actually he is a moderate in comparison to other candidates who are more religiously conservative The muslim brotherhood has been very popular in egypt until they went underground after nasser sent the muslim brother hood, the communists underground, and other opposition parties after egypts last revolution that overthrew colonial britain's puppet leader. Even after the muslim brotherhood was banned, they still maintaned considerable political influence in egypt. They were a big factor in egypts last revolution, and have been popular since. Nasser wanted the power though, and saw them as a threat to the his movement that was a more secular. fyi: they will not implememt sharia law or become a republic influenced by a religious figure like in iran. Yes they are religious and advocate islamic traditional values, but they will still remain secular. I would even go as far to say that US candidates such as santorum or palin, are more religiously conservative than morsi. i suspect morsi will be tougher on israel, but by no means seeking aggressive miliary action. They are in no position to take such a risk, but they will not be roll overs to the US and israel like mubarek was. I think that they are willing to deal with the west, but the question is will the west deal in good faith with the muslim brotherhood? I think there will be beef for a few years, but i think we will come to some concessions, egypt is too big and the people have spoken. The US knows that egypt is too volatile given all the uprisings to take blatant action against the new regime. i think the muslim brotherhood and the US will deal, but it will take time.
Let's hope this isn't the last democratic and fair election Egypt has, which is my concern here. SeabrookMiglla, I agree with you the Brotherhood and the U.S. will deal with each other. It will be out of necessity. Long term implications are unclear at this point. The military will prevent the Brotherhood from showing it's true colors at least for a while, but not forever. If Egypt remains a legit democracy, they will be voted out of power down the line. That is a HUGE if.
Quite a few of my friends are happy he was elected but I don't know much about him. Hopefully this is the beginning of better days ahead for Egypt.
An Egyptian plumber in Alexandria beat his pregnant wife to death upon learning that she had NOT voted for the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, Mohammed Mursi. As reported in al-Arabiya : According to police reports, the initial argument between the couple who was not named escalated into violence, despite her pleas. Battered and bruised, she was reported to have died at the hospital from injuries sustained. Domestic fights have dominated Egyptian news headlines when the bid fell on the two most feared and most controversial candidates, Mursi and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/06/24/222413.html God help Egypt...
No, no... religion is a great basis for running a country! Morsi summed it up best: “The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.” No bad news there! That said, it's who Egypt elected; the world must live with it. Egyptians must live with it. I just don't want our American noses poking around in Egypt excessively and pissing their new religious-based government off. We should really just stop poking our noses around in the entire region... if they want to have Sharia Law, let 'em. Not our business.
It is our business when these governments condone/support attacking Americans or our allies. This one hasn't yet, but that's the fear.
Maybe if we stop #*%&ing with them, they won't want to? That might be too much to ask for Israel, though. Perhaps our alliance with them is the source of all ills...
Because they're ignorant and automatically assume that the Muslim Brotherhood will turn Egypt into an anti-american version of Saudi Arabia that will invade Israel. And in turn their ignorance allows them to fall prey to the idea that nominally secular governments such as Mubarak's or the current military junta will produce better results.
Reminds me of when Germany reunified, and Thatcher et. al went berserk. Something about certain conservatives---their crotchety paranoid personalities certainly see threats everywhere.
