Muslim Brotherhood Morsi claims victory in Egypt’s presidential election

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"The Muslim Brotherhood Monday has declared that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt's presidential election.

Morsi "is the first civilian, popularly elected Egyptian president," the group says on its website.

The declaration was based on returns the Brotherhood reported from 95 percent of the more than 13,000 polling stations nationwide. The returns showed Morsi with 52 percent of the vote, his opponent former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq with 48 percent. A million votes separated the two, which a Brotherhood spokesman said the remaining votes could not overcome the difference for Shafiq.

 

 

The figures were from results announced by election officials at individual counting centers, where each campaign has representatives who compile the numbers and make them public before the formal announcement. The Brotherhood's early, partial counts proved generally accurate in last month's first round vote.

The final official result is to be announced by Thursday."

 

 

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Guys this is an important story as Egypt has been America's one of the "'real Muslim Friends" in the middle east. This is going back almost a century to end of WW I. Not counting the 1950's/60's when Nassar was their leader. Barring a drastic change it seems now that Morsi did beat the US backed Shafiq in the elections to become president-elect. Just prior to the election the Brotherhood has renamed themselves the Freedom and Justice Party with a political agenda they said similar to South Africa's Socialist-type ANC even though the US still calls them Muslim Brotherhood. We shall see.

 

It does help hopefully Morsi lived in the US for a while getting his PHD degree and his children are joint US/Egypt citizens.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Mohamed_Morsi

 

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[lilbluefoxie]

Say goodbye to one of America's "real muslim friends" in the middle east. I don't see anything good coming out of this.

[Roadcruiser1]

Yeah as my history teacher said these people have quite the ability to lie. You can look through history and see them lie, I don't trust them. Not one bit.

[Shortline Bus]

Say goodbye to one of America's "real muslim friends" in the middle east. I don't see anything good coming out of this.

 

 

Lets wait and see foxie since Morsi went to Grad school here and his kids are joint US/Egypt citizens. With that Morsi has not stated much on his stance on the future with the US or Israel. So America does not need to worry and i am sure in his tomb so is Mr. Sadat.

[Roadcruiser1]

How do we know. The Supreme Court of Egypt ruled a few days ago that the constitution votes were rigged. What gives you the ability to trust them? If you want to know the truth look at the German presidential election of 1932. See the similarities?

[lilbluefoxie]

Lets wait and see foxie since Morsi went to Grad school here and his kids are joint US/Egypt citizens. With that Morsi has not stated much on his stance on the future with the US or Israel. So America does not need to worry and i am sure in his tomb so is Mr. Sadat.

 

 

There are plenty of anti-american foreigners that come to school here, and plenty of anti-american professors, Just because he went to school here, doesn't mean he is going to be friendly towards the US or the West in general. Theres also the egyptian parliment which also have a say in how the country is run, similar to congress and stuff here. If there are a lot of extremeists in there (and I honestly have no idea what the egyptian parliment is like) they can easily armtwist him to acting more islamist than moderate.

[Shortline Bus]

How do we know. The Supreme Court of Egypt ruled a few days ago that the constitution votes were rigged. What gives you the ability to trust them? If you want to know the truth look at the German presidential election of 1932. See the similarities?

 

 

Yes it worrisome and Sure I dont know *(for that matter the rest of the world) either how Morsi will do running Egypt. However if you read my posts and from articles i read if he follows at worst a Mandela South African "Socialist" type government as rumored then it best scerio for US. However there were even more "Dangerous" extreme Muslim parties that had thebacking from places like Iran that did not too well in the elections. Thus why hoping his US college background wont turn him into the next Ahmadinejd..I doubt this is 1932 Pre Nazi Germany. Worst case this is post Shah Iran 1980.

[Shortline Bus]

There are plenty of anti-american foreigners that come to school here, and plenty of anti-american professors, Just because he went to school here, doesn't mean he is going to be friendly towards the US or the West in general. Theres also the egyptian parliment which also have a say in how the country is run, similar to congress and stuff here. If there are a lot of extremeists in there (and I honestly have no idea what the egyptian parliment is like) they can easily armtwist him to acting more islamist than moderate.

 

 

Don't forget the miltary either which has been Pro-US since at least the days of Sadat. If Morsi becomes too extreme the miltary could also step in as well. It could get nasty though. So that why IMO there a chance Morsi wont be an extremist.

[VWM]

Just another thing we have to worry about in the middle east. Great.