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Egypt's president says his powers are divinely blessed!
Egyptians want democracy, but is their country turning into Iran?
Like Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohammed Morsi, says his powers are divinely blessed.
A similar pattern of behaviour was evident in Iran following the overthrow of the Shah, when Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of Islamic Republic, succeeded in imposing a new constitution on the Iranian people which was based more on the will of God than the rule of law. At a stroke, the pro-democracy aspirations of ordinary Iranians were crushed by the creation of an Islamic theocracy. As Khomeini himself warned secularists when the new constitution was drawn up: “Revolt against God’s government is a revolt against God, and a revolt against God is blasphemy.”
...But now that Mr Morsi can claim divine guidance in his attempts to forge a new constitution, secularists will face an uphill struggle if they are to prevent Egypt turning from a military dictatorship into a theocracy.
Tags: Egypt, Iran, Islam, Politics
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Permalink Reply by Sayed Iman on -
The world has learned valuable lessons from Iran Revolution in 1979, when Islamists hijacked the revolution and suppressed any non-Islamic groups.
Egypt should not follow the same dreadful path. Egyptians deserve to have a democratic country free of any religious oppression.
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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on -
Sayed,
I agree with you. Some info I've read about Libya is not too promising either.
Has the world really learned those lessons? Does the world learn?
Sorry if there are multiple replies here. The reply mechanism is kind of f*cked up
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