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December 6, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/5/short-lived-shibboleth-of-a-moderate-egypt/

Islamists' Election Victory in Egypt Leaves Western Predictions in Shambles

(Washington Times) Tony Blankley - Just a few months ago leading experts were overwhelmingly predicting that all those great secular, liberal, college-educated kids with their iPhones in Tahrir Square represented the new Egypt and would bring all their wonderful values to the revolution. It was primarily those who have been writing about radical Islamic politics (and, of course, the Israelis, who can't afford to get it wrong on Muslim political habits) who warned that this was all going to end in the rise in Egypt of radical Islamist, anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-Western governance. In the first round of elections, the grand total for all the parties that are considered part of the liberal-secular bloc - the makers of the glorious Arab Spring democracy - was 13%.

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