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Comrade Grumpy

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12. You gotta be fucking kidding me!

Fri Nov 21, 2014, 02:33 PM

Nov 2014

Sisi has created this mess by overthrowing a democratically-elected moderate (in context) Muslim Brotherhood government, gunning down a thousand people in the streets, killing thousands more, imprisoning and torturing thousands more, and recreating Mubarek's authoritarian soft military dictatorship.

I'm not especially fond of political Islam (nor of Christian parties), but it is certainly an authentic political tendency in the Middle East, and Egypt in particular. Blocking effective political participation by this major tendency gets you what's happening in the Sinai. Block democratic participation, get radicalism, duh.

Your bigoted hatred of Islam blinds you to distinctions within Islam as a political tendency. Morsi is not the same as al-Baghdadi.

And it allows you to cheer atrocities committed by thugs like Sisi.

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You gotta be fucking kidding me! Comrade Grumpy Nov 2014 #12

WTF??? "Moderate" ? Some context you got there. Rhinodawg Nov 2014 #14

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You are full of it. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2014 #19

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