for the lawyer’s spirit to move into the body of a dog, an animal considered impure by traditional Islam.

    Clearly still offended, one of the judges sentenced the animal to death by stoning by local children.

    The canine target, however, managed to escape.

    “Let the Animals Live”, an animal-welfare organisation filed a complaint with the police against the head of the court, who denied that the judges had called for the dog’s stoning, Al-Jazeera reported.”

    Do we want crazy people like these in the US?

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  • alcarfl
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:11pm

    Just a mostly secular group, eh Clapper. Lock and load, Isreal.

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  • GFWSR
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:00pm

    Islam is sworn to take over the world and destroy America, and our insane leaders are assisting them! God help us all!

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  • ICEDRAGONNITE
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:51pm

    There is one thing that the people of the world need to know. THE LAST AND FINALE CALIPHATE IS NOW BEING BROUGHT TOGETHER ( THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY ). THIS NATION IS MOSTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ACTION. ( PAY BACKS ARE A BIT** ) MY THOUGHT IS PREPARE; DUCK AND COVER, UNTIL THE TIME IS RIGHT AND DON’T LET THEM NEAR YOUR GUNS.

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  • mcpbob
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:50pm

    Obama has done more to dystroy this country and the middle east than anyone in the past 40 years combined

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  • hayesstephen
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:44pm

    Mulums to east, mexicans to the south, liberals to the west, obamaites o to the north, MMY GOD WE’RE SURROUNDED!!! Only God can save us. I was reading in the Bible the other day and it seems that God gives people the rulers they deserve? I can see now that yes we are getting the government we deserve. We were silent when the teachers union started telling parents they knew best, we were silent when they took prayer out of schools, we were silent when the mass murder of unborn babies started, we were silent when women could get abortions for free using tax dollars. Yes no matter what happens don’t anyone dare to blame God Almighty, he only gave us what we wanted.

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  • tbl10
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:39pm

    I sure am glad that I know how this all will end. Things will get very ugly real soon, but thankfully God has his own plan to save all of us. On this Fathers Day weekend, I thank you Yahweh for the greatest gift of all, your son Jesus who suffered and died for all of us so we could become part of your family.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:38pm

    Well, LORD, it just gets darker and darker and stormier and stormier. Guess that’s so YOUR LIGHT will shine all the brighter. For that, we give YOU thanks, ALMIGHTY GOD.

    In the meantime, LORD, if YOU want us to rattle some cages, shake some trees, just let us know. Otherwise, know that YOUR kids are on our knees for AMERICA and for ISRAEL.

    Standing, LORD, we are standing in the BLAZE and we are on YOUR HOLY ground. In JESUS’ POWERFUL AND POWER-FILLED NAME, AMEN.

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  • last frontier
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:36pm

    Funny, the worlds Union brotherhoods are rising up as well.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:35pm

    The Arab Spring!

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  • Ken123
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:33pm

    How much tax payers money is Obama donating to Egypt?

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  • JGraham III
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:30pm

    So, what’s the surprise? Islam has nooo problem lying to the “infidels”, namely us. Just assume that whatever Da bruthahood says to the US or Israel is to be turned on its head and we’d be closer to the truth that what comes out of their mouths. Besides, I’ve read the end of the Book: we win; they on the other hand have a date with the Lake o’ Fire.

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    • saviorammo
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:44pm

      Yep.

      Then we clean up our won house. ******* and the Godless Jews who both are contributing to the death of Israel.

      Sickening. When the Cowboys come ragheads, there will be know place to hide. That goes for the commie socialist, fourth Reich as well.

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  • geonj
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:30pm

    the muslim loving leftists here at home will still refuse to see the truth that is the muslim brotherhood. we need to be prepared to defend ourselves from them.

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    • Moonbat
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:19pm

      I’m not particularly fond of Islam, but I absolutely stand for a person’s right to practice his or her religion. (As did Jefferson and Madison, incidentally.) And I want a foreign policy that isn’t motivated by fear and hatred. Does that make me a “muslim-loving liberal”?

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    • Nobamazone
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:37pm

      I too stand for a persons right to practice his or her religion, UNLESS that religion calls for the death and take over of all other religions! Know of ANY other religions that do? I don’t!

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    • Moonbat
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:50pm

      @ nobama

      The Constitution doesn’t pick and choose which religions are worthy of free practice.

      It‘s kind of ironic that you’re singling out Islam for intolerance, since you just described their religion as Satanic.

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    • Nobamazone
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:20pm

      moonbat “The Constitution doesn’t pick and choose which religions are worthy of free practice”

      seriously? so as long as a group calls themselves a religion they are protected? like maybe a religion who believes it is ok to rape young boys? you really believe the constitution protects their right to practice? how about all the cases of people who refuse to get medical attention for their children and then are charged when the child dies? the constitution protects them? I don’t believe it does, nor should it.

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    • let us prey
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:40pm

      @moonbat
      A nation of the true Islam should say it all.
      You give it a shot, you dont need to convince others to love islam.

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:27pm

    They were at it 1000 years ago and they’ll be at it 1000 years from now. They will not stop until we (the planet) are all dead or converted or in slavery.
    They walk among us and they will rise against us.

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    • Moonbat
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:15pm

      A thousand years ago, Muslims were establishing the foundations of modern economics and mathematics (ever wonder why they call it al-gebra?). They were also preserving Western literature while we slogged our way through the dark ages — we have Muslims to thank for saving Aristotle and Plato.

      The ever-present bigotry here is a real hinderance to any kind of understanding of the situation in Egypt. Jesus taught y’all to love your neighbor — why don’t you give that a shot?

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    • Nobamazone
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:28pm

      Jesus also taught us that satan was the great deceiver and to call out evil.
      We are calling it out, al-la-lah is satan and his followers are evil.

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    • Moonbat
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:42pm

      @ nobama

      Jesus doesn’t say any human being is evil, Muslim or otherwise. Christians believe that “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God,” but that includes you, too.

      To use Christianity as an excuse to slander a billion people is an awful abuse of the teachings of Jesus.

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    • Nobamazone
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:13pm

      my bad, should have said
      “Those who follow islam (satan and al-la-lah) are following evil”
      Ephesians 6:12
      For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
      I have never claimed to NOT be a sinner, yes I am, like all of us…. but I am a sinner who TRIES to follow good, truth and light. Islam follows EVIL and al-la-lah is satan, so followers of al-la-lah are followers of evil.Do I hate them? NO, never said I did. Do I hate the evil? YES I do!
      The article is about islam, if it were about a coven of satanic followers I would call them out also. However, they are not currently trying to take out all Jews and Christians (and any other not islam), if they start, I will start calling them out.
      Better?
      Don’t be deceived!

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  • saviorammo
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:25pm

    BOOM, Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!

    Bye, Bye, now! Have a nice day muffineheads!

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  • King David
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:24pm

    The brotherhood is a secular organization.

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:16pm

    obama’s plan is coming to fruition and appears to be right on schedule.

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  • copperstatekid
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:13pm

    So, this is what Egyptian Democracy looks like? Gee, that insane clown Glenn Beck was right again! But how can this be???? He’s crazy, right? Millions of Soros’ dollars were spent to promote how crazy Beck was, right????

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  • Progressive Wrecking Crew
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:12pm

    “To go from prison to power, that could be extremely dangerous.” Duuuhhh Yup.

    The AP take: The new and improved ISLAM !! Woo wee! Suckers. The two headed two faced Hydra. They’re just learning to lie better to gain the power and then when that happens the mask comes off.

    Hmmm, sounds familiar. ;) :(

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  • Wyatt's Torch
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:04pm

    A kiiiiiinder, gennnntler Islam

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:02pm

    Who saw this one coming ?

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:11pm

      I am shocked by this recent turn of events…..No really, I am

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:29pm

      to Al Gore’s loon followers .
      You really wanna know what’s really destroying the planet ?
      Follow the carbon footprint of radical islam .

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    • kreese
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:42pm

      “Who saw this coming?”

      Anyone paying attention. What is worse? Obama knew it too!

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  • hersey10
    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:01pm

    Wow , the guy everybody called crazy that predicted this would happen was RIGHT AGAIN .

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:10pm

      No caliphate here….move along

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    • norma55
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:16pm

      Glen unfortunatley you are right one too many times. Pray for Israel….

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:16pm

      Obama .. Muslm Brotherhood … no connection … right?

      TEA!

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    • Canuck GB Fan
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:25pm

      Surprise, surprise….

      Israel is prepared.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:33pm

      OH, DEAR…this is SUCH a SURPRISE…not. OF COURSE GLENN was right, he pays attention!
      also check this out re: Pawlenty….he is NO WHERE NEAR ABLE TO STAND UP TO THESE ANIMALS!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0NBh6qAH6k

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    • PrfctlyFrank
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:34pm

      Listen, a 95% track record is no reason to just blindly follow Beck off the cliff.. Come on people… It‘s been proved that he’s gonna be wrong someday.. Why listen to a guy thats right all the time??

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    • BMartin1776
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:35pm

      ^____^____^
      Yep wonder who said that… no one will listen not Fox/Ailes (Ive noticed the two taking shots at ea other “under the wire”)

      No one is listening and its all going according to plan with BHO violating Congress and Americans taking action in Libya, not too distant future Syria and of course Yemen…. The plan of course IMO is to assist in the destabilization of the ME to in fact allow the brotherhood to take hold and come in to reign in “peace” via sharia law. We all know what will happen in the process Israel will become target practice.

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    • Bear
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:36pm

      What a joke! It will start out (maybe) with bells on but will turn Radical very quickly! Gee going after the poor with ‘health care’ and‘ fixing the roads’ ,,sounds like what Barack ‘HUSEIN’ Obama is all about! The rest of the Muslim world may be watching you but will not follow anything you do,,,they will follow Islam,,period! And Just as Socialism took its time and is destroying America it will over take any short lived Democracy your poor will vote for in the beginning, once they learn they can vote themselves money,,Islam will take over! What a bunch of Morons,,The Islamic worlds useful idiots!

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:39pm

      What happened to the Earth?

      I was a happy boy one day, then I woke up and the ENTIRE EARTH is on its head!?!?

      What IS good is called bad, and what IS BAD is called good.

      The “FREE NATION” (The U.S.ofA.) has become RULED by those who lust for power.
      We are SLAVES to our government whose names change every few years, but who RULE us, none-the-less.
      We SLAVE day after day to support a government, and are PERMITTED by that govt to keep what they don’t need to bribe their buddies into giving them money for their campaigns to keep their seats of power.
      We spend our LEFTOVER time with our families or resting to return to our slavery the next day.
      We are supposed to be FREE MEN, to love, nuture, and support our families.

      EVEN GOD NEVER DEMANDED OVER 10%!!!

      FREEDOM IS RIGHTFULLY OURS.
      TAKE BACK WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS, AMERICA !

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    • TikeSissy
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:42pm

      Will you stand as one with Israel? http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=35A43639747506DB&wl=1

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:47pm

      In other words, a nation of cowardly sadists who will get to rape, torture and murder whoever they want in the name of their goatflocking god.

      Heck, I hope every true believing muslim goes there to live…no sense in having to waste more than 1 nuke.

      I wonder what would happen if we started drilling ASAP and put our best minds (which are not bribed by the oil companies) to work creating a true new energy source…one which we would not share with any muslim nation and one which would cause all non-muslim nations to no longer need to buy any oil from these gutless, pathetic, future makings of a Jimmy Deam pork sausage sandwich…if there is any justice in the world.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:49pm

      Once again Glenn shows the lesson that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

      Everyone, except those of us who have learned from history and the sources, said the Caliphate is a dream of fools, and crazy people only said it would happen. Indeed, we have seen otherwise, and the return of the Caliphate is a near certainty unless God himself dictates otherwise.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 2:55pm

      MB is a very small factor in Egypt….nothing here, move along…..ya. GB 127, Media 0.

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:04pm

      This is what Democracy looks like….

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    • Eric_The_Red_State
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:24pm

      What is it going to take, America?
      Our house is being run by the loud minority…… the progressives ….. the communists….. the marxists…..
      They are running it into the ground.
      We are being taken over by the “Politically Correct” and they are taking down all our defences.
      Our borders are open
      Our money weakened
      Our housing trashed
      Out economy in ruins

      And we keep listening to these fools like they have anything good to say!

      OUR OWN PEOPLE ARE OUT TO DESTROY US

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Wow is right! I can’t believe you looneys are still yelling about a caliphate. There is nothing in this article to suggest that Glenn Beck was anywhere near the truth when he talked about the whole Caliphate thing. In fact, the article clearly mentions the MB looking for Turkey’s Justice and Development party for inspiration, and no one is claiming that Ankara is the center of any new caliphate.

      So all of you who insist that this is a Christian rather than a secular country, and insist on a religious basis for our government, get all worked up when other countries want the same? All of you insist on a secular government for Egypt, while denying one for Americans. Disgusting hypocrisy.

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    • Gas137
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:28pm

      The Chinese, Russians, and Iranians are “in like Flynn” with the ‘hood. If we had a strong president we could be one of the players in the division of world spoils. Instead, because of the completely incompetent Obama, we are the world’s patsy.

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    • Moonbat
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:35pm

      @ pencilman

      Woot!

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:44pm

      AND WE HELPED THEM GET THERE AND HOPEFULLY NOT, BUT POSSIBLY, DO THIS…

      Obama really has no clue, does he. As Rep. Allen West said: http://tiny.cc/f62pn

      And as Obama’s Chief of Staff said: You can’t defend the indefensible: http://tiny.cc/ea3d5

      Though they were talking about the economy it still stands true.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Islam is the religion of death, destruction, subjugation and intolerance.

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    • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 4:16pm

      I swear many of you just read the headline and not the article……..
      to me it sounds like the Hard Liners are not so popular. and there seems to be a movement for a more Liberal form of Islam ………………………………….

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    • kelly
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 4:30pm

      The turn by Egypt to theocracy could be the most important change that might occur in the Middle East.

      If the country developed ties with Iran, it would be devastating to the West.

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    • avenger
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:01pm

      thank the fkng idiots in the white house and other lib useful fools.. http://thereligionofpeace.com

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:25pm

      LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS, hope you are right, but the Iranian revolution started with students wanting more freedom and was taken over by the Islamic radicals who turned Iran into an Islamic state. There is probably a better chance of all the Middle East and North Africa turning against us and Israel.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Remember that Liz Chaney on Fox News Sunday declared what a wonder development it was that Egypt was a new democracy. The brilliant Chris Wallace obviously agrees because he has never had Liz give us an update on the progress of this outstanding situation. It would be nice to see Liz Chaney and Chris Wallace do an episode of Fox News Sunday from the streets of Cairo.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 5:58pm

      I love how the media starts out describing the brotherhood,”But the Brotherhood’s own identity is on the line, and there is pressure from inside and out for it not to go down a sharp-right Islamic road. Internally, Brotherhood moderates – many from a younger generation – are resisting control from hard-line leaders, in a struggle that could fragment the group. And from the outside, a budding democracy is pushing the Brotherhood, at least in public, to present a more liberal face.”-
      Now why don’t they describe the Tea Party in that kind of manor, instead of just plain calling us bunch of bigoted, racist, fear mongering whatever … Why don’t they approach the Tea Party in such a liberal light, pointing to the many aspects of it and the true intention …. Heck, they act as if they been living with the muslin brother hod for years or something.

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    • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:18pm

      I hope so too Surfer .. i guess I’m looking at it as the glass half full .. my prayers are for Peace

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Yep just as Glenn Beck said it would happen,I wonder if Obama is happy now?

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 8:06pm

      I feel sorry for the Egyptian people. They faced death to get freedom, but they got this instead!

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    • NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
      Posted on June 18, 2011 at 10:12pm

      Stop the foreign aid–NOW!!!

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 19, 2011 at 2:13am

      “The days of ‘no religion in politics and no politics in religion’ ended long ago.”

      Same here in the US. The Tea Party is supports a Christian theocracy in this country, something the Founders would be appalled by, being mostly deists rather than theists. Thomas Jefferson in particular did not believe in the Tea Party theist view of God: one that perceives your very thoughts and guides the day to day existence of those of us on Earth.

      Yes, Glenn must be profound to imagine that a country of Muslims would want religious people in government, when that’s exactly what those who listen to him want for the US.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on June 19, 2011 at 7:14am

      As long as it stays in Egypt.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1kq9mmY-Y

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