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Its part of the wahhabi doctrine. They've been destroying Islamic history and other kind of history aswell for what they deem as heresies.

The role of religion in politics in Egypt will probably not be much different than it has been. Since 1971, and to a lesser degree earlier, there has been a mention of Sharia in the constition. http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,NATLEGBOD,,EGY,,3ae6b5368,0.html The word principal or...

Considering the fact that the number of protestors against the film would total less than 15 000, excluding lebanon, in the entire middle and probably less than 20000 in the entire muslim world,excluding Pakistan, 25000 seems like too much for a small country...

For godness sake hasn't anybode read my post? These laws already existed way before the reovolution. It was already ILLEGAL and carried the same penalty, Here is more information on a few cases before the revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_Egypt There are more cases than...

Egypt has not been secular for decades BlackTerell THIS WAS ILLEGAL BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. These laws are not new ones and I don't think they will be repealed anytime soon. Egypt is not going to become a liberaldemocracy overnight, especially since there's been a reversal of the renaissance...

Nothing special. Seems like egyptians are against US. aid and see it as a great source of humiliation. http://www.gallup.com/poll/152471/egyptians-oppose-economic-aid.aspx I think the military will veto it,and that its a bluff, but the aid will be cut eventually.

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New parliament in egypt moves to cut aid from the US. I read that the plan of the new parties in the parliament was to cut US aid gradually, but it seems that this could happen sooner than they said. Atleast the largest party in the parliament has a stated policy of cutting the aid(probably...

Im getting worried about the speculation Rand joining Romney as a VP candidate incase Mitt Romney win the nomination. I REALLY hope Rand does NOT join a ticket like that. It would ruin the Paul brand, and risk coopting the liberty movement. Everybody needs to know that. If Rand gets that...

Ron Pauls campaign should tell Mitt Romney and other republican candidates, that if they get too ugly on the negative campaigning, that Ron Paul will endorse and divert his campaign to Gary Johnson if he loses the republican nomination. Infact Ron Paul should've put the idea of third party on...

Well I dont visit the forum often so I must've missed those

If Ron Paul wins the republican primaries, how could he win if establishment of the republican party tries to split the vote by running and endorsing a candidate like Donald Trump who has said that he would run as an independent if he doesn't like the person who wins the primaries.

I'm pretty sure that the pirates are mostly not fisherman but mostly common thugs...mostly. Mostly doesn't indicate however if there are any significant common fisherman who target fishing trawlers. Well there are several cases A Taiwanese fishing trawler...

Hmm the injured guy and some others looked like pakistanis... The description doesn't have to be accurate, thats why you have trials. The somali piracy started when local fisherman were angered by the fact that almost all fish was taken by fishing trawlers from Asia because of the fact that...

Some would say Somalia is a good example of libertarianism. The problem in Somalia is not that it doesn't have a goverments, the problem is it has SEVERAL goverments.