{"id":3213,"date":"2011-07-30T16:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2011-07-30T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T16:10:03","slug":"egypt_goes_sour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3213","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Goes Sour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/29\/tension-rises-as-islamists-dominate-tahrir-square\/\">The Lede<\/a>, the blog at the New York Times, reported on a rally in Tahrir Square that was supposed to be a protest against the current military government.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;But the turnout was lopsided, dominated by members of religious movements, ranging from the most conservative, the Salafists, to the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The first thing to understand here is that there is nothing moderate about the Muslim Brotherhood.&nbsp; The goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is a world-wide caliphate under Sharia Law.&nbsp; That is stated in their charter and was reaffirmed in the documents uncovered in the Holy Land Foundation Case in Texas.&nbsp;They have no intentions of allowing a western-style democracy to take place anywhere in the Middle East&#8211;particularly in Egypt, which has in the past been an ally of the United States.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article further reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/tens-thousands-rally-unity-egypt-110358337.html;_ylt=AiOoJjheIz5eCnT3ZQQSPzes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM5MW92ZGQzBHBrZwM2N2M0YjYxNi1iOWNlLTNhNGItOTQxYS1iMzc1OGViM2I3Y2EEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhVG9wU3RvcnkEdmVyAzdhYjM2MGFhLWI5ZGEtMTFlMC1hMGRhLTFiMDA1OGQ2ZGUyNw--;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3\"><font color=\"#004276\"><strong>According to The Associated Press<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong>, instead of chanting &#8220;The people want to topple the regime,&#8221; a slogan heard at protests across the Arab world this year, from <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/26\/world\/middleeast\/26unrest.html\"><font color=\"#004276\"><strong>Tahrir Square to Tunisia<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong>, demonstrators called out, &#8220;The people want to implement Sharia,&#8221; a strict code of Islamic law.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sharie law is not compatible with democracy.&nbsp; Egypt is only the beginning of the Arab Spring&#8217;s turning from what appeared to be a&nbsp;bridge to freedom to a&nbsp;bridge to a caliphate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Lede, the blog at the New York Times, reported on a rally in Tahrir Square that was supposed to be a protest against the current military government.&nbsp;&nbsp; The article reported: &#8220;But the turnout was lopsided, dominated by members &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}