Egypt Is Looking More Like Post-1979 Iran Every Day

Egypt Threatens To Execute American Citizens -- Michael Totten, World Affairs

Egypt is looking more like post-1979 Iran every day.

Cairo has issued international arrest warrants for eight Americans—seven of them Coptic Christians from Egypt—who are allegedly involved with the anti-Mohammad video everyone’s rioting over. The prosecutor’s office also issued a warrant for Terry Jones, the Koran-burning nutjob in Florida, just because, and says if convicted the defendants may get the death penalty.

Mahmoud Salem (aka “Sandmonkey”) was interviewed on CNN yesterday. He says the new Muslim Brotherhood government is much more oppressive than the Mubarak regime. That should have been obvious to everyone in advance, though astonishingly it was not. And Mahmoud is hardly a Mubarak apologist. He was one of the most outspoken critics of the ancien régime in the world, and he was arrested and beaten for it.

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My Comment: The above video is very sobering on what is happening in Egypt today. And yes .... Egypt is on that path of becoming ruled by clerics (or their front men) who want everyone to follow the strict tenants of Islam.