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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
One of my best friends is an American citizen, who grew up in Philly, but whose family was from Eqypt. His grandfater was a very influential judge under Sadat. His mother and sister run a Montesori school in Egypt and I emailed him to get his, and his family's, take on the Egyptian presidential election and the Muslim Brotherhood. His brief answer follows FWIW:
It was the better of two evils. If Shafik won that would have been a direct insult to the revolution. It was a very small step in the right direction. There is a long ways to go. As it stands the military will not give any true power to the MB. The MB is not really a good thing - they are similar to the far right in the US. The majority of Egypt is rather liberal, but they could not get organized and get behind one candidate or platform so even though the majority originally voted for others (60%) it was spread thin across multiple liberal candidates. Anyways at least a small part of democracy won - here is hoping it continues.
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eweissenbach: Your OP based on observations/opinions of your Egyptian, if acurate, a real eye opener. However, when you think about it, each of us views the world through our own built prism, you as an independent, DaleMN and buggyone liberals, Richielion Republican and me leaning more Republican. So it is no surprise that what comes out the other end of our prisms is a different view and this is a good thing. Because it provides a variety of opinion and somewhere in between lies the real truth for the most part.
I speculate that what your friend has offered is his view of the people and events as he sees them. I understand in all of this that he speaks truth but it is his truth. However if your a member of the MB then thetheir truth is Sharia Law is a good thing. Since you describe your friend's political leanings to be Repubican I would likely share his view and hence his truth
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