Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia,

[Mushroom]

I’m shocked to see there is no thread about all the protests and uprisings going on in the Middle East right now. Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, not to mention the rest... please don’t.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-uprising.html

Nevertheless it appears things are happening rapidly in the last few weeks that could lead to rapid changes with unforeseen consequences. Who’s next in power? More extreme, hard-line regimes, democratically voted but more secular, or by military takeover? Or more moderate representative democracies? I just can’t visualize moderate representative democracies. That might work in developed areas, but tribal areas? ALl I know is right now I’m impressed with images found on the internet news sites. I rarely watch TV and I have yet to see anything on TV about it.

Whatever it is, I wish we stay the fuck out of it and let the dust settle by itself. Is that possible? Fuck, you know what’s going to happen. The US will get involved somehow, and that never works out.




And check this guy out... I’m sure he was coming here for a peaceful retirement

Controversial Muslim cleric caught being smuggled into U.S. over Mexico border

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...co-border.html

Said Jaziri, who called for the death of a Danish cartoonist that drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed, was being smuggled into California when he was arrested, along with his driver Kenneth Robert Lawler.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1CO90egFJ

[Nitro Express]

It looks like the good old Islamic Brotherhood is stirring the shit.

[Diamondjimi]

[Satan]

Great...... World War III is about to start and millions will die. There goes Hell's budget for the next 10 years.

[Nitro Express]

Maybe we have turned this realm into hell already.

[kwame k]

I've been meaning to post about Egypt but never got around to it......suspending the internet! WTF, and it looks like there may be change on the horizon. Fuck that 2 bit dictator.

[Nickdfresh]

It looks like the good old Islamic Brotherhood is stirring the shit.

Nope. It was kids on the internetz that started it. Probably university students and the many, underemployed disaffected masses. The Islamic Brotherhood has been left behind...

[Nitro Express]

World War I = Belt fed machine guns, aircraft bombing, aircraft strafing, aircraft dogfighting, chemical warfare, and trench warfare.

World War II = Mobile infantry, airborne troops, tanks, amphibious landings, blitzkrieg tactics, first assault rifles used, first nukes used.

World War III = Intercontinental ballistic missiles, multiple individually targeted warheads, multi megaton payload.

World War IV = Sticks and stones.

[Nitro Express]

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, demanded on Wednesday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak dissolve the nation’s freshly formed parliament and hold a new election. The move is widely viewed as an attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood to capitalize on the thirst for change kindled by Tunisia’s recent Jasmine Revolution.

The Brotherhood also urged Cairo to prosecute corrupt policymakers and to repeal a law banning political rallies. Additionally, the Islamist group demanded constitutional changes to curb election rigging, following November’s elections when the Brotherhood lost all 88 of its parliamentary seats.

In a statement on its website the Brotherhood threatened that if the Egyptian government “does not move fast and shoulder responsibility to start a serious reform process, stability might not last for long.”

Demands and warnings of this kind from the Brotherhood are nothing new, but the most recent calls are timed to harness the momentum unleashed by the upheaval in Tunisia which deposed the nation’s dictator and sent ripples of revolutionary hope into opposition groups throughout the Middle East.

“The events in Tunisia are a cornerstone for the rest of the people of the Arab and Islamic world,” the Brotherhood wrote. “It is a message to all the despotic leaders and the corrupt regimes that they are not safe and they are living on the tip of a volcano of people’s anger and God’s wrath.”

Although some analysts have downplayed fears that the turmoil in Tunisia will spread into neighboring nations, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s complaints parallel those that culminated in the toppling of Tunisia’s president, and, in the last two weeks, nine Egyptian protesters have either set themselves on fire or tried to, in imitation of the self-immolation that ignited the uprising in Tunisia. And since Egypt suffers from the same symptoms—high youth unemployment, rising food prices, high inflation, a lack of political freedom, unapologetic corruption and nepotism—that afflicted Tunisia, the contagion possibility should not be ignored.

The Trumpet’s editor in chief has predicted for over a decade that Egypt will fall under the influence of Islamists. In his booklet The King of the South, Gerald Flurry stated, “Daniel 11:42 implies that Egypt will be allied with the king of the south, or Iran. This prophecy indicates that there would be a far-reaching change in Egyptian politics!”

For years the Mubarak regime has held this change at bay, but, as discontent with the political system in Egypt increases, we will see the voice of the Islamists intensify. Egypt’s leadership will undergo a change, and probably sooner than most analysts expect. •

The largest organized opposition movement in Egypt is the Muslim Brotherhood.

[Nitro Express]

It might be noted the internet and cell phone networks were shut down in Egypt. Great organizing tools until the government pulls the plug.

[ashstralia]

egypt updates it's facebook status to 'it's complicated'.

[sadaist]

.....suspending the internet! WTF

Egypt has been E-Gypped.





















sorry...couldn't help myself

[ashstralia]

very good!

[Hardrock69]

King Fahd is probably quaking in his boots right now in Saudi Arabia. If the Saudis go nuts, then that is going to be it.

[ashstralia]

apparently oil is pretty cheap at the moment, too. d'oh!