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    Most of you called it...


    Islamist factions jockey for power, vow religious rule
    http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/…

    CAIRO -- If a new political force here has its way, public stonings, whippings and the lopping-off of hands will become the law in the Land of the Pharaohs.

    It all would help return Egypt to "an Islamic state (of) the Middle Ages," in the words of one Salafist.

    Even before President Hosni Mubarak fell from power on Feb. 11, many Western and Egyptian analysts worried that the world's most populous Arab nation -- and America's most crucial Arab ally of three decades -- might tumble into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.

    • Mubarak is starting to look good
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    • So, you'd be happy to live in a Middle Eastern dictatorship, is that your point?TheBlueOne
    • better than the alternative no? a religious state
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    • You live in America, don't you? We're in a crusdae against them muslims bc we're a christian nation you know.TheBlueOne

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