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Army says no to 'Khomeini rule' in Egypt

2011-04-05

CAIRO -- Egypt will not be ruled by "another (Ayatollah) Khomeini," the country's military said on Monday, in reference to the cleric who led Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, the official MENA news agency reported.

"Egypt will not be governed by another Khomeini," the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said after a three-hour meeting with newspaper editors-in-chief and MENA.

So they won't have a religious thug in charge, they'll have a secular thug.

How about compromising with an Erdogan? Turkey is doing so well these days...

The military rulers made the comment amid concerns over the increased visibility of the Muslim Brotherhood, banned under the regime of president Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down on February 11 after a popular uprising.

Mubarak's departure raised fears in the West of the creation of an Islamist regime in Egypt, where the Brotherhood is the strongest opposition force.

The Brotherhood says it is not in favour of a religious state.

Then their lips fall off...

Whoever takes over gets to deal with food shortages and unemployed youths. Better for the Muslim Brotherhood to take over afterward.

"The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will not allow extremist factions to control Egypt," Deputy Defence Minister Mohammed Mokhtar al-Mella told the journalists on Monday.

The military also reiterated its commitment to transfer power to civilian rule after legislative and presidential elections, and to respect freedom of expression. It "expressed the hope that the Egypt of tomorrow will be democratic and modern", MENA reported.

"We've got wars to plan with Libya and Israel. You civilians run the country for us, m'kay?"

Posted by:Steve White

#4 E.g. WAFF > COULD EGYPT EMERGE AS AN ISLAMIC STATE IN FUTURE?

In 2011 + via the "Jasmine" pro-Democracy regional mass protests, for the Muslim Brotherhood + Islamists its about PCorrectly achieving DE FACTO FORMAL POLITICAL POWER - the real crux is what may change between now + Year 2015.

The OWG Caliphate = Global Islamist-Jihadist State is rising + intent on going nukulaar.

AND

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > SYRIA GOES TO WAR.

ARTIC = Pluses-versus-More-Numerous-Negatives for the Middle East, ME Democracy, + US-West/Allies iff the Assad Regime collapses.

IIUC, the Math says BABY ASSAD IN SYRUH = UNCLE MUAMMAR IN LIBYUH = IS "OUR MAN IN DAMASCUS/ASIA MINOR" [or One of Them] + ITS MORE IN THE INTERESTS OF THE US + ISRAEL + ALLIES TO MAKE SURE HE STAYS IN RULING POWER; OR ELSE AS AN INDISPENDABLE, POST-COLLAPSE, PRO-REFORM REGIONAL POWERBROKER + "HEDGE" AGZ IRAN, RADICAL ISLAM + RISING REGIONAL, GLOBAL NUC TERROR???

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-05 23:27

#3 The Brotherhood says it is not in favour of a religious state.

Yet, yesterday they said they were in favor of "modesty" police.

Posted by: CincinnatusChili 2011-04-05 18:25

#2 Whoever rules is going to have their job cut out for them. Because of a humanitarian aid boo-boo, some 15+% of their working age population have hepatitis C.

Their best bet is the Egyptian equivalent of "the Mexican solution", which was simply, whoever kept the price of tortillas and beans cheap was elected.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-05 11:11

#1 And hope is all you have.

Posted by: newc 2011-04-05 00:31

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