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Subscribe to RSSEgyptians fill Cairo's Tahrir Square in anticipation of a new government being announced. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
Five hundred days after they overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians will finally have a new president on Sunday, the first they have chosen freely. The choice may lead to violence.
Egyptians filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday to support the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Islamist Mohamed Morsy. However, a rally across Cairo supported Ahmed Shafik, a former air force commander, Mubarak ally and the military's choice.
The Muslim Brotherhood warned of possible street fighting if Shafik is named the winner.
Earlier: 'Verge of explosion': Huge election protest in Egypt
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Islamic Democracy .... "LOL"
Yea right ....
Believe what they do or die .... "LOL"
That's a good one ....
It is time to end all monies to Egypt that were agreed upon under the Camp David Accord. The Muslim Brotherhood has no desire to keep peace with Israel which is one of the conditions of the Accords.
If you look up oxymoron in a dictionary the example it will use should be Islamic Democracy.
It would be like putting Glen Beck in charge of the Democrat party.
Translation: "We will take over this country by violence if you don't give it to us quietly" The distinction between a democratic election and a bloody coup gets pretty blurred in Muslim countries.
I would like to know how they can even use the headline "Egypt could be an Islamic democracy" when in the article all it's saying is that the Islmaic Brotherhood has threatened violence if they don't win.
Looks like a civil war in Egypt is about to start. The military cannot let the MB own the legislature, judicial system (sharia law) and presidency and have any of it's leaders survive.
there is no democracy in Islam, it is like my way or the high way
there is 20,000,000 Christians lives in Egypt and the owner and the origin of Egypt , Egypt never been an Islamic country , Islam says kill the non believers , take a tax from them , cut their feet and their hand if they steal, it is discusting, i really feel bad from these big countries supporting such an a doctrine Islamic middle east.
In two states in Egypt , Muslim brotherhood prevented the Christians from voting and threatening them if you go and vote, we will burn your houses and kill you , this is the Islamic democracy from Muslim brotherhood
My question is, who is the dim wit at NBC that put the headline to this story? Was it Mr. Engel?
When you rid yourself of one harsh ruler and vote in another, I call this, "you cann't fix stupid".
A islamic democracy would be difficult to maintain. Will women be able to vote and have equal rights? Will girls be sold or killed in infancy? Fundamental religious zealots are dangerous even in our Republic. Religion does not belong in government.
God protect mankind here and there from fundamental religion. The religious zealots here and there are as dangerous to mankind as nuclear weapons. I venture to state religions have killed more than nuclear weapons. Remember the ethic cleansing in what was Yugoslavia. How about Sudan?
It makes me ill thinking how religion is used to kill, subdue and take rights from the weak.
The ONLY way that the Muslim Brotherhood (or any other Islamic Facist) organization will let a government stand is if they are in charge. Yea, if they get into power the museums will either be destroyed or looted, ancient statues destroyed (remember the Buddhas in Afghanistan) and Sharia law in place. How depressing is the thought that these lunatics want to be in charge. Let's see how many moderate Muslims speak out against this. I wager the world will hear crickets. Oh, I already know-we who criticize ANYTHING Islamic are the absolute filth of this earth. I just don't want to go back to the 7th century!