EGYPT: MUSLIM FIGHTS MUSLIM

What Egypt should do is once again ban the Muslim Brotherhood. When it was banned, there was more of a chance for civility in Egypt. But without the ban, civil Egyptians are frightened by what could happen if the Muslim Brotherhood got into political and social power.

The Muslim Brotherhood espouses Islam world rule. It also encourages Muslims to commit suicide in order to see through that planetary goal.

All infidels, non-Muslims, must be slain in compliance with the Koran”s killing passages. Those Muslims who do not slaughter non-Muslims are to be slain for being cowardly.

If Egypt became ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, it would mean an Islamic legalistic state by which the killing passages of the Koran would be law. That could then become the mindset for future generations there as well as spread to other Muslim countries prone to Islamic legalism.

In the latest Egyptian parliamentary elections, police at times fought off Muslim Brotherhood voters at the polls, according to IOL Breaking News. Keeping Muslim Brotherhood voters from casting their ballots yielded them winning no seats in the final round of elections.

The ruling National Democratic Party does not want the Muslim Brotherhood in any political power.

“The voting was marred by violence, with police clashing with voters and blockading polling stations in Brotherhood and other opposition strongholds. In many cases police let in only those who promised to vote for NDP candidates. One person was shot dead when police opened fire on a crowd of voters pushing to enter a polling station in the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheik.

“Considered a test of President Hosni Mubarak”s openness to reform, the election has turned into a battle between the government and the Brotherhood. Initially the state gave the group considerable leeway to campaign, but it has cracked down as the Brotherhood did surprisingly well, winning 76 seats in the first two rounds – a five-fold increase from its share in the outgoing assembly.”

Mubarak had announced to worldwide media months ago that he wanted Egypt to move in the direction of a democracy rather than despotism. Therefore, he announced the parliamentary elections open to various political parties, the Muslim Brotherhood then rising to be the major opposition party to Mubarak”s National Democratic Party.

The result has been lack of democratic principles observed in the elections as well as the frightening rise in popularity regarding the Muslim Brotherhood. It has not been a goodwill situation on many counts.

What Egypt should do henceforth is to once again ban the Islamic legalists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and then proceed toward a national democratic base.