I asked her if the Salafi parties would curb female professionals like herself, and she looked puzzled. No, she said, Salafis are good for women because they help needy women.
That reflected a common theme: People don’t vote for Islamic parties because they seek Saudi- or Iranian-style religious repression. Rather, they vote for Islamic parties for the same reason Germans support Christian Democrats or Southerners favor conservative Christians: pious candidates are perceived as reflecting traditional values.
... Some Salafi leaders have made extremist statements — suggesting that women and Christians are unfit to be leaders, raising questions about the peace treaty with Israel, and denouncing the great Egyptian Nobel laureate in literature, Naguib Mahfouz, for sacrilege. But the voters I talked to were more moderate. Some did say that they liked the idea of an Islamic state or adopting some principles of Shariah law, but most viewed this as symbolic, a bit like “In God We Trust” on American coins.
... Secular Egyptians often distrust assurances from the religious parties. They despair, caught between an army with dictatorial instincts and a conservative religious movement that is winning votes.
My take is that it’s reasonable to worry, but let’s not overdo it.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT LIBERAL APPEASING SCUM LIKE KRISTOF SAID ABOUT THE USSR AND ABOUT KHOMEINI IN IRAN IN 1979.
THESE LIBERAL APPEASING SCUM ARE ALWAYS SUCKING UP TO TYRANTS AND ANTI-SEMITES AND THEY ARE ALWAYS TELLING US NOT TO WORRY AND THEY ARE ALWAYS EFFIN WRONG.
AND THESE LIBERALS APPEASING SCUM DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY.
AND THEY'VE NEVER ADMITTED THEY WERE WRONG ABOUT THE USSR OR KHOMEINI.
THEY ARE SHAMELESS SCUM. SHAMELESS APPEASING SCUM.
That is breathtaking scummery.
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