the revolution in egypt: mubarak resigns

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live video

jazz

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/63356-egypt-shuts-down-internet/

it's possible to have threads about different aspects of the same event. (maybe)

It was a new video. I'll give you that.

Although, I was expecting funny cats.

Major false advertising dude.

  On 1/29/2011 at 7:23 AM, jefferoo said:

I was expecting funny cats.

Major false advertising dude.

Hopefully this is just the start of larger social and political changes in the Middle East.

They REALLY want their internet back. Can't blame them.

it's about time western backed dictatorship got replaced by islamic fundamentalism

  On 1/29/2011 at 8:53 AM, eugene said:

it's about time western backed dictatorship got replaced by islamic fundamentalism

Is that what your Israeli media is telling you?

yes.

so cat is a derogatory term for egyptian?

it would be great if they were rioting only over the internet issue.

  On 1/29/2011 at 9:18 AM, azatoth said:

  On 1/29/2011 at 8:53 AM, eugene said:

it's about time western backed dictatorship got replaced by islamic fundamentalism

 

Is that what your Israeli media is telling you?

which is not surprising because of the role egypt has been playing in the israel/palestine conflict.

i wouldn't be staying in israel if i would be living there. the whole region might be turning into a gigantic revolution. and because the Israelis are so good at making friends in the region (barf), they might be better of living in an underground bunker. (and they should blame themselves for it - but that would be another revolution in and of itself)

http://tv.repubblica.it/dossier/egitto-caos/il-cairo-la-piazza-non-si-ferma/60912?video

  On 1/29/2011 at 9:18 AM, azatoth said:

  On 1/29/2011 at 8:53 AM, eugene said:

it's about time western backed dictatorship got replaced by islamic fundamentalism

 

Is that what your Israeli media is telling you?

Muslim Brotherhood==Al Qaeda for Mubarak - convenient bogeyman that he pulls out whenever westerners question his rule.

Luckily that sort of thing doesn't fly anymore:

Muslim Brotherhood not a coherent, homogeneous unit: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1221/Egypt-s-Muslim-Brotherhood-widening-split-between-young-and-old

Muslim Brotherhood not at protests until Friday: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/middleeast/28alexandria.html?_r=2

Mubarak or Muslim Brotherhood not Egypt's only choice: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/01/egypt-protests-muslim-brotherhood-mubarak/1

islam is a religion of peace u guys

the cornball music in the video diminishes us all

it's great that protests of such scope are secular but there shouldn't be any question on who will fill in if mubarak goes down, even under heavy oppression the bros got ~20% in lower house in 05. if they are allowed to participate openly in the next elections they win it big time.

The government in Egypt will be Islamic regardless of who wins, by virtue of Egypt being a Muslim majority state, just as the American government is a de facto Christian government (could you imagine what would happen if the US President didn't sit through a prayer session on inauguration day?).

The difference is - will there be a moderate or radical government in Egypt. I think that the people in Egypt have learned from Iran/Afghanistan what happens when you get a fundamentalist party in power; additionally the Egyptians are people who in the 80s protested against Islamic terrorism after suffering it first hand.

well there's a vice president, omar suleyman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgRUHIeaKOk

That is a proper fucking track!! i would vote for him.

too bad the VP Suleiman is probably nowhere near that cool.

  On 1/29/2011 at 6:30 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

islam is a religion of peace u guys

why the hell do i hear something like this in every thread that we've had about this revolution so far? seriously, please explain your comment to me.

It's okay to have a revolution and so on but don't fucking ruin the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, you idiots!

Yeah, I don't really see the point in looting and messing up the museums. It's part of their cultural heritage, why would you want to ruin it? Dumbshits.

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Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief [Zahi Hawass] said Saturday.