Azhar Sheikh slams the Salafists

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But their biggest problem is that most Egyptians really do want some form of Islamist leadership. And if this process turns out to be at all democratic, the only question is what kind: mild, moderate or what some Western liberals consider downright scary.

The fundamentalist Salafis have already frightened them. The Salafist Al-Nour Party surprised many in Egypt by winning 20 per cent of the seats in the first round of elections.

They're likely to do even better as the vote moves from big cities like Cairo and Alexandria into the poorer, more religious rural areas in the second and third rounds.

Unlike the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis make no attempt to hide their support for Shariah law — of the strictest kind. Under a Salafi government, thieves would get their hands cut off, adulterers would be stoned, women and non-Muslims would have precious few rights and alcohol would be banned. One Salafi faction brought out hundreds of demonstrators to protest the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. soldiers in May 2011.

Muslim moderates

By comparison, the Muslim Brotherhood has gone to great lengths to project a moderate image. Its membership has large numbers of professionals: doctors, lawyers and accountants — conservatives who are more likely to campaign in dark business suits than in traditional Egyptian dress.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/12/f-petricic-egypt.html

 

It's definitely scary when the Muslim Brotherhood are the moderates...

 

and when Margot is talking about women having precious few rights....as opposed to her typical defending of flogging as only being humiliation and not to bad because of the way the arm is held.

 

Try it.. there is NO range of motion..

I seriously doubt that Egypt will go ultraconservative.

Have you looked up women's rights in Egypt?

 

CHANGING STATUS OF WOMEN IN EGYPT

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/ency/blwh_egypt.htm

 

There was no MB or Salafists anywhere near my voting station. The only campaign there was Red Bull truck giving a free Red Bull to voters after they voted. No campaigners, very quiet and peaceful. In the queue close to me we were all voting Free Egyptians 'the Infidels' we called them as a joke to counteract the salafist. The Salafists came to our mosque a few weeks ago and caused a lot of trouble and were thrown out by the residents. They came with their banners and chants but we exited them into the streets outside telling them no politics in the mosque, no talk of infidel in the mosque.
In the poor areas like Omraneya etc around Giza they have been out in full force I have heard driving voters to the poll and giving them 30le to vote for them. This is the problem. The peasants in the slums are ignorant and dont think to ask them about their policy or aims.
Big fights between the MB and Salafists and guns involved in Delta areas.
I think the MB for the next wave will join closer with the secular groups to counteract the crazy wahabi nuts.
This has been growing for months now. Qatar and Saudi financing ( you will have heard all about it on TV ) them with millions to campaign because they have no funds like the MB. They are being financed big time by these two Gulf states.

Will the Coptic Christians be allowed their wine?????
These nuts are causing so much trouble and I knew this would happen months back. You see the financing of them in Libya by Qatar and Saudi.
Ghanouchi in Tunisia hopefully can control them but Libya is a big problem now.



Egypt has to come together and send these wahabi freaks back to Saudi where they belong because we are on a very dangerous path letting them radicalize our people. The poor and ignorant peasants.

 

This is why it is very dangerous to allow the rubbish written here to continue.
We live here they don't.
They rely on media, we see what is happening with our eyes.
These salfists are radical fanatics and have no place in Egypt.

 

for Gods sake will you stop this!!!!

they are funding the radicals!!!!!

you lived as an American on a compound and I can tell you now you know nothing of what is going on outside that compound

your talk is dangerous

 

Prove that Saudis are funding the Salafists.You fling out accusations all the time.

I was rarely in the compound...

 

the square had two sets of people

the ones calling for the regime fall and ouster of Mubarak and were there to stay till he did, and the thugs who infiltrated the square and were in the side streets calling for Mubarak to stay who were throwing molotovs from the bridges and causing problems in Maspero, the baltageya

 

You need to contact the Ministry of Justice for the file. It is in the courts now.
One example is the Ansar al Sunna Salafist group that received $50 million in one donation alone from Qatar and Kuwait on the day after the fall of Mubarak. The day after! the 12th February!!
If you want the file on all the donations you can contact the Ministry of Justice.
It's well know in Egypt they are being funded from Saudi and Qatar etc.
Who do you think funds their TV channels or prints their books on sale alone never mind their campaign.

You could also ask for an interview with ex Minister of Islamic Endowments Zakzouk who revealed the salafists get huge funding from Saudi Arabia.

You are in denial.

 

WHO exactly took posession of the 50 million?

 

Ansar al Sunna the salafist group the Ministry of Justice said.

That was just one transaction to one group but there are plenty more in the file being investigated now.

 

Not the group... the person..

 

Now you are being silly!

 

I think you have to be wary of liars and gossip in a situation like this..

 

Oh the IRONY!!!!

 

I guess you know that the GCC countries are propping up Egypt's economy for the moment.

 

You mean bribing them and influencing their internal politic... And yet you blame the USA for doing so in Israel...