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Mubarak: The best of the worst

2/2/2011

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Hosni Mubarak is a horrible dictator. He runs a country where constitutional rights are suspended, censorship is legalized, religious freedom is hampered, and democracy is passé.

And for those reasons, it is unfortunate that the low life is stepping down.

Even the largest minority religion and most persecuted of Egyptians groups – the Coptics – agree. Under what would likely be an Islamic fundamentalist government, Egypt’s seven million Coptic Christians could be at risk of suffering a similar fate to six million Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals - this in addition to the Holocaust of sorts that the Copts have already faced.

Has it really come to this? Has it become so bad that bad is the new good?

Regrettably, yes.

As the Washington Post reports, Copt leaders in the United States are terrified that a new Islamic fundamentalist Egyptian government would eliminate Christians.

"The current situation for the Copts stinks, but Mubarak is the best of the worst for us," says Rev. Paul Girguis of St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Virginia, which has about 3,000 members.
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"If Muslim extremists take over, the focus will be extreme persecution against Copts. Some people even predict genocide."

While the world repeatedly cries foul over the situation between Israel and the Arabs (Palestinians), it fails to even whimper over Coptic crucifixion. What’s more, many don’t yet know who the Coptics are.

Although their struggles became somewhat apparent to the world after an al-Qaida affiliate recently bombed a Coptic church in Alexandria, killing 20 worshippers and wounding 100 others, that terror attack was only one of many by Muslim extremists in the past decade.

One of the oldest Christian communities in the world, the Coptic church is based in Egypt. In fact, the Muslim-strong country has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, so what happens to Christians there is extremely significant to the rest of the world.

Ironically, Copt literally means Egyptian, while Egyptians are violently mean to Copts.

The Copts have faced intense and often cruel injustice in Egypt, especially as Islamic groups, like Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, have gained influence. 

To think that the exit of Mubarak would welcome the entrance of democracy is to ignore the curse of reality.

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This is an opportunity for an organization like the Muslim Brotherhood to take advantage of the chaos and instability to finally seize power - and more lives. It will become Gaza.

A Brotherhood leader has already told an Arab-language newspaper this week that Egypt should prepare for a war with Israel (the only democracy in the Middle East). One of its goals is to eradicate Israel and the Jews.

If it can kill and torture its own countrymen, imagine what it can do to those it hates most.

Mubarak should step down and let the people decide for themselves who should run the country, and Egypt should live happily ever after. There should also be no poverty or hunger in this world either. And I should be taller.

But none of those things will happen.

Egypt doesn’t have to strive for the same sort of “democracy” its brothers and sisters have in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, or any of the Arab nations. Sadly, it already has it.

7 Comments
JP Beal
2/2/2011 08:40:15 am

So democracy can only come to these countries on the business end of American/Israeli boots? This could end badly, but it could be a goddamn catalyst for proper civilization the region over. Caution is fine, but propping up a dictator in lieu of even the smallest chance of setting up a proper free society. Can't we give the secular, educated and metropolitan masses currently fighting it out the benefit of the doubt even for a few months? Are puppet oppressive governments that important to us?

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DO
2/2/2011 08:55:08 am

Proper civilization the region over? Proper free society? You're kidding right? Name one in the region... thanks

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dahlia link
2/2/2011 09:46:51 am

Jeremy... As much as I would love to side with you, knowing the region, it won't be the secularists who take over. This isn't just my opinion, it is opined by many, including experts in the Middle East, who are both for and against this. A few months of the Brotherhood will turn into an everlasting stronghold. (At first, the Brotherhood may even win by popular (read: brainwashed) vote, but like other Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups, it too will rig any future possible election losses into wins.) With the Brotherhood in place, it will open the wall between Gaza and Egypt, allowing weapons and terrorists free flow. It will go on the offence against Israel, as it has already promised (and kill all the Coptics.) Other Arab nations could follow suit. Not just bad for Israel. Bad for the world. Could be World War III. I'm not propping up Mubarak; rather, I'm surrendering that any other ideas, no matter how noble, would be idealistic, and potentially seriously harmful. DO: A proper free society? By who's standards? If you are asking for me to name one in the region by, say, Canadian or American definition, it would be Israel - which I already stated in the article.

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ulu
2/2/2011 02:40:00 pm

For JB Beal, let us see,the Muslim Brotherhood has given birth to, usama bin laden, hamas,zahwahri,black september,9/11, Do you really want me to give you a 5 page rundown of its contribution to peace.As much as we prefer democracy,what makes you think the typical Egyptian is demanding it. Where is your proof?Just because the word democracy is mentioned by a poor helpless soul or a potentially conniving group does not mean they want it. Ask any dictator or anti democratic leader if they prefer democracy ,the answer will be a resounding YES.So before you refer to the American or Israeli jackboot look at your own racism. Sometimes democracy has to wait. Egypt does not have any democratic institutions.Democratic infrastructure does not exist. Islam and democracy are incompatible.So makes you sure this is a fight for freedom.Actually there are 2 reasons for what is happening now. One is the high cost of food.The other is the lack of opportunity throughout the Middle East.Not until the Arab leaders have true democracy will this problem go away. So until then don;t blame the western world or the Jews.

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dahlia link
2/2/2011 11:22:41 pm

****COMMENT CLARIFICATION: "DO" sent me an e-mail to say that his comment was not directed at me. It was directed at JP Beal.

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Kit
2/4/2011 02:27:59 am

And why do you care? Oh, it's because of Egypt's proximity to Israel. BUTT OUT! The West doesn't know what's best for the world. Let the people of Egypt choose their own government without the West interfering, FOR ONCE.

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dahlia link
2/4/2011 05:08:20 am

Kit... Why do I care? I care because people's lives are at stake. Of course Israel's very existence will be threatened if the Brotherhood takes over, but so too will the existence of many Christians, Jews, and Muslims. I care because what happens in Egypt has ramifications not only for those in Egypt, but for everybody around the world. You want Egyptians to choose their own government, democratically, the same way those in Gaza chose Hamas? For citizens to elect their own government, that must be predicated upon a democratic system - a system not in place in Egypt. A system that terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood feign and manipulate to achieve their own bloody goals.

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