Qaradawi’s position was restated yesterday, Monday May 21, when, according to Al Ahram, the Sharia Body for Rights and Reforms—one of the most powerful Islamic organizations, with members from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis, and Al Azhar—issued a fatwa asserting that it is “impermissible to vote for anyone not intending to apply Islamic Sharia, and it is obligatory to vote for those who do seek to implement it,” adding that the “presidential election is a modern way of directing the state, and therefore it behooves Muslims to use it as a way to enforce Sharia.”
If Qaradawi and many others are stressing the obligation to vote for those Islamists most likely to enforce Sharia, Sheikh Osama Qassim, a member of Egypt’s notorious Islamic Jihad, which also seeks to enforce Islamic law, recently attacked the non-Islamist candidates—specifically naming Ahmed Shafiq and Amr Mussa—saying that if they win the presidential elections, it will only be “by cheating,” at which point “the Islamist organizations” will resort to “armed action” (code for Jihad), adding that such presidents will suffer the same fate of Anwar Sadat (assassination), but that this time, the struggle will see “the Islamists achieve complete domination” in Egypt.
Finally, beyond threats and commands are the sheer bribes—in this case, a form of Islamic “bread and circuses.” As they were accused earlier, the Muslim Brotherhood was just caught bribing Egypt’s poor with packets of food. Yesterday an Egyptian activist posted a video on YouTube about “the Brotherhood’s scandal: they buy the votes of the poor through food and drink.” The video shows several poor women sitting with bags of food from the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Freedom and Justice” party. The Egyptian activist keeps asking them, “Really, is that how they bought your vote?” even as the women hide their faces and leave.
Bribery is a form of deceit, and these presidential elections are something of a war for Egypt’s future; so, considering that Islam’s prophet Muhammad famously declared that “war is deceit,” all of the aforementioned approaches—threats of hellfire, threats of jihad, and food bribes—are legitimate.
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Anybody who really believes that voting in the muslim world is going to produce a viable democracy is a sure fire candidate for buying bridges, you could probably sell them every single bridge and tunnel linking Manhattan to the mainland.
RE: Voting in Egypt as ‘Holy War’ to Empower
~ ~Egyptian cleric Dr. Talat Zahran proclaimed , –
"it is “obligatory to cheat at elections, a beautiful thing,” "
……a construct shared with, The New Black Panthers, Eric Hold-Himself – & – Barack Obama.
How long before demonstrations in the future for Egypt will be forbidden?
Egypt is food for a Tyrant. When the waters dry up and there is no work, when the food gets scarce and even the cotton dies off, all that will be left is to try and take what they need from their neighbor. I feel bad for the innocent people that are in Egypt. They will suffer along with their foolish leaders.
A democracy is a government by the people, through elections, majority rule. Well guess what! That doesn't make it free or right, by our way of thinking. The majority want Sharia in Egypt and all Arab nations.
Oldtimer, that is why we value our Democratic REPUBLIC. There is a huge difference in majority rule and the rule of law via a Constitution, hence a Republic. The majority cannot force the minority to conform. We have representatives but regardless, they are subject to the Constitution…though you wouldn't know it by what our current administration attempts to do.
my point exactly…
"Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? "
George Washington
For those NOT already familiar with "Founder-speak":
Definition of PROVIDENCE
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a often capitalized : divine guidance or care b capitalized : God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny
Definition of FELICITY
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a : the quality or state of being happy; especially : great happiness <marital felicity> b : an instance of happiness
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: something that causes happiness
Definition of VIRTUE
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a : conformity to a standard of right : morality b : a particular moral excellence
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plural : an order of angels — see celestial hierarchy
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: a beneficial quality or power of a thing
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: manly strength or courage : valor
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: a commendable quality or trait : merit
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: a capacity to act : potency
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: chastity especially in a woman