Comments on: Heads a-crackin’ in Egypt

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Egyptian blogger gets four years in prison for contempt of religion

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:26:13 +0000

[...] He was arrested in November, tried this month, and today the verdict came down: guilty of contempt of religion, insulting the president and spreading false information. I’ve written before about Egyptian bloggers and how, although there’s only a very few of them blogging about politics, they’ve exerted extraordinary influence in the country by exposing gruesome torture by the state police and mass sexual harassment of women on the streets of Cairo after Eid. (Their latest expose came just a few weeks ago.) Not only that, but according to the Beeb, “Bloggers also play an important role in Egypt’s small pro-democracy movement. They advertise in advance the times and venues of political protests, and then post pictures and accounts of how the police dealt with the demonstrations.” I’ve written about that, too. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Victory tour ‘06: Vicente comes to California

Sun, 21 May 2006 23:50:34 +0000

[...] Exit question: if you took Vicente Fox’s brass cojones and enlarged them a thousand times, what would you have? Answer: America’s least-favorite welfare queen, who, when he’s not jailing political dissidents, beating the hell out of protesters, and happily cashing billion-dollar checks, spends his time whining about U.S. efforts to promote democracy in the Middle East. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Shame: Republican opposes Dem’s plan to cut aid to Egypt

Fri, 19 May 2006 18:10:54 +0000

[...] Follow Kolbe’s reasoning out to its logical conclusion and see where it takes you. Here’s the latest example of Egypt “clearly moving toward democracy”; you’re obliged to click and read at least the first two paragraphs. And here’s my post from last week on Egyptian policemen clearly moving their feet towards protesters’ democratic ribcages. Follow the link there to Sandmonkey’s blog and check out the photos. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Turkish jihadi shoots judge in head over headscarf ruling

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:52:57 +0000

[...] Two things make this story significant. First, it demonstrates how potentially important the judiciary is to reforming Muslim countries. Egypt has two judges on trial right now for daring to challenge the results of last year’s elections. Reformists have been out protesting, and getting beaten up, on their behalf for weeks. (Here’s the latest.) Second, the shooting could tip political momentum in Turkey back towards secularism. The fundamentalists have been gaining ground for awhile now, as exemplified by the election of Erdogan as prime minister. Turkey’s secularist president and Erdogan’s political enemies wasted no time pointing fingers at him today. I’ll keep an eye on the story over the next few days to see if there’s any fallout. Fingers crossed. [...]

By: Great White

Great White — Fri, 12 May 2006 12:45:37 +0000

$2 billion a year now beats $80-$100 billion a year fighting war-on-terror campaigns in Egypt if it were to fall into the hands of islamists. Those heads being ‘cracked’ are the same supporters of the bombers of tourist resorts.

Islamists know that Eqypt is the ultimate prize, with Saudi Arabia next. Egypt is the centre of the muslim world, get Egypt and you get the muslim world.

The price of freedom. It does not seem fair but the alternative would be far worse.

By: Great White

Great White — Fri, 12 May 2006 11:50:07 +0000

Just hearing that a ‘journalist’ from Al Jazeera got his head smacked in made my day. I’m still smiling.

Well done Mubarrak. These people only understand violence and unlike his Western counterparts, he knows that he cannot give an inch or they will take a mile. Maybe there is a lesson here? Follow the example set by people who face the real near-term potential in the hands of islamists. Can we afford Egypt becoming another Iran or Syria?

By: NoisyRoom.net » Heads a-crackin’ in Egypt

NoisyRoom.net » Heads a-crackin’ in Egypt — Thu, 11 May 2006 21:39:44 +0000

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By: Mike O

Mike O — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:34:17 +0000

$2 billion a year works out to $167M a month and they’re holding at least 48 protestors at the moment. Tell them that arresting and detaining peaceful protestors comes with a $1M per week fine, then send only $23M for the month (48 x 3 week avg).

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:29:03 +0000

Al Queada Growing in Sinai
This is good for Egypt, when I was there during jimicarters ruination you just disappeared if you made noise. Apparently Mubarak can control Cairo, but can’t control Sinai any better than we can control the outskirts of El Paso.