Strict Muslims stake claim on Egypt's political scene

[FarCenter]

On a beach-front wall in Egypt's second city where courting couples often stroll are scrawled the words: "Would you accept this for your sister?" and "Be in fear of God."

For frequenters of Alexandria's shores, the authors of the disapproving messages are clear: Salafis, ultra-conservative Islamists who have overcome their distaste for politics to stake a claim on Egypt's future after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.

"What we want is the complete commitment to Islamic sharia law... The minimum is the constitution and then establishing a system of good governance," said Abdel Monem el-Shahat, a scholar and spokesman for Alexandria's leading Salafi body.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/us-egypt-election-salafis-idUSTRE7AK0OF20111121

[tabatha]

1. The fighting in Egypt is going to continue for a long time.

[riderinthestorm]

4. +1. nt

[JoePhilly]

2. Sounds like some of the far right in the US.

They want their view of the bible to be enacted as US law.

Not a big surprise.

The far right of every religion is nuts.

[applegrove]

3. Someone asked Egyptians if people who leave their religion should be executed

and a majority said yes (I can't remember more details than that). And that moment I knew the elections were going to be ****ed up.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Greaaaaat

Just lovely.

[riverwalker]

6. at least the US doesn't have religous nuts

trying to run things....oh wait..