Politically speaking
Jan. 28th, 2011 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, if Egypt stops being a dictarorship, what are the chances of it continuing to blockade Gaza?
Because that's going to be all sorts of interesting...
Because that's going to be all sorts of interesting...
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Date: 2011-01-28 11:24 pm (UTC)Seems to me the most likely outcome is the military will get rid of the president, place a new puppet in office, and things will carry on as before... much like what seems to have happened in Tunisia.
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Date: 2011-01-29 12:46 am (UTC)And actually, compared to a lot of countries in the Middle East, it's fairly democratic and fairly secular too.
In fact, one of the more worrying things for me about the current unrest is if the major opposition party The Muslim Brotherhood take power... they have made claims for maintaining an Egyptian democracy and ending poverty, but on the other hard they are fairly hardcore religious... for example, they would want to re-establish Sharia (Islamic) law.
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Date: 2011-01-29 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-29 11:09 am (UTC)That Muslim brotherhood bunch do sound a little scary. Apparently one of the things the protestors have been wanting is all of the prisoners released from jails who have been locked up without charge, but, a guy was saying on the news, most of those prisoners are really hardcore militant Muslim Brotherhood extremists, that were locked up because they were likely to kidnap and or blow up western tourists.
So letting them out might be very right on from a human rights position, but potentially very bad for society.
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Date: 2011-01-29 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-29 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-16 11:40 am (UTC)But - if you look at my posts today - you can see why it touched rather close to home!
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Date: 2011-02-16 12:09 pm (UTC)I hope that the situation in Bahrain is resolved as peacefully as possible.
I do see a slow unfolding of liberty and democracy as being pretty much inevitable, but I'm not by any means convinced that it's going to happy in a big bang - social change takes a loooong time.
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Date: 2011-02-16 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-29 06:48 pm (UTC)