“We will establish the Islamic dream, which is a caliphate state”
In Egypt, after watching warily from the sidelines of the revolution, Salafists have embraced their role in the new democracy. They launched a dozen television channels and, in upcoming elections, could build on their 25 percent parliamentary minority, allowing them to pressure the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government to appoint more Salafist cabinet ministers.
In Libya, private militias operating in the security vacuum are using firepower, or the threat of it, to advance ultraconservative Salafist agendas. One, Ansar al-Sharia, has been accused of involvement in the September attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
In Tunisia, many Salafists now proudly don robes and beards but eschew democratic participation, and a small but vocal minority has staged high-profile attacks on art shows, bars and other displays of what they deem un-Islamic behavior. Others say they are seeking to transform society by proselytizing about Islam and its incompatibility with democracy, undercutting an Islamist-led government that has explicitly rejected sharia law…
“We will establish the Islamic dream, which is a caliphate state. We have a book to spread our ideas and a sword to defend the ideas,” said Bilel Chaouachi, a 26-year-old theology graduate student in Tunis, who said he lists Osama bin Laden among his spiritual leaders.
His studies, he said, led him to conclude that Muslim countries’ failures were due to their distance from Islam, and that “secularism and moderate Islam are not the real Islam.”
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What’s the article about, “genius.” Lemme help you.
Since you seem to agree with their take on the motives of the Muslim Brotherhood, I guess that makes you a NEOCON too, “genius”.
hawkdriver on October 8, 2012 at 7:08 PM
YOU are the ONLY one equating a position on the “muslim brotherhood” as grounds for defining a neocon, genius.
nottakingsides on October 8, 2012 at 10:31 PM
Only, my original point, genius.
What were you trying to turn the conversation into, Sugar Britches? U mad bro? You upset that you tried to shift the debate to all your reason why we shouldn’t ever go to war? Dude, don’t be afraid. No one’s asking you to go. Leave it to men and women who are cut out for going to war. And you don’t have to be ashamed either. No shame in being afraid of war.
hawkdriver on October 9, 2012 at 6:21 AM
“your reason why we shouldn’t ever go to war”
Another lie.
“afraid of war”
LOL! So your idiot logic now is that you personally aren’t “afraid” of fighting in “wars”, therefore you want more neocon “wars”.
nottakingsides on October 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Nope, you lied.
“afraid of war”
Nope, you lied again.
hawkdriver on October 9, 2012 at 8:19 PM
You should be ashamed of yourself.
nottakingsides on October 9, 2012 at 10:44 PM
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