"Al Qaeda Chief: Egypt Coup Shows Democracy Corrupt"

[applegrove]

Al Qaeda Chief: Egypt Coup Shows Democracy Corrupt

By AP / Maamoun Youssef at Time

http://world.time.com/2013/08/03/al-qaeda-chief-egypt-coup-shows-democracy-corrupt/

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(CAIRO) — Al Qaeda’s leader said the military coup that ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi provides proof that Islamic rule cannot be established through democracy and urged the Islamist leader’s followers to abandon the ballot box in favor of armed resistance.

In a 15-minute audio message posted online late Friday, Ayman al-Zawahri also lashed out at the Egyptian military, the country’s secular and liberal elites as well as the Coptic Christian minority, accusing them of conspiring against Morsi solely because he was an Islamist.

Egypt’s army ousted Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected leader, on July 3 after days of mass protests demanding the president’s removal. The coup has divided the nation into rival camps, with an array of liberal and secular Egyptians supporting the military’s move and Morsi’s supporters and Islamist allies rejecting it.

“We have to admit first that legitimacy does not mean elections and democracy, but legitimacy is the Shariah (Islamic law)… which is above all the constitutions and laws,” al-Zawahri said in comments addressed to Morsi’s supporters.


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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Who gives a shit what this asshole has to say about anything?

A couple of trillions later and we still have this piece of shit spewing his bile? I want our money back for things that will actually keep Americans alive.

[applegrove]

2. I was kinda hoping the reaction would be "we need to spread this antidemocracy bullshit al qaeda is

around the world". But I hear ya.

[tumtum]

3. Somewhere out there is a drone with a Hellfire missile with his name on it.

[millennialmax]

5. How DARE you suggest such extrajudicial evil.

[millennialmax]

4. Let's hear this dude out. If we just sit down and talk with him and give in to all his demands...

The U.S. will never be attacked again.

[msongs]

6. but our government tells us al queda is no longer a threat cuz we droned them all to death nt

[applegrove]

7. My take on this is that al qaeda has

just marginalized itself. No kid on the internet talking democracy or dreaming of a career doing something interesting or meaningfull is going to want to have anything to do with the caliphate dreams of al qaeda. I hope this story goes viral in the Middle East.