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| In Protest, Islamists Quit Egypt Council |
| 2011-12-09 |
| [NY Times] The Moslem Brüderbund, the Islamist group whose political party is leading in parliamentary elections here, on Thursday accused Egypt's interim military rulers of attempting to undermine the legislature's authority and interfering in the writing of a new constitution. The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said it was withdrawing from an advisory council being formed by the military leaders, saying that the military was trying to give the new council a major role in writing the constitution. On Wednesday, a member of the military council told a small group of Western journalists that to limit the power of a potential Islamist majority in the new Parliament, the military planned to give the new advisory council and the military-led cabinet major roles in forming a constitutional assembly. Gen. Mukhtar al-Mulla of the military council contended during the briefing that the newly elected Parliament would not represent the will of the broader Egyptian public. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Yea well, too bad about the Quite the humanitarian you are. What goes around, come around. |
| Posted by: Slatle Bumble5851 2011-12-09 22:02 |
| #7 Civil war? Pleaseeeeee That would be last thing the west should want. Islamist parties got 71% of this round's vote. If the elections are any reflection of Egyptians' views, the Islamists have the numbers. And they will kill on the drop of a koran. |
| Posted by: Slatle Bumble5851 2011-12-09 22:00 |
| #6 Massive starvation is the worst threat to Egypt & indirectly to everyone else in the region. Egypt is broke & the tourists that had been pouring their cash into the Egyptian economy will not return for a very long time. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-12-09 14:11 |
| #5 Yea well, too bad about the Copts: but they were goners anyway (even with Mubarak)---just a question of time. And no skin of my nose, anyway. The threat that Egypt constitutes to Israel, is the concern. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-09 13:59 |
| #4 I don't want Civil War Grom. I shudder to think of the Copts fate in such a situation. |
| Posted by: Charles 2011-12-09 12:30 |
| #3 Ah, but we're talking Egyptian secularists, with the 'international community' involved. There'll be this irrational impetus for "inclusion", much to the detriment of the former and the psychological soothing of the latter. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-12-09 10:07 |
| #2 Important diplomatic lesson. When there is more than one political party, if one party, even technically in the majority, walks out, it has committed a grave tactical error. This is because it highly motivates the other political parties to exploit the process with all due speed and as much to their benefit, and the detriment of the boycotting party as possible. By walking out, the MB has almost guaranteed an alliance between the secularists and the military, which may be potent enough to overwhelm the power of the MB. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-09 09:43 |
| #1 Civil war? Pleaseeeeee |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-09 05:01 |